Show i 0 RALLY Pwlins and Others e Some Facts IFORE OUR PEOPLE The Opera House was PackedIt was an Appreciative AudienceThey Were I I A Well Entertained and InformedThe Oaute Democracy was Strengthened As early as 7 oclock on Saturday evening the opera house was comfortably comfort-ably well filled with men and women out early to insure a seat that they might in comfort enjoy the treat that was before them an address upon the issues of the day by Utahs champion defender and advocate in the halls of congress the Hon Jos L Rawlins When that gentleman escorted by S B Thurman and A D Gash entered en-tered the building at 3 oclock the fcouse was fairly packed from pit to ceiling with humanity Standing room was at a premium every nook and cranny was filled the aisles were utterly impassable people hung upon the railings and bannisters the hallways hall-ways and stairways were all filled and hundreds who came out were compelled com-pelled to return to their homes without with-out hearing the address as they could not as much as see into the building and yet all day upon the streets they were saving that Joe would feel lonesome everybody was o tot t-ot town and the audience at 4Ii the opera house would be a slim ne The shout of welcome and vociferous cheering given the delegate as he appeared ap-peared upon the stage was something terrific in its intensity The house was a beautiful scene On either aide of the procenium sat the members of the ladies democratic club The audience consisted of a happy lot of intelligent well edt good looking men among whom were many doubtful and many sturdy democratic voters with a fair sprinkling of ladies There were many republicans in that audience alsothey are not so sure today I to-day as they were that republicanism is right I The stage was a garden of beauty abounding in floral decorations and at the back was a solid mass of living flowers consisting of a hundred or more of the lovely daughters of this fair cit with only a sprinkling oi members of the sterner sex The usual appropri Ste banners were seen everywhere Hon S R Thurman president of the Timpanogos society opened the meeting by stating that it was called and held under the auspices of that society so-ciety which is a society recently organized or-ganized to redeem fair Provo from the blight of republicanism The gentleman gentle-man in his introductory remarks shied a few witicisms at the republicans silver sil-ver capes and sham cannons and declared de-clared that the democrats are prepared to meet the enemy upon the hustings and discuss the questions at issue before be-fore the people The republicans it seems would rather spend their efforts time and money in a stupid and senseless sense-less show of glitter and glare In introducing Mr Rawlins Mr Thurman introduced Titans delegate I in congress nowthe man who will be her delegate in congress so song as she is a territory At mention of the delegates name such a cheer went up as was neyer before be-fore heard inside that building and when the gentleman himself stepped step-ped to the speakers stand it seemed that the root must come off Three cheers for Joe RawlIns was shouted by David Evans and they were given with a hearty good will A Tiger was as heartily given at the suggestion of a dozen or more down in the audience audi-ence MR RAWLINS SPEECH was a calm unimpassioned at times sublime and soulstirring effort of nearly two hours duration It was argumentative ar-gumentative logical and delivered with telling torce His hearers sat spell bound and were loth to let him be seated at the end A verbatim report of the speech would make excellent campaign literature liter-ature Limited space compels Tim DISPATCH to satisfy itself by giving only a brief synopsis of the remarks Mr Rawlins opened hij remarks by saying that he would undertake to show the audience which of the two great national political parties they could best trust To do this he would divide his tala into three subjectsthe tariff the silver question and the treatment of the people of Utah by the parties While Utah and her people peo-ple had been given so much and treated so well by the present democratic administration ad-ministration the speaker did not wish to convey the idea that democracy ever showed any favoritism < Back of the treatment of Utah and prompting that treatment are the grand principles princi-ples of democracy impelling and compelling com-pelling fan ness The republicans said Mr Rawlins during the last campaign pointed with pride to the beneficent results of so called protection and when the democracy de-mocracy went into power they immediately imme-diately began to make dismal predictions predic-tions They saw the panic and the hard times coming the air was pregnant preg-nant with forebodines They were unwilling un-willing to ascribe this result where it rroperly belonged to their unwise poliCIes pol-icies and legislation but endeavored to charge it to the fact that the people had fleeted the party of their choice to office We heard on every hand that the widespread distress which afflicted the land was due to the fear of democratic demo-cratic tariff legislation Tnere is no remedy for a diseased imagination continued the speaker They told us all this nonsense for truth and reason in spite of the fact thatim mediately after the passage of the McKinley Mc-Kinley bill employers began to reduce wages and to discharge their men The McKinley bill went into effect on October Oc-tober 91890 and July 26 1892 tne enormous number of 150 strikes and lockouts occurred in the protected industries in-dustries It will be remembered also that the McKinley bill gaye to the manufacturers almost precisely what they asked for before the national nation-al republican convention in 1889 and that they asked for this protection not for themselves they said but that they might pay higher wages to their working men The moment they obtained ob-tained a monoply of the home market they did exactly contrary to what they promised and began to reduce wages and finally to import pauper labor Many instances were cited by the speakerin the iron wool cotton agricultural