Show j the degradation to the suffering t the sorrow and the crime which will I I follow unless this matter is arrested Applause Among a few of my Republican RI I publican friends who are talking now about staying by McKinley and the St i t Luis platform there is not one otf i the If the occasion called for it but I would don the garb of the union and gO forth to fight the battles of his country There Is a battle now on more serious it seems to me than any I that ha ever troubled the country be i fore And yet they tell you and they j tell me that the tariff is the question i ques-tion this money question will be all J questan I right provided the tariff is regulated j the Democratic party will get in and tear down the tariff wall and we will haw tariff free trade and all that rot The r You might just a well tell me you can cure a man whose blood has all been sucked from his body by putting poultices upon his muscles Laughter Laugh-ter The tariff remedy is analagous to poulticing a cancer I is money that furnishes the blood of the finances of the nation Speaking a a Republican j and with convictions ccf that kind the I J tariff has its office and duty to perform I per-form but if there is no money in the h country subject to use by the people the tariff will not aid you You may I 1 build your wall so high that not even l L a star can peep over it loud applause I 1 1 you will have nothing inside your walls I but mortgaged farms lying fallow I starving men and little children and j 1 your penitentiaries full That is not the penientaries L I 1 remedy We have i right here I have j i no patience with or confidence in the I I honesty of a man who pretends to bet be-t j lieve the money question is a great I one and which dominates this people and who has the opportunity to put II himself in alignment with those who I A marching forward to correct tne j evils which beset us and of which he J has been complaining I say I have J no confidence or belief in his honesty I i he fails to accept the opportunity I I which God gives him this day Loud I applause i Do you know you money changers what you are doing Laughter Do j you know how the sting is fastening in 11 the hearts of the common people Look out You are sowing dragons teeth and the morrow is near at hand tet te i may be when you will harvest a crop of armed men Applause But thou omnipotent God who holdest the I destinies of this people in the hollow of thy hand let the light of thy wisdom shine upon and illumine the path which this people must follow Out of the night into the day out of bondage into freedom lead kindly light lead us on r Loud applause and cheers long and continued HON DAVID EVANS Hon David Evans said the seat of I government is at Washington and the government still lives but already I the battle cry has been raised We J have met the enemy and they are r I ours We have made an unequivocal platform for the free coinage of silver t at the ratio of 16 to 1 That is the trophy which we delegates bring and lay at your fet They say the platform is revolutionary revolution-ary I I is revolutionary to pay debts in the same money in which they were contracted then we are revolutionists We dont believe in making the gold dollar worth 200 cents Others tell us we are breaking up the old Democratic party Then it ought to be broken up I would rather have with us true men like C S Varian Va-rian Frank B Stephens and C C Goodwin than Cleveland Carlisle and tl Morton Great applause We will I go hand in hand and accomplish the great reform Mr Evans then referred to McKinleys statement years ago f that the monetary question was great I er than the slavery question was in 1860 but now this Napoleon has I changed his horse and he is seizing I what he thinks an opportunity to make hewers of wood and drawers of water of the people of this land But fc will meet his Waterloo for the people peo-ple will triumphantly elect William J Bryan He is a young man they say I admi he is too young to be the servant ser-vant of the trusts He is poor in purse but rich in every good quality The speaker said when he heard Bryans speech in the convention he was carried away and he felt sure that what carried him away would carry thousands of others and elect Mr Bryan Bry-an to the presidential chair HON R B SHEPPARD R B Sheppard said this a the first 1 Democratic ratifjtntion he had ever attended at-tended For twenty years he had cast j a straight Republican ballot but had come to the parting of the ways and t i was nor allied with the Democrats f I but not the Democrats of the Cleveland and Carlisle stamp but with that of 8 r W J Bryan i Bryan represented that principle t which he had hoped for years to obtain throug the Republican party but he had been disappointed and had therefore there-fore to join with the Democrats because of bimetal they had espoused the cause I lism He had been asked if he was going to iota with anarchists I opposition to Wall street was anarchy then he was a1 anarchist He stood there in favor of the Chicago platform bimetallism I HEm and ryan He swallowed the J whoJe business He wasnt one of those who strained at a gpat and swallowed and bimetallism for a camel Bryan bimetalsm 11 I ever t TELEGRAMS READ f Chairman Harris then read dis 1 re C 