| Show DEMOCRATIC FREAKINESS I I old Meeting in EmerySmith on Tho Tribune ONeills Tolly Huntington March iThe Democrats fId their first gun In Emory county here last evening The meeting was fairly fair-ly well attended but the audience was evidently sadly disappointed us no symptom of applause greeted the speakers speak-ers H A Smith and Representative ONeill of Ulntah county Mr Smith was certainly In need of an Issue ns ho occupied nearly an hour In attacking The ntucl Salt Luke Tribune and accusing It of first to tHo accuHlns frst trying get tlo Mormon vote andffalllng In this then began Its Relit I against B 11 Roberts which had cul I minated In UobertsH rejection Smith Hold Tho Tribune and through It the t Republican party I had disgraced the Mormon people and the Slate of Utah by Ito attacks upon Roberts nnd by calling the people traitors and law I breakers nnd he indirectly appealed to their religious prejudice to vote against the Republicans because The Tribune was what ho termed the of tIc Ini organ of the Republican 1 orhll Hcpubl n party in Utah Smith gave The Tribune the credit of arousing the Mcnthnenl of the intlre country against Roberts and he also took occasion to say that the no torious Herald had denied tw The Tribune had said and that he Smith wns a regular subscriber to the Herald Hence It was almost Impossible to de termine whether Smith was here In the Intere t8 of the Herald or the De mocracy Smith claimed that the Republican party hAd appointed men In certain conditions to oillces and that the light against Roberts Jlht QJin HobCrts was only because he war a Democrat and inferred that the Republican party and The Tribune were really Q unit In lhu respect and hence ocl everybody ought to vote the Democratic ticket ocltc tcket Referring to Im I perialism Smith claimed coS pcrlnlEm caimed that a com pact had been made between the Q bewcn ronre scntatlves of America and Agulnaldo Guaranteeing to the Filipinos their In dependence in consideration for their aid in comiuerlng Spain but niP he failed to suite who were the American repre sentatives and that this compact was now being broken on aCCOUlt corpat of the greed of the Republican party THE FREAK OF THE EVENING Mr ONeill was really the freak of the evening But he was olnlnl sadly in need of a grammar as hlR n Jlummnr expressions wor Were unique Mr l ONeill claimed 1 to know conulderable about tho < leo Roberta tlon of the Democracy jg claimed esoh that the resolution was not Intended a part of tho platform nnl Inended that tho as committee was surprised when whcl it waR numbered out and read to the convoh ton as a part of the Platform PIRtorm UP ONolll bald the Nel Democracy simply Ode plored I and nothing more and why j all ocihln storm The kcnilernan Bald the House of Representatives had simply acted as a police court and tho only kick apparently the Democracy had wal that Roberts Wn not sworn In On the whole the meeting wan a disappointment dis-appointment and our local Democrats have Hlinply driven another nail In their April coffin |
