Show CltlNDLER AT PRO VOG He Was Enthusiastically Received and Made a Masterly Reply to Gov Thomas of Colorado H I He Tells Why Utah is Wanted in the Republican Column and Shows Where the Advantage LiesHe Points Out the Mis joinder of Gov Thomas in Harping on Silver This Year Bryans Ingratitude to Silver Men b f TRIBUNE SPECIAL Provo Utah Oct IGThe Opera I house was crowded with an enthusiastic f enthusi-astic audlcnco tonight hear Judge handler On the stage were seated J the ladles of the Republican Womans club and many prominent citizens Including I In-cluding Hon Reed Smoot and C 0 Whlttcmore who were Interested listeners I The meeting was called to order by Chairman De Moisey who Introduced the first speaker Eph Homer candidate candi-date for Representative to the Legislature I Legis-lature Mr Homer contrasted the present economic conditions with the conditions under the late Democratic administration he referred to the able I administraton administration ot Republican officials I r In the State The Republican party is proud of this record and had said I BO In its State and county platforms The Democratic party however failed for some cause or other to Indorso their Legislature they now admitted their Legislature had made a mistake but asked to have another trial He made a strong sensible talk and was frequently applauded Boshard and Pyne brothers quartette rendered three catchy campaign songs i which were received with the enthusiasm enthusi-asm usually accorded these singers Mr Chandler spoke nearly two hours and was most attentively listened to throughout the entire time and received re-ceived great applause i Judge Chandlers Speech Mr Chairman and Ladies and Gentlemen Gentle-men lmtrmen of the City of ProI count It a piece of unusual good fortuno to bo able to address tonight the citizens of this cultured educational city amid such Inspiring and picturesque environment en-vironment a city seated as It Is In the heart of this great natural basin along Fldo tho noblo lake that gllst3iis beneath tho sun of your cloudless skies and reflects re-flects from Its bosom tho Imposing outlines out-lines of yonder mountain ranges majestic majes-tic In hclr silent grandeur Gods Imperial Im-perial ramparts Men of Utah I feel that I have come close to tho foundations of tho Republic closo to tho masterbuilders who arc laying I lay-ing tho cornerstones of mighty commonwealths common-wealths I may not havo been ablo to do the Republican party very much good during my brief sojourn as a stranger within your gates but I pledge you this promise that when I return to my ISart era homo besides tho bluo waters of Lako Michigan I will not do the Stato of Utah and its staunch and loyal ICoplo any harmwilt wilt UTAH IS WANTED After assuring his hearers of his confidence dcnco in tho election of President McKln of four tho Icy for another term years speaker told them that tho Republican party wants Utahs three electoral votes not so much because they aro necessary as It In because It wants to brfng tho State back in tho fold In this relation ho said I Is n significant fact that tho two cities In tho United States which havo made the most discreditable showing In point ot decrease of population during tho past dccado are Lincoln tho home of Mr Bryan and Omaha the metropolis of Mr Bryans own State Thero may or may not have been any direct connection between these circumstances In any event they will servo to point a moral and adorn a talc A man of Mr Bryans type eloquent adroit and magnetic can by nppcaUnS to class hatred and by attacking at-tacking vested Interests and organized wealth do moro to drlvo thrift capital Industry and population out of n Stato than a haltdozen wellorganized boards of trado can do to bring It In Utah cannot can-not afford to go Democratic Oils year I I live In tho East know the feeling there The men whoso moral and business confidence con-fidence you must havo Inhabit tho great Irregular rectangle between tho Missouri river and the Atlantic seaboard and tho Great Lakes and the Ohio river They arc not tho Democrats of that area cither They aro the Republicans sound substantial business mmmen who aro able to put stock Into railroads mines factories reservoirs and ranches They aro the backbone of tho Nation They aro tho men who rush to tho front In any great crisis men whoso purses and hearts are open when a Galveston horror stuns tho Nation They are tho men whoso ro pct and business confidence you nccd You havo boon misunderstood you have been misrepresented in many ways out hero in