Show republicanism expounded by hon AT THE WARD A well attended and enthusiastic thusia meeting of earnest republicans the republican rally held at the third ward school honse baat evening peada band was in attendance and dispersed strains of the chairman of the ward club jaech taylor presided hojohn Hn John H smith was and said I 1 have no excuses to offer your midst and talking politics to yon I 1 tand before you as a defender of the doctrine and pies of the republican party of the united I 1 presume all have made up their minda aa to which cobrae they will pursue he related the story of a minister who had a calf and used to yoke it up and one sunday when he to church he put his own neck in the yoke with the calf and hig stove pipe hat so frightened the animal that he ran hallowing down the street meeting ga number of hie congregation going to church the minister said here we come head ua off somebody before wo break our d m necks I 1 w 11 id ik chii deop e in utah not to do ake the minister and put their in the yoke with the democrats and be run down I 1 am not nere as a supplicant for office I 1 expect no political preferment in either year city or the territory I 1 hav no bee in my bonnet neither do I 1 to be governor of the new state of utah or the territory of utah 1 have no as to grind the speaker then said our dele to in the odst with one or two exceptions have trained with the democrate Demo crata I 1 ask tho people do we owe in the strictest sanse to cither of the great parties there is an idea that the mormon people are a people and I 1 should train with them that the democrats are the defenders of the mormon people that the republican party ia not favorable to us I 1 take this position po the democratic party of the united states should be the friends of the peo pie of utah as they had many reasons to expect something from them while on the other hand the people of utah had never trained with the republican party as they had nothing to expect from 9 the could only look upon us aa political once when fre mout ran for lent there waa a plank in their platform that said tuey would do away with slavery and polygamy I 1 want to fasten BS thing on your mind th tor tha labor that has been done in thir int oreatt owe us something and should nave dons it la there a place where they aa a party have ever done anything for thie neatem country 1 here are komenow aind then would raise a hand to jo something for us but aa a party they lever haye abay had net the conrace cou race w do it applause there is ony thio that the democrats may call done to raise pas boea ill etc but they must be ania party has been the pi eminent to bring about the present condition of things tar barrels vere burned in salt lake when grover cleveland waa elected that lid atal art D H willis as he walked down i street said yes have ef it now I 1 the days of illinois in both missouri and illinois although the people were voting with the democrats that ria the party who oppressed athe pec pm when we camu bayre our trenda bame with ua we want office they did after awhile we wanted office and thon there a division and ih ire grew up here a church party and au antichurch anti church party aad then they commenced to legislate ua the caid they wald admit us if we would frame a constitution you did t ind put in it a pank against ay and the i what did they de why lusy lu sy thought we were the fly in thair tint ment and thy did not admit us you anda lia eal bid am bound to say daniel H wells wak lu alb id iho affair they would not state being dem crati ir people were sold by tho dan laho trev were tied aiau i ti coir their franchise K e 0 the ot r 1 an color d wan a republican abate the cormons mormons were republicans as alao in wyoming and there ur people are full grown men I 1 want to touch this legislative business I 1 my democratic fr ands will say I 1 am a the edmunda law waa passed by the republicans public ans the poland bill and ed munds bill and others ware passed they were almost a dead letter only two cormons mormons having been imprisoned until the of grover cleveland he WAS a Democrat and we esra democrats and ha should hava loved ua yoi know what Bd bhea the disfranchisement bill WAS before the con cress who stopped the passage of this ua measure I 1 will tell yon it was judge zane he telegraphed to washington ani that measure was taken out of bill but the democrats were not BO favorable to the ladies our sisters and they lost their franchise than the democrats say it was the republicans but my friends it wag not it was doue by the democrats fesq the homestead laws that all might have homes itwara passed in lincolnia Lin colna time the republicans did this where has there for years been anything done by the democrats that would be for the benefit of tho people cf the united Stat esTh ere is nothing what veland had aba chance to do he left for