Show WOMENS SILYFRY VOICE Was Heard la Clear and Ringing Tones Last Night CENTRAL SILVER CLUB NonPartisan i Character Organized at the Theatre WAS A MONSTER MEETING Enthusiasm and Unanimity the Host Striking Characteristics Charac-teristics Silver and Bryan the Slogans to the Exclusion of Everything Else Five Minute Speeches By lions George L Xye Warren Foster C S Vnriait Sirs Mnttlu Hughes Cannon Judge O W Powers Judge Gooilivin Con eHsmnn Allen Al-len Mrs Lillie R Pnrtlee and Others Telegram Sent to Hon William T Bryan Music By the Mandolin Club and the Silver Glee Club The womens silver meeting at the theatre last night was 0 notable event in this campaign The building was crammed fom pit to dome even the Standlntr suare WOK nil noniintori Thnso who were there were thoroughly in earnest and ultra enthusiastic I was a much o a success a the McKinley womans antisilver meeting was a cold and flat failure i point of attendance at-tendance unanimity and enthusiasm No room is left t doubt on which side of the great fight the women and men of Utah are No doubt a to how the great majority of the votes of this state will be cast next November The ladies are almost solid for Bryam and free silver and it is only a question of how large the majority will be l was a splendid audience last night The meeting was well conducted there were nO dissensions and everything went a smoothly as well oiled machinery j ma-chinery The speeches were short and to thfe point and there want a tiresome one among tem The music furnished bye by-e Mteutidolfai clxb > composed of five talented and bearattfus young ladies r exoeeiUagly fist and was thoroughly thorough-ly appreciated by tie audience a was alteo the pesfcrnmrca of the male quartette The decorations were few consisting of the national colors draped over the boxes and the balconies the flag surrounding sur-rounding a pictuie of the next president presi-dent Over the box on the east side i was the slogan of the campaign Silver ver and on the w st Bryan The stage was beautifully set off wrcSu i patted plants I Mrs E K LaBarthev one of the Democratic candidates for the lower house presided at the opening COMMITTEES NAMED Thb following committees were chosen from among the ladies present Resolutions Mesdames John A Kirby Kir-by Newman and CampbelL Constitution MeFdames Hall Monroe and Roberts Permanent Organization Mesviames I Belcher Dtekeuson and Cawie The first commit mode its report first of all The resolutions are deci sive ini character and rtad ahartr ad were rad as follows by Mrs John A Kirby RESOLUTIONS Ve the undersigned enfranchised women wo-men of Utah having carefully considered I the financial condition of this the country of our birth or adoption and painfully I realizing the humiliating truth that its I Godinspired constitution is being presumptuously pre-sumptuously ignored the prosperity and freedom of its citizens ruthlessly and hopelessly destroyed the Nation itself on the very brink of financial ruin or desolating desolat-ing revolution therefore we the mothers and wives of the financiers lawmakers officeholders officehold-ers and voters of the sovereign people do hereby demand a immediate return to that monetary system upon which tills once proud Nation was founded and I flourished founded not only without the 1 consent of other nations but in bold and fearless defiance of every other poser save that of God and their own inalien i able rights By means of which every 1 honest industrious man could and did possess his own home a heavenguarded fortress where none dare enter without his permission but from whose hospitable doors the stranger never turned without substantial succor NONPARTISAN UNION To this end we pledge ourselves in an earnest patriotic nonpartisan band pledged to use all our rights social and political all our privileges and influence to the restoration of both metals at the i ratio of 16 to 1 with W J Bryan and A Sewall as our standard bearers And we furthermore pledge not only our own Individual votes for the silver candidates but on all and every occasion to do our utmost to Influence the votes of others in the same direction regardless of race color or party nor will we relax our efforts until they are crowned with I success be that near or far These organizations are designated Ladies La-dies Bryan Silver clubs one of which Is formed in each city precinct Their first object will be to ascertain the extent of the silver interest in the state and to unite its forces for the support of Bryan and Sewall to ascertain also what wal acertain constitutes con-stitutes a voter acording to the laws of the state and what steps a necessary to registration We earnestly invite all the sincere advocates I ad-vocates of prosperity and silver to come over and help us I i Mrs Hal made the report for tfha committee on constittMon which iai i brief is that the name of the organization I i organiza-tion shall be