Show FRANK STEPHENS TALKS Advocates the Election of the Entire Ticket Frank B Stephens was then introduced intro-duced by Chairman Moyle as one of the patriots who abandoned his party because be-cause it abandoned bimetallism The question that confronts us today to-day said Mr Stephens His shall we elect a Democrat or a Republican administratIon ad-ministration We believe the Democratic Demo-cratic party can give us as good an administration ad-ministration as the Republican We have evidence that it can give better We know what each party has done Let me cite you to the administration of Glendinning two years ago Was it not such that the leaders of the Repub llcan party petitioned you to vote for a Democratic mayor They did it under a nonpartisan guise but It was nevertheless an appeal to you to lift them from a lurch You did so And you elected a majority of the Democratic councilmen What first confronted them was a proposition to undo the wrongs of the Republican administration ad-ministration They found a man on the pay roll drawing 70 a month in the mQnth of December to see that we didnt sprinkle overtime bights and mornings They would have done so all winter had they been reelected This is but one of many instances where public money has been squandered by them They all could be cited if time allowed A to Water There has been a great deal of talk about water continued Mr Stephens I want you to remember that the Democratic party didnt put in those waterworks and the pictures shown in the daily press were taken before the Democrats had time to clean up the work of their predecessors The speaker referred to the savings in the various departments of the city government accomplished by the Democratic Demo-cratic party and told why he left the Republican party His parents were Republicans he said and he grew up to be a member of that party The first time he voted it was for a Democratic president nevertheless for he learned that the party of Abraham Lincoln was not the party of Abraham Lincoln In 1S76 1S76In ISiS he declared the party left me I did not leave the party and were the Democratic party to desert Its principles it would leave me too In closing Mr Stephens made mention of the conditions brought on by the de monetization of silver and said the files of the Tribune would show that poor conditions were conceded to be from this cause Chairman Moyle announced that Hon Moses Thatcher who was to have addressed Thatcher had been unexpectedly I unex-pectedly called toFranklin Ida |