1S ran a > follorvs From Hons Chambers and Keisel I Rpg t our inability to be present at negl the ratification meeting We are with you in spirit Trom Hon S R ThurmanAm I trying case Cant be with you Provo for ran and Sewall and 16 to 1 Cant crucify huiwmity in Utah county on a cross of bold From Hon E A McDanSel Count The me in on the ratification onighL great rt majority of the oters in Central r Illinois are for Do an A monster ratification rati-fication meeting is being held in Springfield Spring-field tonight The people are aroused HON MOSES THATCHER L Thp following from Hon Moses T atc 4 at-c er was read by J M Cohen I I Salt Lake City July 18 1S9G 1 Hon Robert N Baskin Chairman and Hon J R LKcher Secretary I Gentlemen Your card of invitation to be present tomgit a the Salt Lake I I I theater to join in the Bryan and Se received and the I wal ratification is ad I honor of your invitation is appreciated t but i regret that illness which has confined con-fined me to my bed for more than a I week renders i impossible for me to be with you But 1 feel confident that ai Utah Democrats will indorse byword 11 by-word and act the work of the recent I i i I Democratic national Convention in which the delegates from thIs state did f such excellent service And I also believe be-lieve that our Populist and numerous Republican friends having a common i I i interest will join hands with us in the I I struggle for the restoration of the money of the constitution In the use of which prosperity and power was the rule among the masses until 1873 Previous to thai time our farmers and i the laboring men were frequently lenders lend-ers instead of borrowers Then a trick concocted by the money sharks of cndon and the traitors of our own country was played upon congress the president and the people by which atone I I at-one fell blow onehalf of the circulat 1 stricken down there ing medium was stIcken tere by doubling the values of the lender while multiplying by two the burdens of the masses As well might the surgeon H sur-geon knife his patient and withdraw onehalf of the vital stream and then tll him to be healthy and strong Think of the money sharks spending time planning for the prosperity of the producer Why the idea is simply ridiculous diculous for his thoughts are Of the x increase of his own wealth withtvhich 0 V ta ape the royal manners of monarchal and aristocratic money lending England Eng-land Thus the masses of our country may well fight and intelligently too 13 evefy financial scheme advo aSy andevery tnacal i a J H < 1 r v 1 cated in Lombard or Wall streets In the financial struggle now confronting us they may call on more panics with which to distress the people and tell us that they are caused by foreign holders crowding upon us our own se curitics and that foreign financiers will not invest in this country fearing the tender of debased money in liquidation liqui-dation of our obligations How ridiculous ridic-ulous for where else in this world can they find the security which this young and vigorous republic affords Will they try Argentine or Australia again Will they go to Central or South AmerIca Amer-Ica or Mexico I so we can afford to let them go for with silver restored re-stored we can dig wealth out of the rockribbed hills with which to pay our obligations fairly and honestly lenders and then ourselves become the others become and not borrowers letting come the hewers of wood and the carrie car-rie of water MOSES Very THATCHER respectfully HON JOHN T CAINE Hon John T Caine sent the following follow-ing which was read by Chairman Harris Har-ris Hon R N Baskin Chairman and Hon J R Letcher Secretary Committee Com-mittee Bryan and Sewall Ratification Ratifica-tion Salt Lake City Utah Gentlemen appreciate your kind invitation to attend a Bryan and Se wall ratification meeting on Saturday evening and make an address on the issues of the campaign An engage ment previously made will take me out of the city on Saturday and prevent me from attending While personally absent I shall be with you heart and soul I fully endorse the good work done at Chicago and congratulate the people of Utah upon the bright prospects pros-pects of a speedy deliverance from the thraldom of the gold bug I shall during the coming campaign be glad to render any assistance in my I power to advance the cause of Bryan Sewall and silver Very respectfully JOHN T CAINE THOMAS G MERRILL HEARD I FROM Chairman Harris then read the following II fol-lowing from the HOUL T G Merrill To the Chairman of the Ratification Meeting Meet-ing for Bimetallism and Bryan I very much regret my inability to attend at-tend this meeting in person but as 2 lifelong life-long Republican and having devoted the I most of my time for the last three years in the work for the restoration of bimetallism bi-metallism by the education of the voters I of this country upon this question I desire de-sire to say that the most earnest efforts i I of those who place bimetallism above I I party or personal and selfish interest for i the last year has been to secure the I i adoption of a bimetallic plank in the platform II I plat-form and the nomination of candidates I whose record would be a guarantee that they would carry out such a platform in guod faith