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Show KEARNS--CLARK Rally at Logan Friday Night Drew the Biggest Big-gest Crowd of the Campaign. The Republican rally last Friday night may be regarded as a signal success. suc-cess. There was every reason why it should have been a success the prominence prom-inence of tho speakers; the enthusiastic enthusias-tic feeling of the Rcpubllcansof Cache county; the undoubted popularity of the Republican county ticket; the Interest In-terest that is taken in the candidacy of Hon. Joseph Howell for Rcprcscn-sativc; Rcprcscn-sativc; the tireless efforts of the county coun-ty committee and various women's clubs, together with the efforts of Individual In-dividual Republicans, all combined to make the rally the great success It was. Thatchers' opera house, the place where the rally was held, was" not large enough to contain the number who desired to hear Senator Kcarns and his colleague from Wyoming, Senator Sen-ator C. D. Clark, the entire seating capacity and standing room being occupied. oc-cupied. From the rapt attention given giv-en by the audience it may be inferred that this immense crowd came to listen, not out of Idle curiosity. The scene presented was of a gay and Joyous Joy-ous occasion and will be remembered by those present as one of considerable note. The stage had uooqdceo rated with bunting and (lowers, and placed conspicuously con-spicuously before the audience were large pictures of Presidents Lincoln, McKlnley and Roosevelt, draped In the national colors. On the stage with the speakers were seated a large number of Cache's prominent Republican Repub-lican workers. During the gathering of the audience the Hyde Park band dispensed charming melody with a free hand, and by the time W. W. Maughan, as Chairman, introduced the first speaker, Senator Kcarns, the audience was in an excellent humor and thoroughly ready to listen to the arguments of the evening. Mr. Kcarns' talk was largely 41 plea for a full representation In Congress. With himself, Mr. Howell, and the next Senator a Kcpublicanhe felt Unit much good might be accomplished for the State of Utah, lie spoke of the mining industry, of the Philippines, the trusts and the tariff. In a .few words he offered a comparison of Democratic Dem-ocratic Uieory with Republican iuets and results, lie asked for an endorsement endorse-ment of President Roosevelt's (policy, and spoke of that man's i riendship for tlie West. Mr. Kearns touched. on the Irrigation proposition and suggested what a full Republican .representation in Congress might be .able to .do for Utah along this line. He is a firm believer be-liever in the policy of President Roosevelt Roose-velt and suggested that Republicans could not afford to go .back on .him at this time. Ho urged ithat the .ticket be voted straight from Justice -of the Peace to Representative in Congress for in that lay tlie future alvation of tlie party- I-n Jefer.rlng to Senator Clark he spoke of him as .being Utah's third Senator, saying .that Clark's interest in-terest in the State of .Utah hadthurdlyi been less than his own. Mr. Kcarns was accorded hearty .applause. At tin's Juncture the WclLsvllle .Juvenile .Ju-venile Glee Club was givon an opportunity oppor-tunity to vocalize to .a (considerable extent. Tlie dub Js .composed of boys ranging rom Jo to li years of age,! and tlteJx renditions wore ituly excel-' lent. The boys were accorded a hcanty' reception and a persistent encore brought them back for another song. Senator Clark was then introduced and it took but a half dozcu MardsJ from him to completely win Ids audi-' ence. Mr. Clark's Iwiue is in Evans-ton, Evans-ton, Wyoming, not far from (lie Utah line, and lie spoke of this In such a way as to win him a warm place Ju the hearts of his beard's. His entire talk was far from abuse or anything in any way that, could olTrnd even the most sensitive, and instead was one calculated calcu-lated to appeal to the reason of everybody. every-body. He has u very pleasant manner, a happy way of stating mutters, and the large audience showed Its appreciation appreci-ation by frequent and continued applause. ap-plause. At the beginning he eulogized tho State and tho Valley. Said that he was glad to meet with the people of Logan because he appreciated the advantages of Logan and the possibilities possibil-ities of this part of the State. Although Al-though the greater part of his manhood man-hood days had been passed In Wyoming Wyom-ing and while he expected to live there and die there, still lie felt a deep Interest