implement and in fact in the entire range of the protected industries Trusts were formed In 1890 there were twentyfour sugar refineries in the United States supplying 86 percent per-cent of the demand for sugar In 1891 the owners incorporated the great sugar trust and dismantled nine of them and consolidated two throwing many people out of employment At the same time they raised the price ot sugarfixed a price at which they compelled com-pelled all sugar manufacturers to sell This was all made possible by the republican re-publican legislation in favor of the sugar manufacturers giving them a 2 cents bounty on every pound a duty of a half a cent a pound and raw material free The late democratic congress hampered and restricted as it was sought not to give to the sugar trust but that they might be able to takeaway take-away from it So of the lead trust of the iron and steel trust and the great association of weolen manfacturers Here Mr Rawlins produced some eanwles of imported cloth and authetio fiiues He showed that under the nov tariff on all wool French cassi mere a saving of 24 cents a yard is made to tbe purchaser on worsteds imported from Bradford a saving of jot cents par yard on all wool challie a saving of 17 cents per yard on woolen carriage clnu a saving of 53 cents per yard j ou overcoating a saving or 116 per yard Other savings were enumerated enumer-ated Ihe l woolen schedule has been reduced from 98 per cent advalorein to 48 per cent making a total amount saved annually to the consumers of the United Spates of 163584000 the consumers of Utah alone over 300000 The saving to the people Of this country by this schedule alone in one year is more than enough to enable them to buy at a big price every sheep there is in the United States While on this subject Mr Rawlins showed how there will be no serious injury result to the owners of sheep He first cited the feet that with the increase in-crease of the tariff always came a corresponding cor-responding decrease in the price of wool and then went on to show that with the cost of cloth reduced more will be worn and the demand will therefore increase Some interesting figures showing the beneficial effect of the Wilson bill to the farmers ot the country were given Millions of dollars annually will be saved in the purchase of agricultural agri-cultural implements alone Before leaving this branch of his discourse the tariff Mr Rawlins drew a word picture of the awful condition of the country in 1892 when the people demanded de-manded a change of governmental policies poli-cies People were impoverished and could not buy and in consequence the mills received no orders and were obliged to shut down Now after a struggle of some months the democracy has accomplished a part of what they undertook and now we hear every day ot idle machinery starting of wage earners being put to work of wages being be-ing increased everywhere are signs of slowly returning prosperity This is gall and wormwood to the republicans Mt the people can afford to be prosperous pros-perous and happy even though the republican re-publican party shall be wiped from off the face of the earth forever Mr Rawlins now approached the I SILVER QUESTION In 1814 occurred the battle of Waterloo Water-loo Looking on at that struggle were tle Shylocks and they demanded that bey be paid what was due them in gold alone Their demands were coined into in-to law and they reared up colossal fortunes tunes at the doubled and trebled expense ex-pense of the debtors During the Spanish American revolution in 1820 the production of precious metal fell onehalf and the value of all kinds of property fell likewise The great lack of money brought awful distress until the California gold discovery of 1849 which acted as a stimulus Plentiful money diffused new lifeblood through the arteries of commerce and prosperi iy again dawned upon the people The shy locks then thought gold was becom ing tuo plentiful and they compelled Gern auyand the Scandinavian states to demonetize gold The same result ollowed Curtailing the amount ot money in circulation crippled the industries in-dustries and caused distress among the masses The speaker continuer with proof after proof that to reduce the volumne of money means the working work-ing of hardship upon the people by crippling all industries and enterprises enter-prises and helping the money lenders only Continuing Mr Rawlins handled senator Sherman without gloves In 1SG7 that man went across the ocean and while there it was determined that America should be placed on the gold standard and Sherman was selected as the man to do it He returned and introduced in-troduced a bill into congress presumably presum-ably an inoffensive one relative to andre and-re ulating the minting of money The silver demonetization clause was covertly cov-ertly inserted Senator Morgan noticed it and for some unexplained reason the bill was pigeonholed Suddenly Mr Morgar died Shortly thereafter Mr Sherman brought his bill ipo congress con-gress agaii and it passed M il iy senators sen-ators who voted for it afterw ds admitted ad-mitted that they did not realUa when they voted upon it that the bill < emone tized silver In all the time between that day and this since 1870 the republicans re-publicans have never made one effort to rectify the great injury done at that time In 1878 the Bland free coinage bill was passed by a democratic house It went to the senate which returned the BlandAllison bill The republican opposition to silver in order to prevent I the passage of a free coinage net offered of-fered this substitute which was passed and which was vetoed by Piesiden Hayes i And yet we are told here in U ah that I the republican party is the onljj friend of silver 1 In 1890 the republicans were in control con-trol of all branches of the government > The Reed rules were in effect in the senate and there was a strongly expressed ex-pressed intention to expedite business busi-ness in spite of democratic opposition yet nothing was done for silver Senator Sen-ator Bland a democrat worked faithfully faith-fully to get some favorable silver legislation