Show tinted meetings last eglit hon johne booth lectures in three wards the kids baud I 1 vall amount of the proceeding hi all the wards thac A lair of the voters in the baid met baat night m the effal tic to ratify the peoples ticket ine uee band furnished the the ai calad to order ij theodore M 1 BUU so ia elet bcd cli airman mr bolm ii tesley ad ele iad ahe re for alderman alderm rn and vere callad on for buee mr thos 13 all and mr L b glazier each responded staling in ahat abe re in avith the principles lam down lu the platform which the convention had adopted and if elected would try to seive their constituents to the beet bf their ability mr john B milner was next called for and paid a warm tribute to the pioneers whose labor and toil made it possible for us to enjoy the comforts which the country now speaker then drew a vivid picture of improvements and luxury both public and private which he nouh like us to enjoy but said that v e be able to pay for them we do not want to saddle the future generations with a debt which will be a standing hindrance to their progress we did not want a paper boom which benefits none but speculators ula tors he admonished the citizens to go to alie polls and vote for the men of their choice the speaker was all through his speech the chairman than introduced sir V L chairman of the peoples central committee who in au able speech advocated the principles of the peoples party and advised them to unite in strength for the peoples ticket mr taco M said that as he was a nominee for assessor and collector lie thought it due to himself and the people to say that he must heartily endorsed what had been said especially in regard to a fictions boom which would increase the burdens of taxation without giving us any real benefits we do not want a mushroom growth the matures in a season and decays llie next but it takes a hundred sum inerd to mature the oak and the storms of a hundred winters do not destroy it we can afford to await the natural development of the country the speeches were interspersed with music from the band and a general good feeling prevailed in the meeting which adjourned determined to make the grand rally tonight to night a success ana SECOND WARD the members of the peoples party of alie second ward met at the assembly rooms lighted their torches formed into line and marched into first main street thence west and south until alderman house waa reached here they came to a halt gave three cheera for the next alderman from the ward three cheers for the birin i caplea of the peoples party and three cheers for the peoples ticket they next marched east to councilor hen drick sens house gave him three cheers for the principles of the peopled Peo plea party and three cheers for hon john E booth the next mayor of provo city they marched on to the assembly rooms where alexander wilkins was elected chairman J M jensen secretary and S P eggertsen jr chaplain prayer was offered by the chaplain alderman andrew eggertsen was the first speaker this way the first position of that kind the gentleman had been called to fill lie did not accept it because it was of any personal advantages because it was not of any personal advantage I 1 am the son of a father who has been termed a mossback but I 1 tell you my father has done more to build up this country than any liberal applause oar fathers have made this country what it is they say we have built railroads and business blocks but there is not one of those speak were on the platform ladt night who had the nerve to come out here and grub the sagebrush applause hou E C hendrichsen one of our nest councillors councilors counci lors from alie second ward was next introduced As the gentlemen was laboring under a heavy cold he did not feel much like speaking ho felt however greatly honored by the nomination he had always felt to sustain the peoples party applause I 1 am a peoples party man full pledged if you please I 1 dont consider myself a mossback applause do you want to vote for a party tho members of which I 1 have heard bay we would like to see all of you hung I 1 say no applause why ia it that men whom we have considered to bo of use will go and cut the peoples in two if I 1 cannot be elected on the peoples party ticket I 1 dont wish to be elected I 1 endorse the ticket ith hon john E booth for mayor prolonged applause councilor james F dunn was the next speake r he said I 1 was born in this territory and have never been ont side of it applause Ap I 1 am also a member of the peopled party and I 1 dont care who known it applause I 1 understand der stand there has been a split in the ticket this afternoon the majority of the delegates selected a ticket hut a few who frere not satisfied with the ticket have selected another my name appeared upon alie first and also on the second hut without my knowledge or consent which ever ticket may ho elected I 1 feel to serve the peoples baity go to the polls and vote which ever ticket your conscience prompts you to vote mr john 0 graham was tho next speaker As chairman of the second ward delegation tie gave a short history of the convention work hou john E booth nominated mayor of that convention and ho ia a man whom we may be proud 07 applause mr graham then read the resolution passed by members of the legislative council as published in yesterdays sir booth is also honored by his associates in alie legislature applause some of the liberal speakers fast night were ridiculing mr booth on account of liis home now the fact arrango but true is that out of alie eight liberal speakers only one of them had any home at all prolonged applause mr graham gave some more interest in facts concerning these boasting liberals which was warmly applauded we have bot to be united there has been an attempt to split the ticket but the peoples party will go in with a largo majority Applause 1 I 1 dont consider alie liberala berald Li in this campaign count for anything applause if there is division in our ranks we must squelch it we must sit down on it the leaders of aliis split h ivo been trying to compromise with the liberals at this juncture mayor booth entered and the applause that greeted him was simply deafening when he arose to speak lie was again warmly applauded he commenced with Ladics and gentlemen if I 1 had been cut about six inches shorter these feltovic a auld have hied to ta t a about ne as my pants would then have been long enough now 1 wont say that all tile liberals are sc alaways but I 1 will say that scalawags scala wags are liberals applause if there are any scala wags in the audience who are not liberals let them make themselves known well I 1 think there were any the mayor alien gave some of the re salts of booming in kansas where borop ef our liberal friends came from he cited the case of an oden man who under peoples rule had paid 50 taxes this man had paid oa 00 to get the one party into power and now liis taxes are and he wishes he had the 50 back to help pay it he cited an instance of men alio had paid for offices in kansas and elsewhere now I 1 would not pay 1 for any that you could give me I 1 told one liberal in salt lake who asked me how it was I 1 came to be nominated eliat I 1 supposed it was because I 1 could be gat down upon