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Show THE LAST SHOT ! ! j Continuation of the Speeches Made Saturday Night. j Eon. I". S. RichardB Talks Simon Pure Democracy Dr. Pike's Remarks Rous-! Rous-! ins: Cheers for Democracy. i At the Opera House last Saturday ! night the lion. F. S. Richards contin-j contin-j ued his speech from w here we discon-! discon-! tin ued the report, as follows : j REPUBLICAN methods. Now you know something about Re-I Re-I publican methods, if you have ever j stopped to think about it, the people of this territory have had peculiar sunt impressive opportunities to observe the peculiarities of Republican methods of government in this territory. Some; years ago there was a local court in each county elected by the people; there was a "system not many years ago whereby the prosecuting attorneys ot the territory were elected by the people; peo-ple; there was a time when the territorial territo-rial marshal served the processes of the court, who was a man elected by the people; peo-ple; there was a time when the county court in eyery county selected the jurors ju-rors right from the people of the county coun-ty and they constituted the juries thai tried the people. in LS7-1 the Republican government said I his was all wrong; the whole au-thoiitv au-thoiitv of the courts was wiped out except ex-cept that relating to probate business ami divorce. Tlie district attorneys and prosecuting attorneys were deprived de-prived of their powers and jurisdiction ; liie jurors instead of being selected by t!e people, one-half are selected by the probate judge and that probate judge U appointed by the President of tne Uni ted Slates, and the other half by tlie clerk of the district court, yvho is als-an als-an appointed oflicer, and now if the whole people of Utah were united as one, clamoring to have John Jones sere on a jury, they haven't got the power to put him there, In the latter p ut of 1882 a law wa-pa.-sed bv Republican legislators where-b where-b 10,(100 people were disfranchised without a single hearing or the right ol trial. The Democrats in the legislative legisla-tive halls and all over the land raised their voices in solemn protest against ihat kind of process, and the Republican Republi-can supienie court who sustained h held it to be merely the enforcing of constitutionally granted power! At that time the "Republicans appointed the registration and election olllceis lor this territory. Who ever heard prior to that time, in the territory oi Utah, ot'an unfair election? Who evel heard of u judge of election Ilimtlaming with votes and putting ballots in the box that were never handed to him prior to that time? 1 never did and 1 guess vou never did. Who but Repubii-canscouid Repubii-canscouid ever dream of appointing that august (?) body the Utah Commission:; InSalt Lake City they appointed men to register who" were so ignorant ol" I geography that tliey didn't know whether the boundaries of Salt Lake Citv did or did not extend to P. " V. Junction on the south, but they thought they did laughter to Corinne on the north, Park Citv on the east, so as to make sure they registered all along the line, (laughter), and at election time they were so accommodating as to bring them in by the train loads; not, however, how-ever, during the day, but during the night. And 1 have been told by parties, par-ties, who are ready, willing and able to prove their assertions, that there are places in Salt Lake and Ogden where men have been taken and there told under what name to vote. They have gone and falsely sworn those names to be their own, and come back to the place where they received their instructions instruc-tions and there paid money for what they had done. And that isn't all. 1 mig'iit elaborate for I can't tell you how long. Votes have been changed for my friend Mr. Young here votes that were handed in at the window, but were never put in the ballot box, but others put in their place. Judge Zane himself says it was a fraud committed by the judges of election, an infamy of the greatest magnitude that could be perpetrated in this country, and was next to trepson itself. If the Republicans Republi-cans had tneir way, we would have the same sort of thing all over this country as we have in Utah in the management of our elections. They tried to put the Force bill through tne House, the object ob-ject of which, and the operations under it were similar. That infamous b ll failed. One other little insiance. There was a certaoi man who was chief executive of this territory and w hose information on the subject of mathematics was so limited that after his majestic brain had handled a certain matter, he announced an-nounced that 1,300 votes cast, for one man was a majority over 18,000 cast lor his opponent. Do you remember anything about it? Laughter. If the For;:e bill had been in force at that time that man yvho received 1.300 votes would have taken his seat against the man who received 18.000 votes and represented, rep-resented, no, misrepresented tiiis territory terri-tory in the National Congress. This is Republicanism. I hav heard some Republicans say they want a state government here after awhde. I don't see why they ahoidd. They have all the beauties of centralization of power here toper-lection. toper-lection. Laughter. Certain men have gone to the Utah Commission and asked that each political party be recognized rec-ognized in the appointing of the judges of election. Those men were told by that deliberate ami august (?) body that "We don't know officially yet that there are three political parties in the field." They know there is a Literal party, but "We don't know until after tne election what other parties there are." Niiw. 1 sav that these are some of the instances of the Republican organization. organiza-tion. The Democratic idea is that these tilings are all wrong. They say that you people here in Utah