The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-23
AT PLYMOUTH HALL.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING OF
DEMOCRATS LAST NIGHT.
Mrs. La Barthe Makes a Convincing
Address-The Issues OF the Day
Plainly Stated by Hon. j. II. MoyIe.


Mrs. Z. K. La Barthe and James H.
Third municipal ward last night.
Plymouth hail was completely filed.
the greater percentage of the audience
being composed Of women. 1t was an
enthusiastic gathering, too: the great
est political meeting we have had in
the Third ward this year." as Chair
man Margetts put it.
Mrs. La Barthe made a finished and
logical argument on the silver ques-
ton, demonstrating the inconsistency
of those Republicans in Utah who in
former years have been telling the
people their party was the only true
champion of silver, and now go before
the people and ask to send it's nominee
| to congress. The speaker was very
heartily applauded throughout her eX-
cellent effort.
Following Mrs. La Barthe, School
master j. R. Letcher instructed the
people how TO vote the Australian bal
! lot
/ Mr.. Moyle devoted some time to
county and legislative tickets. He
would not ask the people TO take his
own statement concerning the fitness
of some of the Republican nominees,
! but would read the leading editorial
/
county convention, in which The party
| own organ branded the nominations of
/ certain men as shameful. And this
editorial appeared coHtinued the
/ speaker, ION the morning following the
convention and before the Republi can
leaders could get around and whip
| their organ into line. The speaker
also read the editorial comments Of the
News, referring to the reinstatement
rc ~. ,;<.t.
dominated the county convention.
Taking up the congressional ticket
| Mr.. Moyle said: Look at the incon-
sistency of asking believers in the
white metal to vote for Holbrook. If
elected where will Mr.. Hobrooh be in
congress? The Republicans viii not
recognize him, because he is a silver
man. and with the Democrats he will
] have no influence. He will simply be
course is to elect Mr.. King, who Will
| be in touch with the majority in the
| house and with the administration if
/ Bryan is elected
Mr.. Moyle then took UP the silver
question. He read from speech de-
livered in congress in 1878 by James CT.
Blaine wherein he declared that he
/ gradual attempt TO fasten the gold
standard upon the country would in
evitably result disastrously. William
I Mckinley, in a speech delivered at To-
ledo. Ohio, in 1891, denounced Cleveland
as being delegated to maintain the
gold starlard' and still today Mr. Nc
( Kinley advocates tlfe very same thing
for which he condemned Grover Cleve-
/ land five years ago.
The speaker secuted the idea that
the low prices of the product of labor
! were due TO the tariff. Particularly did
! he refute this argument with regard to
wool. The speaker himself. being
somewhat interested in the sheep in
dustry, had studied the question care
fully.
In 1910 Ohio wool commanded a price
of 50 cents in the market, and that at a
time when it was duty free. The
population of the country was then
something like 100000 and statistics
gave the number of sheep to be about
the same. The latest statistics show
/ that the number of sheep has Increased
but slightly over that figure while the
population of the country has nearly
doubled. 1t was true that when a high
tariff was placed on wool it advanced
slightly at first. but soon began to de-
| cline and continued to do SO. It did
so under the Mckinley tariff, continue