| Show KEARNS ISLE I t Citizens of Mercur Have ilave Fun Fan With Tom Toni t ALASKA IS AN J ISLAND ISLAM i R ORATORS O ON JUMP I Special to The Herald Harold Mercur Nov 2 The t Ie and nd most moat entertaining D political diversion On that ha h b yet et been given in hi Mercur was I afforded by the tM Republican s test last night The camp was wag invaded by the t th Republican hess Dean spellbinders about aut 6 I The party part consists con l t of Torn Tom Kearns Kerna C C Goodwin Arthur Brown E C Loose and C O 0 Whittemore The party came caine up from on Oft a special pedal train and an incident of the th trip that ia is com cant commented on is the fact that several workmen work n coming up OR os the same sniDe train were not allowed ed to ride in hi the car with their royal roal nibs but bad had to ride riden n a 8 freight ear car attached to the train tram The outdoor ou before the meeting waa was quite spectacular The Jolden Gate date hand band beaded headed a procession Consisting of all 11 tO torchbearers seventy Jve ive ve at least leant being beba boys some of whom two tw torches Red lights lighta were burned firearms discharged lowe and shouts l for Bryan and aid Me Mc Kinley filled the t air The opera house was wu hUed ailed but it was w very evident ident before the meeting vas as very far fr advanced that the ma majority jerRy were Bryan supporters Some especially Drawn brazen statement by a speak speaker er would be mt met with th groans from the and aDd Chairman statement that the tM speaker peak would re reply reply reply ply to o questions was waa taken advantage Chan f so frequently that the questioners were ware re finally made mad to desist deJ Had Furi Pu With Kearns Kaarns Tom Kearns Kearn was as the tile first brnt speaker and ami he spoke at such length that every everyone everyone everyone one grew tired and Arthur Brown got Iret gothe Irethe gothe he fidgets Tom made the astonishing bing assertion that the Republicans ans could oe De depended upon to give the country I ree tee silver an assertion as that was re ye repeated repeated panted by each subsequent speaker Referring deferring to the Philippines he said saM dryan was afraid to give them theta the You Toe bet yelled yel d some IOme onen one n It the audience but Toman did not in orm us whether or not McKinley he be any braver brayer He was asked by one of the audience if the leans jeans would carry out oat their then promises premises es and Uti replied by toiling them th u what a beautiful picture of Washington Wa ton was placed ia la Republican headquarters at Salt Lake Laie Speaking of the territory added to this country he said And these the is ill the Islands of Alaska majestically ia In the bosom of the Artie Artic sea ea and he called for tor a lookin gt glass gins to tg picture what this glorious nation would be in inthe Inthe inthe the coming century Here one oae in the audience respectfully tf t Certainly responded a be tIe spread his bands hads and sd the audience audi Wen Well Just ju t give me a looking glass that will wilt show Alaska to be ba an island The audience roared Arthur Brown snorted Judge e Goodwin hid his face in his hl hands bands and Tom roes after atter trying in vain to be heard above the laughter sat down completely squelched Listened te to Goodwin The chairman asked for the consid conald consideration of the audience for the gray hairs of oC Judge Goodwin and that gen gao gentleman tieman was heard Iward without interruption tion He claimed every good law to have haye come from the Ute Republicans and every bad law from the Democrats JJ He claimed d to have taught Bryan all allbe he be knew about silver sUver and trotted out the same old bogie of flat paper money with which he has been trying to scare the people the past four tour months He denied that he was a traitor to silver nv r rut ut people veople here cannot reconcile his position today with what it was Wag three or four years ago O as h shown by his h J utterances reproduced daily in The Herad Herald Questions Por For Brown Arthur Brown received r a good many interruptions and was asked ked a several questions que which he evaded or answered by a sharp retort He declared that trusts or no trusts the country had never enjoyed enjo such BUell prosperity as it was WB experiencing today And ADd the tile trusts have haw got it alt all called caned out oat some ome one in the tbt audience Then when he be said that the Republicans henna could be he depended Upon to legis legislate legislate legislate late against trusts trus I some orne one called out What about bout Monett I 1 dont know anything about him hOO retorted Mr Brown Congressman Kings reference to the had evidently ruffled rallied him for he be made an II onslaught on lau t on both him and Cannon and declared himself a better friend to sliver silver than either of these th gentlemen Referring to The Heralds showing ll up of George Suther Sut er erlands lands lauds vote on the labor law Jaw In the first legislature he be said he n e had been as a assured that Mr XI Sutherland bad had voted for it but admitted that Mr Suther Sutherland land laad had bad not told hint him so Cannot C not Fool Pool Mercur It is clearly learly evident that the people of Mercur cannot be he h made to think that black is i white or that the Republican I party is either for free fr silver or free freemen freemen men They cannot appreciate te the full fun dinner pail argument and the bottom w j yz less lew dinner ne palls pal p tilled With WIth at t tare are hung across acro acrO the Ute street nar n al the i I Republican pubU n prosperity r i show how they look on it It is 18 de df I dared too that the alleged dinner pail 1 painted on their banner Is III a Standard Oil company can tilled with gains gln from the people It only n needs ds Tom Fitch Saturday to complete the conversion of the town to Democracy BAD BREAK o Admits Admit That Philippine Policy MI i i Cheap Lanor Te Th the iter of or The rhe he Herald Mercur Now Nov 2 2111 In an interview at af after atter atter ter the tRe speech of last night Thomas Kearns made the astounding statement that the acquisition of the Philippines meant an enormous influx of ef cheap Asiatic labor and that such was a 8 part of the great Republican policy polley The statements were drawn from him himin himin himin in this manner manner When he spoke He In Invited invIted invited all who had qUe they wished wI answered to give lye them in Three men asked questions that made him scratch his hie head and then he called the th ques questioners q questioners down and awl threatened to have them expelled from rom the haIl hall I then handed banded him these th questions on OR a slip of paper First Of what account will Chi Chinese nose nese exclusion acts be when the th Phil PhU Philippines with their millions of ot Chinese and other Mongolians are citi clU citizens ena of the United States Second When the Filipinos become citizens citizen of the United States Stales each na Ra native tive becomes become a voter Now do we want the votes of the mongrels of the Philippines to count equally with the votes vote of all the Ute peo pen people pie exclusive lve of Texas west we t of the theMi Mississippi Mi l T The first question be he refused to an answer answer the second he answered in a 8 roundabout way never coming to the point and aDd in reality it was no answer newel at all aU The meeting over I taxed hint as to why the first query was not answered aa He did not reply Then I said An Answer Answer Answer it now BOW ROW Whereupon lit lie practically admitted that to have answered the question on in public would have been to lose kwe many y votes for fer his hi party petty He admitted that when the Filipinos become betom citizens of the ilK United States there would be a II great Asiatic influx of cheap labor that hat it would take the place of white and have a disastrous effect upon upen wages Sir I said ald In rn your speech k you continually declared your friendship for the American laborer and your in teren in his welfare Now you se ac acknowledge knowledge that the acquisition of the Philippines means an of millions of Mongolian laborers laborera and a O 5 nt wage scale Jle in the United States Is this to the interest of the American laborer And Anel then he lie said he had to go as his hia carriage was waiting walling EMMET CASTLE |
