| Show At the Elshteeuth Ward L For sonic reason which was unexplained the speakers appointed for this ward Messrs Sharp Paul and Hardy failed to l appear and the meeting went to work and named its own speakers the result of l I which was a most enthusiastic occasion r H G Whitney was appointed chairman and G B Wells secretary I Spencer Clawson was the first speaker He considered himself as having been I passed upon and laid upon the shelf but ho still held a vote and that vote he pledged to I the ticket we are here to support He paid I some attention to the make up of the ticket f j and complimented Mr Kumei especially r I and gave it as his opinion that for all rca i sons the Peoples ticket was the preferable d I He showed the extravagance of thepresent y I city government said when the People r I handed the treasury over there was 2oO030 l in it i but It had largely gone in costly improvements I im-provements that benefited only one section of the town and in increased salaries to public officials Ha cited the action of the j Liberal city council holding back the city j I tax notices till after the election For what They were afraid that i I the people saw the immense increase in taxation and the enormous sum I that would go into the city treasury there L would be a popular wave of indignation I that would cry out against any more Liberal Lib-eral rule I W 13 Barton made a brief speech contrasting I con-trasting the city today and a it usedto bounder 1 I bo-under the Peoples government and showing show-ing the railroads the parks and other improvements im-provements inaugurated by the People He said no Peoples party man would accept I ac-cept an office obtained by fraud but where r was the Liberal who had any such compunctions j com-punctions He appealed to every man to work for the ticket and said the county expected all her sons to do their duty on election day The chairman being called for made a few remarks relating t the Liberal frauds to which he had been an eye witness in the Fourth precinct He knew that precinct was strongly and safety a Peoples pre cone let the polls tell what they would I and could the daylight be lot into that majority ma-jority of two claimed for Parley L Williams Wil-liams there would be a tale of rottenness and fraud exposed such as would force Mr Williams if he were the exponent of the I pure and upright principle claimed for his party to hand over his office t Richard W Young with the statement I inot mine by right it belongs to you But Mr Williams was not around doing any such act not to any marked extent Speaking of the ticket he said ho was one of the delegates and Ruinel Burt and Clivo werehis choice before ho ever heard them named by the Labor convention Personally there were names on the ticket that he did not lke but they were infinitely preferable to those on the Liberal ticket and he would work for them and vote for them convinced that it was best for tho general good He rejoiced in the coalitian with the workingmen and said he knew of no worthier allies especially when he thought of the gamblers saloon I bums and tramps with whom the Liberal party had to join hands Hon Heber J Grant happened in during the chairmans speech and was invited to address the meeting which he did in a pithy and pointed manner scoring a hit at every I I sentence and causing the most prolonged I applause He reviewed the aims of the I Liberal party and citing the condition of I the Mormons in Idaho said they were left with two privileges that of paying taxes and that of dying when they got tired I the sama condition of affairs did not exist here it was because the Liberals had not been successful in the efforts at Washington Washing-ton He spoke of the labors of an esteemed governor at Washington Wash-ington and how he labored against the people in the dark He dwelt eloquently elo-quently on the Liberal fraud and corruption corrup-tion that prevailed in Tooele county ana showed how the county warrants fell from one hundred cents on the dollar to ten cents whan the Liberals got in power and how they left a depleted treasury when they were finally forced oat by a mandate court Speaking of the charge made by tho Liberals that the People were not progressive progres-sive he pointed to tho tabernacle one of the finest auditoriras in the world a building constructsd when nails had to be brought 1000 miles across the plains of the temple of the arts of music the drama financem l these respects they could meet their decryers without shame Their progressiveness pro-gressiveness did not run to stealing elections elec-tions and to running registration trains he was proud of it Ho paid a little attention in passinS to the Liberal chief Judge Powers who he said was smart and smooth but whom Edmunds couldnt swallow as a fidge and the man whom Edmunds wouldnt send to sit on the bench in Utah must indeed have been of a peculiar reputation repu-tation He said he had many friends in he Liberal darty whom he respected but no felt sorry for them and he could only think of tho story of Old Dog Tray when he beheld them Mr R Patrick impressed on everyone the necessity of watching their ballots at the polls and after music by the Norden band which was present and which gave some stirring selections during the evening even-ing the meeting dispersed I n |
