The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-04
HON. B. H. ROBERTS, THE CHAMPION,
CLEARLY DEFINES THE ISSUES
Hon. Fisher S. Harris On Party LOyalty-It Was Great
Rally, Which Provo Will Long Remember.

this country from Cuba Referring to
| the campaign now being carried on by
/ the Republican aggregation, he said
! that the Republicans, like boys were
I chasing about the country to frighten
! the people with political jack % Ian
terms. but when the light was blown
out the grinning and harmless pumpkin
would be found with John P Meakin
back of 1T. In closing he urged the
/ people to vote the Democratic ticket
straight, because it was the only means
available to put the stamp of disap-
proVal upon the party of Hanna and
Alger, one representing all that is vic
lous and wicked in the party of the
gold emblem, and the other the incom-
potency and mismana cement responsi-
bic for the sufferings of our soldiers in
the war
B. H. ROBERTS.
The next speaker introduced bv
Chairman King was the speaker of the
night, the Hon. B. H. Roberts. Mr..
Roberts in opening said he proposed to
speak directly on the issues of the cam
palSn, but before taking up the cam
palgn in general ne wished to refer to
the election of member of the su-
preme court, because he thought it was
OF great Importance. He said that
his enemies accord all honesty of pur
pose and who was generally acknowl-
edged TO be we'll qualified to fill the Do
sltion of judge of the supreme court
He said that there were some things
which the Republicans were endeavor-
ing TO bring into the campaign which
did not belong in it and especially was
this so In regard to the war issue All
Americans were presumably in favor OF
the war with Spain. The conduct of the
war Is matter to be criticised and
that certainly was not to the credit of
the ReDublicauS.- He said it was utter
ly impossible to stand on platform in
this state and make protection and rec
iprocity an issue here. The one great
issue now is the financial issue and in
this campaign It is the only issue OF
Importance. The Republican national
convention in 1886 declared against sill
yer and it had not changed since that
time. The people of this state are al
most d unit in favor of bimetallism.
What IS the prospect of the Republican
party giving the country a bimetallic
standard? Following this inquiry Mr..
Roberts took up the Wolcott commits
sion and its failure to accomplish any,
thing in the interest of silver and after
showing by extracts from numerous
speeches in congress and the declara-
tlons of prominent journals and even
the members of the present Republican
administration, he held that the Repub-
lican party had absolutely abandoned
silver and henceforth, as in the past.
was TO be known and regarded as the
gold standard party. This being true
there was but one party to which the
people of this state could turn with any
hope along the line of silver and that is
the Democratic party.
Mr.. Roberts dealt considerably with
g q lCT 1Fa- ae-l1. . <-TT
sition of the gold standard party. He
referred to the force and power of the
United States as compared with other
nations and after explaining that the
force and power of nations had for the
purpose of comparison been reduced to
foot tons. he showed how the United
States almost equaled all Europe.
therefore. when it urged that this coun-
try could not sustain the double or BIZ
metallic standard without the aid of
other nations it was a false declaration.
he referred to the prospect of this
country expanding and engaging in
new enterprises He thought that as the
result of Dewey's victory over in the
Philippines new commercial center |
under the flag of the Union would in
all probability come into existence. The |
annexation of Hawaii, Puerto Rico and |
the freedom of Cuba would all call for /
money. therefore, should we go to Eu- |
rope or issue bonds ct home, or should |
we Iemonetize silver, increase our !
wealth and dig the silver from the |
ground to relieve our necessities In |
closing he said that as the sun rose |
over the eastern hills the stars van |
1Shed from the sky, so when the Dem |
ocrabc party brought the silver issue |
INTO due prominence all these other side |
Issues like protection, reciprocity, wool |
and sugar must vanish from the scene.
The audience was very attentive and |
listened with interest to the able pre- |
sentation of the questions of the day
by Mr.. Roberts.
S. A. KENNER CLOSES.
Hon. S. A. Kenner was called upon
and said he was a shining example of
the closing remarks of the previous
speaker. Mr.. Roberts, who had said
that the rising sun shut out the stars.
He was one of the stars and the sun
had just preceded him, therefore he was
1t was not the first time he
had been eclipsed. The late Democratic
in Salt Lake City had done
the same thing to him. He spoke in
earnest eulogy of Mr.. Roberts and
urged his election. Then he mentioned
Judge Baskin and said he had in years
past been bitterly opposed TO Judge
Baskin. but he had come to know him, !
and knowing him he was glad to urge
his friends to vote for and elect him to
the supreme bench. After the meeting
the visitors were escorted by Mr. King
to his residence, they being his guests
for the evening.