legis-lation through and the republicans held a caucus If this bill were allowed to pass they knew that Harrison would veto it and their pretense to catch votes in the west would be despoiled The repeal of the Sherman purchasing purchas-ing act that makeshift passed in order to prevent the passage of a free coinage coin-age act was taken up Mr Rawlins Rawl-ins was honest to confess that on the silver question he I differed with President Cleveland and I showed that if he had been left to the support of his own party alone on his stand upon the silver question he would surely have been overthrown and quoted from Reea the formost republican I re-publican who said that on this subject toe president was powerless in his own camp and i came to the republicans i for aid which he got Mr Rawlins detailed de-tailed the work in congress during the I stormy days when the friends 01 silver sil-ver fought QO valiantly for a substitute when the silver purchasing act was about to be repealed Said he Mr Sweet of Idaho and other republican friends of silver in congress often came over from the republican sJe to iae democrats for comfort and consolation It was no wonder that Senator Jones I of Nevada had left republican party I for it is true as he says that the republican re-publican party is unalterably apposed to silver How foolish for us to dese < our party now < said Mr Itawlins rVuv is the time for democrats of the west and south to seize the great national democratic demo-cratic organization and turn it to our purposeand see to it that next term we have a standard bearer who will be true to the silver question as President Cleveland has been true to all else that constitutes democracy Coming to the third division of his addressthe treatment of the people of Utah by the democratic party of the nationMr Rawlins found that it was drawing near to 10 oclock and he was brief The advent of the democracy to power was the harbinger of peace and good will It had been said of the speaker that he went down to congress and struck a gold mine and was therefore there-fore not entitled to credit for what he had done That might be true but another an-other thing he knew was true is that representatives from Utan have been going down there for thirtytwo years prospecting in republican hills and returned re-turned wearyfootsore and with hungry with not so much as an ounce of silver There are good things in store for us Let us rise and shake from our limbs the shackles that thirty years of repub lican rule has placed upon Item and let us be free and independent in-dependent citizens of the new souer eign state The republicans say that we cans do business that we are not like them united Aye they ale united but it is the cohesive power of public plunder that holds them together Toe To-e a true democrat is to be a man and true manhood can and will carry the I new state and the nation on to contin I ued prosperity Mr Rawlins took his seat amid loud cheering and then the IIERALii GLEE CLUB was introduced They sang appropriate appropri-ate campaign songs So well did they sing them and so appropriate were the songs that the audience compelled them to sing five selections and wanted want-ed more JUDGE JUDD delivered a telling humorous speech succeeding in proving from republican authority particularly the Salt Lake Tribune that the republican party is responsible for the hard times and the panic It was after 1030 when Mr Judd closed The audience was undIminished in size As signs of adjournment were plain they objected and called for JUDGE SMITH who delivered some cheering remarks and asked some pointed questions that were not answered He was cheered to the echo and when he closed the meeting was adjourned Never did a better satisfied audience leaye the opera house THE BANQUET I After the speaking closed a large I number of invited guests the speakers I of the oveniug the drum corps and the Herald glee club repaired to South worth hall where a banquet flt for the regalement of the gods was spread by the members of the ladies dem rdtic society Ab these lovely ladies j hat a noble mission is theirs and hOW obly they filled it Saturday night 1 Not one of their male guesm but was no less astonished than deli kited at the results wrought by theIr skill and taste The tables were in cruciform cruci-form with seats for aDont one hun dred Pure white linnen silver chine and flowers to say nothing of the rich and varied viands created a scene almost al-most of fairy land It seemed a sin and a shame to demolish even for the purposes of refection the artistically fashioned salads cakes and other dainties Exclamations of wonder and pleasure broke from the lips of all in voluntanlly The happy guests were soon seated and wit and wisdom tempered tem-pered the ruder sounds of demolition Professor Giles grand piano ceased its dulcet strains and President David John in fitting and well chosen words blessed the feast praying fervently for the success of the party in the coming struggle and warmly blessing the fair hands which had spread the gorgeous feast Finally when all had feasted Col Gash the toast master rose and gave the toast Hon Joseph L Rawlins and named the lifelong friend of the distinguished gentleman Hon S R Thurman to respond The response was in Thurmans best vein and when this eloquent gentleman referred in soft and loving words to his own and Joe Rawlins boyhood days and the sterling independent and manly characteristics char-acteristics of the stripling of that day enthusiastic cheers rang over the room A great many toasts were offered responded to by Judge King Judge Smith Commissioner Letcher Mr Duglaa C Swan and Hon J B Milner and others but our crowded and but limited space precludes even the barest bar-est mention The feasting wss over by 2 a m Sunday and the tired but delighted guest wended homeward Altogether Mrs Clayton and her lovely aids from the Ladles Democratic society did well and where all did well we can make no destinctions but it will be years and years ere their male guests will cease remember with appreciation apprecia-tion the elegant tasteful and toothsome spread I |