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FORT FRA 'f'NE ME.
BY CAPTAIN CHARLES KING.
Author the Ranks "Foes in Ambush, ga Soldiers
Secret" "The Deserter," "An Army Porta, Etc.
Copyright, 1896, by F. TIE nnyson Neely

Copyright, 1895, by F. TIE nnyson Neely.
SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I-Royle Farrar disgraces
himself at West Point, deserts the school
and leads wandering life, sinking. lower
and lower, marries his employers daugh-
ter and then commits forgery.
CHAPTER II-Colonel Farrar, father OF
Royle, is killed in battle with the
Indians.
CHAPTER III-Royle FaIrar's younger
brother Will graduates at West Point and
falls in love with Kitty Ormsby, whose
brother Jack is in love with Willis sister
Ellis.
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cost of production. 1 would paint the
great mass of supplicating humanity
begging that there be given back TO
them that which was guaranteed by
the constitution Of their fathers. And
in front of them 1 would paint Lombard
and Wall Streets, those twin avenues
to national financial damnation. loud
applause and cheers.) 1 would pant he
administration on its knees before the
money powers begging for a little more
gold. L would paint the president and
Carlisle adding burden after burden to
an already overburdened people.
L would paint the gold staEdard press,
answering logic with vituperation and
pouring ridicule, epithets and threat S
OF vengeance upon ell who dare oppose
1t. l would paint the great army Of
gold men thres tening that if the peo-
pie in this election vote to restore the
money of the constitution that they
VIII bring down panic upon panic, dis
aster upon disaster, distress upon dis
tress and suffering upon sufferina, upon
the entire country
But between them. with his face to
the front, with the heart of a lion and
courage of steel, l would paint the mag
nif1icent figure of William Jennings
Bryan, applause and cheers) standing
there with uplifted arm and flashing
eye, uttering with splendid voice those
matchiess words of eloquence, thou
shalt not press the. crown OF thorns
upon the brow of labor; thou shalt not
cruclTy mankind upon a cross of gold -
Nong and continued applause)
As Lincoln stood in 1860. so Bryan
stands today. AS the great heart of the
Elartyred president was wrung with
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FISHER S. HARRIS ADDRESS.

Fellow Citizens.-This great audience is
gathered here tonight for the purpose of
placing the stamp of its approval upon the
nomination Of that great tribune OF the
people, the Hon. William ]. Bryan, OF
= eo4s ska, ana for the further purpose
of expressing its qualification at the at
tItude CT the national Democracy upon the
question of the free coinage of silver.
II the shades OF the dead men, who by
their lives made this nation great, and
gave it a. declaration of independence and
q constitution, could look upon Us from
their homes in the skies they would, in
deed, conclude that something OF the
spirit of rs still lived in the hearts of the
people; for they would see, gathered here
under one roof united in one cause, men
who but a brief while ago, We're contend
ing desperately one with the other, on Pc
litcal battle fields.
Here are Republicans, believing in the
doctrine of protection, Democrats advo-
eating q tariff for revenue, PopuiiStS cry
ing against the established order of things
poiiticai-distinct as the waves in these
matters CT minor Importance but one, as
the boundleSS ocean, on the vital issue
of the free coinage of silver and gold at
the ratio Of is TO 1. And ii is well that it
should be so; it is well that men should
sometimes shake from their neckS the
yokes of craftsmanship and standing clear
of lmpatriotic influences renew their al
legiance to the principles of the fathers
and declare unceasing warfare against
selfish men who, for private gain, seek
to faSten false and unfortunate condl-
lions upon a free people.
One unacquainted with the political cir
cumstances existing III this nation at this
time, might well ask the question, why
this unanimity of thought and action
among men who were formerly enemies?
We do not have to seek far for the cause.
The rlasses-those who labor in the field,
the farm, the factory, the mine and in the
nunberiess occupations Of a great peo-
pie cried out against their masters and
said: Our burden is greater than we
can bear; we can no longer make bricks
without straw. The voices of the suffer-
ing ascend to heaven, but the masters,
loliing in compiacent ease in their castles
in the hills and palaces by the sea shore,
heard not the sound thereof; they were
sitting at the modern feast of Belshazzar.
