| Show BG HIREE ARE E HEAR Wells Sutherland and Allen I Speak at Silver City HOLD A ROUSING MEETING Every Reference Made by the Speakers Speak-ers to President McKinley Heartily I I ApplaudedThIs in a Town Whore Pour Years Ago He Did Not Hs calve a Vole Governor Wells Talks Upon Affairs of tho State and Declares De-clares that All Promises Hade Have Been Kept I TRIBUNE SPECIAL Silver City Utah Sept 25Slver SIcr City presented a scene of the wildest widest enthusiasm tonight the occasion being n rousing Republican rally addresses I by the big three Coy Wells bib Veis exCon gressman Allen and George IL Suther land candUale for Congress The meeting was held In Riters hall which was beautifully decorated with nags fass and bunting and pictures of McKinley ot lrcKlnle ana Roosevelt and was crowded lo Its I utmost capacity Good music was I furnished oy the K O T M band of I I Springville The speakers were heart ily applauded particularly when reference ref-erence was made to McKinley which Is rather surprising when we consider that four years ago the President did I not receive a vote here CONDITIONS IN STATE The meeting was presided over by W T Ercanbreck who introduce Introduccd Gov Wells as the first speaker The Governor spoke briefly confining his remarks mainly to the condlllon of the Stale during his term of office Ho stated that Utah is now In a flourish lug financial condition the State treasury treas-ury is placed on absolutely a cash basis OUR CREDIT FIRSTCLASS I We can borrow money at 3 per cent or less and our credit is as good as any I State In the Union and better than any I other Intermountain Slate All tho I State institutions arc In excellent con dition particularly the University of Utah and Agricultural college Our excellent public school system Is attracting new residents from adjoining I adjoin-ing Stales PLEDGES REDEEMED The Governor highly praised the work of the State Land board as atoll a-toll of 5S8320J has been realized from sale of public lands of which 317000 is Invested in bonds drawing Interest He claimed that he had redeemed every pledge he gave In 1SOG In giving the Stale a clean businesslike and economical eco-nomical administration After a brief I reference lo the Philippines which is I made the paramount Issue and with the statement thai he jslill looks forward for-ward to the restoration of silver ho closed amid prolonged cheers MR SUTHERLANDS ADDRESS Hon George Sutherland spoke for over an hour on all the Issues I of tho campaign He opened with an expression expres-sion of pleasure at being able to speak in this his boyhood home and related several interesting anecdotes of the old days Neither party Is perfect neither all bad but the Republican party Is nearly all perfect and the Democratic party is nearly all bud I do not know Just what the paramount issue is In the East It appears to be Imperialism In the West fiee silver WHAT ISSUE ISM IS-M issue Is that I want four more years of Republican prosperity There arc always good times under Republican Repub-lican administration There are always bad times under Democratic administration adminis-tration Mr Sutherland then Illustrated the difference between the price of lead and copper during MfKLnleys and Clevelands administrations showing the benefits enjoyed by Utah miners He e Interrupted by the query How about Pennsylvania and replied re-plied during the Democratic admln Islrution there wei not enough men at work to conslllulo u icspcclable strike strikeDEMOCRATS DEMOCRATS AND SILVER He stated that In 1SOG he was one of lhe 20CCO Republicans who could nqt ucccpl the Republican platform because be-cause he desired that Utah should voice her opinion In favor of free silver sil-ver lie did not bcllovo that were con ditions reversed oouo Jjomocrais would vole thft Republican ticket He reviewed re-viewed the work of the Legislature of 1S37 when the people In their loyalty to silver elected sixty Democratic legislators leg-islators to three Republicans and yet it tool one Republican lo Heel a sli ver Senator also l to the Legislature In 1S9 when the Democrats totally failed to do their duty and left Utah with only one Senalor citing these Instances as evidence that Utah Democrats cared really lIttle for silver CONDITIONS HAVE CHANGED He dialed that conditions havo changed aJncc 1SOG and that even vera a Democratic Congros and Senate elected there would he no silver legislation legis-lation The Democratic party never has done anything fr silver The BlvndAlllson act In 1872 and Sherman act in iSilO were both Republican mea tires while the Democrats killed sliver by the repeal of the purchasing clause of the latter Over 600000000 sliver dollars have been coined by the Republican Repub-lican party Silver Is not now an Issue I is-sue with the Democratic party as evidenced evi-denced In the Kansas City convention where silver was only put Into the platform by n majority of one vote nnd that one from Hawaii PREDICTIONS FAILED The prediction of 1S96 thnt prices would continue to fall unless we had free colunge have not been verified They have risen until now the Democratic Demo-cratic cry Is that they are too high The balance of trade In our favor during dur-ing the PaSt four year has been 1500 1 000000 more than for till the 107 yours preceding and today the Unite Stales ta 1 the grant nation of the world lue to the Republican policy of protection and the increase In the volume of money caused by greater production of gold Six hundred and twenty million of dolKT have been l added to our volume vol-ume of money In four years bringing the per capita circulation up to 2073 UTAHNS BENEFITED The people of Utah are deriving more benefit from the Republican tariff on lead than they would wltUfrt coinage without protection Undor Cleveland lend was 2 to 2 s cents per pound Under Un-der McKInley It baa been 4 to 4z cents pr pound the difference being ahout the tariff of about Hr cents Utah will produce this year four million pounds of lead and receiving the benefit of the increased price due to the trtrint A decrease de-crease In the price of lead nill also result re-sult in a great decrease of the production produc-tion OfsUyer and gold The Republican Repub-lican party hasalxyais stood by dIn d-In the Nation at large wnge3 have I advanced from 10 to 10 per cent He j quoted Samuel Gompers president the Federation of Labor on the great I increase In wages and the number of i workmen In the past four years The II tariff does not produce trusts as shown by freetrade England the great trust country of the world confidence lhat the Republicans will pass laws regulating them Mr Sutherland closed with I tribute to Gov Wells to whom he said the miners should feel particularly friendly on account of the eighthour law MR ALLENS ADDRESS J C E Allen was the closing speaker and confined his remarks mainly to the Philippines He was an Imperialist We obtained the Louisiana territory In the same manner as McKinley did the Philippines and governed the residents the fame Jackson was an Imperialist when he took Florida I dont know I whether the Constitution will always follow the flag but I know the American I Ameri-can people will always follow the flag and maintain IL McKinley has only done his duty In the matter of the Islands and carried out the laws Manila I Ma-nila Is the key to the Pacific and that ocean Is now an American sen Its possession opens up a vast market oral or-al the Western producers and Is added protection to the mines because by the increased market for the farmer prevents pre-vents the overrunning of the miners occupation Silver City will give a good Republican Repub-lican vote this fall |
