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Show ieIepmlieae Crowds cf People vo to Hear 1m Telk. Mayor Booth Tickles tho Audience With His Maiden Speech. Whitecotton and Saxey Size up the Liberal Party in Creat Shape. Alout seven 'o'clock Welne.s:y evening llje Enterprise bund, iiccom-anitd iiccom-anitd by a boy bearing a wanner, par-a par-a 1"1 the streets informing the people peo-ple of the liepublican meetnig to be Leld in the Courthouse that evening.' About 8 o'clock an immense crowd bad gathered in the court loom. lien. K. Eldredge called the meeting to order, and made a few 'remarks, intro-(b intro-(b c ng John E. Booth us the lira' sneaker Mavor Booth came forward and said: Tliis is my tirst attempt at making mak-ing a speech on liepultlican ism. Although Al-though I have always believed in its principles. I have never spoken on them except to my students, and to t lie n I have ahvas taught it.- 1 feel that everv man should lake the side which he believes is best for the country coun-try and the people, and do all lie can for that party. 1 believe Republicanism Republican-ism is the party which will do the most I- lor thus country. At the same time I don't believe in abusing another man who does not believe as I do. Republicanism Repub-licanism teaches that man should be ir.-e so long as thev do not interfere ,v with the rights of others. Absolute ",! liberty cannot be obtained only through Democracy, and a man would be entirely en-tirely alone in it. for just as soon as two men live together they have to surrender some of iheir liberties to each other. Jmre Democracy is to be i free without being organized: Repub licanism is to organize and to preserve the liberties of everyone consistent with reason, and to have a strong government. gov-ernment. Our idea of a strong government gov-ernment is: That it is more important import-ant to preserve the National government govern-ment than it is to preserve the State; more important to preserve the State than the county; more important to preserve the county than the city, and the city than the municipalities; and ; this kind of government would carry out the motto of the .Nation, l'liir-ibu.t l'liir-ibu.t '. num.'' Absolute .free tiade is now , done away with among t he Democrats, I . '.-.-.' and they are fast becoming Ilepubli-v.- - ' "-waia.-: i,see Democrats here to-night, f -,atid 1 don't know "what they Avant m- l ,("' , less it is to be converted to Reptibli- I canisui. This question oi whe:e we belong is very important, and I hope even one wiil use his intelligence in choosing his parly. 1 am not in favor j of making a great r.ois.; yet, but I am in favor of more work and winning, and that is Republican doctrine also. The Republicans are. the leaders of education, and had it not bee.i for 1 hem we would ltioba'oh h ive slavery in the United Maus now. Toe Republican Re-publican aiways lak" tne lead it: ail great mov: s. ami it we ev -r nave pro i hiletion it will be throng'i them, and if we ever get universal fram-irse for women it vvili ;iiso be ihroiigii tl.em. 1 pr-'pose to irive m v. hole s.ml to this W.rk. and aliiiou-o we may not p"li many votes tins e t-cti-m. in lv. o years from no iV we s il elect the delegate to Co'ngr s. Cnairman Eldridje was sorry that the speakers, that had been expected from Salt Lake had not arrived, but took pleasure in introducing At;orin J. W. X. Whitecotton. Mr. Whitecodon: Lt is always p'eas-aut p'eas-aut to listen to some one we are not acquainted with, but I don't know what there is about these Salt Lake men that make them far umre important import-ant than us. lt would almost seem that Salt Lake men are better than l'rovo men, JJishop i ooth, interrupting: interrupt-ing: "Except in singing. Judge." Great ajtpiau.se. Vet. when we yet on the platform with the Salt Lake men they are not half as big as we imagined. im-agined. It is understood that this meet mg is under the auspices of the Republican club of this city, and that Republican doctrines will be discussed here. Men don't become converted in J a dav. nor do t hey take up lines and drop them in an hour. 1 believe a man to become cojivt ri 1 must have i the issues presented to Inn, and ' able, as Apostle l'aal sas, to give a! reason for the hope tuai is within him. G .ivernm-'iits have ahvavs been divi4-j ed. Go to Asia, and you will tin 1 the ! goverum at di'i'crent from Europ-?. There the government are conducted for the benefit d" iic man, the monarch. mon-arch. In the Democracy of Athens there was a large number of slaves. There Hi.OOi) people made the la ,vs; they met on streets and discussed any new measure