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Show THEY SPOUTED. REPUBLICANS HAVE ANOTHER INNINGS IN PROVO. r-- Artlinr Brown jinil Secretary of State Ilnmmojid Told How They h ivcrt Free Silver Ocoigo Sutherland Tried to Tell Why Ho Wan Kot a Dctnocras-Tlie Atidleuco Iargo But Chary in Applause, The Republicans held another rally In Pro.vn lust evening. By way of explanation explan-ation of the preceedlngs we niay say that County Chairman Booijj dls-claimed dls-claimed nil responsibility and stated to The DicjiocitAT man that It was strictly a precinct iiffalr. Thin fact accounts ac-counts for that gentleman's failure to prominently appear In the festlvl-tles('r). festlvl-tles('r). J good sizi-d audlenco greeted the opening speaker but visibly dwindled down toward the close The only thing that held nuyono was the excel I tint slnglrg of the Gleo el lib. After tnuslo by the band, tho nicut-lng nicut-lng was culled to order by Chas. Do-Moisy, Do-Moisy, who hat) a mistaken Idea that ho la running for county ntlorney. S. S. Jones, who wants to bo Statu Senator, Sen-ator, was named for chairman. Sen-ator(?) Sen-ator(?) Jones thanked tho mooting for llio honor nnl congratulated his own city administration; also complimented City Atlornoy John nod E. L Jones and said a ' few words about tho advantages ad-vantages of a mixed administration for Prnvn filtv. He then Introduced J. T. IIAjfMOND, Stnto sccrotary, who congratulated the Republicans of Utah that thoy are all working together. (No applause). Ho rung in an alleged jnko about the Democratic rooster (fame chilly silence) and then advanced thu absurd proposition proposi-tion that wo are In tho midst of a wave of prosperity and that (ho people tiro enjoying good limes. Made a wenk point of tho sheep question. Talked a little about Grover's administration and attcmp'ed to ghow that tho Cltve-land Cltve-land ljemoernts were t)o present p.irty no applause). Ho stated tho palpable falsehood that thu Democratic speakers asserted that In order to have prospority wo must have the balance of trado ngalnt us (as usual, no applause). ap-plause). Tiled to draw a comparison on the foreign trade relations with Intent In-tent to defeat tho "fice coinage fallacy." but tho usual chilly silence resulted. Secretary Hammond tried th defeat tho principles of the law of supply and demand by citing Republican Republi-can prosperlty(?) and branched Into a strictly, agricultural lojk with reference refer-ence to Caeho and Sanpete counties. He. howover, confessed his didn't know anything of statistics. (For lilin a fr-, fr-, tunat.u ndml'Slon.) IIo then said tariff was the only Is-mo and made silk pro-: pro-: ducllnn an argumpi)t(?) fnrlliopuppnrt of a Reputdican Uongsmau and Senator. Said thev would pass a bounty on silk which would be worth moro than nil our ullver mines. He said every family in Utah could work at thu Industry upd make 310,000.000 per year, lie congratulated tlio State on tho bund Issues, and excused the Issue of war bonds on the ground that Cluvclaud had Issued $202,000,000 same kind. Ho said the -Dempcrajlc party never does what It promlt-es, but the Republican always does (God help us, ir ttue, and that party succeeds). Ho boosted Alpia u little and received snmo applause from thestago,ellhbUgh ho admitted that "Al" was not "a eompleto English schnolar" (no one who has heard that gentleman doubts the abortion). lie said that. Zanu a.nd tl.o rest of tho g. o. p. ticket was "all right," and titter tho most Illogical and disconnected speech ever heard In Provo, sat down amid thunders(?) of applauso (hocnuso ho put down). Tho Glee club then sang sweellv a couple of times, and the chair Introduced Utah's champion gold bug orator. Aimjujt pnowN, who begun by the stupendous announcement an-nouncement that protection and Id-metallsni Id-metallsni are the principles, which furnish the foundation of our nation, that thoy nro the principles of thp Re-publlca,n Re-publlca,n party, and liavo been sjppo 1801. Arthur said "his" party stood whore It was in 1802-01-1)5-00, aj;d re-lerri-d to tho notorious gold bun Po vontlon ot Mt. P.easant In the lutter year, which ho said declared for liimel-allstu. liimel-allstu. (Ho didn't get n hand.) Ho declared de-clared Ihe Dingley bill thu ealvntlop of llio nation. Ho then made 891110 sneering sneer-ing remarks In u gard to Hon, V. H. fiing, and Inferred that the only placet of Uth U'P,ocrjs- was to send that gentleman, jo the U. b. Senate. Io would uujlpnhtedly do hfttcr Hffvleo there than Arthur did.) He suhl ihejo was no uso voting for Roberts because n .Utah wasn Hit lc Stale and would have only.it little Inflm-ncu anyway. (A s'oek Republican a rgu men !