Show MATCHLESS The Democratic Rally Last Night A TERROR TO BOSSES I Hundreds Turned Away for Want I of Room A HAPPY AUGURY OF VICTORY Flashes of Wit Earnest Entreaty Burning Eloquence and Scorching DennncIatioiiB i i cUbe Liberal Hydra Mark the Progress Pro-gress of the Great Meeting 1 the little band of Democrats who stood together to-gether in the halflined court room last August were present at the grand Democratically Democratic-ally In Walkers pavilion last night and saw the vast crowds of wildly enthusiastic men and women surge in and out until there was scarcely breathing room they must have felt that their calling had been made sure along with the hope of the election I was a splendid crowd and rullv 5000 people came and went Those who left did so simply because they could find no place to bestow themselves I was a splendid audience too and every good point that was made was echoed back by a thousand yells of delight from throats hat must have teen weary of yelling before the meeting closed IT WAS A DEMOCRATIC CUOV7D TOO There was something in tho absence of decora ions something In the earnestness of the speakers and the nearness of the election that somehow conveyed the idea that the tight was near at hand the lighters stripped for tho fray I and while one side had come late it had come g win I The voice of the people spoke in one grand acclaim of welcome when some one cried out Here comes Lett The quiet and unpreten ious figure of the next mayor made its way through the throng while men women and children arose with one accord to give such a greeting as is rarely accorded to a man who has had but little opportunity of showing them how much of good there is in him I was A GLOKIOnS RECEPTION and the colonel showed his appreciation a little later when he went upon the stand Tho Young Mens Democratic club of the Fifteenth teenth came in a little late but that was readily read-ily overlooked whenJits 5 members took their seats and xtandd in the great hal The drum corps furnished the only music amt am-t was enough I played Dixie ana to that big Democratic audience Dixie meant something some-thing l hairman Schroeder called the meeting to order and stated that in behalf of the central committee he would name WENDELL BENSON AS THE CHAIRMAN Mr Benson took the gavel and said I am much obliged to you gentlemen for the honor conferred upon me I have no speech to make because 1 am not on the list and could not do so if I were I only wish to say that the old ship is well ballasted she is on a level keel laden with a precious freight and that on next Monday she will sail into port with a Democratic pennant at he peak and a Democratic captain on the deck Long applause He then Introduced PARLEY 1 WILLIAMS I offers mo unspeakable pleasure said Mr Williams to meet you under such favorable favor-able auspices Only a few months ago for the first time in Utah the proposition was made to organize political parties on political principles This fact came from the Democrats and from them dates the organization here of that party which has ever In the past ana I assume in tho future will be tho party of the people Applause Ap-plause The Democratic form of government comes from the people without the interference inter-ference of bosses it derives all its powers from the people and resolves back to the people the power to elect for themselves and to elect their own policy of government and what particular par-ticular servants they will have to carry out thtir laws When the idea of organizing on party princl pies was announced it was poohpoohed and decided by that party of emergency that is not based on principles entitled to perpetuation and we were denounced as triitors Any voter who had acted with us then was a traitor Traitor to what To that little party that was organized for a purpose that was at lens anomalous Puffed up with a little brief authority it grew intolerant after a little while and proved that it was unfit for even a little temporary trust Applause And with whatarroganco did thej malign and abuse a party that had its inception at the birth of this great government and has become a necessity Applause Wo meet hero tonight following the meetIng meet-Ing here last night of he Liberal convent 1 say after tho gathering of a convention that came here frighted with fear Yes thej actually trembled with fear of the idea of 0 discussion dis-cussion of their position in Utah I really amounted to naught but a most piteous appeal to back issues They stood here lookingon as the procession passed bv stood with outstretched hands and cried to the procession For Gods sake stay with us a little while longer and give us a little more of that power we have had for the past two years Applause and laughter The time has come when we must have a change That is important to you and to me and to every citizen of this territory The Democratic party believes in local selfgovern inent in honest