Show HUMBUG DEMOCRACY Absurd Tallis by Evans and Thur I man at Pleasant Grove I V Pleasant Grove March ISTf xve are o Judge from the slxe of the audience I vhlch greeted the Democratic speakers V nit evening King need not expect I iiuch support here The meeting was toite well advertised but tho attend flee wati very light It was hold In Marks operahouHQ There was no mute mu-te foOl I the proceedings seemed to be aimed t I wlfJi I ii 1 oorialn I degree of dry I ifjj nui very fe xr of the lidlcs wpr < irccnt although the pooler slated J thai the ladies were especially Invllcd i Tho Democrats here have nothing to I congratulate ihemselves about this J teuiV The Democratic majority grows I 4iiImtlICr from year r to i year here and the Republicans feel conlldent of victory this year V V V V i I The meeting Aas called to order by J I I S Hawey itho slated that the spcak ora of the evening would be A O 0I j Sinoot Dan limit t Jacob Evans and 1 S It i Thurman The llrst speaker of V Ito evening WIIS Jacob Evnna of Lohl He made I he same old claim that Is I being made to much l > y Democratic t MPiV Ions that Ito I Republicans arc dodging all Issues lie had a great deal lo I say about trusts and the greot amount of capital there Invested He Inferred that the Republicans would legislate against the Mormon people He then tried lo touch the hearts of I the people on the silver quesllon Glen Miller received his attention for some I I time but the people did not seem to boat 1 bo-at all Interested He then tried to In terosl his audience in statistics by rending an article from the Review of Revlexvs on rusts Prices that arc now and that t used to be were hInted Then xilth a llouilsh and a wave of the hand I he declared that the trusts arc mightier I than I the sword In governing the pen pie of the United States Still the peo pie did not applaud Ho appealed to I the farmers next and told them that 0 everything wait higher now except farm products but t he did not tell them that llity hud more money with which lo purchase the goods needed Thus began be-gan and ended the speech of Jacob r Evans The second speaker of tho evening was Dan I liototz of Provo lie talked about civil government In a general way and apologized for not appearing on the stump more than he did lie i Informed the audience that he camo t oxer with Brother Evans to simply look on He looked wise when he said According Ac-cording to my humble way of thinking I favor the Democrats Ills speech was very short and was greeted xvlth some applause on that account The third speaker was S R Thur man lie began feeding the people here i laify hy h saying that he made his las 1 political speech In Pleasant drove and I enjoyed speaking He thought the people here were not very wise HO ho made a very poor ° effort to explain the meaning1 of a trust He avoided the Roberts ivsolutlon but xvisely declared that any person had n right lo lift his little voice against what he V supposed lo be a xvrong It I ivan a question with him ar lo whether the DtmocnUlc convention con-vention did right or wrong After quotlngfrom somo of the Provo speakers speak-ers he closed by pleading xvlth the people peo-ple to vote for King and thus put an end to the war In the Philippine Islands I Such humbug |