county have the right to say who shall govern you, that you have a right to send a man of your choice to the legislature and to say w ho shall make laws for you, and j that it is not right for you to be com-j com-j pelled to submit to the details of so ar-: ar-: rogant and useless a body as the Repuh-I Repuh-I bean Utah Commission. They say j that the people themselves are the source of power and these same men in office arc the setvants and not the masters mas-ters of the people. They say that that grand theory of governmeut which was advance : by Thomas Jefferson, where the government should be so near to the people that when the great heart of the common people beat high with hope and appreciation that every pulsation pul-sation of that heart should be felt in the seat of government and should be ; an inspiration to the people's representatives repre-sentatives there, and when that heart throbs with dismay or despair those pulsations, too, would warn the servants ser-vants of the people at the seat of government, gov-ernment, that they must br can fill of the pupil's weal. The Republicans say, "We are the1 ones who lwve saved the Union ; we i possess the patriotism of this country ; j we have Ire the negro; we have pie-served pie-served the Union."' How did they I doit? Why you would think som - j times to hear them talk, that they had a patent on lovalty, and that it would j be an infringement on their patent ! lor a Democrat to say that he loved us country. They refer to the war of ihe rebellion, and they say that they saved the Union. They don't take time to tell you that there were 277,000 more Democrats in the Union army than there were Republicans. They take tlie army roll. The names of men are there, but Republicans have not gone to the trouble to ascertain the political faith the bearers of those names believed in. It had been proven that there were over a quarter of a million mil-lion more Democrats that Republicans among those fighting valiantly and bravely in and for the Union army. A FEW" WrORDS ON TARIFF. I know you have heard a good deal said about the tariff, but I'll try and not weary you. In the first place I w ant to sav to you that this government collected" collect-ed" last year $1 ,2O0,000,U00 of tariff. Did all this go into the treasury of the United Unit-ed Stales! Two hundred million went to the government and ten hundred million went into the pockets of the manufacturers. We have a population ot sixty-live millions. Less than fifteen fif-teen thousand of this population are manufacturers. In other words each four thousand of our population are paying tribute to one manufacturer. Richard Q. Mills, the man who lias had so much to sa and do with the tar.ff question for the Democrats, says tite tariff tax amounts to seventy-three per cent. In other words you pay for every actual dollar's yvoi th of goods you buy, one dollar aud seventy-three cents. I will endeavor to show you by a little lit-tle bill of goods we will imagine ourselves our-selves buying, how this average is estimated. esti-mated. Of course the stoiekeejicr i:l not tell you in words about the amount of the tariff but yve will suppose he does and by the time we get through iith this bill we wdl see what the tar-if tar-if does ior us plainer than 1 could tell you in any other w ay. We purchase a suit of clothes, which the storekeeper says he can not sell for less than twenty-one dollars. How-ver, How-ver, if the tariff was not imposed he could sell it for ten dollars. That is, our suit of clothes is worth ten dollars ; .ve pay a tariff tax of ten dollars. We next buy a hat for one dollar and sixty cents. The hat is worth one dollar; aritf taxis sixly cents. The next article ar-ticle is a shirt, costing two dollars, ..orth one dollar, tariff tax one dollar. Some socks for seveniy-tive cents, wei th twenty-live cents, tar ill' tax hit cents. Underwear for two dollars and seventy-five cents, worth one dobar. tariff tax one dollar and seventv-ihe cents. Dress goods for two oollarsand ihirty-iive cents, worth one dollar, tir.ff tax one dollar and thirty-live cents. And now, we need a few lamp-cliiinneys. lamp-cliiinneys. Those we have selected the storekeeper says, that as it isapre'.ly big bdl, he will share his profits with j us. and let us have the lot for live dollars dol-lars and fifty cents. The chimneys, li 'Wever, are .worth actually only one dollar, tariff tax four dollars and tifiy cents. This little bill amounts to shirty-eight dollars and fitty-five cents. Our goods would have been sold to us for seventeen dollars and twenty-live cents if the manufacturer, that" reat pet of the Republican party, had not in the name of the government mulcted us out of twenty-one dollars ami thirty cents; aud this in addition to allowing a fair and reasonable profit for his work and investment. What excuse do these people offer for this? The tax is the highest on t hose things we use most. Tlie poor men pay the burden of this tax. You pay a tax from the cradle to the grave, and somebody pays a tax on your coffin and gravestone after you are gone. The Republican writers say that if yo-j don't have this tax, the manufactories manufacto-ries would close and a great many people peo-ple would be discharged. Is it true? Unfortunately for the Republican party, par-ty, no. Three of the highest authorities authori-ties in the United States have certified to the government mat less than live per cert of the United States aie under protection and if absolute free trade were to be introduced not seven per cent of the industries would fesl it. We demand that there shall be a tariff tar-iff tax. We say there should be an income in-come tax sufficient to support the government. gov-ernment. It is absolute fallacy w hen Republicans tell you it is necessary for ttie existence of these industries, it is simply that much money taken from the pockets of our citizens for no lawful