and care less alian any man in town mr booth cited a number of election frauds perpetuated by alie liberals in ogden aal isalt lake this tov u needs some improvements we need water works we need a fire department we need a city hall and we ought to have them just as soon as we are able now we have got more brains than monty mont y why not work and make these public improvements ourselves instead of spending our money for it applause these liberals want alie water works they want to hire the work done and they want us to pay for it we want all these improvements but we want to build them ourselves f applause sir W if brown of the peoples party cantril committee stated that the I 1 central committee the aid of the people would elect the peoples party ticket and anova under all opposition applause dont like thia man or that man what does it matter stay with your party dont scratch your ticket applause the people y party platform was read by alie secretary the meeting then adjourned THE THIRD W alie party representative Ee brown called the meeting to order at on motion of J A johnson W II 11 brown was elected chairman 11 aanderson EA was elected sec rotary and E G chaplain after a piece by the kid band winch met with a burst of applause the cn airman introduced lion myron tanner who made an eloquent speech in which he gave a retrospective cincture of alie advancement of provo and her people he considered that the sanitary question should be our first work after that comes water works believed sanitary was more necessary than water works urged the necessity ot being united as the present attitude of the government looked as though this might be the last chance we had to vote hon john A brown was the next gentleman introduced who said he was no public speaker but urged the necessity of unity and closed with the injunction let us snow the opposition under the chairman then introduced lion J D dixon who felt that if the people wanted him in any position he would do so to the best of his abilia abi lit he knew of his name being on citizens ticket until he saw it in print hia fealty was for the peoples baity and no other his motto was progress coupled with economy hon samuel lyddiard next spoke and claimed he was not much of a er we have met for tho purpose of advocating the motto united we stand divided we all ed to the principle of the peoples party the speaker referred to alie habit domn haye of picking private faults and holding against the nominees did not think the public life of any of the nominees justified the assailants course in alie present fight at lion J E booth entered and was met with a barst of applause that must have been gratifying to our furuie mayor on the presentation of the hon J E booth he felt proud of ilie reception he had received felt it was sincere as it was from our party biad it been the opposition lie would have questioned its gave the Liber alenot liking us it was because we do not albil aate with alu m in any of their debauch eries and their robberies ho enters inters geraed much humor and satire in his remarks that must have made any liberals present feel quite small refuted alie lica and ugly rumors that biad been dished up by liis opponents which he proved to be without foundation in any way after three chocas and a hurrah for J E bootle and the kid band booth and brown withdrew to attend to another meeting and samuel liddiard concluded his le marks showing the foolishness of free schools with our present limited accommodations for the children was sure that it was only for effect that free schools were talked of after the appointment of a finance committee the meeting adjourned with a great hurrah THE FOURTH WARD after parading the principal sleets and saluting their nominees at their homes the peoples party of the fourth ward assembled in the meetinghouse meeting house chairman herbert pyne called the meeting to order and introduced alexander gillespie as the chaplain of the occasion and prayer was offered alie hon john E booth wished to confine himself to the principles of the peoples party rather than to speak cf men the first vote he ever cadt was for the peoples party and he hoped always to be associated with the party honesty is its distinguishing feature are two parties in this campaign and only two the speaker dwelt upon the characteristics te of alio liberal party to some extent noting among other things that twenty five per cent of the liberal party had from way back furnished about nine tenths of the criminals the history of the failures of enemies of utah had met with in trying to get control ef the territory was sketched with vigor by the speaker the efforts of the liberals to get free schools in provo city were dwelt upon their cry for free schools so far as his experience goes means that they will send their children to school and we shall pay for it the illiteracy of the people of utah was compared with tha f the nation one of the first pr n as of the peoples party is antell in tell ro he ought j ta be a liberal was the harshest term alie speaker cougil apply to nay man and lie thought it was quite applicable to he vw casai o huise ik is a remedy lor young llull lie believe the liberals were all rogues but lie thought alie lerm could aptly be reversed in con causi n alie speaker said if one vote would elect me and 1 would gain that vote I 1 give the dollar applause V L was satisfied the ticket eliat lie had been left off he hill see for the ticket straight first lat aud all the time alie speaker dwelt at some length upon the platform of the Peoples party and closed hy saying it is not men we are voting for but for aliese prin caplea james A bean was the next speaker he had never scratched a ticket and never expected to henry J maiben said that ho had unexpectedly been made a nomnie eby the peoples party lie had also but against liis will and wish been placed on the citizens ticket so called lie should feel as much disgraced at having liis name on alip liberal ticket the speaker dwelt at length upon alie finance of the city showing a through acquaintance with that department prof george II 11 Brim liall dealt the personal qualities of lion J E booth the opposition cry for more polish but we have something of more importance we have principle power and husli lie also paid a compliment to another nominee E A aileon alexander Gillespi eone of alie fourtly ward delegation repudiated alie imputations of trickery or buying or selling among that or any kotlier body for any purpose ae alie speaker dabbed cheso called citizens ticket n dark lantern affair ho referred to alie head of eliat tickets tic ketas the men who has been supported by the people for lie last fourteen years lie it ia alio would put the city into the hands of alie liberals if lie could in the dark lantern fashion john W turner kept alie houe in an uproar from first to last by a spirited address wm DIu berts dealt the star cham ber ticket a few s dge hammer blows herbert delegate expressed himself as a peoples party man always and everywhere th e chairman called for an expression of the house as to whether the fourth ward would ratify or not and met with a unanimous response by alie entire audience and responding with three cheers for john E booth |