The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-26
G. o. P. FAIRY TALES.
Mining Industry Belittled On the
Sheep Side of Juab.
Especial to The Herald.)

Nephi, Oct. 25.-The Republicans
opened their campaign here last night
at the opera house, which was modestly
| decorated and fairly we'll filled from
| the middle to rear of the floor. The
first speaker was Fred McGurrin. He
said it made him glad to think he
could appear before a reunited Repub-
lican party. He claimed prosperity
was here, and the reunited Republicans,
with that great statesman, William
Mckinley, as their leader, had brought
it, He wound up by relating vi-ion
prosperous sheepman had recently
during a peaceful siumber, after
hearty meal off mutton chops-the man
told him he had seen in the heavens,
surrounded by effiulgent rays of ever
changing eolOrs, the sanity images or
Alma Eldredge and Charles S. Zane,
and underneath that revered and great
statesman, William Mckinley. This
he considered sure omen Of victory
on Nov. s.
James T. Hammond said he was glad
to see so many ladies present; that they
had always proved good party work
ers His first theme was the war; he
claimed Mckinley and his advisers
didn't want to go to war, because We
were short of ammunition; that the
Democrats in congress wouldn't APP
propriate money to purchase ammuni-
ton, but the great Mckinley managed
to get money, nevertheless, and bought
ammunition and sent it to Dewey, and
he then cleaned up the Spanish fleet in
Manila harbor. He declared it was only
by the wise action of Mckinley that
the Spanish were prevented from TAX
ing America, instead of the Americans
taking Cuba. Coming down to the con-
duct of the war, he claimed the credit
was due to the Republicans, and the
Democrats had done what they could
to make it a failure. He stated that
in one of the southern counties there
was but one Democrat left, all the rest
having returned Republican. and this
one Democrat was SO obstinate that he
declared he and his family would
starve before they would yield. He
claimed the high price of wool, sheep.
cattle and everything else was due to
the wise administration of William
Mckinley. He spoke of the sugar and
silk industry, and predicted that the
time was not far distant when the sill
yer mining would scarce be recognized
as of Importance in this state.
In comparing the candidates on the
state tickets, he said Eldredge is in
favor of protection and woman suf-
frage, and Roberts is in favor of free
trade and. if elected, will vote to put
wool on the free list, and against wo-
man suffrage. He eulOg1Zed zane, and
intimated Baskin was a back number
and not fitted for the supreme bench.
When he mentioned Roberts and Bas-
kin's names there was a storm of ap
plause that caused the speaker to
say Opponent when he referred to
them later. Mr.. Hammond mentioned
McKinley's name just q times, that
matchless statesman" 13 times, protec-
ton times. wool and sheep s times
and silver once, and that was when he
said silver mining would soon not be
of Importance in the state. His speech
was commonplace and received with
marked Indifference.
P. p. Christensen, secretary of the
Republican state committee. predicted
thu election of the Republican state
ticket and a majority of the legisla-
ture, and gave as a reason why the
state went Democratic two years ago
was because the women did not under
stand the new-fangled ballot. This
statement caused something Of a SEN
! sation. He concluded by saying that
/ Mark Hanna never wrote the letter to
/ Glen.
1t was a very tame affair for the
/ opening show of the Republicans in this
former Republican stronghold. And
| compared with the great Democratic
/ outpOuring to hear Hon. B. H Rob
/ erts it was a doleful failure.