The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-05

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der prevailed Mr.. Thatcher said:
Ladies and Gentlemen: If l had the
ability and inclination to discuss any
of the important issues that may come
up during the present campaign. l have
not the time this evening to attempt
it. I greet you with heartfelt Sense of
gratitude. realizing in a degree at least
the great contest before US, and you
will permit me with reference to those
more important matters to refer TO
those of greatest weight.
While ii may not be the paramount
issue in the campaign, it has been
stated that anything to beat the DEM
ocrats" in Utah in 1898 is legal and
legitimate If that be true, wisdom
would indicate at least suspicion that
the harbor has been mined and the bat
teries masked, and looking at the mat
ter. NAV we not be warranted in the
belief that the other side has been
working and devoting some time to
Utah. May they not have conceived
that if our ranks were divided we might
be defeated in detail? Otherwise why
these stories which are being circu-
lated; why these apparent murmur5 of
discomfort which are being reported?
WHY are we charged with being. = di-
vided Democracy? Why are friends
who fought side by side, alleged to have
severed their political connections with
the other?
After a convention has met and nom
mated candidates; after it has declared
it's preferences. every Democrat should
abide by the choice and not listen to
the siren songs of the opposition, which
has no motive. other than evil 1t is
right and proper before a convention to
discuss the qualifications of candidates,
but after the choice is made 1t is the
duty of every Democrat to stand by the
nominee of the convention.
Hon. B. H. Roberts was the standard
bearer of the Democracy in 1895. At
the election that fall we met Bull
Run, but you must remember that after
Bull Run there came a Gettysburg and
an Appommatox and we propose this
fall to give the Republicans their APP
pommattox. l stood behind B. H. Rob-
erts in 1895 (cheers), and l propose to
stand behind him now. Myself and my
household are for him, and we Will vote
for him. Let US all stand by the nomi-
nee of our convention and victory will
crown our efforts.
l should feel my duty was not Well
performed if l did not pay my tribute
to that gallant Democrat, the nominee
for the supreme court. Hon. R. y.
Baskin. and / feel that we should all
make an effort in his behalf with the
balance OF the ticket. He is an able
man, d good lawyer, sound on the law
and with a sense of justice which quail
fies him for the place for which he has
been nominated. In conclusion let me
say to you that 1 feel it my duty to
sustain the entire ticket and if all of
us will stand together, we will roll up
a majority for the entire ticket in No
Veinber.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Thatcher's
address. Hon. Fisher S. Harris was in
PRODUCED and spoke as follows:
FISHER S. HARRIS.
before this magnificent body of pa
triots, TO add my weak voice in rati-
flying the Democratic ticket. l am not
Unmindful Of the great honor to follow
in the oratorical footsteps of the dis
tinguished gentleman who has preced-
ed me, and whose appearance before
you tonight marks an era in the his
tory of the Democratic party OF the
state, for it gives the lie to the asser-
quarters that the Democratic Oart1 is
divided. (Applause.) The Democratic
uarty is not divided. (Applause.)
Il take it, too, ladies and gentlemen,
that we have not gathered here tonight
for the purpose of answering that ter
rible indictment contained in that
piatchless, peerless brakes Address
to the Flag" enunciated by John p.
Meakin." Gaughter.)
. The SPEAKER then paid a tribute to
the ticket nominated, and spoke in es-
pecially warm terms of the county
ticket. He called attention TO the fact
that the men who have conducted the
affairs of the county during the past
two -recrs with such credit were the
safest men to return, because they had
been tried and not found wanting. 1t
was q bad business to change VIXEN
experience had proven the eminent fit
ness of men for a. particular place.
Most of the Republican nominees had
nothing to rely on, promises made be-
fore election and seldom kept after they
were once elected. He paid q high trib-
ute to the personnel of the legislative
ticket, not a single one of which could
be said ought but good In eloquent
terms he referred to Hon. B. Fl. Rob-
erts and Judge Baskin, whose names
were cheered to the echo.
Speaking of the silver. issue he poirlt-