The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-30

for the benefit of the railroad men of
the Rio Grande Western, was strangely
in contrast with that of the Republic
ans OF the Third the night previous
when it was attempted to convince the
employees of the. Unioa Pacific that
their jobs depended upoa the success
of the local Republican ticxet. The
first contrast was IN the attendance,
the Republicans having had less than
SO rail1-oaiers with votes, to talk TO
while the Democrats could not find
seats for all who endeavored to gain
Abundance to The hall where their
meeting was held. The seoond great
contrast was in the manner of argu-
nenL presented for the consideration
of the railroad men. The third was
the manner in which it was received.
Whereas in the Republican meeting re-
ferred to, the argument was specloIs
and based upon unsupported claims,
while that offered the railroaders last
evening was in the nature of a clear
presentation OF straightforward facts;
and whereas the speakers of the even
ing before had been unable TO convince
their listeners of their sincerity and
were called down with great regularity,
those of last evening were given the
strictest attention throughout and
every speaker was appiauded enthusi-
astically
The meeting was held at the corner
of Second South and Fifth West, in a
vacant store building which was packed
TO the door long before the speaking
commenced. John McKeever presided
and presented as the first speaker,
Morris Somnler. candidate for justice
of The peace for the Second. Mr.. Som
mer first posed as d pedagogue and pro-
0dt n 1-rr1, f1on l0.a
Australian ballot. The lesson over Mr..
Sommer delivered one of the best
speeches of his campaign. He took to
task those ecclesiastical lights who have
made themselves conspicuous in the
campaign as champions of Mark Hanna
and his gold, beginning with the Jew
lsh rabbi who opened the ST. Louis
convention with prayer, going through
the list and then singing out Bishop
Ireland for a vigorous scoring. He
Thought, TO say the least, that it was
exceedingly bad taste for a prelate of
whatever denomination to openly
worship the golden calf Mr.. Sommer
paid his respects to the present county
administration by reference to the
broom brigade at the city and county
building, or the county's half of it
rather, and made strong argument
IN favor of voting the whole Demo-
cratic ticket.
Mr.. Sommers. retired amid applause
ana the chair announced as the next
speaker, Attorney F. H. Holzheimer.
Mr.. Holzheimer commenced by touch
ing upon the one great issue before the
people and then said it was very little
more important to the people Of Salt
Lake county that the silver cause
should win in the nation than it was
that officers be elected who would give
the county a careful, honest admins
frOr1 fhn do
plorable condition into which the pres
ent administration has placed it. He
then went through the list of county
candidates on the Democratic ticket
and compared them with those of the
Republican ticket. He had little diff
Guilty in proving the fallacies of the Re
publican claims that all the virtues
are vested in their candidates. and in
showing the reverse. applause following
each comparison. He singled out the
cand idateS for attorney and said that
while there was nothing to be said
against Mr.. Nye on a personal score,
that was not the recommendation the
people wanted n candidate to come
before them on. 1t was ability
they wanted in that Office and
in the matter of that he thought
there was no necessity of making an
argument in. favor of Mr.. Van Colt.
Everybody knew him, and knew what
kind of a lawyer he was compared
with Mr. Nye. Then. too Mr. Nye
had served an apprenticeship under
the present county attorney, and he
thought the people had had enough,
and TO spare of the Whittemore style
of attorney
Mr.. Holzheimer reverted to the Re
publican claims that the candidate for
recorder had proved SO efficient an
officer that he should be returned: that
~ = trio af
ing, etc. He then read some figures
taken from the recorders Office to
demonstrate whether Mr.. Crismon has
done all that is being claimed for him.
These figures showed that in May Mr.
Crismon had in his Office seven per-
sons-six deputies and himself-all of
whom drew in salaries S65566 that
during that month there were filed in
the recorders office $40 instruments,
which cost The county therefor just
$l-26 each in salaries for filing. He
then showed that from July / till Oct
] the same number of persons werd
employed; that 592 documents were
filed on the average each month. which
made % each day, or 2-7 to each
employee. per day, each document cost
ing the county Sill in salaries for fill
ing Mr.. Holzheimer thought this a
pretty clear exposition of the way
things have been run throughout the
county building, and closed urging the
voters to vote the Democratic ticket
if they would put a stop to such ex-
Z travagance.
Hon. John T. Game was the last
speaker of the evening. He stirred his
hearers up to even a higher pitch of
enthusiasm than his predecessors had
and they were very warmly applaude6.
He only touched on the national Ques-
ton saying in that connection il was
not necessary TO talk silver to people
who showed in their countenances
their determination to vote for it. He
seid sufficient, however, to impress
upon his hearers the necessity of
electing Mr. Bryan if there is to be
any permanent prosperity, and then
said it was no more necessary to elect
Mr.. Bryan than il was to elect con-
gressnaan who would be in touch with
him. To do that it was necessary to
e4sct Mr. King, for while Mr.. HoI-
brook professed to be silver man, he
was standing on a straddle platform
Mr. Holbrook he knew to be an esti-
nable gentleman and, he had heard.
fair business man; but what were his
qualifications in comparison with
those OF AIR King? He considered the
election of Mr.. King as Of the ut
most importance to the people of
Utah.
AIR Game turned his attention to the
legislature and said it was equally as
Important that Democratic legisla-
sture should be elected TO the end that
a eilver man whose devotion to silver
could not be questioned should be sent