The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-07-06


/ Der in Tammany hall and cheering the
patriotic sentiments of the speakers
Governor Albert W. Gilchrist of Florida
was the orator of the day. In delivering
the long talk" he awoke bygOne eChoe!
of the historic edifice and aroused tbs
enthusiasm of his audience with his pro
nOuncement of renewed faith in tradi
! tiOnal Democratic doctrines. Governor
Giilchrist devoted considerable attention
to the race problem, defending tn,
south's course with regard to the Negro
and alluding pointedly to the newer rae,
questions which are agitatinS other sec
tons of the country.
Address of Welcome.
The address Of welcome was delivered
by Grand Sachem Daniel +. Cohalan.
Numerous letters and kilograms from
prominent Democrats regretting then
Inability to be present were read.
John Sharp Williams, senator elect
from Mississippi, wrote:
II there l would choose as a sub
ject: When a Democrat Is Not Dem
Ocrst-Some Recent Illustrations
JudsOn Harmon, governor OF Ohio
wrote:
Freedom from the impositions of q
foreign government is not worth what
it cost if our government is permitted
to impose on all the people by increas-
ing the cost Of living in order to swell
the profits Of a few"
Address of Governor Gilchrist.
Governor Gflchrist. after paying high
tribute TO the organization, its accom-
piishments and services, turned to ma
tiOnal issues. declaring that great as
the possibilities are for the future
growth and development of this coun-
try, yet its greatness would be but as
a 'whited sepulcher, beautiful without.
but within full of dead mems bones if
the policy Of the present ruling power
in this nation is to continue"
Governor Gilchrist referred to the tar
if question, and pointed out what he
declared TO be the falIacies and absurd
tiles of Republican platform promises
and assertions. When the high protec-
tive tariff was first established, it was.
he said, for the benefit of infant indus
tries.
Infant" Industries.
After forty-eight years, and after
they have become able to compete sue
cessfully with the world, do you still
consider them infants?" he asked.
Then they said that the foreigner paid
the tax. Do you suppose that the Amer
lean Newspaper Publishers association
believes that, when they unanimously
Resolved, that it is the sense of this
meeting that the duty on printing paper.
wood pulp and other material entering
into the manufacture Of printing paper
be Immediately repealed? The Demo
cratic party, very properly, styled, this
IS per ton not a tax upon the foreigner.
but a tax upon the spread of knowl-
edge Thanks to the protest of the
press and the Democratic party. it is
now proposed to revise downward this
particular tax.
Same Old Tactics.
In the last campaign. did you not
hear Of notices being posted in the shops
that they would run at half mast if the
Democratic party succeeded? They
would throw the financial and Industrial
interests Of the country to the four
winds If a party succeeded to power
which would pass laws so that evils of
privileges and favOritisms' would not
assert themselves in securing "a per cent
to 100 per cent more than they should
receive in the annual distribution OF the
wealth Of the country They practical
ly threatened the country with ruin if
their privileges were cut down. 1t is
the same old tactics which were used
when Tammany was successful in fight
ing for the election Of Andrew Jack
SON"
Governor Gilchrist condemned CEN
traliZatiOn of wealth by ''Iegalized rob-
berry declaring 1t is bound 70 result in
the elimination Of the middle classes and
the draining Of the wealth of the masses
into the hands Of the benefciaries of the
combinations.
What of the Future.
will the people assert their rights
after twelve or fifteen years more of
Republican rule in the so-called interest
Of the laboring man?" ne said will
they be stronger when 5000 will own
1ne-fifth Of the property of the United
States. when 5000 men shall own 70 per
cent OF so per cent Of the wealth of the
New England ancestors of the Re
publican party were largely responsible
Tor slavery and its inception The Re
publican party in its platform now talks
about having freed the slaves They
never did any such thing Their free
iom grew out Ola war incident to Sc
,essiOn. the seeds of which they had
themselves SOWn- instead of the Re
oublicans claiming that they freed the
slaves, their statement would have been
more accurate had they claimed that in
open defiance OF the constitution they
the negroes"
Negro Question.
Governor Gilchrist said he was op-
posed TO the agitation of the unconstitu-
ionality Of the Fifteenth amendment 10
he federal constitution being started by
any southern legislator or state. 1T
an safely be affirmed" said he, that
sooner or later, when the Asiatics be-
sOme voters in California and elsewhere
N the Pacific coast. OF when the colored
'ontingents Of Springfield, H., and Of
springfield. o., CT Pittsburg, or of other
;ities and states, become too aggressive. /
md that when the G. o. P. can no
Onger use the brother in black that
his question viii be settled right. by
he supreme court Of the United States" /
Taking up President Taft's plea for /
greater division of political sentiment /
md affiliation in the south, Governor /
5ilchrist said.
A Natural Superstition.
Instead OF discussing the race oues-
ion as it exists in the south. 1 win in
lite your attention 10 il as II now ex-
SITS IN neutral teTritOry-the far west /
IN states Suppose this element, Chi
lese and japanese, would as the negroes I
n the cor1f1 vote r-,,.g--41-- - - -. I