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Show by about 150,000 head, while the wool product prod-uct this year is estimated at 800,000 pounds. A few minutes after the arrival of the party at Mount Pleasant the alarm of fire was -rivtn. It was found that a hay-rick had taught fire from the sparks of the engine. Mr. ' Cannon, in company with others, took off tils coat and worked like a little Trojan in putting the fire out. A glee club was organized in the after-CL'yn after-CL'yn tiy Mr. John James of Salt Lake. "The (smtririg of the club was immense aud was or.e of the important features of the meeting. meet-ing. The boys came in for a biff round of aj-p-ause. They save six selections in all. . : Traders, Good Bye," and received a well- ! merited encore. The chairman then introduced intro-duced MR. JOHN JAMES of Salt Lake. He said: Our Democratic friends tell me thit prDtec-tion ; is robbery. Now any system of r.v-trf-rv t-i.u will ' take five dollars out of my r-ori-.f t and repbtcu 15 j with ten is a kind of robbery I am. wiiUr.r to have i practiced on nie every lav. To yet a jr-v,r ion- J cepiion of the pratti. ai r-v,nt of the r--;..-ctiw j principles of free trade ' cd protet.t'.oi;, ''- i should compare a Irfct' (rati.- co.n.trv ; like England with i.TOtc.-tion o .n'.rv I like tha Unitei 8at. 1h?"-Vx.-r.xtie tM-tari j snd orators say thr.t it is not far to voiujiare j England with Ar--evl-. when t'.i tei-:i;rcf. of t:i j latter are so much'la:7 r iii i ii3lvelof.a. Hxxt j such a comparison wiil reaslily pruvu thit Ir e j trade haw brougn flr:.ui..ti ritia, pu"r:y und div tress to th masip . t. r;iini, v.-tii:e proturrion has bronght the Atwrn su j.eci'ie weUith, t on-tentment on-tentment and proscriry. I'ro'e.tir.u ;B not a cure for every ill, but it din?' i:re'iti ceitain favorable favor-able con Jitions thut fre trace w-iuld destroy. I was born and lived in fr.e trade Knglaad, and have had opportunities of eeeinc and feelinsr the condition of the working classes the; ev and I eay that the W(?rkiaz uin in protected America is a king to Ms fellow workman in free trade Kngland. Applausa. lie then went on to illustrate the difference differ-ence between living; in a country where the necessaries of life are very cheap and wages correspondingly low, and living where the same articles cost more, but where wages are much higher in proportion-and labor plenty. - In regard to onr candidate, Mr. Cannon, I de-siro de-siro to say that I believe ha is the best man in Utah to represent her interests in congress. He is her own son, he understands- her needs and the wishes of her people as few others do, and the people of Utah will be wise if they elect him next November. Applause. At the close of Mr. James remarks, the grlee club brought down the house with. "Billy McKinley O." The chairman then introduced FRANK J. After the deafening applause that greeted him subsided, he said: - Since tinman life cannot be all bliss, since toil and trouble are the inevitable lot of the masse?, anyone who will co around among the people and with false sympathy and condolences show lis that onr trnnhlen am not rmr own f snl t. hilt thft IT. PLEASANT ' MS OUT To Hear Frank J. Cannon's Eloquent Plea for Republicanism. HE DEALS THE CALAMITY HOWLERS HOWL-ERS SEVERE BODY BLOWS. t Every Evil the Democrats Predict Turns Out Good. EVER THUS FROM LINCOLN'S SCABS TO M'KINLEY BILL. tScorge Sutherland Compares the Tariff Operations of the Iast House tVith the Outchman AVlio Cut OtT the Doe's Tall Inch by Inch Because It Would Hurt the Dos to Cut It All Off at Once The 4.ifted Tin Plate Liar History of the I. ate Iteslsl at u re Mary's Little Lit-tle Lamb John James Also Speaks The Glee Clubs Xotes. Mount Pleasant, Sept. 28. Special. The town showed its colors last night in giving Frank J. Cannon a royal greeting. At Fairview a delegation of Mount Pleasant Republicans boarded the train, wearing Cannon Can-non badges on their breasts, and accompanied accompa-nied the candidate and his party to their destination. des-tination. At Mount Pleasant carriages were waiting, and the party was driven to the residence res-idence of Mr. Madsen, where dinner was served to them. At 7:30 in the evening the Mount Pleasant brass band began playine in front of the opera house, which was soon