the Central ton sal Centa NonPartisan club of Salt Lake county with the object ob-ject of uniting the women vote of all parties for the free coinage ot silver ota raUo of 16 to 1 wfitJh a rUI ws gOd without waiting for he action of other waitig te ation any ot na tionMembership Membership in the club can be obtained ob-tained by signing the roll and paying into the treasury one salver coin The conEtitutton was adopted by a unanimous unani-mous vote The report of the committee on organization 1 or-ganization was read by Mrs Belcher and recommended Mrs C E Allen for II president r Lillie R Pardee for vicepresident Mrs J Fewson Smith vicepresident Mrs Smith secretary I and Mrs Roberts treasurer srlry Mrs Allen in taking the chair j I thanked the society f the honor o I being chosen a its presiding officer j and declared that from thib time onsite < on-site would work with tiits balance of j N 0 J the members t solidify the vote of the I women C this county and state for sil vet The work was an easy one for the ladies generally were coming into the ranks fast They are with u and are taking part not a the result of a selfish sel-fish interest but because they believe in the election of William J Bryan fort for-t presidency of the United State HON GEORGE L NTE George L Nye was the first speaker of the evening His address was t the effect that the meeting was not there fo the purpose of endorsing any particular ticular candidate for the presidency o to advance the political interests of any party but rather for the promulgation o a principle Three years ago there was a womans meeting held in the theatre for the purpose of entering a protest against the repeal of the Slier man act Today a few of the women who participated in that meeting are for McKinley he was sorry to note There is an argument used by the gold standard men that we should wait for an internatIonal agreement which was wrong This is a time when this non should act by itself I is time we should say we have endured the oppression of other nations long enough and now should act for ourselves our-selves Hon Warren Foster said he appreciated appre-ciated the honor of addressing so much beauty intelligence and patriotism atone at-one time The ladies were certainly tme very lenient with the men The men had done all the voting all the office holding and all the legislating for the last 120 years and had made a pretty mess of it Had things been reversed and the women been running things for 120 years and made as bad a fail ure of it as the men the men would now come in and tell the ladies to get out and intimate not too politely that they were going to run things in the future The women were more lenient and only asked a share in the government govern-ment and certain it was they couldnt make it any worse Free silver was a good thing for the people for the silver miners for the farmers and for the laborers and its adoption would be a notice to other nations and the plutocrats of this nation na-tion that henceforth America intended to run her own affairs herself Free coinage however was only the beginning begin-ning of reforms which had to be made The time for knuckling down to old England was over and shame on the man who proposed to have i otherwise other-wise The statement that America was not strong enough not brave enough not independent enough to manage her own ailairs was a falsehood and in the name of Washington Jefferson and Lincoln the speaker hurled it in the faces of those who made it branded asa as-a leHON HON C S VARIAN C S Varian the third speaker received re-ceived an ovation He said In one respect this meeting to my mind is a sad one I have believed up to the last few days that there could be but one opinion upon the silver question in Utah I is not a party question it is one of humanity and must be solved and solved now What does it mean It 4s not a time to indulge in ambigu ous phrases it is a time for careful and serious thought I am aware that many of my Republican friends are of the opinion that this question can be put aside for awhile I can not will not and shall not be When you destroy de-stroy half the money of the nation you are plotting for the degradation and destruction of that nation When you relegate to a few the settlement of the financial question you seek to overthrow over-throw your government Money is worth 32 per cent more than it was ayer a-yer ago and it means that all the products of the farmer and miner are depreciating in value yearly I feel in deadly earnest on this question With the gold standard crushing the people we must do something desperate to throw off the yoke This question can not be settled by a discussion of sectionalism I must be solved by all the people I belongs to no section tion Every business man in the city today is suffering from the baneful effects of the gold standard The St Louis platform says bimetallism is a good thing but they want us to