The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-17
Republican Candidate Had a
Frosty Crowd
HELPED OUT BY MUSIC
THE AUDIENCE ENJOYED THAT
SPECIAL FEATURE.
"Papa's Boy" Gets Of the Same An.
ecdotes He Has Been Repeating
Ever Since He Took the Stump
Meeting at Bountiful Repetition
of Other Gatherings.
lsneclal Corresnondeneel

Layton. March 16.-The gathering a
Layton this afternoon was prineipan
one of women, many of them with cry
ing babies in their arms, which rivale
the anti-Democrat quartette which Mi
Hammond thinks it necessary to TAX
around with him, probably TO ensnar
the people into listening to RepublicA
heresy. Indeed one woman who wa
asked what she thought of the meet
ing said that she enjoyed the mus
very much.
Rufus Adams. chairman of the loci
Republican club presided over th
meeting and made the necessary intrt
auctions. G.. A Smith. who was tt
first speaker-Mr. Hammond alwaB
uses his man Friday TO break in II
audience-rehashed the same old issue
and told the identical funny storik
which are part of his stock campai9
oratory. He announced that he W$,
fresh from Cache Valley where Repul
licanism was on the boom. or as Is
Democratic friends would say on tt
wane. He recalled twenty-fOur yeas
of Republican prosperity, beginning
with Lincoln until the country coui
stand it no longer and elected Crow
Cleveland
The prosperity was too much fir
them. It had been said that the grat
Republican party legislated only for tie
rich, false Democratic emanation, ht
Mr.. Smith cited the national HOMESTEAD
bill. which. of course, had benefits1
poor America more than any bill Win
had ever become a law. He tradd
American history on under the wftha-
ing5blight Of the first Cleveland admit
istratiOn, told of the revivication IL
American industries. like a phoenx
arising from its ashes, under the sui
shine of Harrison rule, and then. alB
the baneful influence of the sscoti
Cleveland term, which paralyzed bud
ness America for the time being untI
the people arose in their might am
chose a great and good, an honest man
to hold the reins of government.
Mr. Hammond was in somewhat ba-
ter voice today than he was yesterday
and consequently talked to better pu--
pose. Talking on the financial bill Ie
repudiated the Democratic statemeat
that the silver and greenbacks in circ7-
latiOn would be called in by the gov-
eminent and cremated. He read ser
tons from the financial bill to the ef-
feet that national banks could be or
gained with capital of $4,000 and
that it advocated international bimetal-
ism.
On the trust problem Mr. Hammond
denied that the Republican admins
tration fostered trusts. In 1890 the Re
publican party had passed the first
statute initiating against trusts, and
the Democratic party had never done
anything material in this regard. All
they had done was to talk-their usual
way of meeting difficulties, and, in
fact, their long suit
I am in favor of giving congress alb
sOlute power to control the trusts. -
said he. The Democrats oppose this
and call it Capitalization OF power.
which is inimical to the state govern
nents. The Democratic party of the
state is opposed TO the issue Of new
state bonds. which would save the
state rs per cent, simply because the
Republican party proposed the meas
lre"
Mr.. Hammond also talked at length
IN expansion and other Republican is
sues.