Show REIDSHOT J SHOT I The Holes Made by Him i the Enemys Fort THE POSITION OF THE DEMOCRATS An Array of Facts Against Weak Assertion Sweet Shows His Tine Colors as a Crank and a Demagogue BOISE CITY Sept 25Speeia correspondence corres-pondence of THE HEUALDOn Tuesday night last there occurred in this city the largest and most imposing political demonstration demon-stration ever witnessed in Idaho Hon J W Reid of Lewiston had been announced to speak As the gentleman had delivered the Fourth of July oration in this city last year and his ability had become apparent during the session of the constitutional convention there was evinced a very general gen-eral desire upon the part of the people to hear him at this time Mr Reid has been tme for two terms a member of Congress from North Carolina and four years ago migrated to Lewiston in tho northeast north-east part of the state Besides this it was understood that several candidates upon the state ticket would D present and do liver short addresses to the assemblage Sonnas opera house was the place pf meeting meet-ing At 730 the Democratic brass piece commenced com-menced belching its fire smoke and miniature minia-ture thunder l torchlight procession carrying one hundred und forty torches was formed near tboDemocraticheadquart ers which preceded by the Governors Guards band moved down Main street towards the opera house Besides the torchbearers in the procession there were those who carried rockets and Roman candles The rockets whizzed and brokethe candles blazed and shot red fire was produced pro-duced as the procession moved along while ever and anon tho cannon spoke loud tones and its echoes died among the hills The sidewalks along tho line of march were full of men women and children Men cheered women waved their handkerchiefs and THE WILDESTENTHUSIASM PREVAILED After marching and countermarching for I time the torchlights wore put away and the baud played several pieces in front of the opera house At 810 oclock they marched into the hal followed by the crowd that had been listening to the music Immediately after them came Hon J W Reid Hon Ben Wilson candidate for governor gov-ernor Hon James H Wickersham ex Chief Justice H W Wier S H Hays son of the late chief justice Hon George Ainslie A E Sherwiu candidate for secretary secre-tary of state who took their places upon the stjge Two beautiful little girls were placed upon either side of jthe stage who held large bouquets of flow era By this time both gallery and par quette were filled even standing room being in demand Chairman Ainslio called thom etng to order and announced that there were several sev-eral candidates for state offices present He then introduced Mr A E Sherwin of the Panhandle candidate for tho oHco of secretary I sec-retary of state Mr Sherwin said ho had not come to make I speech but t introduce himself I elected he would endeavor to perform the duties of the office as well as had bEen dono by the present secretary and I ifpossible make improvement HON BEN WILSON I TSs nest announced Here one of the little girls alluded to Louie Qrr advanced and said I present the next governor of Idaho with this bouquet of flowers Mr Wilson then proceeded to say that he had visited North Idaho and was much pleased with the outlook The Panhandle would give a good account of itselfand come south of the Salmon river range with I solid majority Ho did not d desire to occupy any time because he wished Mr Reid to have plenty in which to complete his argument Chairman Ainslio then introduced the HON J W HElD of Nez Perce county Little Mary Wagner advanced and presented Mr Reid with two beautiful bouquets saying I am young but for Idaho Holding them up Mr Reid remarked that a poet had once said that Idaho was a land where the flowers had no pe fume and the birds no songs Surely ho could never have visited Boise the Beautiful The speaker tljen went onto on-to state that the north would give a largo Democratic majority During the present campaign the only points at issue mado by the Republicans were that the Democrats opposed admission that they sympathized with theMormons and had been opposed to tueadmissiou of Idaho I they had mado any other points ho was desirous of knowing know-ing what they werefor he had not heard of thorn Ho did not desire to discuss dead I issues or matters tending to prejudice but questions of vital interest to tho people 1 of Idaho both state and national kite speaker then went on to show that there would have been no Idaho to make a stnto of were it not for the efforts of Governor Stevenson seconded by I President Cleveland After it had been preserved Governor Stevenson in his message I mes-sage to the fifteenth session of its legislature legisla-ture recommended I movement in that direction di-rection by its members and although there were but three Democrrts in the house not the slightest notice was taken by the majority ma-jority in the direction indicated The only opposition he had heard of as coming from tho national Democracy y was facetious remarks re-marks coming from Senator Vance of North Carolina who had directed his wit as against the outrageously unfair apportionment appor-tionment wherem1 disfranchisement of the citizens various parts of thc state was effected The speaker then went on to show that the DEMOCRATS WEHE NOT OPPOSED TO STATEHOOD STATE-HOOD in the constitutional convention and stood their posts notwithstanding tho unfair treatment they had received from the majority He then went on to show the absurdity