The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-23
Republican Orator Brown ROaStS
the Republican Organ.
TALKED ABOUT SILVER
AND SAID THE TRIBUNE WAS
FOR FIAT MONEY.
Also Remarked That the Editor
Knew Nothing About the Silver
Question-Some Embarrassing In
terruptions at the Ogden Meeting
-Glasmann Denounced Cannon.
tspecIaI TO The EeraIdJ


Ogden. Utah. Oct. 22.-The Republic
ans held a rally in the Grand Opera
House tonight. The speakers were Ar
thur Brown, William Glasmann and j.
O. Abbot, the latter of Ohio. Mr.. Brown
talked for protection, and, to show how
the country could get along without
the free coinage of silver. took a slap
at the Tribune and roasted Senator
Cannon.
Mr.. Glasmann spent considerable
time explaining how IT was con Gss tent
for him to stump for Bryan in 1896 and
stand on a Mckinley platform IN 1898
He spoke for silver and roasted Sena-
tor Cannon.
Mr.. Abbot. just from the home of
Mckinley and Hanna, congratulated
the party on its rejuvenation, and pre-
dicted Utah would fall into the Repub-
lican column in 1900.
NJ. A Breeder was chairman. The
stage was prettily decorated with flags,
bunting and pictures. The principal
speakers occupied seats in the fore
ground while between them and the
background, which was the deep blue
sea, sat a number of representative
Republicans.
According to an attache of the opera
house, who made a careful estimate,
there were between 700 and 500 present.
Mr.. Brown was the first speaker. He
commended that the silver question is
not an issue in this campaign; contend
ing that the Republican party had al
ways been pledged to those two issues,
and that the state had been carried
Republican upon those questions alone.
He asserted that better times had
come to the people of Utah by reason
of the Dingley bill, when someone in
the audience called out, NO.
Brown quickly answered. There are
some who won't work, and they don't
feel it,
At this. Ras Christofferson, who had
shouted out the interruption, left the
hall.
Brown criticised the action of Sena-
tor Cannon in voting against the Ding
ley bill, saying that he deserted the
party which had raised him from
nothing to senator" Mr.. Brown then
started in to show how there were
other ways to aid the silver cause than
by coming the metal. One of these wa5
to issue silver coin in the place of the
fiat money now in circulation.
Just here he took occasion to refer
to the Tribune and it's criticism this
morning of his own lack of knowledge
on the silver question. His exact words
were: Il know there are people who
advocate this paper fad. who think
the way. it was advocated by the
great organ of Senator Cannon in Salt
Lake City"
"a voice. "Hurrah for CannonrO
Yes, he is for paper money, 1 pre-
sumo; l do not know. His organ was,
and L can safely say-and l think if
anyone will take a moment to think.
they VIII agree with me-that when an
organ advocates paper money, the edi-
tor of 1t shows that he does not know
anything about silver" to use his own
expression in an editorial this morn
ing.
The Apollo club sang a couple of Sc
lections and then came William Glas-
mann. He claimed that the applause
bestowed on the musicians for their
song about protection was an evidence
that the audience appreciated Repub-
lican truths. He then explained that
his stand in supporting Bryan was due
TO this fact, that because all the other
nations were going back on silver and
1t seemed like a case of then or never.
He eXcoriated Senator Cannon and
promised that if he were elected to the
Utah legislature. he would make a bet
ter record there than Cannon did in
congress. He thought Mr.. Cannon was
wrong in most everything, even in his
testimonial given TO the manufacturers
of celery compound
WI. d " ADDOI (WnO, Dy the way, is
drawing a fat salary as secretary of
the Uintah and Uncompahgre allot-
ment commission) then talked on the
merits of the present administration IN
particular and the Republican party in
general. He expressed his pride in his
state-OhiO. Ohio. he said, had pro-
duced Garfield. Grant and Mckinley.
Utah had produced Frank Cannon and
Fisher Harris. Mr.. Abbot also made.
with muCn glee, the same reference 10
heavenly twins" made in every speech
in Weber county since the commence
meSt of his stumping tour.