But the time has come, as il came once
before, when above the noise of the feast,
above the laughter Of the feasters above
the sound Of the singing girls and the
stringed instruments, there came from the
shadows that lurked about the cornices Of
the banquet hall. a hand-it was the
strong white hand of doom, and it wrote:
Thou art weighed in the balance and
found wanting" The time of the people
has come; the time of the oppressor has
passed: the salvation of the people will
be accomplished not by the red hand OF
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CALLED TO ORDER.

1t was Sis when ex-Mayor Baskin
stepped 10 the front and when the an
plause subsidized he said, after calling
the meeting to order, that the campaign
now about to be entered upon was one
of the most important ever waged 1t
was a conflict between the laboring
people, the masses, and the money
power. Something was wrong when
capital and labor FLASHED. They should
work together, hand in hand. The
monetary system of the country. prior
70 1873, prior TO the decentralization of
silver, was commended II was a good
system and one under which the ma
ton prospered phenomenally. Since 1879
when a degenerate son of America
tricked the legislators and the people
and struck down half the money Of the
people at ore blow, everything had
gone all wrong, poverty and distress
-Etalked through the land The rich
were becoming richer and the poor
poorer The only sign of a change
when the wrong would be corrected
was the action of the Democratic con-
vention al Chicago. Through that con-
venfion the winter of our discomfort
Is made glorious summer by the gal
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to deceive and should be spat upon by
every intelligent man and woman. The
peoples party and the silver party de-
ferred their conventions purposely until
after the great Democratic party had
made its nominations, and notwith-
standing that fraud and foul treachery
of every conceivable kind was used to
defeat the will of the people in the Chi
cago convention, these means failed
The people sent men there with cour-
age and honesty and the platform was
there made according to the will of the
masses of the people, and will be en-
dorsed by the Populist and Silver par
ties. They asserted their independence
(applause) and nominated young man
from the ranks of the people, with firm
convictions, sterling honesty and the
courage to act up to his convictions.
Then the gold bugs were silenced for a
moment and many Of them arose with
the silver wing and hailed the man as
one who had come to work out their
deliverance.
What are we in Utah going to do?
Some say we must wait Why so? Are
not the issues fully and firmly defined?
Do you want to wait like poltroons and
towards to see who will be the victors
and then rush in and get share of the
spoil? God forbid that there is such q
man or woman in Utah. (Applause.)
Make your choice-take the. side of
right and we shall march on to the
salvation of our country. Great ap-
plause)
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was brought I'D on a farm in active
manual labor. He fitted himself for
college and graduated with the high
est honors of his class.
I first met him at the Union college
Of law in Chicago, whereI am grateful
to say a friendship was formed which
has lasted ever since.
His father died sixteen years ago.
leaving his mother, while not in pow
erty, yet in Strengthened circumstances.
In order that his sisters and widowed
mother might not be stinted, he prac-
ticed the most rigid economy in COM
pleting his education. We were each at
that time exercising a, large amount of
self-denial in order TO get through; this
fact and other interests which we then
had in common, gave me an insight
into his character, and an intense con-
viction of his answering personal
honor and of his sympathy for the
needs of humanity which has never
been shaken, but which has strength
ened with every year of our acquaint-
ance (Applause.)
Injustice he would never tolerate He
had an intense sympathy for the OPP
pressed. He has those high moral
qualities which lead him always to
choose the right and ever to reject the
wrong. He never compromises with
evil-he defies it.
A few Sundays ago I heard an emf
nent divine preach g. sermon on faith.
