The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-18
Judge Powers Says Utah Silver Re-
publicanS Were BuncOed.
SPRINGVILLE MEETING
& FINE AUDIENCE AND EFFECT
I'VE SPEECHES.
Powers Ridiculed the Republican
Campaign-Speaking of Twins,
What Was the Matter With the
News and Tribune in Days AgoneP
Caustic Comment On Alger.
Especial to The Herald1

Springville, Utah, Oct. 17.-Six hun
dred people gathered at Reynolds hall
this evening to listen to the opening
Democratic speeches of this years
campaign in this city. Chairman Will
liam NJ. RoyIance presided. Judge Bas-
kin opened by cOngratulating the splen-
did audience. He said it was right that
the people should take an active IN
terest in governmental affairs. They
should make themselves familiar with
the political issues and adopt those
which best suited the public interest,
and should not be turned from Wnat
they believed to be right. he brlehy
discussed the silver question and de-
clared it the all-important issue IN TINS
campaign.
Judge Powers opened his speech with
complimentary remarks about Spring
Vile and it's people. Launching then
upon his argument, he presented rea-
sons why campaigns should not be
filed with attacks upon personal char-
acter. He expressed regret that silver
Republicans had blindly purchased a
gold brick, and ridiculed their motto
, of Anything to Beat the Democrats.
He Insisted that the silver cause can
not be advanced by the success of the
Republican ticket, and said you might
as well send judge Goodwin abroad as
suits as to believe that any benefit VIII
flow TO silver by the election of Ell
dredge. He discussed the inconsistency
of the Republican position. 1t placed
one in the position of the man who said,
when he saw a crab, he never COULD
tell whether he met it or had overtaken
it. He urged the election of the Demo-
cratic county ticket, and complimented
Roylance, Smoot and Evans. He dis
cussed the candidates and supported
Roberts, asking why the assaults now
made were not made in 1895. He ar
gued that the whole fight was made
and the people were asked to stultify
themselves in order to place Eldredge
in congress and John Henry Smith in
the senate
Speaking of recent cartoons, Judge
Powers said that the finest picture of
twins he ever saw was the Deseret
News and Tribune in days gone by.
But, he said, those were the days when
John Henry was not barred from the
Tribune for campaign purposes. He
paid his respects to the gentlemen,
headed by Judge Judd, who recently
declared that they could not support
Roberts, and described Eldredges oil
train speech in the constitutional con-
vention. He said that the substance
of the testimony before the Mckinley
war investigation is that the soldiers,
not having had enough to eat at home,
gorged themselves in the army and
then died; that the camps were so
clean that the men just naturally be-
came filthy, and their perfect health
induced disease; that the men did not
die from disease, but from ignorance.
Never being in the army before, they
thought it the proper thing to die, and
thus tie administration was embar-
raised.
At the conclusion an informal recep-
ton was held and the speakers met
many Of the people. A large party was
present from Provo.