harrison to the speaker proceeded to disabuse the minds of hia hearers from the belief that the republicans would exercise kindly rule the democrats had for years had the chance to free the slaves but it waa laft for the republicans to fre them some democrats bay now i 3 i t DI they nub sieou aan 0 yourself ia their position and ee how it w ulnae I 1 do not blame cat southern bri liera and bisters for they had become accustomed to theae tle speaker illustrated big argument with a example hi his own life about the wealth of the great licad party what kiad of men havo they put in the presidential chair were they millionaires millionaire a was lincoln what was garfield what was grant wara thesa men wealthy no to aay they were is false they ti i alaf fram ta fica the makaea of the people I 1 believe that the aima and ends of the republican liaa been to taah fit the poor man in speaking of the principle f pre lection tec tion I 1 think a man moat be wha he would not barall h chali Is there man under the aund of my voice who would not take a handful of money if it were tendered to him I 1 would I 1 am not the right build jett any comfort I 1 do not in that teaching that a man must pow only BO high and only an low my friend hire know me they hata known m f om my childhood and not one can say I 1 ever curtailed the of any man have brokha bread and eaten in all the countries of europe and I 1 say I 1 love my country and my blaz ilove the memory of the men who nune it nt to the breeze to wave oyer all who would come here for ome eay england is a free trader you let auy cue go into her hagbom I 1 have beu there nd every tima my liitle grip bean opened and they h lve dug their hands into it to see that nothing was contained there that they dia not wish to 10 into england without a tax england is a protective nation and she stands at the head and front some say we to those seat s eat comb mea now i there a greater combine than old england the entire island is owned lay about elearn men lord salisbury owns all liverpool these railroads we would not have if ii were not for the comb iaea how about your factory here it it were not for a bombina when we think of the thing about us e will aay thank god for the nunda that hare been operated under they will vat find that the be publican party ii the frieada of all the people the blessings of god hare fallen on thia people I 1 caa remember when w hollowed toll owed oar dead to the grave bardt la ox leakas one year aeo I 1 attended the funeral of a child and fifty aaring cehi cleg followed the remains to the cemetery this is prosperity ity there are bloated landholders land holders among yo and yet we dont want any one to make money the resources are here right around na and if protected wil be developed ve loped I 1 bone the day hag come when the dubiety will be removed the minds of my nun mormon friends and that they will believe that I 1 want to work hand in hand with tham for the benefit of mv country wishing you well and that when you register your names at the poll you will baat your ballot in favor of prohibition the democrats dont be lieve in prohibition I 1 will say that when we are schooled oled is the interests that are for our benefit we will see that all the western states all in the grand old part yand we with the bame theirs it teems to me should adopt the same not believe in what the democrats say they are going to do tor they never do it forgiving you my democratic friends lor all you may have said of me I 1 invite you into that grand old party tant believes in seeing the grand old flag wave over all tha land and will it always A vote of were tendered th speaker the band played hail columbia charles demoisy I 1 will deal a little in ancient history if I 1 speak of the democratic party I 1 must deal in ancient history as they haye never been known since 1860 the infamous slave at 0 1850 to return a runaway slave passed by the democrats it makes a difference which party does a thing it was no for the to make a war on texas but it is a terrible crime that a president Pre eident harri fion should make war on chill to defend oar honor when I 1 first came to utah polygamy was to mormon whenever polygamy was mentioned I 1 thought mormon and when any one aard mormon I 1 thought polygamy poly gomy after traveling over the territory I 1 have changed my mind I 1 came from a state where women have a partial muni cipal matters our election ia a cure go as the governor has vetoed the bill yon democrats may draw conr faces longer sixty days ago they claimed three to one th airty days ago they claimed two to one now they will not say a word we have them and boys keep them roan ing and a week from monday we will land them in the ditch the band played the hr banner john grier endorsed what had been caid three cheers were given for the B publican party the band played and the me eting adjourned |