The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-05
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Ogden. Utah. Oct. 4-Hon. G. c.
Rlehads was a guest of the WashaHSid
club tonnght and made a speech to a tlall
fun of its members. In vtew of the pre-
elections being reiterated by Republicans
to the effect that tine Warhiltie club
was organized solslY to defeat all
friends OF Mr.. Richards in the nlualci-
PAL election, the event is significant and
those making the predictions VII now
have To assign other causes for the eX-
1etenpe of this Democratic organization.
The event is simply another evidence
of the fact that the Democracy OF Og-
den VIII SO TO the Dolls sol95ly un.'4sd
ON Nov. g
After the regular Democratic meeting,
Mr.. Richards was escorted tn.o the
ncoan by the great chief of ttle WaS;la-
kier5. He was greeted wish hearty APP
plause which was rsd0ub!ed Nilsn he
was introduced as Fighter for De-
mocraey."
Mr.. Richards spoke nearly AN hour
Once he tried to e,.oEo. owing To taa
laheness of the hour, but the assembled
braves shCu,gd Go on unltl le cGGn-
piled. He said that though ne had not
had time to properly prepare for the
occasion still it w0u.d be a colder day
than the 9Th of October when tllare us
nothing TO be saa for Democracy
ROASTED NON-PARTISANS.
Mr.. Richards scored 5ae non-parLsan
movement in most emphatic language,
referring i'm especially sarcastic terms
to the ticket named by a select a-1
presumably self constituted Commit
tee The speaker could see no reason
why people should desire to be other
lists in Utah. He told of the first divi-
sion ON party lines in Utah, and how it
was made in good faith, but that now
there seemed to be a force ait work
which would undo all that had been
done and put matters back en- to a
basis of local strife.
The ching that should dominate
Democracy should be the wild of THE
majority. Democrats might differ on
minor matters and they had a right to.
They might work i'm the primaries and
i'm the conventions for what they de-
sired, but after that they should abl1e
by tihe action of tine convention and
vote the ticket straight
NEVER SCRATCHED A TICKET.
Il want to say to YOU that [ have
never scratched a ticket in my life. L
have gone to the primaries and con-
ventions and worked hard for what /
believed to be right, but after that I
have ablded by the will of the ma
Jority."
The speaker said he could see no rea-
son why any Democrat should desire
Republican On his ticket when just as
good a ticket as could be nominated in
Weber county could be made up of
Democrats. (Applause).
One portion of the address was de-
voted to review of national and in
ternatonal conditions, and the conclu-
sion was advanced that the wrongs
now existing would be righted only by
Democracy. The present measure of
prosperity is being claimed by the Re
pubIcans as due to their policy, when
in fact it is only a result of the famine
in India.
THE woLcoTT COMMISSION.
OF the Woleott commission he said:
"OId Pinckney said SO many years ago
that We have almost forgotten it: Mil
lions for defense, but not one cent for
tribute Has it now come to this, that
we sent commission abroad TO beg
England to do something TO relieve US,
and that we think ourselves blessed
that that commission has achieved
this-that it has secured from the
president Of the Bank of England
promise to keep one-fifth of it's reserve
in silver? (Applause). They say the
ratio we ask for is wrong. The ratio
has never been wrong. God Almighty
seems to have been the first free silver
Democrat. He put those metals in the
earth in about that proportion and we
have been digging them in such pro-
portion ever since. (Cheers). Now l
don't pretend to be overly religious,
but the Lord is a good enough political
captain for me-" (Applause).
IN all 40
wisdom of putting up a straight Demo-
cratic ticket, one representative of all
elements, and then of supporting that
ticket and of thus strengthening the