The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-06
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their parishioners. as they lolled upon
velvet-cushioned pews. (Applause.)
Again, Governor Wells says that he
does not know what congress viii do
when Roberts shall be elected. 1 will
tell him what congress will do, it will
welcome Roberts to his seat and when
Warren Foster comes along with his
little contest Qaughter) he will labor
in vain. But. suppose the impossible.
Suppose that Foster Should succeed,
and Roberts should lose his seat in
congress. for my part, believing so
strongly as I do in the paramount i'm
portance of the silver question. 1 would
prefer that the seat from Utah in the
congress of the nation should remain
vacant, than that it be filed for
moment by a silver-plated goldbug.
(Applause.)
'What good can come by the election
of Roberts" asks Governor Wells. Let
me answer the question. 1t will prove
to the syndicates and monopolies of
the east, it will prove to the money
brokers and the hordes of greed and
avarice who are watching this con-
test, that Utah is true to the great
cause Of bimetallism and will not aban-
don the faith? 1t will place in con-
gress another vote for silver 1t will
be a step forward and not a step back
ward in the march of progress. 1t will
add one more strong voice to those
which plead the peoples cause. 1t will
be a victory for suffering and oppressed
humanity The defeat of Roberts will
mean that the old and bitter fight is
reopened. That the wounds so scarcely
healed have been torn afresh and that
bitterness and hate is once more to dis
tract and disturb the state we love so
well.
1 admit that Mr.. E1dredge is on ora
tor he is a master of rhetoric, he can
paint the most charming word pic
lures, Qaughter.) He can pluck the
colors from the rainbow and can weave
them into chaplets and garlands and
hang them on the necks of his friends.
(Renewed laughter) He told how he
was born at a very early stage of his
existence, how he as a barefOOted boy
drove the cows and afterwards learned
to milk those self same cows and how
when he became man he embarked in
business as a merchant in Coalville.
He tells how he went to Wales on a
mission and what befel him there. and
| in the constitutional convention, when
| speaking on the prohibition question,
he told his now famous oil train story.
He tells this story because it is equal
| ly applicable to the prohibition ques-
ton, the financial issue or almost any
| thing else. Much Iaughter.)
! Judge Powers, continuing, said that
/ as a cold fact Mr.. Eldredge was not
fitted by education or by nature to
occupy the seat in congress now so ably
filled by Hon. W. H. King. Don't be
lead astray, pay no attention to Cover
nor Wells. On a political platform the
| governors words have no more weight
than any other mans. Can you afford
to cast a vote for Eldredge? Can you
have it appear to the nation that Utah
has abandoned the silver cause? What
good, asks the Republicans, will the
election of Roberts do? 1t will give
notice to the nation that Utah is still
standing for bimeta1lism, for right and
for justice. Rally to the cause of Dem
ocracy and support every candidate on
the ticket. Democracy is the aspiration
of the human heart for liberty. 1t was
born when the light first shone forth
on the world, when the birds first SANG
and viii live forever. In 1896 Democ-
racy burst the chains which fettered ii
to the chariot wheels of the plutOcrats
1t won it's first great victory in 1900 an6
it will win another victory in 1900 Il
has seen parties rise and fall and die
but it is party which will live as Ions
as humanity, until the w1)rld passes int
oblivion. When silver is remOnetizec
it will be found that Democracy was
the handmade which accomplished it
The cloud in the west has not grown
smaller. The money question is MOI
settled No question is ever settled un.
til it is settled right. Let not the ban
ner of Democracy be trailed in the
dust. That banner will conquer anC
tyrants and plutOcrats shall fall be-
fore it.