The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-06
RALLY WAS A FAILURE
Republicans Had Frost at
Salt Palace.
SLIM AUDIENCE WAS OUT
SENATOR STEWART PROVES a
POOR SPEAKER.

II is a safe bet that the Republicans
will not again pull off a campaign raj
" at the Salt Pals ee without an assur-
ance that the weather prophet will be
merciful. Last nights extensively ad-
vertised political pow WOW was not the
bowling success that the party mana
gers expected. The downpour of rain
necessitated the canceling of the bicy-
Gle races and the few hundred people
who gathered in the Palace itself wait
ed patiently for the appearance Of Sen
a.tor Stewart of Nevada and George
3. Chandler of Chicago. The audience
was largely composed of visitors from
out Of town who took advantage of the
free entrance to see the pretty sights.
Speakers Came Late.
The speakers did not show up till
9 O'Clock and Jodey Eldredge and Wes-
ley Walton did their best to keep the
crowd OF respectable size till the meet
ing was ready to commence. Alternate
~ the band played and the phonoSfapn
piped out a few skits, but the crowd
gradually dwindled until the doors
We're bOlted.
Finally the distinguished speakers
came in. Without further ado Secre-
tary of State Hammond presented MI
Chandler, who promptly waded into
a campaien talk He said he had
brought the good news that Mckinney
would carry every state north OF the
Mason and Dixon line and then he told
what q good thing the trusts are for
the people. While declaring that the
trusts are the result of Industrial and
commercial success he promised that
the Republican party could be depend
ed upon to enact such remedial legiS-
lation as is necessary to restrain the
baneful tendencies of the great combi-
nations
{ Stewart Was a Frost.
Many in the audience remained to
hear what sort of a speaker Senator
Stewart is. but after he had spoken
two minutes the crowd thinned cut by
the scores and dozens AT a time. There
was a prevailing Chilliness that even a
squirt of hand clapping could not dis
pell-
Starting out with an apology that he
still believed that the demonstration
of silver was the greatest crime of the
century, the silly haired senator told
why he had recently become Repub-
Iican. Silver RECOMMENDATION was made
the paramount issue for the first time
in 1896. he said, but now the issue is
expansion, made so by Mr.. Bryan.
Senator Stewart declared shat Bryan
had turned his back on the cause OF
silver by not coming out this far west
in this campaign
His definition of paramount issue was
that declaration of policy which the
party elected could be depended upon
TO make into law after election, and
from this he reasoned that If the Dem
ocrats were victorious nothing would
be done for the reconciliation of sill
yer, but that every notion dear to his
good old heart on the expansion ques-
ton would be knocked higher than the
moon.
The balance of the senator's remarks
were devoted TO an argument for terri
GOrial expansion of the dominion of the
United States and an occasional apos-
trophe to the flag and the achievements
of the volunteers which brought forth
just about two bursts of applause.
When the senator mad concluded the
biggest part of the audience was empty
chairs.