Show t THOSE DEMOCRATIC SPEECHES Those were daisy speeches in the Theater Wednesday night In opening tIme t meeting Mr Varian Insisted that the great parly to which he belonged was confronted by a party without a platform and without principles The inference naturally is that when Mr Varian left that party recently he carried I I ried all the principles with him He referred re-ferred to the resolution attached to Democratic platform declared that It was a grave question but for himself I him-self he had never faltered and I shall never falter in what he considered his I duty on the question related to But he did not discuss the question The natural inference la that as he had never faltered as we happen to know f how he stood not very long ago he couli not discuss tho resolution in that crowd He got away as soon as he cguld and filled with fear devoted a line or two in explaining to the country the danger the country Is In from imperialism im-perialism declared that the Republican Republi-can party had taken up an issue that threatened the life of the Natlorf rBut ho did jiOt explain what the issue was with very much clearness Then he went to the flag The flag was always a strong suit with Mr Varian He wanted to know If tho flag meant wars of conquest killing of men ruining ruin-ing of women the destruction of homes or iC it meantequal rights for all not some but all That was all very line It has a sound as though there was something in it but instinctively a man familiar with the Bible thinks of that phrase about sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal all of which mat ma-t doOn the bustlingsin In apolitical campaign cam-paign but it is fearful bosh nil the I same The Philippines were acquired precisely as California wns acquired precisely Nevada was acquired precisely I pre-cisely aa Utah was acquired and the purpose was and is to fix matters so that that people instead of the life of I slavery which has always been upon them will have the same liberties the same opportunities that Mr Varian himself has And no one knows that fact better than Mr Varian himself Ho knows that when he conjures up the hobgoblin of Imperialism he Is talking talk-ing through his own hat and that the men who cheer him are men who have nothing under their hats But MV Varian was mild compared with Senator Rawlins Ho admitted that he loaded up In Washington and came all this distance to lire his blunderbuss blun-derbuss We fear he Is not appreciated appre-ciated in his own estimation at least in Washington because he said That Is l a place where they make laws where men arc afraid of the Constitution where men turn livid at the mention of the Declaration of Independence where bargains are made to sell our country Thai kind of talk would do for some bushwhacker It does not comb in good taste from a Senator of the United States Those arc the epithets that blackguards deal In when they want to be severe and do not care about being truthful The pertinence oC that Is seen at a glance when one thinks that Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration Independence that Thomas Jefferson as President bought Louisiana that Thomas Jefferson against the protests of the people of that territory sent I a commission thereto there-to govern them and Thoinas Jefferson is the presiding deity of the Democratic Demo-cratic party if wo lake their word for it The United States took the Philippines Phil-ippines as an act of mercy They then paid for them the same ns Jefferson imld for Louisiana Among the sixty tribes thore one vagabond gathered some revolutionary cutthroats about him and made war upon the American I soldiers I It wnsnecessary to put him down That has been done and the I great masses of the people are rc I l Joicud that it was done And now Just I I HH Jefferson did with Louisiana a commission com-mission has been sent there to frame I and put in working order a government which will pot place an obstruction in the path of any Filipino to prevent his doing any legitimate thing to prevent l his acquiring and owning property to prevent his holding ofllce And when I an American Senator stands up before I a u ivcople that have entrusted him with Ill1l1l I I high oflice and declares that there 1Is j a purpose to sell out this Republic f i he does not hurt the Republic he does not hurttlie men in control pf the Republic I Re-public lie simply dtegraeefc hlmrfelf J Ills personal abuse of President Ale I Klnlpy may go There JK but one tiling to eompaito It with and that IH l that passage In Shakespeare which tells hon ho-n flea may breakfast onu lions lip Senator Rawlins also baa his grief about the Standard Oil company He says thnt company has a capital of 100000000 and the stock Is worth SCOO 000000 What of If How could he help It If the Democratic party were In full power what would It do to help It Mineral oil Is n mineral product The men who own the wells have to either sink for them or buy them just the same as a mine Is bought or explored ex-plored in Utah The Silver King mine Is capitalized at SJOOOOOO It is selling now at the rate of about 8000000 Does that prove that Messrs l Keith Kearns and the other stockholders in that mine are highwaymen and thieves 1 It is who are robbing the community Just as faJr an inference as Mr Rawlins tried to convey In his speech In regard to Standard 011 Again he says the PayneHanna ship subsidy bill was ordered reported favorably from the Senate committee and It was so reported It gives the Standard Oil company a thirty years contract at 400000 a year for carrying Its I own oil in its own ships l o its own agents Now when a Senator of the United Slates talks