ether by the Republican or Democratic parties because by means of such thorough party organization the object ob-ject would be much more certain of accomplishment complishment In the convention of the Democratic party held last week in the city of Chicago Chi-cago we have secured all that we could desire in the platform there adopted and i in the nomination of William J Bryan I for president of the United States j Having secured this result for which we have all been laboring it would certainly seem that now to divide the forces for bimetallism would 0 worse than suicidal pM1 no man who is loyal to the great interest of the state of Utah can do other vise man to use his every effort to assist I in the election o the ticket nominated at Chicago and it would seem that nO true patriot who understands this question can take any other ground The educational work which was inaugurated inaug-urated by the organiation of the National Bimetallic Union in Salt Lake city on the 33th day of May 1895 has been a very important factor in starting in the agricultural agri-cultural states of the Mississippi valley this tidal wave for bimetallism and Americanism and making possible the events which transpired last week in Chicago which will overwhelm McKinley and the gold plutocrats in the final struggle strug-gle next November I In order to secure the election of Will lam J Bryan as president of the United States and a congress the majority of which shall be pledged to independent bimetallism bi-metallism this educational work must be continued with greater force and effectiveness effective-ness until next November The money of the gold men will be poured out like water to endeavor to stem the tide for bimetallism bimetal-lism and we cannot and do not desire to attempt to compete with them by the use of money but we must have sufficient funds to spread among the voters who are all anxious to study this question abundant abund-ant bimetallic literature or the highest and best t type When a voter is once converted to bimetallism bi-metallism he never backslides and at once becomes a misslonay anxious to convert con-vert others MRS LA BARTHE Mrs La Barthe came forward amid cheers and spoke as follows Mr Chairman FrendsNot that words of mine are needed to add strength t what has already been ha alrady so ably spoken but if speech is siivcrn and silence is golden then Is it time for us to assert ouivaSUes and slow womens endorse I ment of this worthy cause enore 1 leader We are aware that Mr Mc i Jximey rececved his nomination on the anniversary of the defeat of Napoleon at Wai erloo so Mr Bryan the crowned representative of the silver cause was I nominated on the anniversary of a day i famous in the annals of Democracy but i equally revered by ail lovers of human liuerty On Juy 10 1S32 Andrew Jackson Jack-son signed his veto of the bill to re cnarter the nited Staies bank thus Cter nied bak pre t cipuaimg upon the country the nrst litcce light between the i 1itC beween money power j and the people On that day sixtyfour I years ago New York New England nUiwani and the east occupied the same relative position whicih they occupy 1 today Tie tortes of plutocracy were massed In solid array against the pope I Financial disaster wa threatened i mortgages were foreclosed and workshops i i work-shops were shut down The money power had full sway Tne powerful press was in the service of the U S bank Opposed Op-posed to this powerful aggregation then as nOw iras tire south and west drawn together then as now by a sense of com ir jn dangtr In 1S32 as in 1SSG the money lof the country was centered in the est j and northeast The parallel between the situation ht today and that of sixtyfour years ago is complete in every detail i Between now and next November the i parallel may be carried to the ultimate lu tiitf elecioral college Jackson received J and Clay 49 votes making Jacksons majority a overwhelming one The people of today are no less patriotic powerful or any less keenly alive to tiicr own bet interests than in 1S32 The seventeenth seven-teenth Democratic convention was the I grandest record The platform in respect to Its declarations concerning silver coinage coin-age i all that silver Democrats coaid demand or ask I is as clear definite i I and emphatic a declaration for the in dependent and unrestricted coinage of slAver a tiie most devoted Republican I I j t cud have framed I leaves in this particular I par-ticular nothing to bs desired Mr = Bryan i ha said i is a battle for the plain peo pe of trio country Let the friends of i silver join together and march UK glorious i glori-ous victory under this i fain There can be no equivocations he who Is not I I for silver is against it none should be I laggards none deserter in the battle Mr Bryan is the standard bearer in whom all irrespective of party affiliations affilia-tions who sincerely uphold that pnnci pe of free coinage can place implicit trust He is a young man but the charge of being a young man can be a readily I I refuted as by that other great statesman states-man For my own part I am proud to I claim birthright in the grand state which prouce birthrgt a proud of the great I I city to which named a Bryan for president presi-dent proud that my first vote