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Show PLAIN CITY POLITICAL RALLY Plain City. Nov. I. Republicans held a rally here lis; night. Fine, stinlng music and gone speaking characterized char-acterized the proceedings. The attendance at-tendance was .not large. nor the enthusiasm en-thusiasm of the pralria lire sort but neither could be said to be wholly dlsappolnl'ng. The speakers at this meeting were J. H. Do Vine and Senator Carl Lad-ger. Lad-ger. A number of the candidates up on tho county ticket also lent their preseuce to the occasion, but contrlh uted nothing more to the cause of holding hl;li the hsnncr of the Republican Re-publican party than a .Tust-TWcAN-Tho-nattle-Mot'acr look, which each woie as best he could. DeVinc talked protection. He ln-s'sted ln-s'sted that the idea that the tariff is responsible for the high cost of living liv-ing Is a fallacy. In ;act, he argued, the tariff ha3 no effect upon prices. Take the lumber and the leather schedules. Thee hace been reduced, but the price of lumber and leather goods have not been reduced to the consumer. What matters It then whether the tariff bo revised upward or downward since the tariff Is not an Important factor lu the economic system of this country. 1 Th's speaker also aigued in favor of local option To put the saloon out of existence, he urged, would not stop drunkenness. On the contrary, It may have the effect of increas.ng it. Such n condition had been known to develop de-velop 111 other communities The boot-lcjicer, boot-lcjicer, the sneak whiskey smuggler, the blindplg. the ' Drue Store." multiplied multi-plied one's chances of falling in with John Barleycorn. With some elaborations. Hadger revamped re-vamped DeVine 3 b.cal option arguments. argu-ments. Th.- Salt Lake senator began with joking about. "When 1 was on a mission" mis-sion" and. with, " Twenty years aso, I hammered a drum for The People's Partv," 'I'm a polygamlst son, and I'm not ashamed of it," 'When I was a boy. I would have spoiled the face of u (dopuiy Unite. 1 States marshal If I could have got at him.' "Ii w 11 be O. W. Powers or Judge King and 1 don't know which is the worst for United States senator In case of IVmncratlc success." anil by jibe and bravado and inference and !n divese other ways dil then and there tickle the Mormon of his Mormon hearers. |