of punishing the Democratic party I par-ty of Idaho because Senator Vance hat aimed his satire at the injustice practiced by Idaho Republicans Tho speaker next took up the tariff issue which Tie handled with a masterly hand Arrayed with statistical facts and figures to back up his assertions ho showed that as matter of wages those of the protected pro-tected industries of Illinois had decreased 18 per cent while the unprotected industries indus-tries had increased The speaker then took up the McKinley bill and showed how effectually ef-fectually it would prove to be the ruin or tho farmers of the country and how its long continuance would end in I system of tenantry in the United States as oppressive op-pressive as that existing in Ireland Mr Blaino want reciprocity with Mexico and South America Sherman with Canada I the principle bo good why not add the rest of the world The revenues of the United States amounted to over one million dollars per day I the population bo sixty millions this would give more than shc dot lars taxation per year to everyman woman and child in the land Indian black or white The population of Ada county is i placed at over eight thousand us a consequence conse-quence her people would be taxed over fifty thousand dollars per year by THIS INDIRECT TAX for the support of the general government The speaker would like to see Idaho grid ironed with railroads like Illinois but it i will not be under the provisions of the McKinley Mc-Kinley bill which so increases the tax on steel rails that roads cannot be constructed without great expense The speaker next went onto on-to show by statistics the immense profits made by some of these institutions even as high as S7 per cent on capital stock per annum and still the cry is for more protection The speaker then went on to show how the Republicans had placed argentiferou galena as well as other silver ores on the free list in lEG how they demonetized st worm 1873 how they refused to remone tize Itin ISiS when a bill for that purpose passed Democratic House and was mutilated ated by the Senate until the provision to coin from two to four millions per month was the result He also alluded to the I stand taken by the Republicans during the present session of Congress in opposition t free coinage with the exception of certain cer-tain western members while the Democrats Demo-crats stood solid for the measure He said that Bane and Sherman had been working for reciprocity between the American states reciprocity with Mexico means free lead 1 resolution reso-lution aiming in that direction had been introduced into the Senate during the recent session which the Republicans supported sup-ported to a man and the Democrats opposed op-posed The people of this city have heard Mr Reed before and when it was announced that he would speak an elegant flowery address was expected instead of which they were treated to cold logic statistics and incontestable facts Only once did ho scatter southern roses over the auditorium and thai was at the close of his address cose He spoke only on the living issues of the hour as ho had announced attho commencement commence-ment of his address I Tnt KEIUBLICANS held a meeting at the opera house last night The success of the Democrats upon the two preceding evenings had nerved them to extraordinary efforts to fill the auditorium audi-torium of tho opera house And it was filled but nos of the same composition as the two nights previous The women I and children largely predominated The voters may almost besaid to have been a sprinkling Major Huston announced that Governor Shoup would preside The governor gov-ernor made 1 short speech and introduced Willis Sweet the Republican candidate for Congress Such part of the tariff a could by any implication be made to apply to the direct interests of Idaho was discussed dis-cussed The balance was ignored i Ho claimed that tho rise in the price of bar silver to 115 was the result of the passage pas-sage of the recent silver bill rather than the resolution of Senator Voorhees to force an immediate purchase of 10000000 ounces Ho thought the presentbill was the best one obtainable in which matter all Democrats will agree with him in view of the fact thatthe Republicans would not support free coinage and President Harrison inti mated his intention to veto such a bill One peculiar and suspicious point in Judge Sweets speech and its subsequent subse-quent publication In the Statesman ibis morning is that while indulged in A TIIUbE AGAINST THE MORMONS telling how bitterly ho hated them that i he sought their votes he could not go home and take his child in his arms that he wanted no certificate the result of their votes and other language of the same character cha-racter not one syllable of this can be found in the columns of the paper alluded to in the printed report Shoshone Bin ham and Ada count es will probably be Democratic The latteris the most doubtful l but i not all the Dent crats will elect part of their legislative ticket to a certainty Never in tho history of elections in laaho has such work been performed The Republicans have not believed be-lieved the Democrats capable of such a effort The campaign and its incidents is engrossing en-grossing tho attention of the people of this section of Idaho to the exclusion of everything every-thing else A Democratic mass meeting will be held at Caldwell this evening to be addressed by exChief Justice Weir and Hon J W Reid The latter spoke at Silver I Sil-ver City last evening Buz |