together I wit the women of Utah and Colorado shall b cast for so noble a champion a I William J Bryan Utah from her rocky eyrie on the mountains crest sees the golden streaks dominate the western sky m the last sullen rays sink fading into the night of oblivion but tic the darkness that proceeds the dawn and the faint first flushes of a rising sum proclaim pro-claim a silver era and flood the astonished aston-ished east growing whiter brighter Intense ishe eat gwing tenser until in the full glory and vIctor we assist In leading guiding and impelling I mettallism im-pelling the nations of the earth tO bi i i Mr Harris next called on Hon Warren Foster the recognized leader of the Populists in this state He made a telling speech and was loudly applauded I WARREN FOSTER I 11 Chairman Ladies and flentlemen I1 am one of the advertised speakers here this evening under my most solemn pro i test A committee of gentlemen waited upon me a few days ag and asked me i I would make a talk and I at first I told the no but being assured that there was a general demand I finally agreed that if called from the body of J the audience that I might say a few words It was positively agreed to and wOrs e et > f i thoroughly understood that my name was I not to be op the published list of speakers speak-ers But to my utter surprise when I picked up the paper this morning I found I my name on the list My first impulse I I was not to appear here at all i My mature judgment was that I had best come and make this public explanation I explana-tion I stand before you a a private in divUdual not a a representative of the Populist party or any member of i I want all my Populist brethren to doI I just as I have done study the situation for themselves and act accordingly Nearly ten years ago I started out to fight for the cause of the great common people ten years have I denied myself the comforts of home and family that I i might promulgate the principles which I am now advocating for ten years have I suffered the sneers and i jeers of the Democrats who claimed that all these things were Popuiistic vagares I vageries up to ten days ago when all at once as if by the touch of magic they were transformed into the never dying principle I princi-ple cf Jeffersonian Dmocracy Where were those grand principles of Jefferson during the last three years and a half of Democratic rule Ha I am here t admit that you have a good platform a far as it goes And a good man at the head of your ticket but where did you get your platform j From Jefferson No you learned It I not from Jefferson but from the PopulIsts I I Popul-ists I that is Jeffersonian Democracy I then the Populists have ever been Jeffersonian I Jef-fersonian Democrats But where have 1 you been all this time Fighting the only people who ha the courage to j stand and fight for the principles that you nov say are right I Then do I venture to say a kind word I for Mr Bryan because I have turned I I Democrat No I stand where I have ever j stood It Is you that have changed 1 Why have I done so I I stand and look over tills broad and j of America and a terrible picture arises I before me One solid plaster of mortgages mort-gages These mortgages all call for a I j certain number of dollars These dollars I are now twice as large as they were I wnen the mortgages was made but I I will take just as many of them to pay J the debt These mortgages will nearly all come due within the next four years And what then The lands the homes the property of the people will pass into the hands of the mortgagees With the loss o American homes goes American patriotism This is a terrible thing to contemplate Can it be averted The situation is this Bill McKinley a gold bug ha been nominated on a gold platform He will either be elected or defeated On the other hand the Democrats Demo-crats for reasons best known to them selves have nominated Billy Bryan on a Popoillstic platform He too will either be elected or defeated Put the two Bills side by side and say which you want We Populists know that the money question settled even along the lines laid out in the Democratic platform is only one of the great ills of this country and while its effects will nO doubt be good and farreaching no permanent good ca secure to tha people until cities are put under public control and man is again restored to his natural use of the earth by proper legislation upon the and question The only question is will it be bet for the people that the Populists Popul-ists do what they ca in the way of a union of forces with the Democrats and secure the present proposed help or shall we go it alone and wait for the Deocrat to adopt the rest of our plat ferm as they have this Personally I have studied it from all its bearings I have tried to lay down all my prejudices and preconvelced notions and look upon it solely from the standpoint of patriotism I think I have done so My conclusions understand meI say my conclusions are that under all the circumstances it is best a union of all the reform forces be had if possible i i Great stress is put upon the fact that 1 the Democrats had i in their power to I do those things and did not even try to do any thing a fact you all know i Then the only question is is the reconstructed re-constructed