tho SUto of Utah Throughout this entire silver controversy thero never has been any spirit of repudiation within I your borders You aro not fanatics or vls I lonaric cither I know this now but my Eastern friends do not know It nnd T shall not havo an opportunity to tell I There Is Just about as 2 many of them so nC I much sense In their grumbling about repudiation re-pudiation In tho West n thoro IB I In your Democratic orators charging up and down tho Stato like mad bulls bellowing about a corner on money Both arc too Irrational Irra-tional to warrant o > obor reply Both section sec-tion of tho country are honejit both aro rlnctro Ijoth arc patriotic all nro robustly ro-bustly American 1 Is tho problem of true statesmanship to bring them to nether I waut to tell you gentleman that If tho State of Utah swtng s into then the-n column this fall It will give you credit with those with whom credit In Indispensable and add scores of millions mil-lions of dollars to tho future taxable valuo of your State I know whoroof I speak and I should bl fnlae to myself If I were to nnglcct to place frankly mil emphatically emphati-cally before you this plain straightforward straightfor-ward business fact ANSWERS GOV THOMAS Mr Chandler then devoted himself to a discussion of tho silver question and paid his respects t to GoY Thomas who spoko hero Saturday night on follows Night before last l you had the opportunity oppor-tunity of listening1 from this platform 10 a very able and eminent man Gov Thomas of the neighboring State of Cob rado I was somewhat surprised to learn that tho major part of his speech was devoted to tho discussion of a project which all wellInformed observers of political po-litical conditions clear bo ltcal cndiions clearly understand to bO hopelessly Incapable of practical realization realiza-tion an Issuo which Mr Bryan hays himself him-self Is not paramount In this campaign and which Is shunned nsi though were Infected with tho leprosy by every leadIng lead-Ing Democrat cast of tho Rocky mountains moun-tains and north of the Ohio river As a worshiper of tho eternal Illness of things I cannot but regret that so much eloquence elo-quence and Ingenuity should have been wasted upon so hopeless a task Why gentlemen why this pronounced emphasis upon an Issue that Is confessedly confessed-ly subordinate in this campaign Does Gov Thomas consider tho mere promise of freo silver of moro vital Importance to tho States of the Pacific coast than tho prospective commerce o tho Asiatic continent con-tinent with Its SCO000000 people which we havo but to reach forth and grasp Docs ho consider it moro important than tho great twin policies of Internal Improvement Improve-ment and protection to American industry Indus-try What Is tho magic spell exercised by l this JC to l that It should outweigh In tho mind of the Executive of Colorado all theso timehonored problems of American Amer-ican history 1 Why does he make It para mount In Utah while 1 Bryan makes Imperialism paramount In Now York city 1 Is not this anxiety of tho Democratic leaders to focus attention upon certain specific Issues I In certain stated sections of tho country just a trifle suspicious I have always noticed that Thcn a horso Jockey wants to dlsposo of a spavined horso some other part of tho animal besides be-sides the legs Is the paramount issue of that horse Four years ago William Jennings Bryan was a comparatively unknown man Millions of people In tho United States had never heard con his name Today that name Is a household word on tho ends of the tongues of moro than seventy sev-enty millions of people Who made Mr Bryan the great man among men that he is You did It l that Mr Bryan has becn allthat 11 Bryan Is all that Mr Bryan may hope to be he owes primarily to that little loyal l Spartan band Republicans Repub-licans and Democrats from these mountain moun-tain States who rallied about him In tho hour of his need and led l his footsteps Into tho pathway of glory BRYANS INGRATITUDE How gentlemen has Mr Bryan requited re-quited you for that timely service Is ho paying you back full tale measure for measure tho unswerving and unquestioning unquestion-ing loyalty that you rendered to him a little over four years ago Answer mo that men of tho West Gentlemen William Wil-liam Jennings Bryan was loyal to you and to your Isouo Just as long a It served his Interest to be Tho only thing he has dono for silver In this entire campaign was when In the Kansas City convention ho enacted that spectacular piece of stageplay whereby the ICtol plank