The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-31

The hour IS midnight; the place is the
Office Of the fake editor of the organ.
A barrel of smut, barrel Of ice, a bar
rel of red fire, a scoop shovel and a
telephone make UP the outfit
The telephone bell rings-Springville
Thirty people gathered to hear Col
onel G.. 3. Squires,' starts the report.
''Thatn do; ring off, yells the fake
editor
Then he writes: Tremendous enthu-
siasm: largest house damned; people
turned away unable to get in; widest
enthusiasm greets the terrific eloquence
of that war horse of Rep"
Then the bell rings again. Willard
The meeting advertised for A. L.
Thomas was declared off be"
That will do; ring Off" says the
fake editor.
Aud he writes: Never in the hitA'ry
of Willard was there such a magnifi
cent audience as greeted Governor A.
i. Thomas at this place tonight, and
never were the principles of the grand
old party set"
Again the bell rings. Spring City--"A
fine audience that filled every seat in
the opera house and crowded the aisleS
assembled this evening to hear Hon.
=. II. Rob
Hold on - ring off - here,
you boy, get the smut! where in-is
that SCOOP"
Then he writes: "a miserable crowd
of his misguided followers got together
here last night to hear 2. H. Roberts
tell his tale of woe; the meeting was in
defiance of common d5cency-"
Again the bell rings. Park City
Owing to a misunderstanding on the
part Of the committee"
= ~, Of
your red fire, quick; step lively, now
Then he writes: "Thunders of ap-
plause greeted every gem of eloquence
that fell from the gifted lips of our
standard-bearer, Hon James I. Ham,
mOnd, here tonight. II was the great
est demonstration in the history of our
city. Not half the people could crowd
inside the hall, and Hon. Thomas
Kearns addressed an overflow meeting
outside, where he completely riddled
the free silver fallacy-"
The bell rings again. Murray
Judge William H"
Ice, boy, ice! On IL, get the ice :!
and where's the concentrated Ives
And he writes: Judge King. de-
spOndent and weary. with certain de-
feat staring him in the face, got off his
same old harrangue mere tonight to a
few old mossbacks. The meeting was
a compete UZZles there was no enLnu-
siasm and leading Democrats here adj
nit that King viii not carry a county
ia the state. The judge, himself. in
private. admitted that Hammond would
have 'steen thousand major
Again the bell rang, and yet again,
till Glen Miller, George Sutherland.
George 4. Smith, A. S. Geddes and all
the other great orators are fixed up;
and Weber, Harris, Flenner. Rawlins,
MOyle, Dunbar, Sloan and the other
Democrats on the stump were properly
smirched-and then the organ vent to
press.
IN this connection the following from
Pennington will be interesting:
Editor Herald:
4 correspondent of the Tribune of
this date says: over coo people were
present at the Republican meeting in
this city tonight" in reference to their
meeting in Pennington last Wednes-
day evening.
I was one Of the GOETHE correspond
ent's sO-called 500 The hall Will only
comfortably seat 200, so the head man
ager of the hall or opera house told me
today; also he said there was little if
any over One-third of the seats occu-
pied. Further, I took pains to count
the audience and there was less than
eighty persons present, including the
usual small DOy crowd. T. y, c