He scored numerically that conception
Of faith which eXemplifies it in the
magazine picture Of g. putty-faced mai
den with more or less drapery, hands
clasped on her bosom and eyes looking
up to heaven. He said he would like
to paint a picture of faith, and he
would paint it a lurid red; in the fore
ground he would put ravenous wild
beasts, venemous serpents, war, pesti-
lence, famine, disaster, disease, death
and all the temptations, evils and woes
that assail mankind; but in front of
them he would paint a noble youth
with erect form, strong limbs bold
heart and flashing eyes with a helmet
SCARED with swords strokes and a
shield dinted with javelin- blow, way
ing aloft a flaming sword and hurting
defiance at all the powers of evil.
Since Bryan's convention speech I have
thought that I would like to paint a
picture. I would paint hungry men
walking the streets begging for labor
with which to keep from starving. T
would paint the over burdened debtor
and his wife and children, look
ing with streaming eyes at the
home which was once theirs and
trying to pay the deficiency Judgment
with money worth double what it was
when the debt was contracted I would
paint the farmer staggering under a
burden of interest which he is trying
to pay in crops, selling for less than the
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bloody revolution, but by the peaceful
power of the ballot, which is mightier
in the hands of an intelligent people, than
flashing swords on blood-stained battle
fields The people who cry for the change,
which all sincere men admit is necessary
are not anarchists; they are not incono-
clasts, but citizens of a great nation
their homes and jealous of their liberties.
This reform which, for many years, has
been seething beneath the surface, finds
its expression in the candidate of the
Democratic party for the presidency, and
it seems to me that all men save those
who live upon the labor of others, should
be glad that q great political party has
had the courage to hear the cry and 10
black clouds and lift up and comfort the
people. 1t seems to me that there are
many men who are glad to know that this
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HON. F. B. STEPHENS.
1r. Stephens. after being greeted

Mr.. Stephens. after being greeted
with uproarious applause, said:
Sitting here with such men as
Charles NJ. Varian and Tom Kearns lis
tening TO the scathing arraignment Of
the party we have always affiliated
with, and with the intention OF de-
claring our allegiance to the standard
bearer of the Democratic party Qoud
applause) it seemed to me that there
was a question which rises above all
party and which appeals to the great
mass of the people. loud applause.)
In the few words 1 shall say to you 1
shall say nothing about either the
Democratic or Republican parties
merely say a few words about the
question and the man. Applause-)
A Republican friend asked me a few
days ago if it was true that 1 was go
ing to vote for Bryan; I said yes. and
proclaim it from the housetops. Cap
plause.l He wanted to know if 1 could
point to one single thing the Demo-
cratic party had ever done that was
any credit to itself or the country /
replied. the Democratic party has done
one thing which history will record to
its honor, and for which present and
future generations will give it thanks;
it has given the American people an
opportunity to make William Jennings
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American people will wrest the untold
treasures from the soil and the rocks
and they will make themselves rich
to the injury OF no one. (Applause)
Give labor a fair chance, lift the
crown of thorns" from its brow, and
it will take care of itself. (Applause)
In this campaign the American voter
wants first an uneduivocal declaration
Of principles. and second, he wants to
know shat his candidate will be true
to them. Ny knowledge of the man
has given me an intense conviction
that such q. candidate we have in Will
liam J. Bryan. He does not owe his
nomination to a barrel of money or
the manipulation of political organiza-
tions. He was not nominated by the
money powers of the east. There is
not gold enough in Wall street, nor in
fuence enough in all the high places
of the earth to swerve him from his
own ideas of right and justice. Cloud
applause.) The highest impulses of
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The Salt Lake theatre has been the
scene of many notable political gath
erings during its thirty years OF history,
but in many respects the demonstra-
ton last night was the most remark
able. Men and women of all political
ccmplexions came like mighty hosts,
cast aside partisanship and enlisted in
the white army of brain and muscle
fighting for our country's financial in
dependence.
1t was a great ratification, by far
the most enthusiastic held in the state
for years.
