The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-26

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During the preliminary part of the
debate number of the more prominent
leaders had held their peace. Seeing
this, and fearing that they might not
be able to put The bosses on record,
somebody started a cry for 'Lannan,
'Lannan." The cry was taken up and
repeated so vigorously that the colonel
felt moved to respond.
Colonel Lannan's Views.
Il didn't have any idea of speaking
when / came over here" he confessed,
shyly. This is the first political meet
ing l have attended for long time and
1 expected merely to hear the opinions
of others. / am in favor of a good
ticket The Tribune will support your
ticket if it is composed of Clean hon
est men. In municipal elections
have always favored the best man."
Colonel Lannan at this point re-
fered to the support given the nom
partisan ticket by his paper at the last
city election, but there were no dem
onstrations of approval Il wouldn't
care what our candidate thinks of sill
yer. or what he thinks of gold, or what
ne thinks of expansion so long as he is
honest" was Colonel Lannan's conclud-
ing comment.
A F. Doremus was outspoken in
plea for the insertion into the platform
of all the principles Of Republicanism.
1T is most desirable. said he that
Republicans should not be 'afeerd' to-
state their articles of faith and put.
them in their platform
Colonel Kaighn insisted that a free
silver plank. should go into the plar-
form. He said he had been a lifelong
advocate of free silver, and he
thought there should be no equivoeati0n
Oh ri, e /
am in the minority here said Colonel
Kaighn. Il propose to stand UP for my
principles and for what l believe to be
right"
Secretary Hammond Talks.
Secretary of State Hammond was al
so in favor of going 1.-The whole hog
He declared that he did not believe in
mincing matters but asserted that the
platform should endorse everything the
Republican party stands for Contin-
uing. Secretary Hammond made reg
ular stump speech in which he gloried
in the conduct of the war in the Philip
pines and said that wherever the flag
stands the American people will stand
behind it,
This didn't sit well on Colonel
Kaighn who had just finished a speech
in favor of free silver. Colonel Kaighn
had also said that the sentiment he
had found in the east during his recent
trip was Overwhelmingly against ez-
pansion. When Secretary Hammond fin
ished his flag talk Colonel Kaighn rather
heatedly responded: well, l followed
that flag through four years of war
and twenty-one battles.
Mr.. Hammond promptly disayowed |
any idea of accusing Colonel kalghn
of not being patriotic. On the contrary
he assured the gentleman that he had
only intended a figure of speech.
Here another still. small voice broke |
in with the statement that the Demo-
Gratis had been carrying elections in |
Utah by their declarations in favor of |
free silver, and the Republicans should !
take a leaf out of their opponents book. |
The suggestion failed to meet with any |
favor, however, and the debate was
proceeded with along other lines.
Nelson Endorses Mckinley.
1t was $3.50 o'clock when Colonel Mel !
son came in, slightly out of breath. He |
was Immediately asked to state his po
sition. To this the colonel demurred, !
on the ground that he hadn't had a |
chance to hear but one or two others
talk, and that he consequently wasn't |
yet in a position to express himself.
However said he, since you have |
asked for my ideas, / will say that / |
am heartily in favor of endorsing Re- |
publicanism and all the fruits that |
come from it. l don't believe, though, |
in putting ourselves at disadvantage |
on the silver question. Let us come |
out strong on municipal affairs. There
we can put the enemy on the defens-
i've
e. H. Callister was another late |
conner. but he talked enough to make |
up for lost time. Wen have to use
silver on the side" he confessed but |
l favor an endorsement of the Repub- |
lican party l voted for Mr. Bryan in |
1895. but l don't believe I'll ever do it |
again. (Applause.) Let us bring out /
municipal affairs as strongly as posi- |
BILE, though. There is the water ques-
ton, for instance. That ought to be a |
good lead for u.s.
Robertson Was Sarcastic.
Councilman Robertson was called on
next. Rob couldn't help being a trifie /
sarcastic at the outset "allee samee"
council meeting. Il don't feel very |
much at home here he began There |
are too many good looking men. I |
want to say that Una Republican, and |
I'm glad of it. l want to say a few |
words about our present council Rob- |
ertson started in and would probably |
have been saying mean things till yet. |
if a voice hadn't broken in with: "Oh, |
let's just endorse the administration /
and let ii go at that. We've got trou-
bles enough of our own right here at
home. and am in favor of letting the |
administration take care of itself, ex-
cept for a bare endorsement"
Another voice declared that there was
no need to endorse the administration.
Let us denoHnce the trusts as much as
we please. There can't be any harm in
that II went on. Let us put in a free
81 nj NH We, hax a oh
agree with the party on one principle.
President Mckinley himself wouldn't
question our right to differ that far. We
are pninP to need that nlank SIRE y