Democracy any better i censtructe ay beter I I It certainly will 0 if you keep Cleveland Cleve-land and Carlisle out of i And it now i looks a though you may I Let us hope that it i is somewhat lethe 1 le-the old mans four hundred year old ba rel while claiming that it was the same i barrel admitted that it ha had several I new heads new hoops an new staves I 1 but claimed that the bung hole was the same Now if it be true that the Democratic I Demo-cratic party has new men and a new platform it looks that there is not much of the old about it except the bung hole I hc time has come when men with hearts and brains i I Must rise and take the misdirected reins rse i Of Government too long left in the hands 1 Of tricksters and of theives He who i stands I And sees the mighty vehicle of State Hauled through the mire to some ignoble fate I And makes not such bold protest a he can I Is no American SARA A BOYER Mrs Sarah A Boyer of Springville was the next speaker tine said i I am here tonight nqt as a Democrat i nor as a Republican but as a American citizen not bound with the bonds of partisanship I par-tisanship nor enslaved with the shackles of prejudice but as an advocate of prin cipie first last and always I I foundea principle This nation was on prcple when veakness clad in the armor of I right defeated the hosts of tyranny The Union was preserved on principle by a baptism of brood and the shackiea I tell from the limbs of 1000000 staves who lor tne first time on uoumjias sou breathed breath-ed the air of freedom and blessed the name of Lincoln This government must be continued on principle or the scythe of time will soon I cut it from the great field of nations Our forefathers had a George HI and j I I tyranny and met them with a Washington Washing-ton patriotism and principle The Union had slavery and oppression and conquered ion I rf ed with a Lincoln Grant and principle I Today we have a Val street and the iron hand of greed grinding the faces of I the poor and we propose to meet them with the magic wand of silver wielded by the champion of the plain American people William Jennings Bryan This should be a government for the people bu since 1873 it has been a government govern-ment largely for the gold barons and political i poli-tical sharks who have fattened upon the honest efforts of the humble sons of toil 1 We have boasted of light and liberty of freedom and progress but there must be I something wrong in our social conditions when in New lark 10000 babes the offspring 1 spring of the poor workers who help produce pro-duce the wealth of this nation die yearly i for want of food and care while within a I stones throw 10000 dinners are given by men who have never by their efforts added one shilling to the wealth of the world I We are told by the gold kings that the people of the west are repudiators but we pay our debts we care for ou poor that we are ignorant but we have only gone to a different school we have mixed with i a different society The mountains havo been our brothers and the great plains our sisters We have sat at the feet of nature na-ture and heard her teaching We may have lost some of the artificialities of the sound money social salt of the earth but we have gained in common sense and broader sympathy I Put a human body into certain soil and under certain conditions and in a few months it becomes a petrified mass Put nas a human soul through the soil of govern ment jobbery political bossism and1 Wall street boodleism and you have the pQtrlned heart of a rampant gold bug Republican majority and the Democratic I Demo-cratic minority have bowed to the com I i minds of Wall street have sat at the feet of Tammany I i i We propose to elect a government with ahead a-head which shall not be governed by gold i and greed but which shall govern this i I i nation by the will of the pl ple through I i 1 the votes of the people for the good ot I the people i On the one side we have a man who I 1 has put his neck under the heel of gold I and licked the shoes of the A P A i On the other a man who has been a lifelong life-long advocate of that for which we have labored long rree coinage cf both god and silver who has thrown down the gauntlet i I gaunt-let to Tammany and defied the hosts of t Mammon We want as chief magistrate of this nation a man who would rather make men naton swear than women weep who would rather I rath-er bring sneers t the lips of the rich than I pain to the eyes of the poor and such a I man we believe is William Jennings I Bryan 1 Bran I Hon O W Powers was received with loud and prolonged applause and as he rounded the periods In his eloquent man ner the cheering was deafening JUDGE POWERS ADDRESS Mr Chairman Ladles and Gentlemen When I turned to the papers this t morning as all good citizens should who desire to be informed of the news of the day I discovered an item that i made me fearful that this grand meeting meet-ing would be indefinitely postponed The fact that I was not is to me renewed re-newed indication o the spirit of independence inde-pendence which possesses the land and which is defying all political traditions tradi-tions as completely as did the Chicago convention when it declined to obey the will of its national committee and seated the scholarly