Everything was Bryan, Sewall and
free silver From the moment the
throng rushed through the doors and
caught sight of a likeness of the silver
hosts standard bearer until the last
speaker had uttered the magic name Of
Bryan the cheering and enthusiasm
was kept UP. The gray haired Republi-
can whose first vote had probably been
cast for Lincoln and whose form had
grown bent in the service of his party,
sat side by side with the followers of
Old Hickory and cheered every men
ton of the boy orators" name and
the great principle it stands for. And
this was the way the greatest people
of the grandest city in the youngest
state Of the Union made known their
approval OF the Democratic nominee.
AS early as o'clock crowds began
to gather on the steps OF the theatre.
Promptly at 7:30 the doors were thrown
open and the swaying, jostling mass of
humanity poured into the play house
until every foot of available space was
filed. And still there were hundreds
on the outside who failed to get in.
Held's bard, which had been parading
the streets playing patriotic airs, came
in and rendered several selections while
the Jhrong was waiting Tor the speak
ing TO commence.
The interior of the building was ap-
prcpriately decorated with flags. The
boxes on both sides We're a mass of
national colors. Just above the stage
on the right side had been hung a
picture Of Bryan and this was he sig
nal for cheers whenever his name was
mentioned and the speakers pointed to-
ward it. In the extreme rear of the
stage was a nany-colored large paint
ing of the great seal of the state, show
ing Off beautifully against the stage
setting Of mountains and green hill
sides.
on the stage had been reserved sew
eral hundred chairs for specially in
vited guests and these were filled al
most as quickly as the immense audito-
rum in front. Among the people on
the stage could be numbered some of
the leading men of the state irrespec-
tive of party affiliations. And promi-
nent ladies too. who cheered the senti-
ments expressed as freely and as en-
Enthusiastically as the members of the
Sterner sex.
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Bryan president of the United States.

Bryan president of the United States.
Arplause.)
The issue before the country in this
campaign is not state rights nor CEN
tralization of power, nor is it the tar
if question; rs our candidate says,
the money question is paramount, and
all others sink into insignificance.
Applause.) When asked why the plat
form did not say more about tariff, he
replied. tariff is not the. issue; if pro
lection has slain its thousands, gold
standard has slain its tens of thou
sands. And so, my Republican friends,
can we say from our standpoint, that
if free trade has slain its thousands, a
GOLD standard has slain its tens Of
thousands. loud applause.) On the
money question we meet on common
ground.
[ have no patience with silver Re-
publicans who will not accept saliva
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Friends of Silver Rally to Ratify the
Nomination of Bryan
and SeWaEl.

liant son of America, William ]. Bryan.
Great applause.) This, our gallant
young leader, viii be the means of re-
storing happiness and prosperity by
the restoration of silver money to its
former and proper place. Before the
ides of next November ne will bust
the gold wing of the Republican party.
He will give their leader such a dose
of sure pop that he will be very sick
bug indeed. (Applause)
Fisher s. Harris was introduced by
Judge BaslSin as chairman for the even
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complished by adherence to the princi-
pies of the convention at Chicago and
freedom to the nation and happiness
will be restored to the nation through
William J. Bryan. The speaker closed
by calling upon the people of Utah,
the women of Utah particularly-and
two-thirds of the Utah women were
Democrats, women were naturally
Democrats-to vote for w. J. Bryan.
FROM UNCLE BEN.
The following note. accompanied by a.
beautiful bouquet, was received from
Ben Whittemore:
To Fisher Harris. Chairman of the
demonstration to ratify the nomina-
ton of w. j. Bryan and Arthur
Sewall the popular candidates for
President and Vice-President:
Fisher-We will thank the Lord. The
people once more will place as ruler Of
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PARTY LINES
WERE WIPED OUT
Democrats and Republicans
United in a Common
Cause.
THE P0PULISTS
FALL IN LINE.
Ali Declare For the New Dsclara.
ton OF En.ep. nde ice.

Ex-Nyayor BaxI1ia Calls the Steeting
to Order and Makes I Few Fitting
Remarks Introducing the Young
Orator Fisher s. Harris as the
Chairman Of the Evening--A Time
of oratory, Enthusiasm and Great
EarRestness-NIOst Eloquent Adj
dresses By Hons. j. L. RavvIins.
f. b. stephens, C. s. Varian, r. b.