In-terest in Utah, inasmuch us that part of Wyoming now his home was at 0110 . i time a part of Utah. In speaking. of how great a State Utah really Is, Mr. Clark said: "Yon may build a stone wall around the State as high as the stars in heaven and Utah can produce everything needful for her use and every ev-ery luxury her citizens can desire." He then spoke of a desire to bring the political situation down to a business proiosltlon and piocecdcd to put the proposition before the people In an intelligent in-telligent manner. He said that he had 110 desire to influence the audience audi-ence by his talk from the platform, plat-form, but asked his listeners to take home with them what he said, wcigli it well and If they found his words to be ttue, to do what. seemed tlie right thing. "Parties arc known by their results," said he, and then proceeded to show that every elTort of the Democratic Dem-ocratic party had had bad results, and every effort of the Republicans had correspondingly good results. He went back to the time of Buchanan and told of that instance where the President tried to borrow, money at 0 per cent, and couldn't do It, and compared it with the recent loan that was asked for. The U. S. asked the world for $200,000,000 at 2 per cent, and had $1,400,000,000 offerrcd and today to-day those 2 per cent, bonds are worth 108. He told of the surplus that was in the treasury at tlie beginning of Cleveland's administration and how lie had to borrow more than $200,000,000 all because of free trade. Compared this with present conditions under the Dinglcy tariff law, when there is now an enormous surplus In the treasury. He suggested that Democrats should use this as an argument against the Republican party. Said there is too much money In the treasury, but that the G. O. P. would see that it was put out to the best advantage. From tho tarllf ho went to the trust question; said it Is not a political question, ques-tion, and did not have anything to offer of-fer against trusts. He believes in combination of capital not that kind of organization, however, that seeks to monopolize. He went on to show that but 12 percent, of manufactured articles are made by trusts, and that the enormous -steel trust manufactured manufactur-ed but 7 percent, of all steel articles manufactured in the U. S. The Democrats Dem-ocrats claim that the tariff fosters' these trusts and that we must have free trade to kill them off. Clark maintained ithat it Is not right to kill off 88 percent, of our industries that arc not in the trusts, Just to lctD the 12 per cent, .that are. lie beUcwes In legislation .against .monopolies and says tliat Republicans will modi this exigency Just-as successfully as lit has every other .proposition. Ths people do not need to feel alarmed, (for the Republican party has always taken care of the-country In about tiie. proper way and imay be trusted in tills. Everything Ev-erything Js .running along smoothly every man .can vwork that wants to and can et. good wages forhis .work. Tlie people took It Into their 'hoads once beXai'oitliat'thcy wanted achange rand they got It. In one yeur after .the, change :i,000,000.mcn were of work and out f unoney. -"Soup houses wcro the only nourishing industries." "There Uai tendency on the part of the people to .not .want to let good enough akanc-ithcy .want a change .hut they .cannot afford it in the.atTairs of government,'" said .Mr. Clarfc. -"People would lather ibollevc a big lie .than toJook atsauill, simple truths and be convinced said thus it was that they were led astray on bee .trade." The speaker .touclied on "Expansion iu the Philippines," iut said it is .a de-ad Jsuie. "We are already expanded. expand-ed. Our Hag is in tho Philippines and tlwre It 'lll star, "said he. Wo liave one thousand American teachers in those islands trying to instill Into the minds of tliose Filipinos the real principles prin-ciples of true liberty and wc will not recall them. Duty lias pointed the way aiul wc cannot shirk tlie responsibility. responsi-bility. M r. Clark scored Rawlins, although al-though he mentioned 110 names. He said that he had heard things on tho Senate floor that made his cheek burn for shame. American soldiers attacked, attack-ed, the Hag besmirched by tultors at homo and suggested that Utah must rest under a cloud until she shows that sho appreciates the situation and relegates to tho rear a certain United States Senator. The irrigation question then engaged en-gaged his attention and he piocecdcd 1 - to tell how tlie measure had been Inaugurated