and courteous Virginian Vir-ginian in the chair which has been set apart for the distinguished though b NV misguided senator of New York I saw misgided in the papers this morning that the I chairman of the Republican state committee of Utah had ceased the pleasant occupation of contemplating con-templating the interest tables of his bank and was engaged in fulminating an address to the people I peo-ple bearing within its arms his objur gations and anathemas against those I I who defy the rod of the iron monger and in which he will paint pretty pictures pic-tures of scented valleys filled with a perfume of flowers blooming in the gardens of patronage for those who beat McKinleys tomtom even though its resounding notes sound the death knell of American prosperity I feared that the information that the Republican chairman was writing an address would cause fear to paralyze par-alyze the independent patriotism to desert the selfsacrificing and party fealty to supplant the unselfish love of country that is being displayed in his young state But the attendance of this evening the enthusiasm that has caused the fires of patrIotiC fervor to burn more brightly is proof positive that so far as any practical effect is concerned that address though the literary turn that It is sure to be might a well be read to the silent ears of our great dead sea as to be spread broad in this community which with one voice and actuated by the noblest impulses declares for Bryan and Sewall as its leaders and that we slal have American money for Amen can men What can I say this evening which shall voice the admiration that I have for the patriotic men and women of the Republca party who placing country coun-try before party have set an example that is proof strong a holy writ that the American people are fit to govern and that no banner with a strange de vice will be followed when it leads i i toward danger for the reoublic The men who thrust aside the iron collar of Hanna at St Louis struck a blow for liberty Their names will be treas ured in history yet to be written the courageous act of Cannon Allen Kearns and Salisbury following the leadership of the patriot Teller is an object lesson causing us to feel that there be giants in these days The endorsement of their course by hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of Republicans through the country marks the wisdom of those leaders action and signifies that a political earthquake is impending impend-ing that will shake down the battlements battle-ments of the trusts and syndicates and money kings and let the people enter upon the enjoyment of that which is their own I have wondered whether if the conditions had been reversed and the St Louis convention had declared for silver and the Chicago convention for gold we of the Democratic faith would have been a brave and as earnest ear-nest as our Republican allies of today We would have tried but until we have been tested we know notwhether we are the true gold Therefore in admiration admi-ration of their unselfish and patriotic action I as a Democrat extend the right hand of fellowship to you so late of the Republican party and say Hail brothers and advance with us and armored as we are by a righteous cause we will beat down the hosts of error and plant the white banner of silver upon the very dome of the cap itol of the nation te naton In 860 when national unity was in peril so in 1896 when financial freedom is the stake there is going on a disintegration disin-tegration of parties and a new alignment align-ment of the voters Each of the two great parties is receiving hew elements and each is losing to the other great bodies of voters At last there is a great principle at stake I is no longer a struggle between the ins and the outs I is no longer a mere scramble for public plunder It is a contest between be-tween great systems The lists are made The champions are named Against a shield of silver there is seta set-a shield of gold The old party of the people the party which Jefferson call ed Republican and which Jackson call ed Democratic bursting the bonds of selfish interest which chained it calls the people to arms and their trampling feet c i be hard above the din of Wall street as they respond shouting with a million voices the battle cry of freedom At the supreme moment at the Chicago convention when the standards stan-dards of the states impelled by the matchless oratory of Bryan were clustered clus-tered about the guidon Nebraska the new Democracy burst its chrysalis and stood in all its fresh young manhood before the people Though he had not yet been named there was even then inscribed upon the brow of Bran the name of leader as 1 I had been traced by the fingers of the Almighty In letters let-ters of living light Great crises developed de-veloped great leaders ale Bryan bearing bear-ing the standard of our country aloft will lead the people through the cadS cad-S a of financial disaster into the bright gardens of prosperity grens To those of the Democratic faith who I are here let me say that your delegation delega-tion to Chicago returning with the I I trophies of victory hanging from its i banners tried to execute your will in I I that historic assembly and to advance I the honor of our