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Show Tit HAL PROGRESS. Cannon's Tour Through Southern Utah Is One (ireat Ovation. HE MAKES FOUR DIFFERENT SPEECHES IN ONE DAY. Vermillion, Glen wood, Elsinore and Eichfield His Stopping1 Tlaces. THE GLEE CLUB SINGS "GOOD BYE, FREE TRADERS, GOOD BYE." endorse the platform of the Republican party, upon which 1 stand, then plverue your suffrage-, and I promise you in tne name of that grand old ' party, that it is brave enough und trong enough to protect you from Democratic insult or injury. ELSIXOKE was the next stopping place, and there a regular Repblican love feast was the order of the day. A number of inquiring Demo-I Demo-I crate accepted Mr. Cannon's invitatiou to I ask questions referring to any point of Republican Re-publican doctrine they desired to be enlightened en-lightened upon, and received tho answer that is said to turn away wrath. AT RICHFIELD there was a magnificent turnout, the hall being crowded until there was not standing room, and the sidewalk around the doors was at a premium. The band was out, colors col-ors were flying end the hall was decorated with bunting. Mr. Cannon's entrance was the signal for an outburst of applause, which did not cease until Mr. James . Petersen called the meeting to order and introduced in-troduced Mr. Cannon as THE XEXT DELEGATE TO CONGRESS. Mr. Cannon said he had noticed that the chairman of every meeting he had attended so far spoke of him as the next delegate to cousrress, and he was glad to find there was so little doubt about it in the mind of the people, for in their hands lay the power to verify the prediction. He believed the welfare wel-fare of Utah and her people was as dear to him, who was one of them, as the welfare of his own flesh and blood. Yet he would not sav that he was the only man who loved ; ; The Harden of 3Ir. Cannon's Arjpn-ment Arjpn-ment Is Protection to American and Particularly I'tah Industries Democrat s Try to Arouse Animosities Animos-ities and Revive Iead Issues in the IVake of Sir. Cannon's Trip. Richfield, Sept. 29. Frank J. Cannon's campaign tour through southern Utah is fast assuming- the nature of a triumphal march. At every stopping place he is received re-ceived with the greatest enthusiasm, and where the meetings have been held, as is the case. almost every day, during working hours, the people have suspended their business pursuits and labor and flocked to soe and hoar him, while flags, banners, mottoes mot-toes and brass bands are the regular thing everywhere. It is, in fact, a regular Fourth of July evnry where. Utah, or that his party was the only party that had her interests at heart. I do believe, he said, that both the g.-eat na-tiomil na-tiomil parties are striving to attain the same end in this terriiorv aud throughout the United States. 1 do not believe that if the Democratic party should secure the majority of the people's votes the country would be ruined beyond redemption. But 1 do believe that the principles and doctrine of Republicanism as enunciated iu that party's platform are better calculated to advante and prosper and maintain the political, fiocial, educational, educa-tional, and above all, the industrial IMTEBBSTS or oca TERRITORY and the United States. Applause. And it is npon that proposition and no other that I asfc your suffrage. I understand that some very peculiar pecu-liar arguments were advanced here the other night by the speakers for the other side to further their cause with you. Arguments Ar-guments that have been declared by both parties, and by the vote of the territory, to be no longer an issue here. Great applause. Arguments Ar-guments unworthy of the source irom whence they came, even though it was a Democratic one. And 1 warn them, for their own sakes, to beware how they attempt to coerce the people of Utah into doing their will. 1 do not claim that, the Republican party has ever earned of the people of this territory any great burden of gratitude for what it bas done f.ir tkmn A n t-i n r tha tw.nhr.fniir VMr. tf it ascendancy. Nor do I think the Democratic party during the four years of its administration did anything in that respect that can be pointed to wuh pride, or that placed this people under any obligation to it. The fact is, my friends, that neither party has ever done vtry much for Utah, but what the Democrats did do was just a little bit worse thau wnat the Republicans did not do. Cheers and lauu'er.J It is to i rovidence, and not to any political party, that your thanks are due. He showed the falsity of the claim that the principles of Republicanism tendered to the centralization of power or the destruction destruc-tion of individual or state rights. That on the contrary, while the Democratic party preached individual sovereignity aud local self-government, it practiced the very principle it