The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-26
Fiery Eloquence of Colonel Ian
mars Candidate.
MEETINGS OF GoLDBUGs
DoDGED SILVER QUESTION AND
LOCAL ISSUES.
Republican Orators Confne Them
selves Chiefly to the Mckinley
Alger-Hanna War Record-Ezra
Promises to ''Filfull the Office Of
Mayorv-slim Meeting.

Between thirty and forty voters and
some venturesome boys We're entrapped
into the Twenty-fourth ward meeting
house last evening and were not per-
mitted to escape until ID. n. Straup,
Fred c. Price, James t. Hammond, r..
B. Whittemore, George Canning, Ezra
! Thompson, ]. Farley White, George NJ
! Cannon, Ray c. Naylor, George Cott-l
rell and D. II. Twomey poured cam
paign speeches into them for two hours
and half, aid two travelling singers
had warbled Get Your Moneys Worth'@
ard other touching melodies. Albert G.
Reiser could not stand the strain and
left fer home before The siege was half
over but T. c. Loefbonrow, Malcolm
McAllister and Willard D. Thompson
were held in reserve, each with the
! speech Of the evening in his inside.
pocket Along toward midnight. when
Chairman Dick Whittemore in his
thirteenth speech, called upon Twonaey7
to make a second speech and hold the
crowd while programmes for the second
part were being distributed, the crisis
came. Judge Twomey caught the dam
gerous glitter in the peoples eyes and
quailed. He suggested that the victims
be liberated, and, as the people fed;
from the Spouting volcano in TIE days
of Pompeii those people fed from the.
Twenty fourth ward meeting house.
Fred c. Price called the meeting to
order and put r. 3. Whittemore in
charge. Dick struck the keynote, This
is the most important election in the
history of Utah. he said. Then striking
himself upon the breast ne cried, Put
US in office and we win rectify all the
remedies"
Then the boys sang Get Your Mon
eys Worth" II was not q campaign
song, but for some reason it made a
great hit.
Then D. N. Straup jumped in and told
how the nefarious Democratic council
polluted the city water with microbes
, and things and then rammed the nau-
seating mess down the peoples threats,
giving them a whole dictionary of dis
eases, and to emphasize his good points,
Mr. Straup would turn occasionally and
drink loud and long from the pitcher on
the table.
Whittemore endorsed everything
Straup had said and pledged himself
when elected to give the people pure
air and plenty of it, pure food and pure
water.
George Cottrel said he came to see
the people as this might be his only
chance and then James T. Hammond,
who had become FESTIVE, was turned
IOOSC anu IOuSll the W oil Will y lGAtLo,
the war with Spain and the Philippine
war to prove that the hustlers for Mark
Hanna should be lined up by his side
at the pie counter.
Ezra's Speech.
After more talk from Whfttemore
and a song, Just as the Sun Went
Down." Ezra Thompson, who had come
in with other reinforcements, spoke.
Il thank you" he said, Il didn't
come down to make speech. If you'll
elect the Republican ticket you'll not
regret it from top to bottom
Ray c. Naylor was next in line. He
didn't come down to make a speech
either.
George Canning didn't come down to
make a speech.
Whittemore knew Twomey back in
the cold and desolate wilds of Dakota
and knew he'd make a hot justice
Twomey told the crowd he would be
elected and would see them later. And
then that crowd wondered if by later
he meant in the police court.
Then j. P. White got up to prove
that Treasurer Norris was not much
of an official any how, and that he
could beat him with one hand tied be-
hind his back if he got the chance.
Cannon Wa Loaded.
George NJ. Cannon for an hour
proved by all history, sacred and pro-
fame, that all the misery, want and
crime, from Adam and Eve down, was
due to the Democratic party Even
the penitentiaries were full and the
laws of nature were petrif1ed under
Democratic rule, while the Democrats
stood talking like geese. Even beets
wouldn't grow in Utah under Demo-
cratic rule This was Cannon's first
chance to speak in some years, and he
ran the full ganut. When he finally
quit the people could be held no
longer and fed to their homes.
OF those present more than a. third
were Democrats, so that in reality
there were two Republican voters in
the meeting for every Republican
speaker on the rostrum.