Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23

| Speaker OF the House OF Rcproacntn-
| ives at Washington. third. the COVER
nor OF New York. and. fourth. the
| mayor Of Chicago. l am not quite sure
but. that the mayor OF Chicago should
| rank higher than the governor OF New
| YORK. He has more to do. lie has
more power and can accomplish more"
| What IL the condition OF your city
| today I asked.
Chicago ~ In as good condition as
any city In the United States" was the
| reply.
NO CHANCE FOR CHICAGO
BoODLERS
How about tho boodlers and the
The boodlcfs are now tho underdogs
IN our municipal fight. The majority Is
| aglinst them and they can do nothing
V ,hny pon'ics hete are now as pure as
What does Il cost you to run chloa-
| go, MIR, Mayor" said I.
reply.
Eighteen million dollars Is a million
| nnd half a month. Mr.. Mayor: that Is
hity thousand dollars a day. Isn't that
a good deal 20 spend on one town."
| - No. Not TOR such q town" replied
mayor Harrison. 1T should be more"
CITY GOVERNMENT AND THE CAR
LINES
what do you think OF the new ideas
| OF city government. should Chicago own
It's own street car llnes?''
Il think II should" said Mayor Hnr-
tison, IL should own the street car. tho
| electric light and gas plant. and also
the telephone. ] wish could see some
way for the city TO get hold OF them"
How about owning the newspapers;
some OF the European cities, such Ms
Dresden. own such things"
% la a.
rledly. II would not like 10 see our
newspapers controlled by the city. I
was at the head Of newspaper once
myself, ana | think that municipal
ownership OF the papers would be a bad
YOUNG MEN AND CHICAGO
TRUSTS.
u see that most Of your businesses
mere ate going into trusts. Mr.. Mayor"
said ]. WIN this not crowd out indi-
| vidual effort2 What are the chances
TOT young men In chlcago?"
mink the chances are as good hero
as anywhere. although the trusts do
initiate against the individual. don't
believe In trusts. I think they are bad
for the people. and that they WIN have
To be restricted In some way: but THAT
too big u question to discuss on .
| hand"
How about Chicago real estate?"
=. ~ ~ INV IN Fopd condition. said
Mayor Harrison. Values seem to be
rising In all parts OF the city. Real
estate comes up last. you know"
HOW THE SILVER REPUBLICANS
BOLTED.
In coming from Denver west through
idaho ! have travelled on the sleeper
over the Union Pacific with former
Senator Fred 4. Dubois. Since leaving
the Senate Mr.. Dubois has become "A
IA
FOOT, where he raises alfalfa, hay ana
iinc cattle. He was Just returning
from Omaha. where he had been mar
keting some OF his stock. Mr. Dubois
! WIZ be remembered. was one OF the
silver Republicans, who, headed by
senator Teller. left the 81. Louis con-
Nention which nominated Mckinley.
During the conversation I asked him
10 ten me the story OF that movement.
He roplied:
THE holt OF the silver Republicans
from the party had It's origin several
years before that convention. we were
an delegates to the presidential conven-
Ton at Minneapolis, and We there die
lated TO certain extent the financial
plants OF the platform. The platform
WIS a combination OF bimctallism ana
protection and was satisfactory TO US,
We soon found, however. that the Re.
publican party was not standing by its
Platform, and We then decided that
without we could have what we want
"a Tor silver We would not vote for the
Dlngley bill. This was along about
1913, We stuck together and defeated
the Dlngley bill. This excited tho whole
country and showed that the silver men
We're determined to have a say In iinan.
clnl legislation"
1T was about this time that we he
gan To have fcgulnr conferences to-
gether ns to what We should do" con-
tinued senator Dubois. 'srhe bimetal.
lists OF both parties held Regular meet
lhgs IN my committee room at She Son.
ate. and we discussed ana laid out our
plan OF action. You see. many OF tho
silver Democrats thought their party
would vote for the gold standard We
finally resolved that tho bimetallists of
both parties would break AWAY from tho
respective parties and form new
party. In case neither o. the parties
adopted bimetalllc plank In its plat.
form. This was our position when We
LETT the st. Louis convention. We had
the same Idea when we went to Chlcu-
40. There we had a silver hoadquai-
tiers, ana u was our Idea that we should
combine there with the silver men OF
the Democratic party and perhaps have
q convention Of our own and nominate
Teller as President. Associated with
us In this plan were Senator Daniel of
virginia, Senator Jones' of Arkansas,
blackburn of Kentucky and John Me-
Lean Of ohio.
we Were all for Teller. and were
waiting for the proper time 60 STAN.
pcde the convention TO hlm.when Bryan
made his speech and carried every
thing by storm We saw then that Ii
would be bettor 90 go for Bryan. The
platform which was adopted suited Us
very wei. and We supported bryan,
This was not our plan. however, for we
expected 10 nominate Teller"
suppose Teller had been nominated
senator. what would have been che
rcsult?"
lie would have been elected,
think" said Senator Dubois
SOMETHING ABOUT IDAHO.
The conversation here went from poll.
tics to farming, and | asked Senator
Dubois how the farmers OF hls State
were getting on. lie replied:
They are making money know a
man who has 500 acres of alfalfa, and
he viii get a thousand tons on of II
this year. This will net him at least
three thousand dollars at the present
price or hay, and the price viii 40 rise
later on that his profits viii be Ave
thousand dollars In all probability,
There liz nothing 80 nice nA alfnlfa
forming, You plant your crop once aud
the stun grows right along year after
year. All you have IN do IN to cut Il.
stack Il and SOIL II. II had a thous, |
and acres ~ alfalfa I should have all |
the Income that | could possibly spend. |
II ought 20 bring me In lfteeen thous- |
and dollars a year. This man who has
fha 32O-ncro farm has inyested only .Ix |