that might come up: and each man cast his vote for or against. That was a government win re the peo pie ruled. Our government is composed com-posed of the best principles of all the ' nations of the earth, and when this government is assailed, we lose sight : of everything ami go f,- thr ass a hint. j I heard a speech from a Dem tcrat the other night: I enjoyed it; it showed thought and study; but I believe the speaker was wrong. We can't consider consid-er the views of Alexander Hamilton in the light of our intelligence. If pome of our ancesters could arise from their long slumber they would be filled with surprise and wonder to see such a great government kept together as this is. 1 am proud to say that Alexander Alex-ander Hamilton was the grandfather of the Republican party. The national nation-al government is stronger than any State, and there is a great cry about trying to lake all th government to Washington. I'll tell you how much ive want it there; we want to take enough en-ough power to insure everv State its rights. I have no doubt that the Democrats Dem-ocrats will use the Lodge bill as a bugbear to frighten people. I don't believe in it because I don't think it expedient. I believe every man should have a vote. Rut the Lodge bill is constitutional none the more lor that. The speaker then talked a great deal on the tariff question, being strongly in favor of protection. Twenty years hence you Democrats will be where the Republicans are now. We have been twenty years in advance all along. There ;;re a great manv who think that the Liberals -will poll a heavier vole this fall than ever before. I want to tell them they arc whistling to scare ghosts. I think the Liberals have tilled their mission and now they should '-get out.". 'Jlit i.' are cranks w ho are not Liberals, hov. vt ) strange it may be, and there are also a few old mo-s-hacks. The Ti ibtmv ' has bet n making war on the Liberals. Oh I that is a Liberal sheet! It is a dandy! They say the I'eople'.s party..d.;u:e not do anything'-only' what their priests tell tln-m to"do.aV;d the Trib. gets mad at a Liberal who dare do what il told h ui not to do. Their correspondent front here called me a Jack-Mormon, and said because I was afraid I would have an unlawful cohabitation case taken from me. which I am working on, that I drew out from the Liberal ranks. I would like to see the man that report d that last meet ing for the Tribune. 1 don't believe he is married, mar-ried, because there is a bad practice among boys and unmarried men which de.M toys the bra in. and I leheve that is what is the matter with this Tribune correspondent, and a paper that can refer to the Lord's Supper as "Flunkey "Flun-key s feeding and watering t het cat tie." is only lit for the companh Andim of that fellow, and they will both go to the same place. Rut let the Trib. die. as it deserves to die! and let the lkr-all lkr-all as it used to be die. Judge Saxey said: lam a Republican, Republi-can, because I believe it is the best party for this country. The speaker dwelt at some length on the work the Republicans had done for the government, govern-ment, and the ill the Democrats had worked for the Territory, attributing the disfranchisement of the women of I'tah to the Democrats. He struck at Mr. Gash, the president of tho Democratic Demo-cratic club of this citv. as c-ming from Missouri, a Demoeratic State, which, lie said, upheld the James boys in the r desperado performances and swore by them in everything. The speaker claimed that Republicanism was in favor fa-vor of woman suffrage, lie administered adminis-tered a scathing rebuke to the L'beral party, saying that it always reminded him of the story of the college stnd-nts who had a professor who knew all about bugs. The boys put up a job on him. They took a part of one bug and part of another, and pasted the pieces together, and presented it to the professor pro-fessor for inspection. Well," said he. "this is what 1 would call a humbug."' The Liberal party is the same. It is a humbug. It is composed of all sorts and kinds, and anything goes with them. Chairman Eldre lge stated that the object of the : meeting was to organize a Republican club, and the meeting was now ready for business. Mr. Saxey moved that B-n R. EIJ-redge EIJ-redge b eha'rm n of the club. Motion carried. Mr. Saxey then moved, as the hour was Jnte, that further election of otli-cers otli-cers be deferred until some other time. Motion carried bv a vote ,f o to L Mr. Booth then moved that a business busi-ness meeting be held Thursday evening. even-ing. Carried. Meeting then, a Ijourned with music by the band. |