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

state in the Union more interested in
maintaining protection. Turning to
PRESIDENT Snow. ne declared that Brig
nam Young was an aVOwed protection
lst- He said that the Tribune had MS
| quoted MIN in declaring that Brigham
was a Repubhean. What he had said
was that had Brigham Young lived he
would have been the Republican leader
Of Utah
Then he turned to hard times and
Grover Cleveland. and the stream of
people commenced to go out Of the east
ern doors. Throngs arose from their
seats in all parts Of the hall and SNUFF
| fed towards the door, making so much
noise that the voice of the orator could
not reach che back part of the room.
He referred to the Chicago convention
as the midsummer madness out of
| which Bryan, with his pilfered rhetoric
of cross of gold and a crown Of thorns
was born" He SAID that prosperity
came in November, 1885, and for three
years the country had enjoyed what
Senator Depew calls hopeless prosper
ity."
Then the orator turned loose his
mouth in sea Of gauzy rhetoric which
billowed and bounded with metaphor,
ALTERATION and hyperbole. He told
about the chimneys that are smoking
because they are no longer smokeless.
ABOUT the factories that are working
night and day, how the laborer carries
70 MS labor tin bucket that is no
longer filled with 10-cent meals of his
radiant smile and quick tread as he
goes TO plentiful work and high wages
which Republican prosperity had
brought him.
Mr.. Fitch delivered himself of sew
eral sentences, musical to the ear. but
meaningless to the mind BE painted
the woes of labor during the admins
trdtlon OF Grover Cleveland in words
that would have brought tears to the
eyes OF people VINO believed him sim
cere- But as there is no ring of SINGER
Ity ABOUT Mr.. Fitch, no handkerchiefs
were Drought to dampened eyes. In
stead, many persons continued to leave
the audience, until there We're quite a
number of vacant seats.
Speaks Well of England.
He said that the Republican party
was the grandest organization of free
men that the world had ever known,
ana in all its forty years Of existence
l. hao made nc serious mistakes. At
TINS there was great applause. But Mr.
Fltcn received more applause and the
most tremendous of the evening when
ne Ioio OF the attitude Of Great Britain
70 the United States during the Spanish
war; The great heart of the English
people, ne said, "welled towards us in
tldes and pulses that beat the storms
into streams of love-"
Then he told how England had held
It's warning finger up when continental
empires leaned towards Spain. how it
threatened an alliance between the
United States and England against
them II they dared interfere and told
tnem that the two Anglo-Saxon nations
would crush them, saying: "They are
the lords of a strong young land. and
we are the lords of the MAIN There
was magnificent applause at the con-
cluslon of this eloquence sentence. It
aroused the audience far more than did
the mention of the Republican party or
president Mckinley.
There were varied comments on the
influence OF Mr.. Fitch's address. To
most persons who had expected an in
telleetual feast it was a disapDoint-
ment. They declared that his SEN
fences were beautiful and wonderful.
but they could see in them little argu-
ment, little more than jingling stream
Of rhetoric.
No information could be had at Re
publican headquarters as to the price
paid Mr. Fitch for coming to Utah. but
1t is known that he received several
hundred dollars for his effort, and it is
doubtful if the committee got its
moneys worth