filled to overflowing. over-flowing. Inside, the house was tastefully decorated with flags for the occasion, while at tbe back of the stage was hung a motto which read: , VOTE FOR THE UTAH BOY, : FRANK J. CANNON. W. D. Candland, president of the local Republican Re-publican club, presided, and after a cam-' cam-' paign song by tbe glee club he introduced, with a few well-chosen remarks, ' " ' HON. GEORGE SUTHERLAND, who was received with applause as be bowed his acknowledgements. He said he , had r not xrne to make a speech," but he" wanted. to tell the people that Benjamin Harrison would Le the next president of the United States, and Frank J. Cannon the next delegate from Utah to congress. Applause. Ap-plause. It had been a question, he said, whether or not the Republicans of Utah could elect a delegate to congress; now, however, it was only a question as to the size of the majority. He said the Democrats had hoped to elect a man on the showing of the lasi Democratic legislature, and denion-. denion-. strsted very clearly how that hope had vanished. van-ished. Two years apo, he said, the people of the United States, in a nl of temporary insanity, elected a Democratic majority in the house of repreaenta-tiveo. repreaenta-tiveo. At nbout the fame period the people of Utah elected a Democratic legislature, probably whi.e laboring under the ame mental condition. The Democratic party made three distinct pledgee: First, it claimed that the Republican tonsjress had robbed the people by its ignorance and extravagance, and promised to put a stop to that; but the Democratic congress that succeeded it fxnt many millions of dollars more than the Republican conprrfS had co:ie. Then the Democrats Demo-crats promised they would repeal the McKir.Uy bill, and tney did that like the Dutchman who cut oil his dog s tail inch by inch, because it would hurt the do? so much worse to cut it oft all at rice. They began to repeal the bill little by little, lit-tle, but about the only thing they succeeded in doing do-ing to fulfill that plefg-t was to originate an en-ti;e!y en-ti;e!y new kind of liar, who will be known in history his-tory as the fault of otiers, npon whom rest the responsibility, responsi-bility, will always be welcome, for it makes onr burden lighter to know some one else is to blame for it. This class of people are known as CALAMITY HOWLERS, and nntil very recently Utah had not been sorely afflicted with them. Yearn ago I used to think we were a Happy, prosperous and conten'ed people here. I can find no cause to thiuk otherwise now. When I went to school,' I used to go barefoot, wear a hickory shirt, and thank God for it; but you won t llnd the school children here barefoot now, and the people seem even more prosperous, contented con-tented and happy than ever before. If we were coutented and prosperous twenty years ago, how much more so cow, and how little the room for calamity howlers in Utah. f Applause. I attended a meeting here last soring shortly before an impoitact political event, and presented pre-sented the affirmative side of Republicanism. Tonight i shall take tip the Democratic side, and without abusing that party, show you how the calam ty howlers have continuously scolded, and how, in spite of their despairing wail, our government gov-ernment and our people have SONS ALONG PROSPERING. Now the calamity howlers are never satisfied with any condition of things; yet if any change is made they vie it with alarm and solemn predictions predic-tions of dita iter. One of the first acts of the Republican Re-publican party was to fix a currency. Previously there had been a floating stats bank currency. It had no fixed value, and there was no security behind it to injure its redemption. A man might go to bed with a pocket full of it, and wake op to find the bank broke, or tha cesaier absconded, abscond-ed, and his riches so much paper. Laughter. When business men took the old., state bank notes they rushed t to thebauk to get them deposited de-posited and crwdiied-bafarceoiaething happened; to qia'".e- hem worthless. ,Air ta Aialae, ' starting out with a hundred dollars on an Illinois bank, might reach that state to find his money worthless. 