The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-07


the side Of Bryan, silver and prosper
my. Judge Powers reception and
speech Saturday night have already
been recounted in the columns of The
lIerald 1t was a most suspicious open
ing of the campaign, and the enthusd-
asm caused by the speech was so great
that daylight came before it subsidized
The camp consists Of about 300 persons,
of whom 200 are voters. Here are To-
Gated tine Sunbeam, the Swansea mines,
the -Four Aces, Picnic and North Star
and other bullion producers. over the
hill is Ghe HumbUg prospect, for which
.Jsslse knight of Provo a few weeks ago
refused $4,000. On the crest of the
hall is the greatest iron mine in the
west 1t is owned by the Tin1c Iron
company and in it George Y Wallace
of SAT- Lake city is heavily interested.
The ore is literally quarr1ed, and about
1000 tons a month are shipped TO the
Germania and Mingo smelters. One
year ago the camp YVES dead Not TO
exceed ten men were steadily employed.
Now the camp is again prosperous
POWDER FOR GOLDBUGs.
Powers speech was a great effort. It
was the opening speech of the cam
paign. and if it is an indication OF the
kind of ammunition he has stored in
his oratorical magazine for goldbug
consunl prion his contemplated Uollr OF
the south will result in thousands OF
wavering ones being converted to the
new Democracy.
HIS arraignment of Candidate Hol-
brook created great interest He al
ternately read and commented son each
question and answer in The Herald IN
tarview in such a forcible way that
many of his hearers severed their al
legiance to Holbrook and went over TO
king. Holbrook is a popular man in
the district He is heavily interested
in mining properties. and as he often
visits them, he has a strong personal
following. But in Silver City, silver is
the only issue this year. Every man
residing in it belongs TO the Bryan and
Sewall club and has literally contrib
ured 10 the Bimetallic League fund
RIVAL LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES
There reside here Claudius V.
Wheeler, the Democratic nominee
for the house of representatives,
and his opponent, Charles II.
Blanchard Mr.. Wheeler has been
identified with the camp since
1874 and at the present time is man
ager OF the firm of l.. +. Ritter & Co.
he was born on the plains at what is
now known as Devils Gate, in Sweet
water county, Wyoming. in 1851. He is
married and has one child. He Is firm
believer in and exponent of the Demo-
cratic doctrine AS enuncia1ed at Chi
cago, and is in touch with his party on
aii local issues. He is a very popular
man throughout the district, and his
friends say that he will experience no
difficulty in defeating Mr.. Blanchard,
who is looked upon by The miners as a
corporation hirelinG and born monop-
olist To me. Blanchard APP
peared TO be very pleas
ant gentleman and man of abil-
lay He was born in Boston in 1886 and
has resided continuously in the same
house in the camp for twenTy-four
years. He has been mining recorder
since 1873, the same year in which he
became postmaster, Z position which
he voluntarily relinquished on the LIST
inst. Silver is the paramount issue
with him.
BLANCHARD INTERVIEWED.
Il am stiA a Republican" said he,
'hut / ann going to vote for Bryan
then put this question TO him: If
YOU are going TO vote for Bryan why
can you consistently support hum,
Democrat, and decline to support men
who viii hold up his hands?'
Mr.. Blanchard answered with a laugh.
He has a jolly laugh. How are you
going 20 vote?" he asked. l told hum
! was not there TO give my views, but
10 obtain his. No amount of persua-
sion on my part could induce him 10
answer. In speaking of labor organi- |
cations and the eight-hour law. he said |
that ne was friendly TO the former and |
than so far as his observation had ex- |
tended. the latter had been very salts |
factory to both the owners anc to the |
men He had read the Democratic |
tariff plank, and when / asked for an ex-
preston of his views on it he an
swereS-:
Il am a Republican, and believe in
silver, protection and reciprocity"
1 could not cajole him into making |
any other reply.
rs your Republicanism strong enough |
to induce you 10 vote for Brown if you
are elected, TO succeed himself in the |
United States senator" / asked
NO. sir ne declared, emphatically. |
I wild no. woe for Brown or for any 1
member of his firm
] then asked him his opinion of the (
Holbrook interview. He was present at i
tie meeting the night before and had |
heard Powers dissection of it.
Il must decline to express an opin- |
ion. was his reply. u heard Judge |
Powers. but l want to read it in The /
Herald before arriving at a conclusion. /
You know the judge is tricky" And |
then Mr.. Blanchard laughed merrily
POWERS MAMMOTH SERMON.
On Sunday afternoon Judge Powers
delivered at Mammoth the first political (
sermon he has ever been guilty of. In I
the store windows of Mammoth were
posters reading;