| Show tif I ABLAZE EnthusiastiG ReGeption of f j Hon i J1rji J1 J Halioll I S I io that City THE CAMPAIGN OPENED Lehi Prospers Because of Republican Policies LOCAL ADVANTAGES CITED The City will Vote Two to One for Hammond Against King Because the People Seo the Contrast Between the Present Republican Prosperity and the Previous Democratic Hard TImesGeorge A Smiths Telling Allusion to Expansion Saying that tho Younger Generation Here are the Children of Natural Expansionists Expansion-ists who Enlarged tho Countrys Area by Settling Here Jlr Hammond Ham-mond Introduced as the Next Congressman Con-gressman from Utah and Ho Pressed Home a IttanifeTruth TRIBUNE SPECIAL Lehi I March S Republicans of Lehl I were out en masse this evening to welcome wel-come to one of the most prosperous cities of the State and made so largely by Republicans the next Congressman hunt Utah Hon James T Hammond and the reception given him Justifies flue I prophecy that he will receive ubout the same majority by wjilch the city Democracy was turned down last full when they were relegated to the rear by a vole of about txvo to one The Opefahous e was Ylcatly deccp rated with flowers and bunllng and had it been twice as large as I Is would easily have been filled Mr Hammond made a very good Impression Im-pression GEORGE A SMITH was the first speaker being Introduced as the man who would fire the first gun of the present Uepublican campaign and the son of that nevertiring Republican Repub-lican John Henry Smith lie scored Cleveland and the Democratic policy of rule and ruin He was very eulogistic I eulogis-tic of the present Administration and cited the good that tho Republicans had accomplished since they had been In power the last time Coming down to the question of expansion he said You sons find daughters of Utah who first saw the light of day In this fair State you nrc the children of natural na-tural expansionists for when your fathers fa-thers first came lo this country then foreign soil was not their first act that of unfurling the ensign of national liberty lib-erty from these mountain peaks where It has ever since been maintained1 The Boshard and Pyne brothers glee club created much merriment with their campaign songs and the local his were much nJo eBON S e-BON JAMES T HAMMOND followed in a ringing address He was Introduced as our next Congressman and the reception tendeicd him pro sages an overwhelming vote in his favor In the city next month He paid a tribute to Judge King as hls personal friend and a mnn of great worth and ability and trusted that when this campaIgn was ended their friendship would still bo as strong us 1 it has been in I the past and Is iiotv He entered at once into the t recent history of Democracy Democ-racy and the last three years of Republican Re-publican control In our Nation His I portrayal 1 of the recent opening of the mills and l the great 1 revival of industries under tho t McKinley administration that were laid prostrate by preceding Democratic rule was listened to with deep interest t Speaking of trusts he showed the insincerity of the Democrilio party on that question for in all Its history Democracy De-mocracy has never enacted a law against trusts but has repealed Republican Repub-lican laws which regulated them and It lcnn n Democratic falsehood that advertises adver-tises that Republican laws are exceptionally trusts excep-tionally favorable to the fornmllon of LOCAL CONTRAST Much of Mr Hammonds talk was devoted to the contrast between the two parties locally showing up much to the discredit of the Democrats their inability to transact the Important business for which they were elected His talk was a clearcut logical exposition exposi-tion of the Issues I dividing the lo parties l par-ties paying rather more attention to local I than national questions I |
