The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-28
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BEAVER, Sept. 27.-Yesterday morn
ing Beaver City was well placarded,
ard the announcement, painted in
metropolitan style, stated that the sill
veT-tongued orators, w. H. King and
S. r. Thurman, would address the citi-
zens on the silver question in Fields
hall at 1880 pm.
From till the doors were opened
the people were again reminded of the
meeting by the roaring of giant can
mons.
ing room before was at premium
Fields hall was amply decorated with
bunting and flags, with a, large and
excellent picture of w. j. Bryan in the
center.
Notwithstanding the grand address
ard powerful argument of B. H. Rob-
erts were fresh in the memory of every
Democrat here, and while considerable
has been heard OF the eloquence of the
Hon. w. H. King for some time past,
the audience was not prepared for or
expecting the lucid, polished and ma
tural orator who was listened to with
such attention last evening.
Judge Thurman and Barlow Fergu-
son succeeded in interesting the audi
ence, among which was goodly num-
Der Of ladies, for about an hour, the
former in his forcible manner making
T,4cs in hi 10
tistical data, and the broken pledges
of the Republican party, endorsing the
manliness and honesty of Senator Can
non and Congressman Allen and the
general benefits that will inevitably
accrue to the masses by the remone-
tization of silver.
Ferguson, following as a Republican,
took the audience by surprise by his
candid avowal OF his having lost faith
IN the party in whose principles he had
been trained from his boyhood. When
the national convention of that party
refused to help him, Senator Cannon,
Allen and the Republicans of Utah, to
keep their pledges made for years to
the people of this state, he was no
longer bound to keep allegiance to a
party that had knowingly gone back
on its principles and promises, nor
would he longer support by voice or
vote a party whose main object was to
make the rich richer and the poor
poorer. Mr.. Ferguson declared for a
! silver president and a silver congress.
After some music by the string band,
the Hon. W. H. King arose and ap-
peared for the first time politically be-
fore a Beaver audience. There was a
modesty and finish in the few prefa-
tory sentences of his address, and soon
with his clear tenor voice and the ma
tura1 Henry attitude OF the young
orator, he had the rapt attention of
the audience.
It was his maiden speech since his
| nomination by reclamation for mem
Der Of congress at the Democratic con-
vention at Provo on Thursday last,
and if It is a sample of his extemoor-
aneous arguments, he has no need of
collecting statistics by the midnight
lamp to refute Mckinley assertions
and platitudes, for all that is necessary
to insure his election by the votes of
the Democrats and Republicans alike
is to reason with them in the gentle
manly, plain and eloquent manner he
did last night on the paramount issue
of the day-the silver question. Let
h fO-
and thinking of what he has said, and
his majority over friend Holbrook on
the 3rd of November will be safe
Never has any speaker belonging to
the Mormon church SO clearly asserted
! the right of free agency and freedom
to act, vote and speak with the indie
pendence of an American citizen on
all political questions as he did last
night. Republicans present said it was
forensicalIy in spirit with Bryan's
speeches If SO, it was similar in earn
estness and the force of his COMPARE
sons, particularly in showing the in
consistency of expecting from the Re-
publican party any atonement for the
! crime of 1873 and the weakness IF con-
Tossing our inability to restore silver
till other nations gave their consent.
His eloquence and wonderful memory
elected the applause of his associates
Of the bar here and the respectful man
ner in which he handled the McKin-
ley Republicans of our state and their
parado1ical and absurd position was
done with telling and impressive eff
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