The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-21

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the county headquarters last evening.
The big room was well flied and the
speeches. which were delivered with
| telling effect, were listened 10 with
absorbing interest. The speakers were
David C. Dunbar. C. s. Kinney and Hon
John T. Game. Charles S. Wilkes, candi-
date for county surveyor, officiated as
chairman. In calling the meeting 10
order, he first introduced Mr.. Kinney as
a reformed Republican and that gentle
man Immediately started in TO give some
reasons why he had left the Republican
party. When ne had finished 10 one
present wondered why he had become
Democrat and the Republicans VINO heard
him were inclined more than ever 10
join him.
Mr.. Kinney began by stating that ne
had formerly been Republican but that
the time mad come when he could no
longer support the Republican ticket In
giving his reasons why, ne. first read the
financial plank of the Republican party
OF 1875, showing thar It declared ulicoEI-
prOmisingly for free silver and followed
it up by reading the plank of 1892. which
begins, From interest and tradition,
etc." and is as unequivocal as regards
its silver declaration as that of 1885.
Mr.. Kinney said he believed his party
meant IL and was sincere when 1t adopted
those platforms in national conventions,
but when it came to the adoption of the
present financial plank, ne became con-
WINGED that those declarations had only
been made TO catch votes he then read
the present plank to prove the insiDcerlty
of the Republican party IN It's protesta-
tons for silver and declared that the
international agreement clause was but
another artful dodge calculated 10 de-
Jude the voters in the interest Of main
tanning the gold standard. That, he said,
was one OF the reasons why ne could Az
longer support the Republican ticket
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publican candidate to supply another rea-
son. He read statements from Mckinley
made IL 1856 anG lo55 IN he fC4ll.vi .i.e
Republican cand- dare had been OuCst@ ken
in his advocacy Of silver; but how differ
ent N 1886. 1t meant tnae We WJald
never have silver restored by voting the
Republican ticket. That made TWO
reasons why he could no longer support
The speaker directed his attention for
moment to the people who are assist
ing in the effort to elect Mckinley. There
were Thurston and Cochran and Carlisle
and Harrison, working side by side and
for one purpose-the election Of Mckin-
ley. If Democratic and gold zen unite
for a common purpose, why not the
Democratic and Republican silver men?
He mentioned Puck and Judge, and said
that while in all former campaigns they
had been pitted against one another, now
they were both working unitedly TO eject
Mckinley. The reason, he SAID, was be-
cause they were either owned or con-
troiled by English capital
The speaker said he had sent to the ma
tional Republican headquarters and re-
quested that literature be sent him. In
return he had received numerous pam
phlets, and in one was contained the state
ment which he read, that of all she her
etic schemes of the free silverites, that in
favor of International agreement was the
most absurd.
Turning. to local affairs, the speaker
contrasted Candidate Holbrook with
Judge King, and made a hit by asking II
any reason were needed for his support
ing the Democratic candidate. Next he
touched upon the county ticket and read
the Tribune's editorials before and after
the Republican county convention, rela-
tive to county candidates. Those editor
ialS. he thought, coming from an honest
Republican paper. were enough to justify
any Republican in putting his cross up by
the rooster and letting it go at that
The Bryan Silver Mandolin club played
organs Victory, after which d. c.
Dunbar was introduced. Mr.. Dunbar de-
voted himself almost wholly 10 the ma
tional question, on which he made some
very strong points. He CONNIE need BY
saying he couldn't help noticing the many
peculiar things politics brings about and
produced a laugh when he pictured Mark
Hanna bending over Grover Cleveland
and shedding crocodile tears. He brought
out big round of applause when ne said
the Democratic party could afford to lose
the 'heavyweights' who had gone over
to Mckinley when the Chicago conven-
ton broke loose from the collar of the
monopoiist and trust He declared that
all national conventions for years. till
that at Chicago was held last summer,
had been dominated by the money lenders
who laid back and felt secure whichever
party carried the election. 1t was be-
cause the Democratic party broke loose
from them at Chicago that they were
now bowling anarchist and ''repudia-
tion.
Mr.. Dunbar said there were several bug
aboos in this campaign that were beng
made mucn OF. one va lntl ,ne -
tional honor was in danger of beng
soiled He said he always answered that
nv asking "a question ard tha~
which is the greatest dishonor, paying all
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vided for, or rcbbiHg the debtor c.Ass OF
society which means 50 per cent OF the
people. by refusing to go back ana rec-ify
the error by which silver was Gencols-
tized. He said Charles 4. Dana mad
made use OF much good logic when he
advised the moRcyed people of the ma
ton to invest n lands II Bryan we've
elected, because the value Of land would
go up and that of money down. Re sSid
that was undoubtedly true. but wondered
who had suffered most, or If il were not
time the price OF labor and products went
up little and the price of money came
down.
Mr.. Dunbar so shaped his speech on ma
tional lines as to lead adroitly up TO the
subject of electsng congressman and a
legislature and demonstrated the neces-