so loudly denounced, as was evidenced by the organic act which was originated in and was passed by a Democratic Demo-cratic conirress and killed by a Republican senate; and also by the system of government govern-ment of many. of the Democratic states, where nearly all the stata, county and ; municipal officers were" appointive Within.the ' power of the governor or -legislative assembly. assem-bly. He reviewed the tariff question, and at a request from one of the audience, explained ex-plained the policy of the government on the euear bounty. It is the policy of the Republican party, he aid, to admit free of duty any article of common consumption that is not at present produced or manufactured in the United States. This is done in order to give the people the benefit of those articles at the lowest price, as, for instance, we rise here no tea or conVe and but very li'.tle sugar, su-gar, and they are not articles which will compete with any of our own. -Now, as we manufacture hardly any of the sugar we consume, and it is nn article of common consumption, the government admits it free of duty in order to make the price as low as possible to ihe people. But desiring to encourage and foster the growth of the industry in this country, the government pays a bounty pf 2 per cent per pouud out of the -ever increasing surplus in the treasury, to the American sugar manufacturers. If we accept the Democratic theory of producing only what can be most easily produced here in Ctah, we would still be producing pro-ducing sage brush and jack rabbits, for that is what was being produced mostly here before we tried to produce something better. Cheers and laughter. I he Richfield glee club then rendered its usual splendid service and the meeting wad dismissed. SIDE ISSUES. John T. Caine, in his address at Richfield last Tuesday night (27th), said: " dul it have to change my principles al all when 1 1 ft the People's party to join the ranks of Vie Jje- The magnificent staying qualities of the "Little Napoleon of Utah" have been amply proven, both physically and mentally, by the tremendous strain of driving from forty to sixty miles a day over the most abominable abomina-ble roads in the United States, and making from two to four long speeches in twelve hours without serious results. The first meeting today was held at Vermillion Ver-million at 10:30 this moruiug, Glenwood at 2 p. m., Elsinore at 4:30, and at Richfield at 8 o'clock this evening. AT VERMILLION, the same enthusiasm that bas marked the !rip all through was indicated by flying flags, patriotic music and a large and enthusiastic en-thusiastic audience. . The meeting was called to order by f-aiuuel Nekker, who called upon- Mr.-. Madsen to read the territorial Republican platform, after which the Richfield Glee club sung a campaign song entitled, "What Shall v,he Tariff Be?" which brought down the house. FRANK J. CANNON was then introduced. lie said that there was so ramy questions involved in the political po-litical issues of the day that it was impossible impossi-ble for one speaker to cover them all in one address, and asked that if there was any point the audience particularly wished to hear discussed, they would make it known. I wish, he said, to call your attention to one thing. Two years ago, if any man had gone amon the people of Utah and asked them if they believed ia establishing aud maintaining home industries, they would have answered, Yes." if they had leen asked if they were willing will-ing to pay a bounty on I'tah sugar, In order to sustain that industry here, thev would have answered, an-swered, "Ye." Why, every sod that is turned op to God s sunlight in this territory is a tribute to the bounty system. Applause and cheers. But since the conditions have changed and the people peo-ple have divided on national party lines, the Democrat Dem-ocrat are going around telling tliis same people that these principles are wrong now bocaufe they are not Democratic principle. Did the division on national party lines make any difference in the industrial interest or necessities of the territory? Jf it wn good policy before the division to establish estab-lish end putroulze home in instries, is it not just as good poliey now r i think it is; and the only t on why a, Democracy object to it is because it is the policy of the Fepubl.can partv, and they don't want the people of L'tah to call themselves Kepablicani or vole for that party, even if they believe it. Great applause and laughter. He then took up the tariff question and showed the difference between that and the Democratic policy of free trade, and illus-l illus-l trated the effect free trade would have upon the farmers of the country as compared with that of protection. He riddled the Democratic Demo-cratic tin-plate bogey, and showed that American made tin is cheaper today with the