was Inserted in the platform and ho was permitted per-mitted by his Gold Democratic conspirators conspira-tors to mako ono final pose as the prophet and martyr of silver a device which they all clearly understood to b absolutely necessary to corral to deliver If you please tho vote of these transMissouri States Without your votes Mr Bryuns election was out of tho question so tho Democratic leaders hit upon tho Ingenious In-genious but superficial expedient of throwing a sop to his old silver friends abusing their fidelity and then tossing them aside llko n squeezed orange Col Bryans entire course of action since that thno has been ono of cowardly evasion of direct questions concerning silver or ambiguous am-biguous declamation about the man and tho dollar Ho has taken down from Its place In tho terrtplo tho old idol of fl too coinage of silver at 1C to 1 and put In Us place the strange and unknown gods of anllImpcrlallsm and anllmlltarlam Sliver of tho West have wOrshiped SIer men o you hle worshiped wor-shiped a falso prophet you have been betrayed you havo been soil out for ames a-mes of pottage Tho fact that tho price to le paid was nothing less than tho high ofilco of President of tho United States makes tho bargain none tho less a bargain bar-gain Perhaps wo should ho charitable Perhaps any ordinary man would have done tho same Wo know not But of this much wo may be sure that when wo arc seeking a successor to George Washington Wash-ington Abraham Lincoln and William YIIJn McKinley wo do not want an ordinary man wo want an extraordinary man 1 ALTERNATIVE PRESENTED The speaker then proceeded to show that Mr Bryan does not dare to Speak In a silverproducing area lie showed that he was In collusion with Tammany Hall and tho Gold Democrats of the East and that all Eastern Democrats ridicule tho Idea of there being any danger of a free coinage law from 11 Bryans election Ho then proceeded to show that to get this dtluhlvo promise of free sIlver the people of Ulwh would havo to sacrlilco tho tariff on lead wool llvo stock copper products iron produces sugar together with tho possibilities l of Asiatic trade through the Philippine ialanda Ho than u ltd his audience thin question Which would you rather havo tho Troll o of free silver or tho pnmonca of a protective tariff Are you willing to sacrifice the prevent and tangible Interest of RIght or ten of your leading Industries merely to secure the doubtful promlso of debatable bnnoiHs to one Industry Would you rather keep the thing that you know Is a success of do youcvant to make an experiment with n thing about whose success suc-cess you arc doubtful Aro you ready to take a leapIn tho dark when things aro running well As a mean of conveniently summarlz Ing my previous remark in this connection connec-tion I take the liberty of propounding to the eminent gentleman who occupied thIs platform night before last I theie questions ques-tions First Why Is It that William Jennings Uryan dare not IkQ aspeech In allver produclng SUvtJM Wiy 13 1 It that four yoprs tiRo h found tlmeHo visit saute of this mal townu on the trunk linen of Utah whlln thla year ho cannot ba In duccd tp visit Salt Late ClLy WUy b I It that ho has been within a stones throw of Dcnvcf > Gov rhomass own home yet dared not enter Us nntto make a silver sil-ver speech 1 Second Why was It hat when asked not once not twice not thrice but scores of times both by tho friends and foes of silver whether or not If elected President ho would pay the Government obligations In silver has ho stood silent and confounded Why has he stood with downcast eyes ocforo his loyal and fnlth ful old friends from these mountain States 7 Third Why Is It that tho Tellers and tho Thomases Mr Bryans former lieutenants lieu-tenants and personal confidant havo been thrust ankle from ll Bryans councils coun-cils to make way for tho Hills the Gor mans tho Olneys tho Crokers and tho sachems of Tammany Hall Fourth How does Gov Thomas expect I the representatives of tho Eastern Democracy De-mocracy to vote In Congress for a bill for the free coinage of silver when tho East era delegates to the Kansas City coion I ton were almost to a man for excluding the free silver plank from the plallorm I when that same sliver plank was Included only by the vote of Hawaii and when If I tho vote had been by Congressional districts 1 I dis-tricts free silver would have been snowed I under by a voto of neaily two to one Docs ho expect tho Eastern Congressmen who never have beloved In silver themselves to defy time wishes of their