to an audience especially to his own constituents he ought to overcome his natural Democratic proclivities enough to tell the truth The subject which he has reference to applies entirely en-tirely to time International Navigation company owned In part by the Standard Stand-ard Oil nnd in part by the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Ilallrond company and which at this time consists of the four passenger St steamers New York Paris Paul and St Louis It is n very moderate saibsltly l top compared with I what Great Britain pays her lines Thc oil of the Standard Oil company Is I car ried abroad In tank steamers to which I no subsidy attaches and either Senator Sena-tor HmylliiH knew the fart when he talked to the audience or else he has I not tho ordinary Information that L comnon man jnuch less a Senator of the United Slates should possess As to the slto oC the New York customhouse I custom-house which he says was given to the Standard Oil company we will wager a years subscription lo The Tribune that he was no nearer right on that than he was on the subsidy for the ships The subsidy bill for American ships which calls for a possible 9000 000 a I year does not apply any more lo time International Navigation company than to any other company that pleases to build ships of the kind designated by the bill and does not compare with what Great Britain pays four lines of her steamers to carry her mails and her commerce to distant ports OC course he spent much time on the Porto Rican question Did ho In discussing dis-cussing Jttcxnlafn what any Democrat had proposed to relievo Porto Rico The facts are these The principal export ex-port of Porto Rico is sugar The sugar lands arc owned by the sugar trust of the United States Porto Rico Is under a military government The people ire starving Probably 200000 of them do not know where to get breakfast tomorrow to-morrow morning Tho island was devastated dev-astated by a hurricane which swept away thair homes and left them absolutely abso-lutely stranded The proposition is Lolo Lo-lo a tariff of 15 per cent on her exports ex-ports all the money to go back to the starving people of those islands Out of that the Democrats arc making their howl Not one of them can tell what is best to do Not one of them has Unearthed un-earthed a plan by which the distress of that people can be relieved but because be-cause this proposition is made according accord-Ing to Mr Rawlins the Republicans cannot be restrained by the Constitution Constitu-tion they propose to institute the despotic ruU of the Czar oC the Russians Rus-sians What objection can there be to the power of the Constitution going where our free flag Is to be permanently permanent-ly established What does Mi Rawlins Raw-lins Jcnow about the Constitution It Is safe to say that he has not read it In four years and that he never read It understandingly To show that we have reason for what we say we copy from a little speech made by Coy Long the other day in Boston ns follows fol-lows For myself I have never doubled that Webster the great expounder of the Constitution Con-stitution was right In the L opinion which he so clearly stated and which IK recognized recog-nized In Limo treaty of peace with Spain by which Limes islands w > ri ceded I lo us that they are subject lo legislation 1 I In CoiigruH I am of till school of Webster and not of Calhoun fill Republican party was founded upon the principle that the Constitution did not of Its own force carry slavery into I time 1 Territories but that these by tho plain letter of the Con iUltulion nro subject to such rules anti regulations as Congress shall dclcrmlne It seems that Daniel Webster had the hardihood to lifter with Mr Rawlins on the construction of time Constitution Constitu-tion Thnt was doubtless because Mr Webster died before Mr RawlhiB wns heard from Had Mr Rawlins expressed ex-pressed life opinion first Mr Webster might have changed his opinion In this connection he says the Republicans Republi-cans dart not quote Mr Lincoln In this same connection Senator Teller Tel-ler l expressed exactly the opinion of Mr Webster the other day in the Senate Sen-ate and said that was what he and Lincoln both advocated in the campaign cam-paign of ISCp Again the Senator says that In violation ot the Thirteenth amendment of our Constitution bur t flag Is floating over Hltvvea in Mlmla dito and that President McKinley has violated his oath to uphold the ConstItution Con-stItution beeCtufJc today ho is violating the Thirteenth amendment and should be Impeached Now the truth Is that yhen time agent of the Government went to Mindanao to make his adjust mel t with he savage who is chief there he explained < to him expressly that the ttoVcrnmunl of HieUnited I States would not In any form protect shivery and Mr Rawllnss remark Is I Just as pertinent < as it would bewere there a constitutional amendment prohibiting pro-hibiting polygamy to say that the President of the United StateSsluul vlo I laled hit oath and ought to be Impeached I Im-peached because some of the Indians 1 I In the Indian tribes of this country I have a plurality of wives Think of I that as argument coming from n Senator I I atom oC the United Stalest 1 In the courtroom I court-room It would be called pettifogging I From the rostrum when the people ate II anxious lo know the right in tho presence pres-ence of election day that sort of talk would be criminal If the criminal pad was nol cured by Us utter stillness Our friend Henry Lawixnce made a daisy speech His burden was alive There was only one trouble about It I He has only a qualified love for silver What Mr Lnwence wants Is lo have