majorities and an adminislra I tion of tho law that does not make of a people dishonest partizans trying to exclude from the I polls the sovereign citizen Applause Tonight To-night we come before you with our Democrat nominees and candidates supported by our great party principles of government They ure the peers of any men in bait Lake city aye more They con e with that reputation in the past for fidelity for truth and expo ience that assures you of the needed progress and improvement im-provement in our midst Applause With these nvn in office untiring in tao study 01 the citys interest of your rights and prosperity anu jroection will rollow and you will DC able t io to your nomes sured ot the protection of the law Applause You will not be called upon for protection after paying your police force to pay out of your own pockets I pock-ets for a private police patrol Applause There shall bo no such sham and disgrace as to call upon Mayor Lett for the appointment of a special police force Applause t A party that has thus misgoverned a city in additlonto having burdened it with a million dollars a ear for the term of its administration a million or more a year deserves to Le relegated to where it is going go-ing next Monday into total oblivion Applause Ap-plause This is an election of the greatest importance ance and tho highest concern I is not only timo for you to secure an honest government but i is time for you to set the example that people are going to call upon public officers to render a strict accounting of theirtrusts Applause Ap-plause You pay for a pavement you pay for security you pay for bavin a city for your sidewalks your sewers you lights your pOlice and you are entitled to what you pay for Cries of yes yes and cheers The Democratic party recognizes the people as the sovereign power that you are entitled to all these things you have set up and esta Ished and they say to you as you have paid for all these things you are entitled to them I and we will render you a strict account These are the sort of men we present you and you I take i will say when their term of office hall be finished Well done good and faithful servants you have given us an honest adminis tuition gven The orator then recalled the many despicable nets of the Liberal partisans and paid borne rl WeOt igoO little attention eillars Bowman whom he i characterized as a partisan who had in dire party extremities had crowned his services by forging the names of men who had befriended him him the last act of the Liberals was the feeble endorsement of a mayor who said that this contractor tractor ought to be bounced bonds or no bonds Anplause and Scott I take It did as well as he could He was yoked to a party who had for its headlight and apcstle old Rip Van rinkle Baskin lApplause and Laughter 1 He was yoked to a party and a cause that could make no progress This party has ceased its abuse because the Democrats Republicans have divided on party principles ihree months ago it was high treason Y estero ay they declared in their territorial convention that the church party lad been abolisheJ and that they werj forced to realize that all the conditions had changed and yet without reason or excuse they say let u i stay where we are Applause Only the other day in the Legislature Baskin opposed with all the yeuomlzed prejudice that is a part of his decline denounced a bill that penalized polygamy and kindred offenses I old Baskln could only live a few more scores of years he might possibly get to tint position occupied by the Mormon church a score of ears ago Do you want a city governed by apart a-part with such a candidate as that for its head Dries of no I no This party was organized for an emergency That emergency which called It into existence was gone Its own convention declared it so in this very hal Yesterday they appointed an emergency committee I they succeed in get ing enough money together to get that com nittee to Washington this party will learn iroutlh its emergency committee that its little life is soon to be sounded with a sleep Applause You who are Democrats and believe you are able to govern yourselves and can select the officers in conduct your affairs go to the polls on Monday and vote for these candidates whore who-re your expon nts Vote the Democratic ticket from Lett to McLean and say to the peo Pie wo are here 10 bo tried When your caudi dates become your officers do ail in your power to encourage them to do right assured that if one of them manes a mistake It will De the error in judgment that wo are all liable to and at the end of two years you will receive the as urance that the Democratic party l be returned turned to power Long Applause J B WALE was then introduced as the next treasurer I want to remind you said aIr Walden that we are not In the territorial convention and if I say anything that does not please you I hope you will not pass a resolution to throw me out of