1 have one of those no:es in my pocket now. In 1864 there were 3i0,000 of those notes loaned in the sta'e cf Ohio on farms; but before one dollar of the notes got-back ti the bank that issued them, it was broke, and they were not worth a cent. The Republican party saw the injustice of this state of thing;- did away with the state bank system, established national na-tional banks, behini which it put the faith and credit of the nation, and made a dollar a doliar from Maine to New Orleans. Applause. And it did this in the teeth of the Democratic calamity howlrrs who predicted all manner of evil and suffering suf-fering The howl of calamity against the McKin-ley McKin-ley bid today is no greater than was the cry of the Democracy against the law under which THE "LINCOLN SCABS" WERE ISSUED. But no harm came of fiat measure. Applause and laughter. The next thing to excite the agony 01 the calamity howlers was a homestead law, which had been more than once rejected re-jected by a Democratic congress. But it finally passed a Republican house, a Republican Re-publican senate and was signed by a Re-publican Re-publican president: and it gave to 1,IK)0,030 citizens of this country homes on the free soil of America. The calamity howlers howled. They claimed that it would make paupers of the people to receive these homestead lands and would impoverish im-poverish the government.- Did any calamity follow? fol-low? Applause. Later, when the Republican government was carrying on the great civil war, and issued greenbacks, a howl went up then from the calamit people. They railed them Lincoln scabs, and aid they would never be redeemed. Do you ever get too many of them now r Great .nnlanca . rA , j w rr't ar 1 Thav (. r.. as rrrnA ua i r i . i A And lait, they promised the people free silver, but when a free silver bill passed the Republican rennte it wa killed by tLe Democratic house. That is how they kept tuote pledges. He went on to show how the Democratic ...legislature of Utah had fulfilled its pledges to the people and how most of its measures had been either vicious or unconstitutional, one of them having been declared unconstitutional unconsti-tutional by the supreme court of the territory. terri-tory. To illustrate the Democratic position oa the wool industry, a Democratic friend of his once heard bis little sun singiug Mary had a little lamh, and took the boy out Into the woodshed and thrashed bim for it, as he said, that song made him think of the duty on wool. If it had not been for th act!.- n of the Democratic Demo-cratic iexixlatnre, he said, which denied the bounty ou sugar, there would soon have been enough factories in Utah to upplr the demand. It is belter policy for the people td manufacture ' 'all the sugar they consume at home and pay a bounty on. 1, than to ki.l that industry at home snd pay lor the arricle manufactured by someone else. When the Republican party get into power liore, which, thank IKaven. will not be lone, U ah wlil manufacture every pound of sugar the conxuines. Applause. He drew a graphic picture of , THE KKPUBLICAX PAKTV'S RECORD j from Abraham Lincoln's time to the pres- I ent, 2nd told how that party had come into 1 power to find a depleted treasury, the peo- I pie poor and the country on the verge of a 1 civil war. How out of the smoke and carn- 1 age of battle had come the glorious certain- I ty of a united people aud tbe knowledge I ttiat in this country all men were indeed I created free and equal. I The Republican party has marched steadily on- I ward and upward, and its purpose has grown I deeper and deeper, and stronger and purer with tune. It came aa an inspiration and a hope, and I iti watchword has always been ''Protection to I Am-rican industriex!" Can the Democratic I piirty uhow ax clean a record, wiih their free trade I cancer, that would eat the heart out of Ameri- I en labor and industries; I He spoke of the statements made by Dem- I ocratic speakers claiming that certain Amer- 1 lean manufacturers sold their goods cheaper I in foreign countries than at home, mention- 1 ing the Oliver Chilled plow works In partic- 1 ulor. This firm in reply to iuquiries, he 1 said, had stated that it was constantly mak- 1 inz improvements on its implements, and 1 that Americans would buy none but the lat- I est and best, so that It was compelled to I shin its old-fashioned and inferior imple- 1 ments out of the United States in order