youg state That I which we did you already know I I trust that you believe that sucl mistakes I mis-takes as we made were the natural I i I errors of humanity Believing that gratItude In politics is a merit and I knowing how much Utah is indebted i I to that grand old commoner Silver I I 1 Dick BlaSid wecast our votes for him I until his banner was lowered in honor I able defeat and that of Bryan raised I I I in its place fought your fight so I I well as we could and we return into your hands the Democratic standard lo I Utah untarnished with dishonor We hope that in our efforts to advance ad-vance our state that we were not considered i con-sidered presumptuous We were aware I that a distinguished citizen of our republic I re-public the president of the United I 1 States at a gathering of Christians in I New York declared that we of the west i i should be subjected to the softening and the harmonizing influences of I home missionaries Several of these philanthropic gentlemen acting upon i the presidents suggestion with wonderful i won-derful selfabnegation deferred their j annual visit to the crowned heads of 1 I Europe in order to attend the Chicago convention Wo of the west met those i pleasant gentlemen and they are ours t They went away satisfied that whatso ever our faults we are at least sincere They were made acquainted with the I fact that the men and women of the I west who breathe the air of the prairies I and the mountains are so stiffnecked i that they cannot nay more they will not bow their heads to a tyrants cap I even though bedecked with gold I believe be-lieve that those eminent citizens when they shall finally visit the hospitable shores of the mother land will say to their titled associates that in 1776 America Amer-ica declared its power and independence and tat in 1896 there is a likelihood declaration We of 1 renewal of that declaraton l asked them to say that while the United States will honestly pay its debts dollar for dollar as nominated in the bond it will no longer rob and crush down the poor paralyze industry indus-try and engulf the naton in ever increasing in-creasing indebtedness in order to gain the smiles and the scant favors of the respectable old lady who resides in Threadneedle street That there is an i uprising of the common people which will make America financially independent inde-pendent and with Gods help we will II forever after remain so The people are moving The march has begun The ojnens are good McKinley I Mc-Kinley likened by his admirers to the great Napoleon received his nomination I I nomina-tion on the anniversary of the day at Waterloo when the great emperor went down to defeat Bryan springing spring-ing as did Lincoln rom the ranks of the people wasnominated on the anniversary an-niversary of that day sixtyfour years ago when the great Andrew Jackson vetoed the billto rechar ten the United States bank Jackson beat down the i money r power in 1832 ana Bryan will lead us on to victory in 1896 I Therefore let us join hands and press onward This i great meeting is I f the doorway opening into a momentous momen-tous campaign As Republicans and as Democrats We may contend as to who shall be select as local officers but a lovers of a common country we I unite to advance the cause of silver The mighty cheers in the great Coliseum I seum when our leader was named were but the prelude to the joyous shouts of victorious freemen which will shake the world when America I will declare that humanity shall not be crucified upon a cross of gold I Speaking now of a personal matter I wish to say to my Democratic friends that although I had firmly determined to decline longer to serve you as chairman chair-man of your state committee if when j that committee shall be duly summoned summon-ed in the near future it deems that I can best serve my party in my present pres-ent position and shall reelect me I shall in view of the great issue and I the struggle to come accept the trust and dO your will I I shall be deemed deem-ed wiser to choose a new chairman I I shall take my place in the ranks and battle as valiantly as I can for Bryan Sewall and Democracy I HON B A HARBOUR The concluding speaker was B A Har bour the labor representative He sdI that ho was not grieving that the Democratic I I Demo-cratic whale had swallowed the Populists I I for like Jonaih the Populists would live i to preach in the streets of Nineveh The laboring people were going to support sup-port Bryan a against McKinley Both I candidates said they were going to do something for laboring people McKinley said a gold standard and a high tariff I would bring prosperity Bryan said free I silver and a tariff for revenue only was I the curve i MoKinleys panama vas foolishness indeed I In-deed the tariff question was the speaker j believed in the nature of a bluff I was I i put forward a something upon which the i voters might be divided The financial question was the real question of the i I hour The laboring people understood j I I this to some extent They had good cause I to for the gold standard had caused them j j great suffering a great distress They were going to have a change and that change Bryan was to come through William J I I 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