tho hal Laughter 1 believe that this present election is a mistake I do not think that we should put in a lot of green men to run this city for nine months The Democratic Demo-cratic legislature wanted It and I think it would be better to leave those men in nine months longer Governor homas thought so three weeks ago but three days after expressing his real views orders came from Pat Lannan instructing 1 m to veto the election bill and he did it Applause I Why did he veto that bill from whence came the influence Cries of the Tribune I dont think that Where diu he get I Why from Pat Lannan Applause To proceed I have in my hands a memento of bygone days i value most highly I is the old Liberal ticket upon which it was decreed I hould be elected treasurer Where oh where is he balance of that ticket Laughter A few fell across the breastworks the others in the words of the poet had to go where the woodbine twlneth Laughter They have got one great hero on their present pres-ent ticket He wants to be city treasurer He is drawing 55000 a year from John Dooly Do you think it is right to move Wells Furgo l Jos bank into the city treasurers office U hy should Mr Harry Duke otherwise give up a position of 55000 a year for one that only pays him 2000 Why does he come from under Mr Doolys wing Dooly the great man who built the great Dooly block and never put SI in It Applause No it Is because Harry the beautiful as young Mr Glenn called him wants the earth and the fUllness thereof Laughter You have nominated me for this office and so help me God I am going to do all in my power to get it Applause 1 The Kepublican party has gone the Liberal party one better hey have nominated the Hon Mr Eldredge Why does ho step out of the Deseret bank to step into the treasurers offices I say they have gone them one better because Mr Heber M Wells is also in the Held But I feel assured that the workingmen wont truckle to the party of capitalists Ap plauseJ I have done my d ty in tao past and I propose to do it in the future toward every one in Salt Lake city and I point with pride to the fact that I have done my level best to do away with that devllsh merchants licence Loud applause Gentlemen and ladies I thank you and bid you good night Applause J I BOYLE who tras received with much applause said Salt Lake has always been my home 1 never knew anothur and 1 have neither hope nor expectation ex-pectation ot doir so and I trut that my chi dren will always make it their home Applause Ap-plause Before us tonight are to be considered con-sidered the great questio s of peace and i tranouility whether our homes are to be pro I tected from burglars and our streets from holdups hold-ups or whether we are to keep in power a few men bent on the ruin of the city Applause There is only one ticket before you by whicn you can rid yours Ives of these features On lie Kepublican ttcuet there are some good men but every man here knows that there is not the slightest hope for them I the men of that party have at heart the interests of the city and think that the Liberal party is its enemy they should gla ly welcome the chance to destroy them Applause I In our city there are a number of voters who hi i m glUt have not allied themselves to any party formed no direct alliance I allude to tne independent vote I they have the interest of the city at heart they will vote for the party who will govern gov-ern this city in an honest and economical way Applause They havo the opportunity to vote for the gentleman who has spent his time seeking to promote the peace and prosper ty of this city Applause a mun whose soul is not cankered with that prejudice that is all of his opponents His opponent can bee nothing on earth that is not based on hate He is a man who has justly earned the name that has been given him Old Rip Van Winkle Applause Ap-plause I One good Liberal said to mo Why tho man has never done anything for the city but abuse Mormons Another and a staunch one said tome to-me when ho heard that Baskin had been nominated nom-inated so great was his disgust Why that old fossil dont know that Brigham is dead Applause Ap-plause and laughter I I do hops that all of my friends who are not too closely led to a vain party feeling will who want to cast their votes where they will do good for country and city alike will cast them for the Democratic ticket The ticket is going to be elected or else strko the Liberal party such a death blow that i will never be heard of again lApplause j IL TIMMONY followed in one of h s stirring addresses that always al-ways carries conviction Many of you havo wondered why the Liberals put off their city convention aid Mr limmony I will tel you Because it bad its slate fixed and knew that every man on the old ticket was going to be stabbed and they did not care to make such a damaging confession too soon They knew that i they gave good people t mo to gather themselves together the party would go