| Show SPARE ME r Mr Wellocks Tale of I Powers foe i I I YOULL GQ TO JAIL The Workingmen Shake the Walls of the Theatre DEVINE MAKES A BIG SPEECH The Campaign WInds Up with 3 Blaze of Enthusiasm at the Theatre Will Wei j lock go to the Pen I The campaign wound up in a blaze of glory with the workingmens monstrous rally at the theatre last evening The people wound up the night before and left the field free to the workingmen with the exception of the meeting of the bogus workingmen at the Metropolitan which was not more than onetenth the size of gathering at the theatre tho feeble meeting at the Continental where John M Youngs spreadeagleism drew a crowd only a little larger than the Italian musicians are accustomed t draw regularly and entertain twice as well and the meeting at the Rio Grande hotel which degenerated into a sort of free beer hurrah with these exceptions the city was clear of gatherings and the whole town seemed to pour simultaneously in the direction of the theatre Without doubt the news that the orator Wellock had threatened to read the celebrated cele-brated pamphlet that cost Judge Powers his Jpdgo judgeship and the rumor that Powers had threatened him with the penitentiary if be dared to carry out tho threat were largely instrumental in drawing the crowd The workingmen brought their campaign to a brilliant close last evening with a grand rally at the theatre Long before the doors were opened the crowds commenced com-menced gathering in front of the building and by S30 the theatre was crowded with an audience composed largely of workingmen working-men The stage was tastefully decorated with the national colors and around the galleries were banners bearing the legends Arise Oh Workmen Arise Raise Your Voices to the Skies and Lat Liberty Reign Supreme Gathering of the Clans The Campbells are Coming Hurrah Hurrah Hurrah Salt Lake Work Shall Be for Salt Lake Workmen and it can only be assured as-sured by the sovereign voice of the people This ticket is presented for j our approval by the men who made the homes and wages o f Salt Lake workmen what they are Just at the hour announced for tho meet l ng Helds band entered the theatre playing a patriotic air and the enthusiasm of the assembled host broke forth in a burst of hearty applause N A Parks presided and introduced as the first speaker lOX WILLIAM WELLOCK who said that he did not claim the title o honorable through political preferment but he claimed that it was the true title of every honest working man Applause A week ago the Liberals held a meetipg in this theatre and dealt with the dead past Tonight he proposed to deal with the living present I was claimed by the Liberals that the Workingmen had nominated Mormons I was true that three of the candidates on their ticket were Mormon but he remembered that over two years ago there were Liberals upon the fusion ticket and tho Liberals voted the ticket The wouldbe Right Honorable Judge Powers had said that the Independent Workingmen were misfit Americans and he wished to say it was not true The speaker then said he would read some of the charges made by eminent and honorable men before the Senate committee com-mittee against the confirmation of Judge Powers as an associate justice of Utah He then read some affidavits after which he said that a lew days ago ho had been honored I hon-ored by an interview with that great 10000 politician Judge Powers wno wanted to know if at the Ciift house meeting meet-ing he had accused Powers of having I forged a check for 1500 He replied that ho did not make such an assertion but he did say tnat Powers was reported to have misappropriated the sum of 1500 in MicDigan 1 told him said Mr Wcllpck that 1 did not make the charges against him but it was a matter of record Then he became pathetic and said You most not expose those things Remember that I have a wife and child to support and if you bring those things out you will ruin me1 He besought me with tears in nis eyes t spare him for the sake of his wife and child and when he found it would not worK he threatened me with prosecution and all sorts of things This man Powers owns tho Liberal party and Pat Lunnon and he thinks he owns the whole city He begged me to spare him but ask you what mercy does this man deserve J A few more affidavits protesting against Powers appointment were read by the speaker and he closed by proposing three cheers for the Workingmens ticket The next speaker was JAMES DEVINE who said the party which was born a short time ago was destined t deliver the people of this city and country from a political despotism When the campaign was I opened he never dreamed the opponents of tie workingmen would descend t slander I and villilication lie did not think that any I newspaper claiming to have morals above the Police Gazette would resort to such i means as had been used to deceive the public pub-lic He wished to say in the first place that the Workingmens ticket did not have its origin in a shoe shop but in the carpenter shop Devine < fcRobinlon That ticket was presented to a convention conven-tion of workingmen who were only asked to stand by the action of the convention That ticket would have the support of a majority of tho voters in this county on I Monday applause The only feeling he had towards tie Liberal candidates was one of sympathy because in case of defeat their condition would be sad The candidates candi-dates on the Workincmens ticket had legitimate vocations and should they meet with defeat they could go back to their workshops He a not in sympathy with any party newspaper or individual whose greatest endeavor was to engender strife and bitterness and animosity among the people He was not a Mormon dad ho did I not expect to become but he was willing t accord to others the rights which ho claimed for himself Tho trades unions of this city had one more to drive out the feeling of bitterness among tho workingmen than any other cause had I They did not propose thatpolitical shysters should dominate them They were in this light to stay und i this alleged Liberal party thought they could fritter away the I rights of the workingmen they would be badly left The Tribune had ht ng up a reward re-ward of for any member of the working mens party who had dirty hands The reward re-ward bad not been claimed because there were no dirty handed politicians among the workingmen The workingmen hoped to soo the day when Utah would take her place among the glorious sisterhood of states I Utah had been under a religious hierarchy and had emerged from it tten ho hoped they would not cast their vote to create another despotism moro grinding than that of Russia The leaders of this movement had bean approached by members of the other side who wanted them to postpone their convention and it was his belief that they had done so the ticket would have been ratified by the Liberals Because he was opposed to the Liberal party he was stigmatized as a traitor I the workingmen had any prido in their breasts if they had any American blood in their veins he beseeched them to rise up in their might and repudiate this stigma They should show by their vote that their existence did not depend upon the existence of the Liberal party The movement demonstrated that the Workingmen Working-men were Americans and wculd not submit sub-mit to have their rights trampled upon They should show that political slavery ould not exist here and if a Wendell Phillips or a Garrison should be needed they would be found JOHN l ntniEL JR the candidate for recorder was next introduced intro-duced He said 3 great question was before be-fore the p ople and on Monday next he expected iu see it settled by tne election of the Workingmens ticket I al depended upon the people who understood the question ques-tion and would do their duty He did not think he could add anything to that which had already been said and would not weary them by attempting to do so At the close of his brief address enthusiastic enthusi-astic cheers were given for Rumel N A PAltKS was then called and in rosnondinc hero lated an amusing sheep story which illustrated illus-trated the posi ion of the Tribune in this campaign The Utah commission had refused I re-fused the Workingmens request for challengers chal-lengers to represent their party and in many other ways they had acted uniairiy i This man Powers airogated to himself more right to dictate than ever Caisar did Frauds i had been committed and he would give the Liberals a pointer that tho workingmen I had located these frauds and were prepared to meet them on Monday Powers the Liberal Caesar would yet meet his Brtus One of the candidates upon the working mens ticket was assessed t 10000 That man was o bricklayer and he was the kind of I workingman his follows would vote for He closed by predicting that when the smoke of the battle cleared away on Monday Mon-day night Colonel Henry Phillip Sheridan Page would bo twenty miles away GREETINGS FROM BINGHAM A dispatch from Bin ham announcing that an immense crowd of the residents of that camp were holding a meeting and cheering for the Independent Working mens ticket was read and was received with cheers that made the building shake The meeting then adjourned |
