The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-25
Ogden. Feb. %. 1899.

Ogden Silver Republican club, tn e fol-
lowing stirring address on the sena-
torial situation was delivered by the
chairman, but I do not give his IL anne,
as he has wife and children to SUD-
port:
.'Fellow Citizens and Ladies: ha We
Ventured to call this mass-meetiug OF
the thirteen silver Republicans Of Og
den, so that the lawmakers down aa-
Salt Lake may know something of the
wishes of the great majority of the
people upon the subject of the Sena-
torial election. Our party has a candi-
date whose record speaks and smells
for itself He is the only real states
man in the bunch Even mis- enemies
gaze upon his record with pride and
joy He claimg TO be in favor of pro-
lection to Utah wool and sugar and
lead and yet he voted against the bill
which put duty on them. He claims
IL be a Republican, and yet he walked
out of a Republican national conven-
ton. He claims to be a silver man,
Vet he deserted the battle-ground at ST.
Louis where he was sent to make
fight for the white metal, and he now
wants to break into the Democratic
ranks He claims to be a. master of
finance, and went to Hongkong TO post
himself on the principles of bimetal-
lism / tell you it takes ability of
high order to make a record like that.
Such a man is able to fool all the peo-
pie all the time. He is now professedly
= Democrat but he would be a Nc
Kinley Republican il the legislature
were of that complexion Like a chame-
leon. he always has a few colors up
his sleeve Such is the man we proud
ly propose for the Utah senatorship-
VARIED ACCOMPLISHMENT
AS an orator he could have given
Brutus spades; as a statesman he is
a bigger man than old Hoar. Against
him the Democratic party has put up
u nan VINO never went to school TWEEN
Iy-dve years in his whole life, who has
not got q plug nat To his name, ana
who is now defacing the beautiful
scenery of southern Utah by construct
ing a railroad through it for the vulgar
purpose of building up the industries
of the state, and increasing the value
of property in Salt Lake. do not
wish to be personal, my fellow silver
I.erublicans. but let me ask you VINO
is this man for whom twenty eight
members OF the legislature have had
the gan 10 vote, knowing that my
friend Cannon was himself in the he1d.
Who is this man with an Irish name
who assumes the right to occupy Sena-
tor Cannon'S seat in the senate, if the
legislature is willing to give 1t TO him?
Why, he is not a statesman at all. he
never edited newspaper in his me-
or made a speech lasting over two
Greek. nor could be quote a single
chapter from Ovid's art of Love.
Does Young Utah" as my friend,
Judge Goodwin, calls Pat Lannan, de
sire such q person to represent inns
glorious commonwealth in the federal
senate and open wine for Utah Deo-
pie who may visit the national capital?
THOSE AGAINST ArCUNE.
1T is said that McCune is a generous
man and q popular one, yet can
prove that every man to whom he ever
loaned money without security is oD-
pesed to his election. and that those
Who owe him the most are making the
hardest fight against him? Does that
show that he is popular, or does 1t
show that they don't want to lose him.
And this brings me 10 the greatest Cd
lection to his candidacy-his wealth.
He is not rich by his own labors, but
by the toll of other people whom he
pays TO do his work, while he himself
stands around and jinsles SO green
backs in his pockets and lights cigars
with the prOmisSOry notes OF Ms pest
friends Do We want such q man 20
represent US, Il man who would prob
ably cat pie in the senate restaurant
with a fork instead OF a knife? ~ ~
fellow citizens, this man AicCune : so
rich that lie has not I creditor in the
entire state which he now seeks 10
represent in the upper house. In
the language of Senator Cannon, ne
even protects our beloved J-Sh frorll
the example Of this modern CrOesus
and the influence Of money upon our
most sacred institutions. McCune coulG
leave Utah forever il he chose, and we
could not send even a sheriff after him
to bring him back How can such a
man claim to represent the Door and
ioWly, when he does not owe any of
mem a dollar? | tell you, gentlemen, a
r--sr1 &c
friends-there is no one to care for
him and urge him 10 heroic efforts 10
the end thu, lie may make a name for
himself and pay his bills. / am not
here to say anything unkind Of Mr.
1IcCune. but ] have heard Il reported,
and I violate 10 confidence in repeat
ing II. that AlcCune even pays his house
rent in advance. in order that he may
bring humiliation upon those less for
tunate than himself Think of q man
who is so ostentatious that he pays his
house rent in advance, and sin expects
u be elected by the people to the high
est office within their gift,
NAY INITIATE FRANK.
"There is some talk of his hiring a
hall this week and inviting his friends
to listen TO the history Of his life and
q confession OF his sins. He will not
only confess the truth of all the charges
brought against him by innuendO at
Senator Cannon's meeting, but he Will
startle the public by a confession Of
past inisdeeds never before even sus-
pected. He win confess to holding up
q stage belonging 10 Gilmer & Sails
bury in 1865 and earring off on q horse
q safe weighing twenty-three hundred
pounds; he viii confess that in crossing
the plains with the handcart company
IN the early SOS he stole two wheels
from one Of the handcarts and made
them into a bicycle for his own use;
he viii confess that at Manti for thir-
teen years, from 1870 to 1888, he sup
piled. a meat market with beef, and
that nobody ever knew where he got
the steers; he viii confess that he is
sued counterfeit money at American
Fork in 1885. and dealt faro with fifty
three cards in a deck at bingham City
in the winted Of 1878. He proposes
to confess himself one of the worst
men on record, he says, if that is the
sort of a man the silver Republicans
are looking for. In that way he expects
TO capture the silver Republican vote
in the legislature and counteract the
effect of the great Confession in the
salt Lake theatre a few days ago. But
! tell you. fellow citizens the silver
Republicans of Ogden viii not stand
McCune's nefarious work, nor that of
his manager, Fisher Harris. who was
a professional burglar before he Joined
.t-a Democratic party. and who de-
ponds upon the brightness of his paste
diamond shirt stud 10 blind the silver