Shepard, o. w. Powers, Mrs. La
Barthe. DR.. Ferguson, Warren
Foster and others-Great Over
flow Meeting Addressed BY Hon.
w. II. King, j. VI. Denny, George
e. Blair, r. w. Sloan and Others.
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HON. ]. L. RAWLINs.

Hon. j. L. Rawlins was received with
a hurricane of applause. He said in
part that the financial question at the
present time overshadowed all others.
Tariff was relegated to the background
People had quit cavilling as to whether
the duty should be 40 per cent or 10
per cent, at least until the money ques-
ton was settled. The Grover Cleve-
land party has declared against the
free and unlimited coinage of silver I'M
less by international agreement. That
means they are in favor of a gold
standard pure and simple.
The tariff plank in the Republican
platform was very uncertain and am
biguous. 1t looked as if the tariff sched
ules were to be disposed of to the high
est bidder in order to raise campaign
funds to defeat the free coinage of sill
yer. With free coinage the struggle
to obtain the needed money to carry
on our business and to develop our re-
sources would be less severe, the strug-
gle for existence would be less hard
and less hopeless. The Republican
party is opposed to all this unless it
come about With the benediction of
England. Until England says the word
we must drink this bitter cup to the
very dregs- This restoration of silver,
this debasement of the currency, as
they called it, must be brought about
by International agreement, and this
by delegates to an International con-
vention which is not clothed with power
to do anything but report to their var
ious governments. Such conference
in 1878 reported against free coinage of
silver and added that it was a question
that each nation must decide for itself.
How long would it be before other ma
tons would follow the lead of this
great and powerful nation if we adopt
the free coinage of silver at ratio of
16 to /? Not long indeed
The st. Louis platform was meant
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anguish when he heard the clank Of
the chains upon the black, so is the soul
Of Bryan aftame at the thought of the
gilded burdens upon the backs of the
white.
BUT oh, my friends, as surely as my
Sainted mother believed in her inmost
soul that Abraham Lincoln was raised
I'D Of God to strike the shackIes from
four million blacks, 50 surely do 1 be-
Ieve that the name of William J. Bry-
an will ever be written in history as
the emancipation of ten times four mil
lion whites. (Applause.)
Bear with me but moment more
and 1 am done. CVoices: Go ahead
go ahead.') l like not sectional feel
ing. l was born in the east in the state
of Maine and 7 love the land of my
birth, though I love and stand ever
for the land of my adoption. (Applause.)
But fear not, we shall triumph. Truth
will prevail. We shall regain our rights
and sectional feeling will pass away.
Bitter words will be forgotten We
shall remain an undivided people. Let
US recall the prophetic words of Lin
coins first inaugural:
I'VE are not enemies, but friends;
we must not be enemies. Though pas
sion may have strained, it must not
v =
tic chords Of memory stretching from
every battlefield and patriot grave to
every loving heart and hearthstone all
over this broad land, will yet swell the
chorus of the Union when again touch
ed, as surely they will be, by the better
angels Of our nature. loud and con-
tinued applause and cheers.)
DIR. E. B. FERGUSON.
Mrs. Ellen B. Ferguson made
short and appropriate address. The
people were assembled tonight, she
said, not as partisans. The subject
was a vast one, which related to the
whole Of humanity. 1t was the strug-
gle of labor to remove from it's throat
the clutch of the capitalist. The min
ing, farming and industrial interests of
the country were paralyzed. They were
struggling and groaning under a load
too great to bear History was re-
peating itself. We were on the eve
Of a second revolution as great as
that of 1776. The Chicago convention
had formulated a new declaration of
independence, which would lift the
yoke of the gold barons of England
from the shoulders of the American
people. Shall it be that Americans
will be slaves? 1 think not. America
is great enough and strong enough to
be free and to take the lead and let
other nations follow. This can be ac-