constituents Firth Does Gov Thomas expect a sil verproducing area of less than 2000COO population to ba able by the doubtful assistance of Col Bryan to put In operation opera-tion n policy to which at the present time mere than GO000003 people In this country are unalterably opposed and concerning which tho remaining 15000000 are lukewarm luke-warm or Indifferent Sixth When Gov Thomas recalls tho grotesque career of the only Democratic Congress that we have had slnco the days of slavery when It remcmbvs how It wrangled and logrolled and filibustered until It Dually succeeded In repealing tho Sherman silverpurchase clause tho only law favorable to sliver coinage engrossed upon the statulo books since Alexander Hamilton established tho ratio of 15 to 1 and thereby Inadvertently put the country on a silver basis when fie recalls to mind the fact that whore there was ono Grover I Cleveland In the Democratic party hostile to silver in 1KH there aro scores now does he In his heart of hearts entertain the shadow of n hopo for free silver coin ago at 1C to 1 at the hands of any Democratic Demo-cratic Congress that might be returned crte Concress I during the nest four years Seventh Does Goo Thomas think ho Is I advising tho people of the Stato of Utah for their own best good when ho urges them to sacrifice tho sheepproducer tho cattleproducer tho leadproducer tho beet sugarproducer the ironproducer the goldproducer and all the Illimitable tho possibilities of Asiatic trade through Philippines Just to chase a receding phantom phan-tom of freo silver coinageor to put It In a manner which might be more agreeable to his sensibilities to vindicate an abstract ab-stract principle about which men disagree dis-agree Docs he not know that tho same party hlch as ho claims might give Utah freo coinage surely would reduce tho tariff and prostrate all these Industries Indus-tries as It did In IStH 11 Does he believe In I robbing Peter to pay Paul especially when he takes Peters substance and gives Paul a bogus check Undoubtedly Gov Thomas came over hero at tho urgent solicitation of tho Democratic State central committee to servo a high and patriotic purpose Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly ho has the interest of this State at heart and that is I tho sole reason for his visit It may bo that the monetary theories unon which his system of coinage coin-age Is based arc sound Personally I do not think so < but wo will let that pass I am not hero to discuss abstractions Asa As-a distinguished Domociat onco said I Is a condition not n theory that confronts us Tho whole schchio Is chimerical and impracticable I would bo of doubtful value val-ue even It you get It butyou cannot get It The pursuit of the Fountain of Perennial Peren-nial Lifo by De Solo and Ponco de Leon was not more Quixotic than the hope of getting free coinage of silver at the ratio of 1C to 1 from the Democratic part according ac-cording to the present political complexion complex-ion of tho United States HJz an unpatriotic unpa-triotic political device kept alive In a frantic attempt to hold In lire the vote of these mountain States tho shattered and dismantled raft upon which the disheartened dis-heartened Democratic mariners hope to bo wafted Into port TRUSTS AND IMPERIALISM Tho speaker then devoted his attention to tho questions of trusts and imperialism imperial-ism for about an hour and a half Ho showed tuit all tho laws against trusts had been Republican laws and that tho Democratic party had not passed any laws against them when given limo chance Ho attacked Mr Bryans demagogic appeal to envy and class hatred and showed how It was producing disorder In the attacks upon up-on Guy Roosevelt and Senator Hanna He showed that time Insurrection of Agul naldo was a clear case of rebellion and tuld that tho Constitution of the United States has a very unsavory term to apply to those who sympathize with rebels Tho Interests of tho mountain and Pacific States In the commerce of tho Pacific ocean was clearly demonstrated In conclusion ho showed how Democratic Demo-cratic prophecies of four years ago had proven false and how Republican promIses prom-Ises had been redeemed Ho closed with a tribute to tho Republican part as a party of action not r party of criticism a party par-ty of constructive statesmanship not a party of negation Ho enumerated the roll of great statesmen who have leil that part from George Washington and Alexander Alex-ander Hamilton down to Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt and William McKliiley |