Show TFIOS1 E CO lMON VEALER I I I i Meeting of the Californians and Home Reserves I GENERAL SMITH TALKS THE LEADER EXPRESSES HIS VIEWS VERY PLAInLY I Wealers Are rot Prepared to March On and Demand Aid From the I City Resolntions Adopted Sntter Fort Minstrels Meet With a Frost I The Joint meeting held by the Salt I Lake home reserves and General Smiths socalled industrial army was not convened promptly at 3 p m yesterday yes-terday as contemplated by them However How-ever at that hour there were a number of sympathizers waiting about the Metropolitan hotel corner and as the time sped by without the army putting in an appearance some of them betook themselves to other shades Those whose fortitude wavered not were gladdened glad-dened at 5 oclock by sounds of music and tramp of feet along Third South street and at the head of them proudly marched Colonel Boyle of the home reserves Clearly he was in his element but it wasnt his day to talk A wagon was driven within the well known harangue har-angue ground and the home colonel made a short talk but in it was a noticeable no-ticeable absence of that colored fire he I has thrown out so volubly in the past And yet he looked pleasant as he stepped down to make way for General Gen-eral Smith evidently he knew the tenor of what was coming and it met wholly with is approbation The genesal made his bow to the crowd and holding in one hand a United Unit-ed States flag in the other a copy of the Herald from which he proceeded to read extracts and make comments upon the same He stated that The Herald had from the start treated his utterances with fairness and he had no words of condemnation in fact he felt bound to thank its representatives for their manner in dealing with his army movements down to the present pres-ent Then he launched out in bitter terms against the News reporter and said that he very much desired to meet him and tell him some pointed things ere he betook himself from out our beautiful beau-tiful city General Smith told them how the army was in need of provisions Today To-day they had been given 100 pounds of krout 135 pounds of meat five suits of clothes three pairs of shoes 60 pounds of herring one bushel potatoes one sack salt 100 pounds of flour and this would not go far among so many men A brief synopsis of his two hours impassioned talk consists of the fact that since he has felt his ground here among the home reserves he has assumed as-sumed a far more pointed and aggressive aggres-sive tone than heretofore indulged in since he has come within the confines of Utah That while he preaches evolution rather than revolution his is a marked I tendency to live right close up to the line of the latter and let his hearers loosen the least chip he adroitly scores for them In the strongest admissable terms he poureji forth denunciations of i the governor mayor Chief Pratt and Arthur Brown and then went on to I graphically recount the circumstances of the killing of Colonel Paisley in California by an officer who was trying to serve a warrant There is no doubt but as a leader he is far and away ahead of Carter for he is far more intelligent V telligent and can fairly judge human nature a feature that is essential to the business in his chosen lines When I his hearers were well wrought up the following resolution was adopted I Resolved That it is the opinion of this meeting that chief of police either make an acceptable apology or resign his position as chief of police I Furthermore That the next legislature S legisla-ture amend the law wherein chief of police do not hold their position for life j General Smith put the question himself none others volunteering when asked and itt went through with the home reserves and industrials with c great roar of approval I I A motion was put and carried with the same tumultuous wave of applause that the mayor and city council furnish V visions fur-nish the army with five days pro I A collection was taken up amounting to little over 3 j At 8 oclock the army fell in line and marched back to camp When The Herald representative asked the general gen-eral when he would make a start eastward he replied When unforeseen unfore-seen circumstances over which we had crcumstances no control and which we are not responsible re-sponsible for are changed for the better bet-ter or justly overcome We expect that to develop from those who produced pro-duced or aggravataJ our present comparatively com-paratively speaking foodless and moneyless condition We are in absolute abso-lute need of almost five days supply of provisions suitable for traveling V From this it appears that he pins his faith on help from the city and if not over modest in his demands he is certainly cer-tainly not backward in couching them |