down to defeat App ause My friends mere is victory in the air for the Democratic ticket tonight I might give you one hundred reasons in one hundred minutes woy the Liberal party should be relegated lApplause One t there were no other is that the success of the Liberal party means tho retention re-tention of the pre ent police force I have tri < d for a long time to think of something I had seen or read to compare this police force with Laughter I have finally concluded that when the boss of the Liberal party selected this force he had in mind Shakespeares character char-acter of Dogberry Komember he said your authority to be tho most unfit and senseless of men Laughter 1 And I ever you meet a thief remember to lot him escape that the community may be rid of a bad character Laughter You may trust my earnestness when I toll you that I have frequently got up In tho morn Ing and expected to read in the papers that somebody had stolen one of the force laughter laugh-ter And some time ajo Officer White went to look up some hold ups He found them and the only reason they didnt get away with him was because tho fence was so high he escaped before they could get over it Loud laugater and applause The retention of such a force is enough to make every honest man go up and vote the Democratic ticket on Monday Applause 1 say t > you again there is victory in the air tonight for the Democratic ticket Applause I ask you as honest men i the Liberal purty kept any of Us promises no I no I 1 tel you they are trying to debauch our rights I know or one little one story cottage where they have twenty registered Liberal voters 1 his Is one of the many instances and I appeal to workmen business men every honest man to go to the polls and bee that the ballot shall not be debauched Make ic so workmen that when you appeal for work you shall not have to carry a letter saying that you vote the Liberal ticket Applause It degrades our sense of manhood M hey say there is no change hero that conditions remain the same That does not apply to the Liberal ticket Surely on that one change doth follow another so quickly that they tread upon the heels of each other There are two off now Can any m m here say how many more will go by tomorrow They have been weighed and found wanting Applause Try ua gu see the t difference see the fine residences the bmokestacks of manufactories that will spring up and a city that we will all be proud of Applause 1 Come with us and vote our ticket and on next Monday we will let Baskin go back into his grave upon the hill again Applause LEGKAND YOUNG was then introduced and said After all the eloquent speeches that have gone before I fear fur myself The question arises in my mind who are we going to vote for Cries of Lett I ett Why are we going to vote the Democratic Demo-cratic ticket One reason is that the Liberal eratc party has proved unlit for the place it has occupied oc-cupied I has kept no promises and has been a party of extravagance Applausel Economy has not been known in its ranks and they have overtaxed us A better reason than that is that I am going to vote for some straight out Democrats men who are unapproachable Men who represent straight out principles Loud applause I there 1 any one thing I have an utter contempt for it is a party without principles save to Keep the other fellows out of office and themselves in Applause Democrat as I am I had rather see tho Republicans Re-publicans victorious than the Liberals I care nothing for a party without principles but they will die soon Applause I is against the Republicans that we must round up our votes for it is against them we are lighting Every body knows that the Liberal party is composed in the main of Republicans The election of the 1 emocratic ticket means honest economical emocrato government for this city and principles on which a state may stand forever or else the election of a party that is fast drifting toward anarccy The difference between tho parties ISO tiat is-O is the advocate for the rich and mighty and the other is the advocate for the poor a the lonely Applause One is for twenty or thirty thousand men who hold the wealth of the world in their hands the other for 62000000 of honest hard struggling men of ordinary de greo Applause Now my friends I want to close by asking you i you believe that a man who has been hating hat-ing and abusing and lighting a class of people here for twentylive years can administer the governmen of this cit fairly No 01 nolJ Can Lett 1 Yes yes I yelled the great crowd and then they called for Lett and thundered their applause The applause broKe out three times and then the Colonel came to the stand As COLONEL LETT came to the stand some one called out our next governor Some one said order but the Colonel began by saying Th t man behind be-hind there knew what he was talking about I have just come from the largest and mOt enthusiastic Scandinavian emocratic meeting