wait for J England who does not want free coinage to give its consent This country i coun-try is growing poorer every day and when we complain we are told we must wait upon foreign nations The speaker then anathematized Puck and other comic weeklies j week-lies for being subsidized In conclusion con-clusion he said Any man who cannot can-not rise to the present occasion and defend the interests of the masses is unworthy the name of American citizen zenThe applause which greeted the conclusion con-clusion of Mr Varians speech was deafening The chairman announced that Judge Powers had something to say of great interest The judge stepping to the front remarked that money was necessary neces-sary to defray the expenses and asked that the audience contribute when the young ladies passed the bag The Mandolin club rendered anothor selection which was received with great applause MRS MATTIE HUGHES CANNON Mattie Hughes Cannonfelt no hesitation hesi-tation in saying how the women of Utah stood on the silver question The women felt the financial stringecy as much or more than the men They had problems to solve In providing for the household for clothing the family which men did not come face to face with They were well up in finance The United States had oil enough to light the world coal enough to warm the world treasure enough to buy the world I ha wealth developed and undeveloped and they were greater great-er than those of all Europe Yet in this land suffering and want and destitution des-titution are abroad which as Mr Bryan Bry-an very moderately said was owing to bad legislation infernal legislation he ought to have called i for the present monetary system was brought about by the subtle influence of Satan The currency had been contracted by the demonetization of silver and the contraction was still going on by which the bondholders and capitalists profited Treasure has been flowing from this country into the treasuries of Europe for twenty years and no nation can stand that continuously Great occasions require great men and great men are generally raised up when a nation meets a crisis in its history We are now facing a tremendous tre-mendous crisis and the man raised jp to meet it was the noblest Roman of them all William J Bryan and Mrs Bryan was the great woman Mrs Cannon referred to the French revolution revo-lution and the causes which led up to i and although we did not expect to have to use guns in our fight yet we could do it in case of necessity She thought Mr Bryan was too moderate in his language When a burglar is caught we dont deal with him by saying say-ing Please 11 Burglar give us back our money We take more decisive measures and so the money changers of Europe and the east must be dealt with just as we deal with burglars Mrs Louise Boyden recited a poem composed for the occasion by Mr Mina E Ellerton The poem depicted in burning words the sufferings and distress of the people under the existing exist-ing gold standard and was enthusiastically enthusias-tically received JUDGE C C GOODWIN Upon being introduced Judge Godwin God-win was received with vociferous cheers He said I begins to look a though the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world Twentythree years ago a few bad men passed a law through con gross that has caused increasing dis tress each recurring year I is seen everywhere I would not have been I passed had there been one bright woman wo-man in congress She would havo questioned Mr Sherman and the other conspirators Both parties promised us ten years ago that they would rectify rec-tify the mistake How they have led to us They kept up the deception up until the St Louis convention when they threw off the mask Our opponents oppo-nents tell us we cannot maintain free coinage alone Every goldbug paper tells us that if we try it we will commit com-mit suicide The judge told a witty story to illustrate his declaration that the United States could maintain free coinage independent of any other nation na-tion and it tickled his auditors In response to calls of Go on the Judge pointing in a deprecatory manner toward ward the ladies on the stage said You people in the galleries dont know what danger a fellow is in down here The sally was unroarously applauded ihe Free Saver Mal quartette sang Bryan and Free Silver In a manner that made everybody applaud loud and long As a encore they gave Old McKinley is a fraud and as a second one Goodbye Old Grover Goodbye HON H W LAWRENCE Hon Henry W Lawrence gave a short i resume of the history of silver a a money i metal It was just as good a gold at a certain ratio until 1S115 when England demonetized it in order to contract the currency and thereby make It so that the money lenders could control the money market This was done without consulting the people They knew nothing about it until parliament passed the law I Then for years misery and destitution followed fol-lowed I was the same