The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-24

! SefltIS IilaJ Bryan S election means the
free coinage of silver.
What Bryan Could Do.
! Mr.. Dunbar then told what Bryan as
( president could do for silver in enfOrc-
/ ing the option to pay the bonds in eth
Vious TO Jan. L last, when the bonds
ano the interest in gold or silver bonds
( were quoted in all the markets a.
worth Sl3S, and yet the Republicans
/ argue that the credit of the nation
must be strengthened by the adoption
! of the single gold standard.
/ The labor question was next taken
/ up and the soiicitude of the Republican
4 party for the cause of the labOring man
/ was investigated and the laws that
/ have been passed since the civil wal
We're described In speaking of the
tariff and the old claim OF the Repub-
licans that the foreigner pays the tax
Mr.. Dunbar told a Scotch story that
brought down the house in storm of
laughter and applause.
The effect of the annexation of the
Philippine islands on the labOrerS of
this country was treated at length In
those islands there are II, COO 900 pairs.
Of hands that will come into direct
competition with the wage workers of
this country if the Republican policy
is to be carried out" said the speaker
In those islands people can lie on
D cents a day and are willing to work
but with our ports open to those peO-
pie they will come to this country and
drive the American workers out of the
field And this will not be confined TO
the Filipinos, but the Japanese and
the Chinese will work their way over
to this country through Manila and the
Sandwich islands. There are cotton
workers in HongkOng now who are
glad to get 80 cents a day, and there
will be no tariff to keep them out of
NJ fry ie ra-For he 70
are coming to the side OF Bryan
Speaks of Local Affairs.
Speaking of local affairs. Mr.. Dunbar
said that when the Democrats took
charge of the county affairs the county
warrant, were selling on the streets of
Salt lake at % cents on the dollar
that there were thousands Of dollars
standing against the county in unpaid
debts, and all this was due TO RepUb-
hcan eXtraVag ance and living beyond
their means. 1t was bat 4 short time
after the Democrats got 3ato power
when the warrants were selling at par
and $500 600 of the cOuuty's indebted
ness had been paid off. BY the strictest
economy the Democrats in the first
year saved the people $4,000. The vOt-
ers of the county. in view of these
facts will not be anxious for another
Republican county administration in
many years to come
Il don't know much about the city's
affairs. said Mr.. Dunbar. but 1t is
easy to see that the Republicans are
following in the city the exact course
that got the county into so much trou-
BILE. They are not only living up to
the times. but they are living away
beyond the times, as the city overdraft
of s250.0O0 viii show"
Mr. Dunbar closed with an appeal to
the voters to cast their ballots for the
Democrats on the local tickets and thus
insure economy and wisdom in the con-
duct of the peoples business
The Ladies Quartette was next in |
PRODUCED and was given a SPLENDID re- |
ception. Their witty campaign song
respond with an encore, which was also /
received with loud applause. Then /
Chairman Burton introduced Judge 1
Powers, and the regular fun of the 1
evening began.
Ovation to Judge Powers.
Judge Powers received a great wei i
come and It was some time before the /
cheering would permit him 10 begin. |
and he had not spoken q dozen words |
before the crowd was off again in an
other round of applause
Il would rot refer to personal mat /
ters,' he SAIL, were they not forced /
upon me. One of the speakers last +
night said that I would never be SEN
atOr from Utah. What of it2 This is
not a custom with me as to whether
shall ever be senator or fill any other
office; with me it is a question of what /
] can do to hand down TO my boy the |
same degree of liberty and the same
privileges that were handed down to
me by my father. Wheth er I snail ever
hold office or not I shall remain a Dem
Ocrat so long as my party stands for
those principles that 1 consider Just
and right.
In what I shall say this evening