The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1902-10-07
AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING
Hon. ". B. Hepburn Delivered Fine Ad.
dress Before the Best Audience Of the
Campaisn-C. ". Beaie also Spoke

dress Before the Best Audience Of the
Campaisn-C. ". Beale also Spoke
The opera house was packed to over,
flowing by an enthusiastic audience last
night who gathered to hear the Hon. w.
B. Hepburn discuss the issues of the
campaign. DR.. c. w. Shaft presided and
Messrs. Babb, Beale, Thompson, Schuldt
and West were on the platform.
DIR. Shaft introduced Judge Hepburn
as the man whom the people Of Idaho de-
lighted to honor and the speaker was
greeted with hearty applause. Judge
Hepburn opened his address with a
criticism on the man who took no in.
terest in politics. He held it was the
duty of every true American citizen to
give attention to politics and to be re-
sponsible for his share in good govern.
ment. He asked his hearers to sit with
him in the school Of American politics
and then began masterly review of po-
litical history telling of the two great
parties. the republican party great be-
cause of its achievements and the demo
cratic party great because of its failures
He made the assertion that no democrat
could name single law of the statute
books of the nation that was put there by
the democratic party. and AS lie paused
for reply to his challenge the silence
was oppressive. Either the audience
were all republicans or the democrats
lost in thought. On the other hand the
speaker continued the laws of the land
were first written in the platforms Of the
republican party. He cited the home-
stead laws, the tariff laws specie resump-
ton: The republican party paid the war
debt which the democrats Of 1865 wished
to repudiate, it redeemed the greenbacks
by the resumption of specie payment
and under its protective tariff system it
had built up the marvellous national
that we now enjoy. The
democrats have always attac ked the tariff
laws. In 1892 they persuaded genera.
ton of people who had not known the
dire effects Of democratic free trade that
there was reason in their theories. The
result was democratic president, dem
ocratic congress and the enactment Of
the Wilson bill--and panic such as the
nation had never seen.
Today after six years of republican
tariff policy the nation was enjoying the
greatest prosperity ever known. On
September Ist there were IS 600 ,ooo, 900
in the various banks and public insti,u-
tions of the United States, and $500 ooo,-
900 of this was in the savings banks,
the money Of the people who toll. not
the money of Bond street Of Wall street
or Vanderbilt or Carnagie.
Discussing the trusts question he said
that trusts etnanated not from the tariff
but from selishness and greed. He
cited the Sherman antitrust law as an
evidence Of what republicans had done
against trusts and the attitude of Presi.
dent Roosevelt as what republicans
would do with the trusts and pertinently
inquired what the democrats of Texas
or Idaho had done to discourage trusts,
Or what remedy the democratic party In
the state or nation had suggested to
remedy the evil.
In brief review Of state questions
Judge Hepburn condemned the democratic
policy Of selling the school lands. that
splendid heritage Of lands for the endow-
'nent Of the educational institutions TO
the great syndicates in violation Of Law.
In scathing terms he characterized the
conduct Of our state institutions as scand.
lous. He referred to the pilfering at tht
normal school abuses aud
the disgraceful and brutal management
It the insane asylum. and asked il the
people of Idaho cared to in the interests
of good government to perpetuate the
present administration In power.
Hon. Charles w. Beale wes present
md at the close Of Judge Heyburn's ad.
ireas made half hour talk principally
On national issues. Mr.. Beale character.
sed the republican party as the party Of
construction, party Of glorious deeds
and glorious names. He spoke At length
On the Sherman anti-trust bill giving
clearly it, provisions and showing that
lts failure Is due now to democsrtic op.
Mr.. Beale was . prominent
candidate for the congressional nomina:
lion at the republican state convention
and his friends still contend that he
would have been nominated had his
name gone before the convention.
Cesst News.
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