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Show iTHE CRUSADERS. ! Judge Boremim Afflicts a Handful of People. i Elmer B. Jones Converted to JjiberfJism I by an Old Fanner Down ia the Quiet ! Town of Mona. The Opera House band last night i made a circuit around town in Knight's band wagon, announcing the fact that a Liberal rally would be held in the Courthouse. About 8:30 o'clock a few of the "chosen" were inside the railing, rail-ing, while on the outside a number ol citizens were seated. Judge Sutherland called the meeting to order, and made a few remarks, in which he announced that Judge 15o reman re-man would talk to them, and that their talk would not wear them out, as the Democrats had done. lie then intro duced Elmer B. Jones, who said he came to Utah knowing nothing about Utah, only from the newspaper reports, therefore he came unbiased and unprejudiced. unpreju-diced. He had always been a Republican and could not be any thing else if he tried, and when the division on party lines came, all the patriotism in me was aroused, and I could not sit quietly by and see the Democrats carry oft everything without an effort for Republicanism. Re-publicanism. I wish to correct the rumors that have been on the street, that I was first a Liberal and then a Republican, and now a Liberal. The speaker then told how he took up the cause of Republicanism, and went to Mona, Juab county, to talk to the people there. lie had a conversation conversa-tion with an old fellow just previous to the meeting about the Mormon Church controlling the votes of the people. The old fellow told him that the church did not have anything to do with it. The speaker then asked him what he would do if the leaders of the church would say after a while, here we think it time to reorganize the People's party. "Well," said the old fellow, ilif 1 thought it was right I would join it." This answer knocked all the Republicanism out of Elmer 15. lie growled a little because he did not receive applause for that speech. He then resolved to become a Liberal. The speaker then chewed the Teihtme hardi about Eastern men having hav-ing no confidence in the Mormons, attributing at-tributing the linancial distress of the country to the fact that the Liberals were not in power. Judge Boreinan was then introduced. After saying he had been in Utah a great many years, he launched forth into a string of abuse on Rrigham Young. lie did not want, however, to abuse those who had belonged to the Liberal Lib-eral party, and who had wandered off alter strange Gods. He sated them soundly, nevertheless, for having left the party when victory was just within with-in reach. He endeavored to show that if the Liberal party was dead, the two national parties in Utah would be controlled con-trolled by the church, and they could not belp themselves, lie dwelt on the statehood subject, and seemed to be much hurt because the parties would not come out ar.d say they favored or did not favor statehood, "if they would say something about it, the Libs would ; then know what to do. Statehood was: the only issue in Utah, and yet not a word was said about it in the platforms of either party. He hit t he national parties hard for getting men from the east to come here to talk to them. The Repubii-icansgotitin Repubii-icansgotitin the neck about Horr, while the Democrats got Hail Colombia Colom-bia about Dr. Miller coming to Utah, lie then set off on a train of slang and abuse about polygamy, using the language of the Ti ih. The gentleman was interrupted frequently by out bursts of silence when lie had made some great point. His speech was very dry throughout, so inuoti so-that some ot the Libs went to sleep. At the conclusion con-clusion of his speech the band played "Rally Round the Flag." A. G. Sutherland, after a long preamble, pre-amble, in which he eulogized the Tribune, Trib-une, read a clipping from the halt Lake Times, in which they copied a piece from the Trili, slating that the division on party lines had been inaugurated inaugu-rated by the Mormons, the Times contradicting con-tradicting this statement. Just why lie read the clipping or what was his object, was not apparent. He could not have any confidence in the Mormons Mor-mons in this movement, and concluded by saying he thought it was a scheme of the enemy. I'l.iHoned With Canned Corn Iieef. j Sackamexto, Cal., July 29. Re- ports from different parts of the Placer I county show fifteen persons manifested j with symptoms of poisoning after par- taking of pressed corn beef, prepared j by the butcher of the town of Loomis. i "The child of Mr. Fro, of Loomis, died ! yesterday, and it is feared other fatal i-: i-: "t i-'s will be reported. It is believed tint beef cattle had absorbed the grasshopper grass-hopper poison. Kev. Sam Jones Kotten-EKKM. Houston-, Tex., July 29. While preaching to a large audience here tonight, to-night, and when in the middle of a discourse, dis-course, some people on the outside turned out the lights and rotten-egged Rev. Sum Jones and his audience, the most of whom were ladies. There is great indignation felt, and trouble mav ensue. Pritchanl In For Blood. Xlv.v York, July 29 The Tvlice Gazette has a special c ible from London Lon-don saying Ted Pritchard has challenged chal-lenged Charley Mitchell for a fight for 5-",Ut0 and the championship of England. Eng-land. Pritchard says he is not going to the L'niled States but is willing to tight either Fitzsimmons or Hall for $5,000 a side, and all expenses. (.uui iiod Her Virtue With Iter Life. Clayfield, Pa., July 29. A miner named Wilkins beat Mrs. Joseph Wilson Wil-son into insensibility with a baseball bat this morning. Thinking she was dead, he went to hi room and cut his throat with a pocket knife. Roth are still alive, hut will probably die. Mrs. Wilson refused to listen to advances made by Wilkins. |