tariff on than the foreign tin was without with-out it, and that we are fostering an industry at home that would be unable otherwise to exist. He then dwelt upon the wool question ques-tion at some length, and closed by urging ' the people to study well the principles of the two parties, and cast their votes In November No-vember as their honest convictions might dictate, without fear or favor to any man oi party. Great applause. The glee club set the audience on fire with the song "Good Bye.Free Traders.Good Bye," and after a vote of thanks to the speakers and the singers, the meeting adjourned. . glenwood was reached at 2 o'clock and then the programme pro-gramme was repeated. The glee club opened the meeting with "There's a Head Under Grandfather's Hat," whioh was received re-ceived with great applause. Mr. Cannon was then introduced aud made a telling address, ad-dress, which drew from his audience frequent fre-quent and hearty applause, ne compared the record of the two national parties, pointed out the policy and platform of the Republican psrtv, aud said that he stood upon that platform for the suffrages of the people of Utah. It is an eay matter, he said, to t-ar down and destroy. The Savior gave his life upon tbe cross years ao to redeem mankind, and the blood of martyr through all the years since then to ti.e divinity of llis mission. Yet, in this day, Olonel Ingernoll or some other infidel comes along, and in one boor sweeps away from their standpoint the divine truths tost it has aaken 20U0 years and oceans of innocent blood to establish. But have they anvthing better to substitute for wba Kiev would detrov? If they have 1 haven't litard of it. Applae. So with the Democratic Demo-cratic party ; thev would pull down the governmental govern-mental and political policy of the grand old Re-nublietn Re-nublietn party, whose mission is the political and industrial redemption of mankind, the truth of wnic.i has also received the testimony of the blood cf martyrs. Gre.it applause. They would dftroy it if they could. But have they anything bet to substitute? Let us see what they offer. He then went on to show the disastrous eCect the free trade policy would have upon every branch of American industry, throwing throw-ing them all at the mercy of England's manufacturers and capitalists. He then pointed out how imperative it was that American productions should be protected from competition with the products of for- eign pauper labor, because that competition ; meant the closing down of our mills and factories and the establishment of tbe same condition of work and wages that exists at present in the foreign free trade conn tries. J This is what tbey offer as a substitute for the 1 JO'liy of the Bepabilcan party of protwtion, i wnose eaft has heea glorious and whose future is entered. Is the substitute better? If ron balleve it is, then enst your votes for that in November fctxt. But if your honest opinion leads you to v I nwcracy. The campaign speakers of the Democracy, in their frantic endeavor to stem the swelling swell-ing tide of Republicanism that fohows in the wake of Frank J. Cannon through southern Utah, have begun parading the spectres of the dead and dusty past before the people wherever they can find audiences. The result, re-sult, however, is not proving at all satisfactory satisfac-tory to them. If the Democracy doesn't call in Messrs. King and Caine, or compel them to cease harping on the issues which both parties have declared no longer figure in Utah politics, poli-tics, they will not have a voter left in southern south-ern Utah, as the people here have accepted in good faith the division on national party lines and are disgusted with the attempt of the Democratic speakers to get back to the old conditions. The Republican Glee club of Richfield is one of the best, if not the very best one in the territory. The club has accompanied Mr. Cannon for two days on his itinerary, and contributed in no small degree to the good of the cause. It deserves the gratitude of all true Republicans. The members of the club are: S. G. Clark, tenor; Misses Chloe Bean and Anna Hendrickson, sopranos; so-pranos; Edna Bean and Bertha Halliday. altos, al-tos, and J. H. Eversoll, bass. The last-named last-named gentleman is director of the organization. organi-zation. Mr. W. H. Clark is one of the moot energetic ener-getic workers the Republican party has in southern Utah. , John T. Caine said in Richfield last Tuesday Tues-day niarht that the Republican party was responsible re-sponsible for the passage of the Edmunds-Tucker Edmunds-Tucker act, and that the people must not vote the Repuolican ticket in November because be-cause of it. Isn't it time the Democrats let the dead past bury its dead? Take oft your dead, Mr. Caine, and bury it, and then in the name of suffering humanity let it rest. |