The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-14
ROBERTS AND DUNBAR.
Addressed an Enthusiastic Rally at
Payson Last Night.
Especial to The Herald

PaysOn, Utah, March 13.-The big
Democratic rally at the PaysOn Opera
House tonight was we'll attended and
stirring speeches were delivered by B.
h Roberts and ID. c. Dunbar The
meeting was called to order by Chair
man Samuel WOrsencroft, who spoke
of the cause of the special election He
then introduced d. c. Dunbar, who
demolished the Republican cause in
vigorous style. The Democratic dec
larations were for the rights of the peo-
pie, while the Republicans had adopted
the gold standard, and this same party
declared the trusts to be a necessity
The speaker then ably handled the sill
yer question. The Republicans will tell
the people to vote for Hammond be-
cause the last legislature failed to elect
a senator, and that the Democrats
elected a disqualified congressman who
could not be seated. The speaker
quoted Senator Edmonds and others as
stating that Mr.. Roberts had all the
constitutional qualifications and could
not be denied his seat, but they turned
away one of the ablest men ever
elected from this state.
1T is better to have Senator Raw
Inns alone supporting free silver" said
Mr.. Dunbar than five goldbugs. Gap
plause) Pennsylvania has had seventy
five years Of experience, and failed to
elect a senator"
The speaker referred to the hard
times. strikes and scarcity of money of
1892 under Republican rule, and the
Republican president turned over an
empty treasury to his successor. Yet
these hard times were laid to the Dem
Ocratic party. The speaker compared
the prices of produce and OF wool with
manufactured articles under control of
trusts He referred to the Mckinley
tariff bill and its cOnsequence5-inter-
est-bearing bonds.
3. H. Roberts
Hon. B. H. Roberts was next intro
duced by the chairman, He opened by
saying the issues Of the present cam
paign were too numerous to discuss in
a single speech. He showed the i'm
portance of the fall election and said
we should prepare to go beyond local
issues. IT cannot be understood from
the Republican platform whether we
regard our newly acquired territory as
being of our Union or not; neither can
we judge of their policy on other ques-
tions, as they expressed only admira-
ton for President Mckinley. The
speaker criticised the administration.
The officers of the government are but
the servants Of the people, and he read
Abraham Lincoln's criticism Of the
government in the Mexican war. The
American people are the SoYereigns and
have the right 10 criticise their serv-
ants at Washington He referred to
the war with Spain as being just
war. but declared it would be just as
much criminal aggression to annex the
Philippine islands as President McKin-
ley had declared il would be to annex
Cuba.
Admiral Dewey affirms that these
people are as capable Of self-gOvern-
ment as the Cubans. They should have
power to work out their own destiny.
Justice is better than glory. Let
America give freedom to all the world
and protect men in their rights under
our constitution, and accomplish this
bv our great example, and it will re-
qrire no great standing armies to keep
the peace. The Republican administra-
ton has failed TO give them the free
dom and independence they deserve
and thus stop the war. This is the
true policy 10 pursue"