purpose. They say it goes to the working work-ing men. There are men in industries claimed to be protected working for forty-five cents a day. Th best showing show-ing that can be made for protection is that the labor done by machinery gels 350.00 a week as a protection from the tariff, whereas the labor done by human tlesh and hones in the highest protect ed industries get but $2.75 per week. Inventions, increased skill and ability have made conditions such that mote goods are now produced by the same labor this brings the price down. The tariff never has, never will and never can reduce the price of goods. It must, docs, and can not help but increase the price. One of the men w ho is engaged in the manufacture of steel and iron in the United States, and who is very solicitous so-licitous for the welfare of the working-men, working-men, is making out of the tariff one and a half milbon (.lobars a year upt.ards of five thousand dollars a day. Well might he spend time writing, or money having written and published pam- j phlets converting voters to Republicanism Republi-canism ! Less than a quarter of a qnar-1 ter of a century ago tnere were fewer than ten millionaires in this country, and to-daj there are ten thousand millionaires. mil-lionaires. Twenty-five thousand men now have more wealth in tids country than all the balance of the sixty -live millions. Think of that, and are you i not appalled? We do not believe in this. We be lieve in every man making money honestly.. What we object to is this: That the government shall take a man by the throat, tie his hands and let these aristocratic millionaires shove j their hands into his pockets and rob! him ot ms money. If yon desire the welfare of this territory, ter-ritory, if you desire her to become the proudest gem in the galaxy of states if you desire her to take her seat eventually in grandeur among her sisters with all her glory as one of the greatest commonw ealths in this land, then without loubt you will show your desires by voting that ticket. Prolonged Pro-longed applause. DIE. W. K. PIKE. Chairman Dusenberry explained that because of the sickness of Dr. Pike, j Democratic nominee for representative I from the eleventh district, the com-j com-j mittee hail almost failed to secure his I presence, but they were promt to announce an-nounce that they had persuaded him and that he would address the meeting for a few moments. The doctor said : Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I cannot ste what I can add to the exposition ex-position of Democratic principles that has been made here toingt by the gentlemen gen-tlemen present it is something I am unable t do. I can simply state that the principles that have been spoken on to-night are the principles that I heartily endorse. Ever since I have been old enough to realize the difference differ-ence between the two great parties and the importance of politics, I have been a Democrat a Democrat, and nothing else. Applause. So long as that party par-ty remains true to its principles, 1 expect ex-pect to remain a Democrat. I have j little command of words no words of eloquence to explain my ideas and views, for my profession is not one that le ds to public speaking. I believe that my first duty is to my country and to my feliow citizens and to this Here the speaker lif ted the stars and stripes, and the applause was deafening. deafen-ing. My next duty is to my party. As my party has seen fit to nominate me for office, I will do all I can to maintain the integrity of the Democratic Demo-cratic principles, and I expect to be elected to the office for which I am a nomir.ee. Applause. I have listened w ith much pleasure to the speakers to-night. There is always al-ways something Hiatsouuds new and cheery in a discussion or speech on Democracy. The principles cover such a vast field that it is impossible for I one man or any number of men to cover cov-er the ground, theie is always something some-thing fresh to hear in that grand doctrine doc-trine of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness under a benign government economically, rigidly and af the same time lovingly administered, in fact, Democratically administered. There is nothing that gives more joy to the ears and soid of man than to hear these ! principles exnounded bv srood sneak ers. We hope to have a Democratic government and shall contend for it. Republican methods have been de-tiiud de-tiiud here to-night. Thos who have lived here twenty-live or thirty years cert airily have tasted this boasted centralization cen-tralization of power. If you like that sort of tiling, elect the " Republican ticket. If you are at heart opposed to it, show your feelings by electing the Democratic ticket. Insist upon having the right :o say who shall be your governor and your judges in this territory. terri-tory. That is Democracy. I am sorry that my friend King could not be here to-night; had tie been here, I might have been released from trying to make a speech, for his ability in that direction is so well known. He voices my opinions so clearly that I always feel like silting back and saying to him, "Go it, those are my views." Applau?e. L.-dies and gentlemen, I w ish to say in conclusion that afier Monday next, when you have elected me to oflice, 1 w ill be found doing the best I can in accordance with my views and knowledge of Democratic principles prin-ciples to serve the people of this Representative Rep-resentative district with all honesty and sincerity. Ladies and gentlemen, I thank you for your attention. At the close of the doctor's remarks Chairman Dusenberry complimented the people of Provo on the evidence of their intelligence in so keenly appreci atmg the advantages of Democracy. In behalf of the Democrats of Provo the Chairman thanked the speakers for the feast of good things they had given, and the meeting adjourned with three rousing cheers for Democracy. |