to I find a market for them at all, and were glad I to sell them for considerable less than tbe I price of the latent and best here. I It i the duty of the people of Utah to lay aside I a1! other conmderatioi.s and simply vote for the ; I man who will oet represnt their interest and I the i iterets of tbe country, otherwise you will jl Invit' defeat For that reason I pror ose to eup- 1 port r rank J. ( annon w ith all the strength and ' I o er J po-e. 1 know him, and 1 know he is I a .iitn. lie is one of Utah's o.vn on. Ap- . I plause. His integrity i beyond qn-4-tion, his I intellect Is as keen as the clance of one of Utah's I eaglns, and when I mt beside him at tbe Mtnne- . J spolis convention 1 saw hi eyes moisten at the 'I mention of the name of bis party's idol, James O. B sine, aud then I knew hi mother Utah hod I riven him a heart with all the rest. Elect him, I at d he IU be to Utah what JIcKlnley is to Ohio, I or Blaine is to Maine. Great app aiue I The glee club next sang "Good Eye, F.-a h t, . , - j -., .... . . from Atlantic to Pacific. The same ca.amity hol was raided against the McKinley bill. Where is that uowl now? . He then gave clear and forcible illustrations illustra-tions of how tbe prices on the necessaries of life had beeu reduced since the passage of the McKinley bill, as shown by the senate committee's report, and that our trade with foreign countries since the paa?a.e of luo bill is irreater than ever bef jru. The Democratic pres of the trrii-rifd i calamity howl last eprin.T and to'.-' t pople ia ! effect that if they dared to veto tho K pu ii -can j ticket this fall after giv.r the Democrat a v.:a- jority la-t year, they wc.uid be cotil.!'-.-ei ft-in- j cere and an indignant r.aikm won't, crtssirUtiih to powder. Yon ele ti a &:Mii:c.ui city timet here. Has your it bflec any ir,ier? 1 t.j.tik not. Applause j I feel that 1 ehoni'i explain why I sp-r I e-foreyou e-foreyou toniglit ark n.' lor jour puitrasre-, because be-cause it has not been it,e custom out h- fT the 1 candidate to go on the tuuit, because in the past one of them KNEW HE COULDX T BE ELECTED if he tried, and the other knew he would be elected whether he tried or not. The Democratic organ tells you yon mnst not vote the Republican ticket, if yon voted the Democratic ticket last year, no matter what vour present conscientious convictions may be. In other wordi you must be a hypocrite for fear, of being thought one. I.auh'er.J I cek you to vote as you believe, vote i c-ifcientiouutv, and whether the resnit is a Republican ito y or not you will have done right. ; tireat appiause. ... ilie meeting then adjourned. SIDE NOTES. Several people drove over from neighboring neighbor-ing settlements to attend the meeting. . Mayor Johnson possesses a fine voice and is now an active member of the glee club. Cannon badges were distributed in great profusion. Everybody on the streets wore one. There are a good many fine residences in Mount Pleasant, and building is still going on all over town. The Times is indebted to Mayor Johnson and Councilman Candland for their courtesy to its representatives, i Mount Pleasant Is all right. A native was heard to remark: "We're hatching Republicans Repub-licans in the sun every day." The meeting was called to order promptly at 7:30 by Chairman Candland. It adjourned ad-journed at 10:15, and then the people were eager for more. It is wonderful to see the degree of Republican Repub-lican enthusiasm displayed by the people. Every member of the Harrison club is a worker from the president down. The Mount Pleasant brass band is an exceptionally ex-ceptionally fine organization, that would do credit to any city. The boys discoursed some excellent music during the evening. A very pretty and pleasant feature of the evening's meeting was a little tot of a sweet miss of about 4 years with a Cannon badge on, running across tbe stage toward the candidate, can-didate, putting her arms around his neck and showering him with kisses. She said she would "div him a wote" If she had one. Mount Pleasant is one of the prettiest and liveliest little towns in Utah. - A franchise has been asked for a street railway and electric elec-tric Tlerht plant, and 120,000 has been raised toward the establishment of a big woolen -ijtj. The sheep Interests are represented |