(?).) He raped the Democratic parly a parly of free trade and sl(l It wan the partv of Cleveliuil. Ho then perpetrated the palpable falsehood that thu Dlngle.v law lienelltled Ulh ;nnr.i than iiny other Statu In the Uibm, mid con'. (Icniued our representatives for volnc iigaln-Llt. Hi, Hated that no R. pul,. llean can bu cleeteil who Is not lor Iree silver, am! that any Republican can do moro than any Dcnioeiat for that cause (It would bu an Ignorant citizen citi-zen who would believe meh a state-msnt.) state-msnt.) Said 1111 Democrat who might bo elected would do anyllilng.for silver but admitted that tree silver would lie a good thing. Hu Hald tio Demoerallc party was not Tor silver except for ofllce. (Font oltlng tho fuel Hint the peoplo of Utnh believe In hmh the honestv, disinterestedness and loleg i lly of Bryan ) Ho talked a little about the silver question nationally, but omitted the Republican act of demonetization demon-etization In 1873. Said the question was Hist discovered in 1878 Ho nd milted the veto by Harrison (a Republican Repub-lican Pie'idenl) pf the Blaml-Alllsoii bill In 1878, but ascrled tlion dicu mis fact that the passage of that niuimru oyer the veto wasduo 10 McKmhy, ono of tho gold standard agents. H perpetrated per-petrated anoilior absurdity by saving that Cleveland was nut for free sliver, eoneqiiently tho Piimocratlo party of I today Is not. (Arthur Is a warm nuinbvr) Ho said Unit thu entire responsibility of l lie failure of a free coinage bill was duo to Stewart, Teller, etal., who refused re-fused on a cnnipromlso to vote for the notorious "Force Bill." Ho admitted that the gheruiau Law was passed by tho vote of Stewart, Teller, et ill., nnd then by a supremo effort ot mlfrepro-rental mlfrepro-rental Ion declared that the Republicans Republi-cans did it. He said King. Rawlins mid I others wore Democrats 1 11 18U3, consequently conse-quently tlmy wcro not silver men, without admitting that Harrison was at least as virulent a gold man us l leveland, and then fabowed by condemning con-demning tho financial plank of tho Chicago platform In 1800, (ll re tho crowd commenced to go out). Hu called thu Democratic party a "paper wad party" apd said It wanted greenbacks green-backs In order to support ,hujjoptti-Ists. ,hujjoptti-Ists. Ha cited New York, Coniigrtlcut, New Jersey and Ponnsylvaiil.ttpronf that the Democratic parly hadfor-saken hadfor-saken free silver, Ignoring the fact that the Republican orttnrs In those States say that by Duinocratlc succs the gold standard Is defeated. He repeated the old Republican "clustuui" Unit If free silver was ever scrurvd It would bo by the Repub lean party. He called McKlnluy a "wtsu President" mid re-feircd- to his "great, broad, brainy H ind." Ho defended thu useless bond Itstic and astertt'dhiit Its Dejiiociallu opponent!) werotraltois. ' (jc admit-milted admit-milted that notwithstanding thu Poaeo Jubilees, btlll pacu was not yet. secured, se-cured, but "waved the bloody llajj" while io attempt tp show that Democrats Demo-crats were all traitors ami had no right to U vq lu America. Hu said that all iho glory of the late war 'was duo to Republicans and that no ono else had any light to credit. Hu Intimated thai V. H. King, his legal opponent, w.s tho only candulatu for ponator by Democrats De-mocrats and sneered at that geoiti-man's geoiti-man's excellent Cpngresslonul record. Hu said tli a all Republicans of Utah (with evident reference to self) were for free silver and consequently with-nut with-nut roferepcu to platform (hp people of Uuth ought to Mil port them. Hu com-mlltoil com-mlltoil Iho ,. crowning abstirdety of claiming woman suffrage as 11 Republican Repub-lican measure, and amid tho satisfactory satisfac-tory slgb of tho Hiidleiit o sat down. The hand played a llttlo nnd Chairman Chair-man Jones said "At the closu of our ontertnlnment wc will again be favored with a selection from tho Provo Quartette. Ho then stated ho would ''Introduce a man who will entertain young men and old men and ladies also," and foisted upon tho crowd OF.OllQK 6UTMBKLAND. Goorgo Is a good fellow nnd probably moans well, but sometimes forgets the fact that hels addrcsMngnn Intelligent nitdluncc. Hu tJedio make a point on tho ngo of the. Democratic parly, and also tried an olil chestnut" Illustration. Illus-tration. (It fell flaLje tried to get facetious but got a "froft." Ho reiterated reit-erated that worn Republican "blaisur" thnt bplh parties stood nllke onfsllver in Utah, and that theru is no Islpe. Ho said that ho would io a Democrat if ho behoved that party would carry out Its pledges (that old, excuse), aed said ho was only afrolfi that Democrats would not ho fpr silver In 1000. Ho said sliver is not an Istpie, nnd reiterated reiter-ated Brown's asertloti8 ns to other Ststo plalformu. Ho fijld there was 1 no reason why Utah ppople should dct jjl rrf for sliver, "(l ilion sa d th Re publican pifty boulreadyigdpclredj It L IIu perpeirmed another Republican argunieiiK?) by a tying that Eldredge ought lo ho elected because he "idood, In" with McKinlcy. Admitted that free silver meant greater prosperity, and that lull prosperity would only e-iuo with pmtuutloii and blnieUIJsui. IIo wound up with a atnry and sat down wii thu usual limited amountof applause. The quaiiottc closed tho "outertnln-nient." "outertnln-nient." For the good of the Dctnncmtlo pnrty wu hope there will lie several moro Republic in rallles(lr) before election. |