The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-18
A DOUBLE HooDoo.
Thirteen Colored Voters on Friday
Hold Rally.

Hold Rally.
Thirteen colored persons on Friday
night!
The colored Republican leaders are
discouraged over the awe OF such a
hoodoo. AT the opening rally OF the
campaign for the votes of the col
ored people. held at the African Meth
odist Episcopal church on Franklin
avenue last evening. exactly thirteen
persons Of African descent were pres
ent when the chairman called the meet
ing TO order, after waiting until $40
O'Clock for an audience to show up.
Walter Meeks. ]. ]. Stewart and c.
Frank Emery were there TO be in
/ spected by the colored voters, but
! another person was absent, although
he was billed a. the star attraction.
He was no less a person than Dis
! trict Attorney and County Chairman
| Dennis Eichnor, fond Wooer OF the
hearts Of the colored voters. In the
time when he was not engaged on his
| duties as county chairman. Dennis had
prepared an grafton which, he confided
| TO friends, was 1.-The browning effort
/ Of my life" The theme of the grafton
/ was said to be: THAT Patriotism
/ and Gratitude to Lincoln Should Rise
/ Above Mere Sordid Considerations in
| Influencing ColOred People to Vote the
Republican Ticket"
Dennis will wish he had been there
to make his speech when he learns
| that an important meeting" of the
| executive committee of the Mckinley
| Colored Republican club win be held
this evening. and that the great ques-
! ton before the assemblage will be the
| financial issue. The valiant cohorts OF
II. II. Voss and w. w. Taylor have
heard Of the barrel at the county
| headquarters, and they propose that
there shall be something doing
It was MOI Dennis fault that he was
not there. In the county headquarters
a block away he waited impatiently
| for his cue. An emissary was TO give
him his cue, and then he was 10 have
! a triumphal entry into the auditorium
strike an attitude. and begin his ad-
dress, Fellow Republicans. and Ny
Colored Brethren and Sisters" But
| when the hour arrived to send fol-
Dennis, w. w. Taylor arose and spoke
saying In substance:
"Ah think we should be 'shamed tC
send fob ouah county chairman an
let him see the vacant seats which sur
rounds us this evenin'. An theafol
b moves, MlStan Grammar tnAl We al
doan SEN fob Mistah Eichnor tonight
but asks him 10 come round an ad'
dress vast an enthusiastic as
sembiage mex Friday evenin'."
As this was shown 10 be the sen
timent of the gathering, Mr.. Eichnor'
prepared address was relegated TO 1
place alongside the recitation Senator
Kearns was 10 have delivered at Og
den Thursday evening.
Despite the gloom and the chill which
a roaring fire could not dispel. Their
were speeches by the three candidate
present Walter Meeks told what
good friend OF the colored people h
was, and invited them all down to Sc
him when he was elected county treas
lfrer. c. Frank Emery told why h
thought he ought to be elected sher
if, and ]. J. Stewart stepped forwaTi
where those present could look hin
over and judge whether he would lool
well in the halls of the Legislature
Then il was voted not TO discOurag
the county chairman by inviting hin
over, and W. w. Taylor told about IN
: intimate friendship he enjoyed wit
most of the Republican candidates. II
was especially warm in his eulogy @
Jacob MOritZ. In praise Of j. H. An
derson, he declared that Anderson, a