I ever attended Now i some of you ao not understand un-derstand me way back there who are crying louder it may bo because they impressed me so that 1 am talking heir language I told you tho other evening when I was nominated thaI tha-I ought to go over aLd tell Mayor Scott that ho must give up his office The next time I spoke I was to such a splendid concourse that 1 said I would I looked alt around for Scot the next day and I couldnt find him I meta met-a lot of the boys and they said it would spoil the fun i I went and took his office Laughter I saw Mayor acott last night and he said Lott things are all ready for you in the office You are going to have it without doubt Applause and lauguterl There are various reasons why Im going to havo it I was told by a friend of minA who has one of the loveliest little wives in the world he was out with me until 1 oclock last night working for the causethat whf n he got home he found that devout little woman down on her knees praying that H C Lett would be the next mayor of this city iApplause1 We have been Sunda school children and taught that prayers of the religious availeth much and I I am satisfied ladies that you are ah making the same prayer every night J Applause Men I who are more wicked than women must say a different kind of prayers I am reminded of the old colored man down in Georgia He bad great faith in prayers He said he prayd very often for nice turkeys and fat pigs bun none came So he changed his prayer and he prayed the Lord to give him the strength to get good turkey and he said Yo Goud every time 1 prayed dat way car wa turkey in de house 10 do break o1 day Laughter Thats the kind of prayers you men want to make for the strength to get there on Monday and as sure as you arc born befo the break o plause day we will bo there all of ua l ociferous ap I see an array of talent and eloquence before be-fore me that has not yet spoken and 1I did i not sE come to make a speech but to 1y the news The glad tidings that will go from hereto here-to night will cause dismay to our enemies I am satisfied tnat you are going to elect the full ticket Applause J There is a great judge I tin t-in charge of the Liberal ticket who wanted my I j I friend Joe Walden to resign I told Joe I 1 not to do I This great judge has looked through Blackstone and Chitty and Vandercook and Parsons and Prm I die as evidence and he has said that public sisC nca Sadson hcsisC a public trust so dont resign i You know Joe I said Democrats seldom die and never resign Laughter I am glad that I I havo accepted this nomination at your bands for I know that by your good will and your sufferance i fn at f ew 1 ean ferance that I am going to be the first Democratic I Demo-cratic mayor of tail Lake Long applause When the good news goes forth we will see the I star of Hope in the east and coming across from tho east the camels laden with the jnrs of prt claUS ointment to heal tbe old scars of the I past We will hear the songs of the shepherds m the hills and the songs from the stars proclaiming pro-claiming Applause peace on earth good will toward men JUDGE E A SMITH then made a stirring appeal to those who have not allied themselves with any party and who have not given politics any study Ho made a brilliant exposition of Democratic principles and the advantag s to follow the election of a Democratic ticket here in a city su erng from Liberal misrule Ho said the Liberal party was founded on hate and existed on prejudices Vigorous applause greeted his strong sallies A T SCHUOEDEK was then introduced amid a perfect storm of applause He said I have been In Salt Luau only a few years but I have learned that in politics it is a rule that the party that has for a leader a man with the hardest reputation was Laughter My friends told me when I went into politics that my ideas were too moral y jt I think the Liberals have made my reputation sufficiently hi I to win this election tn Monday Laughter The Liberals profess to doubt the sincerity of certain cer-tain classes You have seen that man with tho Henry Ward Beecher face and the longhair long-hair He is leading Liberal politics one mot mo-t and begging people to vote at the polls hf teg with his coat off the next The next moment he Is preaching prohibition I want to say to you that 1 he is i no more sincere in his religion than he if in his prohibition he will stand sadly in need of the help of God when the resurrection resurrec-tion comes Applause The Liberals have been after me pretty hard about my three Ps but I want to say to ask you in all frankness where would the Liberal party be i it were not for the longhaired long-haired preachers and short dressed women of Franklin avenue applause and laughter To those sincere and good ministers of the Liberal party and its better men I extend my sympathy and I ask them to look and see what its future is Mr Schroeder then took up the financial I Continued on page 2 |