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Show FIVE SPEAKERS Interest the 19th District People Last Sight. Jos. T. McEwan Parallels the Demo-Republican Record of the Enquirer. En-quirer. From Friday's Daily. Dr. Pike, Jos. T. McEwan, A. D. Gash, V. S. Halliday and Win' Pro-bert Pro-bert stormed the bights at the Nineteenth Nine-teenth school district last night. The house was filled and the enthusiasm unbounded. Dr. Pike first spoke. He dwelt on the fundamental principles of Democracy, Demo-cracy, and stated that the coming election was one of principle and not of men. The gentlemen on the Republican Republi-can ticket are all warm friends of his, but the ticket placed in the field by the Democratic party was typical of good government, and henee he had an h-fu, itancy in predicting its jw-cCss oil Monday. Mon-day. A. D. Gash dealt out some hot shot on the tariff, and scored the! Republican party and the billion dollar congress, lor squandering the public monev, the disastrous effect of which would stay with the people fur the next four years. Jos. T. McEwan followed up the subject sub-ject of Democracy in one of his characteristic charac-teristic speeches. The coming election was one the equal of which had never been seen in Utah. Heretofore men were the issue in all political warferes, but now it was a matter of principle. The Republican paper in Provo lias had considerable to say of late in regard re-gard to the immense amount of good the Republican party bad done for Utah. Here is what they had to say on Wednesday: "The Democratic party has done nothing for Utah, and could not if it had the inclination. Its golden opportunity oppor-tunity to befriend this territory it has allowed to pass by unimproved. The Republican party, on the other hand, has the power to help Utah, and will da so. Vote for your friends." "Now, I am not going to tell you," said Mr. McEwan, "what the Democratic Demo-cratic party has done for Utah, but I will read you eome extracts from the "Republican" organ. The Republican party of the territory very wisely said, when framing their resolutions, that on account of the length of the platform plat-form adopted by the Republican National Na-tional convention, they would not use it. Jo, a very gouu excuse, nuyi Because in that platform the Mormon people came in for considerable attention, atten-tion, and it would materially weaken their chances if they adopted it. When the Hoar anti-Mormon bill was adopted in the United States Senate this 'Republican' 'Re-publican' paper paid a tribute to the fifteen men, all Democrats, who voted against it, and called them 'the patriotic patri-otic fifteen.' "And when the measure was defeated de-feated a month later in the House, this 'Republican' paper said, 'the House, fortunately for the reputation of the country avoided passing the anti-Republican measure sent it from the senate." sen-ate." The speaker was loudly applauded. ap-plauded. V. L. Halliday entertained the audience au-dience in his usual earnest and convincing convinc-ing manner. He showed the result of electing the Democratic ticket, and nrgeu an tnose wno were aesinous oi seeing good government and honest principles prevail to rally to tke polls on Monday next. William Probert delighted the audience au-dience with hisone-hour-of-fine-boiled-down-in-five-minutes speech. The Enquirer En-quirer suffered unmercifully at his hands, and the manner in which the people applauded the speaker left no room to doubt, how the Republican organ takes with the gentility out there. The meeting all through was a rouscr. |