In-augurated by Republicans, fostered by Republicans and finally brought to 11 successful termination by n Republican Republi-can President. Mr. Roosevelt, know-tho know-tho West, Its possibilities and Its needs, felt a great Interest In tho irrigation problem, and desired to do something to help those statesmen from the west who had been making such a gallant but hopeless tight. Ho called the western men together, told them to unite on what (hey wanted and ho would do all In his power to help them secure what they wanted. Tlie western west-ern men did get together and presented present-ed to the President their Ideas. He concurred In them and urged their acceptance ac-ceptance upon Congress. A big fight was made. Every clfort was made to kill It, especially by the party of the opposition, but by President Roosevelt Roose-velt the day was saved and the Irrigation Irriga-tion bill became a law. This bill Is of untold benellt to Utah, along with other western states. Utah's arid lands will be reclaimed which means the addition of millions of dollars to the wealth of the state. Can the voters of Utah afford to turn down a President Presi-dent who has done so much for theinV Will they not vote for a Republican Representative to Congress, and vote for the Republican nominees for the State legislature, thus Insuring the election of another United States Senator Sen-ator In accord with tho desires of that President? Mr. Clark made mention of the recent re-cent coal strike. Said that Democratic Democrat-ic politicians were trying to make use of that unfortunate affair as a campaign cam-paign argument. He insisted that it was not a political question and had no connection with tlie political situation. situ-ation. He did claim that President Roosevelt deserved great credit for his successful efforts In the matter, but docs not say that the Republican party par-ty should have the credit for It. He merely used this to show that we have a President who generally docs what ho undertakes. Mr. Rosevelt determined deter-mined to have the irrigation bill become be-come a law and went to work on It. He was met by all kinds of difficulties, but was successful. He decided to end tills coal strike, If possible. He went at tho proposition and It seemed that he was about to fall, but he took fresh energy and the world knows the result. Mr. Roosevelt says that tho trusts will receive a knockout blow before a great while, and those who know his record cannot doubt that what he says will become a fact. "The country is safe in tills man's hands," says Mr. Clark, "and no one need worry. We have plenty of money, wc arc a happy and contented people, tho grand old Hug still floats over us, and we are recognized recog-nized as the biggest, proudest and -richest nation on the face of the globe. Why seek to change these conditions? Why run Uhc risk of spoiling It all? You cannot afford It." The Senator paid a tribute to Hon. Joseph Howell, and told the audience that he was just such a man as could represent Utah In the best manner. It is the man of character, honesty and integrity, that counts for most In tlie halls of Congress, and Hon. Jos. Howell How-ell possesses these qualities In the highest degree. He Impressed upon tlie people the advantage of sending to Congress a Representative and two Senators In accord with the administration adminis-tration and suggested that It Is practically prac-tically useless to send a man there who is not Insiccord with tho majority major-ity of Ids colleagues. If Utah wants anything from tho government It must send men to Congress who will uphold the governmental policy. With a solid front, Utah could ask for and get what slie wanted. Tho Senator also spoke warmly of Mr. Kcarns. "No man has worked more faithfully than he for Utah's Interests," In-terests," suid Mr. Clark. "He possesses posses-ses a character of sterling worth and has brouglit to bear every Influence at his command for the benefit of this State and the nation. The Congressional Congress-ional body does not hold a truer patriot, patri-ot, a more earnest, devoted member, and no man Is regarded more highly as a gentleman having the best Interests Inter-ests of tho country at heart. He has worked well and voted well." All through his excellent talk he was heartily applauded, and when he sat down he was cheered to the echo. At the close the Wellsville boys were iu evidence again and sang a song ulwut "Billy King." The boys proved a popular feature of the show. The band then gavo a selection and the affair was u thing of the past. |