I the Government marce money without I I time trouble of digging It out of the ground He wants to start a machine and make so much money that every buy himself a farm That Is i body can Mr Lawrence Is a Populist and a genuine gen-uine Populist Is neither a fold nor a I silver advocate He believes In an I Irredeemable paper currency and we I predict that Mr Bryan will be on that t basis before another year rolls around J In fact lie was on Hint basis In 1802 I when he was In accord with Mr Wca I ver And that far the Populist parly Is entitled to great credit for ils frankness I ness It has tho courage of its con t victlons and when any member of it places parlieulnr stress upon sliver lien anyone who lialens lo him mny take this for granted that he is milk I Ing with a mental reservation thnt he I t Is anxious to talk sliver so long as he cannot get greenbacks What he wants C is an amount of paper money far In excess of every possible amount of gold and silver both that can be obtained ob-tained from the mines And then comes Mr Dunbar Of course he was mixed in his figures he has to be to make a I speech because the real figures would paralyze him He says the balance of tade WaS a little more than 200000000 last year in our favor He got that nearly half right It was a lllllc over 100000000 He says that has been the rule for a great many years It was the rule under Republican Republi-can rule and under It the Republicans reduced the debt from 2800000000 to fSSOOOOffOOO and paid besides 2OOOCOO 000 In Interest When the t Democrats look hold Ihcy failed to pay expenses and borrowed 250000 I 000 but It did not make prosperity prosper-ity and the amount borrowed does not r compare with time Increased money which has conic to time country during I the last three years A great ninny theatrical performances close with red fire and dissolving views II was on that account we presume that Judge Powers was given the close in tIme Theater Whether the gentleman gentle-man in I the gallery regulated the lights I so that they displayed the Judge In his variegated colors we do nol know lint then there Is I a good deal of the chameleon chame-leon about Judge Powers He takes on any color needed to stilt the audience He introduced an old wltllclsm which he Intended to be at the expense of Mr Hammond He said his financial I views reminded him oC a mnn who had huy fever and married a grass widow lo I gel rid of it If Mrs Powers were out of town wo would ask the Judge con fiderrllally if he did not think that I would be a pretty good remedy in un acute case of Influenza Of course the Judge was heavy on blmetalltm Docs the Judge know of any one In Utah lhat Is worrying much about bimetal Ism Just now He knows tutu the re monellznlion of silver would bo a magnificent mag-nificent thing He knows I that all his friends in Utah believe the same way but the majority rUles in this country and ho knows thoroughly well lhat he could not go oul and raise 572G for tho cause and further that there is not a I Slate in the Union that could be carried car-ried on lhat Issue today He is trying lo convince time people that he would put a dam In the river when It was running at lloodtide and when he could not get within half a mile of the river proper without a boat Then the Judge grew eloquent He insisted that Lime Stars and Stripes never should be raised In ihls or any other country over the ashes of the Constitution of the United Stales That sounds fine but what did he mean by It Suppose the audience had Insisted upon hIs stopping there and explaining his meaning mean-ing what would he have said The love of the Conslitutlon by the Democratic Demo-cratic party a week prior to election Is the most touching feature of poor human hu-man nature It never falls to bring tears from every leaky pump In the town Then the account in time Judges own organ says he touched on the Democratic Dem-ocratic platform and the Roberts resolution reso-lution but it did not tell where he touched How does the Judge like that resolution 7 When he thinks of his past J history in Utah when on the bench when later he called the Liberal party together and asked them to disband had he any anticipation at hat I time of the Roberts resolullon In the Democratic Demo-cratic platform of 1000 Jlhen he gave away a sorrowful fact He said he was informed that some Gentile Democrats Dem-ocrats will stay at home on election day because oC i the last resolution in I the Democratic platform hero three weeks ago and declared that It was I a trap We suspect it was I But we have given too much space to those speeches The truth Is It was a cold audience a cold night The I speedier were nil cold except Powerss and his wag ail artificial fire Everyman Every-man talked ns though he felt he was talking at a funeral and as though he was afraid that time crepe on the door of the Democratic party would reproach I him for making any nolso nt all It seems to be a hard game We are Just as sorry for our friends the enemy ns we can be and we arc the more sorry I because those same frlendVs the enemy I never learn anything by experience I They had Utah firm In their grasp three years ago laid November If they had had ordinary fairness ordinary decency de-cency ordinary generosity and a lltlle bit of principle they might have held that rule indefinitely I If they are Bred out next Monday if they read on the wall I I the awful I handwriting that they have iJecn weighed In the balance and found wall nb they irlny take this comfort to ihemselvcB They were not beaten by Republicans but through I their own stupidity imbecility malice i and hunger for spoils they beat themselves I them-selves |