way in America 1 Silver was demonetized without the people I peo-ple knowing I and it was some years before they found it out Goldbugs say there Is too much silver and that fact made i necessary to demonetize it But that is not true I was demonetized so as to enable the money changers to control con-trol everything in the country Mr Lawrence Law-rence explained briefly the meaning of bimetallifam the free coinage of god and silver all that comes The stamp of the government it was that made money and there was no such thing as the fiftythree cent dollar that goldbugs try to frighten us with A country with resources equal to England France and Germany combined com-bined was strong enough to establish its own financial policy A country not financially finan-cially free could not be politically free to maintain our political freedom We must establish out financial freedom JUDGE O W POWERS I delivered a ringing free silver and Bryan speech He was well received and sard in part I the brave leader of the white metal forces who has carried the war into the enemys country could look upon this magnificent audience tonight he would receive renewed inspiration You are i here tonight to emphasize the fact that i you place principle above party and that you have confidence in our grand leader William Jennings Bryan I has been said in this city that Bryan should not be president because he ha never had a law practice sufficient to support his family I wonder if the gentleman who made that statement ever read the story about our Savior driving the moneychangers money-changers from the temple The speaker read a violent attack upon Bryan clipped from an eastern goldbug paper in which it was stated that no aristocratic personage person-age attended the Democratic notification meeting in New York The judge created applause by saying I the editor of that goldbug paper should come to Salt Lake he would find out that all classes support the Democratic nominee In Utah He continued The issue is so great that I wonder how men can quarrel over petty local offices God intended that this country coun-try should live and it will live When the history of this country shall be written three names will be linked together Washington who freed the country from England Lincoln who freed the black I race and Bryan who freed the white nice l1e niceCONGRESSMAN ALLEN Hon C E Allen said it ha been charged that Republicans who propose to cast their votes for Bryan were in a peculiar pe-culiar an anomolous position I was not so however for before the last election elec-tion Utah Republicans the speaker among them stood on the freo silver I platform He still stood on that platform plat-form and Republicans this year were going go-Ing to vote for Bryan the Democratic candidate because the Republican party had been untrue to the promises it made I to the people That was why Republicans were for Bryan the votes would be cast for Bryan and at the other end of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania avenue will be a congress which will aid Mr Bryan In the work See to it said Mr Allen that no man is sent to the legislature who has the least wavering wav-ering in this matter It is a question of paramount Importance on which the very existence of the nation depends The quartette again very acceptably sang another song TELEGRAM TO BRYAN The chairman here proposed that a telegram tel-egram be sent to Hon W J Bryan Informing In-forming him of the organization of the Bryan Womens Silver club a an adjunct to the national Bryan campaign commIttee I tee and which would do its part to help clfct Mr Bryan The motion to thus 11 notify the standard bearer of the support of the women of Utah w carried with t enthusiasm great enthusiam MRS LILLIE RriPARDEE was the last speaker of the evening She called herself a mere babe in politics and I cled asked the indulgence of the audience She created laughter by saying that the women of Utah had just reached their majority She endorsed the statements of preceding speakers and said no one felt the loss of money more than the I women International bimetallism was like unto the drunkard who urged another an-other intemperate individual to reform Mrs Pardee read a letter upon the subject sub-ject of free coinage by the United States I independent of any other nation written distinguished German diplomat The by a lady closed by assuring the audience that lay silver sentiment is Increasing Vith I wonderful rapidity in Ohio Mrs Allen brought the meeting to a close with a few happy remarks She j i said she as chairman was fully prepared ito i-to conduct the meeting just as men do by Introducing each speaker with r speech telling the audience who and what he was and te forth butane considered that such a course would take too much of the time allotted coure to the speakers and therefore there-fore dispensed with i Helds band played a selection and the audience dispersed |