The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-25
MAKING CONVERTS
BY WHOLESALE
Unable to Withstand the Cyclone
Orator From the North.
The Wonderful Natural Resources OF
Iron Counfy-Forecast of the Vote
The Legislative Candidates
waefug n Vigorous Campaign.
Cedar City, Iron County. Oct. %.

meeting in Beaver City, and the reiat-
ing of it now and here may be OIL pen
eft to other campaigners who are not
acquainted wiz the eccentricities Oh
Josiah Rogerson. Josiah is CONSIDERED
a staunch Democrat in Beaver, but the
effect of Weber's speech upon him was
so great that he followed King ana
weber to their hotel and insisted on
rebearine the speeches in condensed
form. Something that King said net
-fe6 him. and Rogerson rebuked MIN
sam" said the patriarch, you
ought TO be a good Latter-day SAINT
for YOU had a good mother ana laene ta
/ was not like you. Sam, Tor hao io
father in Utah.
a sympathetic nature, you surely Aau
a father somewhere?
Then Josiah began wiping his eyes
with a bandarfa.
yes" reiterated Weber, you surely
must have had father?
Josiah then became indignant ana
cried out. You nincompoopsi You
oandbox graduates
Then he talked majestically away,
but he was on hand the next morning
as good natured as he generally is, to
bid them goodbye.
In some way the story has precedec
the speakers in this valley, and they
are alluded TO on every hand as the
.'bandbox graduates.
GENERAL WEBER OF OGDEN.
weber has also secured a number of
military titles. Royal Tanner intro
duced him to the people of Milford as
Captain Weber At Aiinersville Chair
man Dotson took pleasure in intro
ducing Major Weber" AT Beaver
Chairman Fsnnimore declared 1t at
forced him supreme pleasure to pre-
sent Colonel Weber, and at Cedar
City this evening Chairman Parry ser
iousiy Informed the audience that he
was happy to be able TO inform them
that they had in their midst that elo-
Quent cyclonic orator. General Weber
of Ogden" Now Weber is wondering
what other title viii be conferred upon
him. In my opinion, unless he dams
his eloquence. he viii soon have every
Bryan Republican in this section shout
ing for Democracy and the Mckinley
ties are ashamed OF themselves that
they will not be able to look sheep in
the face until after the election. King
payes the way With mastery dis
cussion of the issues involved in The
campaign, relates the history of both
parties on the financial question. dis
cusses the positions of Senators Can
non and Brown, in which he defies one
and damns the other. and then chal-
lenges anyone to deny, that the Re-
publican party has not been false to
its pledges and promises, and that De-
1nocracy is not the true champion of
the white metal and the friend of the
people. Weber takes up the thread
where King drops it, and with oratory
arOuSes his hearers to the utmost ten
sion OF enthusiasm. with pathos and
anecdcte alternately moves them to
Il 1o.. IL,
battery of cold facts which carry con-
viction with them. The meeting here
this evening was the most successful
of the series, and many wavering Re-
publicans have been brought into the
Bryan fold by il. Several converts in
formed Weber and King that they had
at last seen the light" and Chairman
Parry declares that more good 10 the
silver cause was accomplished than at
any meeting IN the political history of
Cedar county.
HIS looks ARE DEcEIvING.
Weber is q. queer genius. He is as
modest as he is talented When in
repose he is the picture of apathy and
impresses stranger as being 4 fit sub
ject for bunco-steerer. In action he
is one of the most eloquent and forcible
speakers now campaigning Utah, and
he is as witty Is be IS eloquent often
relates Judge Norrells Mississippi mos
quito story with great gusto, and coins
trite phrases for every speech Think
OF public speaker in Utah declaring
that the consistency Of the Republican
party on the silver question reSembled
a paste diamond and was no more to be
relied upon than was the stability OF
"a dewdrop shining in the moonshine on
a mules TAIL" and escaping with his
lifel But he got il off here this evening
was given round after round of ap-
plause, punctuated with screaming
bursts of laughter, as a reward. 1t is
rot so much what he says as il is the
way in which he says 1t that causes
him to record nit after hit / have
made up my mind not to report either
his or Kings speeches any more dur
ing this trip. A synopsis would do
them an injustice, and TO do them full
justice d page of The Herald every day
would be required. They are making
votes wherever they appear. and as
substitutes for Judge Powers and
Fisher Harris are filing the bill ad-
fairably and to the satisfaction of Dem
ocrats everywhere.
IRON COUNTY'S RESOURCES.
The drive from Beaver city to Cedar
city is so miles and the trip was made
between sunrise and sunset. Iron
county, like its sister. Beaver, is q
county of magnificent. resources and
great possibilities Within its borders
are to be found the greatest coal de-
posts in Utah, If not in the west. There
are mountains of it, and once given rail-
road facilities the county could easily
supply the whole Pacific coast with
fuel. Mountains of iron ore also exist;
There are numerous salt springs. the
flow from which form lakes from which
salt is taken for smelling purposes. The
supply is fnexhaustible. The State Line
mining district is also in this county
and its riches are said 10 be SO great
fEat at this moment agents of the
Rotnschilds are said 10 be in the dis
trict for the purpose Of acquiring good
properties cheap as soon as develop
ment work dlscioses their probable
value. Agriculture is an important in
dustry: sheep-rsising IS also a factor
in the general prosperity OF the people
tut cattle-raising. once the most I'm
portland industry, is now almost aban
doned. The great Parowan and Cedar
valleys. which really form one grea,
valley. contains soil as fertile as TIT
famous redlands of California but ow
ing TO the scarcity of water for irri
eating purposes but few of its broad
acres are under cultivation. The valley
was settled in the early SOS. For ovei
40 years have the settlers been fighting