| Show MR SLOANS ELOQUENCE Strong Presentation of the Issues Is-sues of the Campaign THE REPUBLICAN RECORD LEADERS XVEncALU SILVER MEN A LITTLE WHILE BACK How the Price of Labor Has Been Reduced Re-duced Lippmnns He < ent Declaration Col Plckctt Praises Judge Aorrell I Another large croWd of voters assembled as-sembled at county bemocratic headquarters head-quarters night to hear the Issues of the1 hour locally and nationally discussed by Hon R W Sloan and Colonel H I L PIckett A choice collection of aharacter sketches and songs S S by Leroy Haddock added to the entertaining entertain-ing features of the meeting especially did the crowd cheer the latest success Votes suc-cess Archie Geddes is Hustling for MR SLOANS ADDRESS Mr Sloan made a very strong presentation pre-sentation of the conditions confronting I the American people He took the Ii position that parties were made for i men and not men for parties Whenever 1 When-ever a party fails to carry out the wishes of the people as in the present instance of the Republican party it was well for the citizen not to be so closely wedded to partisanship as to go to the polls and vote against Ills convictions Then he exposed the various positions taken by the Republican party on questions in the past In 1858 It was the abolition aboli-tion or states rights question that was dividing fhe people In 1868 the Republicans Re-publicans passed a high protective tariff law with the excuse attached to it that owing to the enormous expenditures ex-penditures incurred by the civil war an extreme measure was necessary He challenged anyone to show but that every Republican advocate at1 I the time declared himself in favor of I temporary protection only with an illI tlmate recourse to free trade It was I not until 1888 that the Republican party declared a high protective tariff I a necessity for the maintenance of the government The Republican i party has always advocated that the ignorant negroes of the south should vote whether they were able to understand un-derstand public questions or not and still these same men who took this I stand relative to the colored men in the 60 t1pported the Dole move uian m iiawaii on me grounds that the intelligent people only though representing less than 10 per cent of I the entire population were entitled to have any say in the government He mentioned these inconsistencies to show that the men who now preached the gold standard or bimetallism through international agreement could not be relied upon as infallible in their judgment Blaine Sherman Reed and McKinley had all preached free silver at some time or other and it was reasonable to suppose they all erred in their Judgment What can account ac-count for the change Nothing else but their adherence to the empty name of their party which has become be-come the tool of the moneyed interests inter-ests of this country The speaker said this was not a contest for a day or a year It vas the same old fight the common peopie against plutocracy the same contest which has been going on in empires that have risen and fallen The moneylender on the one side was seeking to make money scarce in order that he could contrQl the prices of toll Without sufficient money labor becomes idle Every idle man fixes the price of labor A steady contraction con-traction of the currency therefore tends to make idle labor and idle labor must have the inevitable result of re ducing wages In closing he urged the people who believed in free silver to Vote the ticket straight Many of the Republican Republic-an legislative candidates have not declared I de-clared themselves unequivocally In fa for of the white metal Arthur Brown is now stumping the southern part of I the state which has a tendency to McKinley and gold In Cache county the Republicans have put up a mixed ticket in Weber county the same c Even in our own county there was a question about the loyalty of some candidates Not all have been as honest as Candidate Harker who nominated on a free silver platform has come out squarefooted for gold Laughter Joseph Lippman has I come out publicly and announced he I I would under no conditions support a Democrat for the United States senate Now what does all this mean continued con-tinued the speaker I means that in case such n condition should arise as a choice between a gold man and a free sllvet DemOcrat the Republicans I Repub-licans the Llppmans would support the gold man Are you going to take I any chances I you are sincere in your free silver declarations you will forsake the party of gold and trusts and array yourselves on the side it the people and free silver The fight will not end with the election of Bryan I will continue as long as trusts and monopolies exist COLONEL PICKETT Colonel Picket paid a high tribute to Judge A Norreil who had been a classmate of his He referred to Mr Norrells record in Mississippi where he was among the foremost members of the bar and said his electfon to I the district bench would be an act state that would reflect credit to the entire Colonel Pickett created much enthusiasm I enthu-siasm by his logical arguments in behalf echo be-half of silver and was cheered to the I |
