Show A BROADSIDE OF FBI powers posers pours hot shot into the wavering enemy REVIEWS THEIR legislature that they forget it in provo while Blush ilig for foi S and other A ambitious Hawa ians I 1 judge powers said gentlemen ot of the convention I 1 acknowledge in my y obligation in being calle dup dupon on to preside over this magnificent assembly seni bly I 1 stand before tho the representative senta tive of a majority maj arity of the people of utah you have assembled t to 0 make a 1 e known 0 w the will of the ami rv 1 dominant 1 n t alt p party a r of 0 utah the tha dominant party part not only of two years ago but dominant today and go it will remain if it hews bews close to the lines of its foun founders dArs if I 1 may bo be permitted a word person personal al let mo me say to you that it il has been a source of regret to we me that the defonds of my business are such that 1 I have bave been forced to t cease aati active ve political work and am de barred from lending t ruy assistance iu in shaping political thought and action as I 1 would like in in A favor ea vor of our grand organization man owes certain duties to the public but first of all is his duty to liis his home and famil family y it was the full appreciation of this truth ta tat at caused me in a public letter to we wie tuscarora society some weeks ago to make inake known the fact that I 1 had retired from active political management but because I 1 lid did so no man is justified in Eug suggesting gesting that it was I 1 tl wt t qi cpr I 1 2 hi h t 01 1141 e 1 alea a F a i cannot be justly charged with cowardice I 1 have never shirked a 1 responsibility and what right lias has any man for the purpose of political gain because I 1 am core compelled I 1 alel I 1 to bo be more of a private vate citizen and less the public man to suggest that I 1 am leaning toward his party a party which through h its legislation has brou brought ht poverty y sorrow distress and financial confusion over all the land let this be my answer to them all I 1 am a democrat Derro crat and shall ball oto ote the democratic ticket I 1 am a democrat and if I 1 could I 1 would preach the political gospel of the true faith from the border line of idaho on oil the north to the walls of the temple of st george 1 upon tho south As a citizen I 1 will do all I 1 can for you so that I 1 may have the right when the ideas of november shall c ome come to join with will you in the of that will rie front from democratic throats when le the votes are all counted cou nied men L should align themselves now it is no th time ne to be good lord and good glood devil we ve are laying the foundations ot of a it great reat commonwealth one whose valleys shall teem with willi millions and whose marble palaces dve decorated orated with pre precious clious tone from tile gibat treasure measure vaults of tile thy reek will be the he wonder of the nation here we shall create in an empire of political and commercial power nd and here hall enlightenment and learning abound utah shall sit amid tho the lills hills wrapped in ia the glories of her sunE sunshine hine and the royal purple of her wondrous cloud regal in her glor glorious ioui reign tile the empress of the mountains and a 0 peat people shall breathe her air loyal to our country brave intelligent and true and it is for foi them thein and theirs as well as for ourselves that we ire labor when we prep prepare ire for the glory of a state the dividing lines between the republican party and the democratic party ar are distinctly drawn they have existed since the creation of man they mark out the tha struggles of humanity in its efforts to wrest absolute poter from the favored classes and give perfect freedom to every human soul the republican party believes that the tha people exist for t the he uses and purposes of those who rule the democratic party contends that those who rule are ar the servants feriante Fer vante of the people tho the republican party contends that our government should be strongly centralized and all the people dominated from a central head ead b democracy believes in home rule and the retention of power in the voters hands republicans republican public ans insist that tire the govern government should be a parent to every au ni siness and other enterprise taxing i all the people to aid the capitalist class every true Derno democrat crat contends that no DO taxes ore are just except those that are needed for the ilie economical administration ot of public afra affairs irs during unity thirty years of power and legislation th the republican party upon the foundation suggested first through the exigencies igen cies of war it levied a tariff so high 0 as to be almost a barrier to to im nor tation behind this wall the echev of the land began ban 0 o accumulate in the hands of a few and the property of the people to fall in in value having tested power the s began to cry for more rind at session after cession of our congress 0 the republicans laid hearl heavier i cr taxes upon the people until a cap call stone was reached in the mckinley bill against tho the constant encroachment ment of grasping trusts and monopolies the democratic party has steadfastly battled it has held aloft the banner of revenue reform and demanded freer trade until the people arose in their might in 1802 1892 and by their vote demanded a revision revision of our revenue laws the was strongly entrenched it had wealth and power in its command its fortifications had been by the accretions of more thai th at a quarter of a century the business of the country was in in the hands bands of bonol mono olies individual enterprise was substantially unknown and in its stead there were corporations linked by immense into gigantic trusts which were fattening off the industries of the people protected as they were by the worse than war var tariff following their chariot wheels wore the footsore and despondent coxey armies the direct result of republican legislation the iron iron kings coal barons and sugar C lord ford had bad tested the sweets of power and were coining untold wealth they did not propose pro pose to yield to the peoples people 8 demand the result was a battle royal roval at washington and the plop people le finally won while they did not secure all they asked they drove the enemy enemy into the 0 open p en country and strul struck a strong blow for commercial freedom the tide has turned the pendulum has begun baaun to swing in tho the other direction and a long step has been taken towards americo amerian Ameri cn n thrall ment again are the monopolies summoning their retainers once again are republican orators singing the sirens song that it does the people good to bo be taxed with brazen effrontery they loudly charge that the very conditions which they created by their ill advised le legislation r aisla is is the fault of democracy and yet since the passage of tho the senate bill the skies have brightened and hope once more finds lodgment in the hearts of nil all here is utah the fight is on the republicans have met in convention and passed a platform of principles remarkable for its silent condemnation of that wonderful aggregation el the first republican I 1 legislature egis lature of utah why this oppressive silence why this confession that even republicans have no faith in republican legislatures was it because the builders of the platform were so suffused with blushes over the hawaiian matter that they simply blushed and blushed and furget forget all about their first political creation in utah the worst of all crimes is in ingratitude rati and republicans were ivere ungrateful in not pointing with pride to its statesmen of our thirty first territorial assembly they covered its record over with the mantle of silent contempt and rejoiced that they had made them silves secure 8 by poking 0 their heads in the theland thee i and they forgot the legislature but they did not dot forget to blush over hawaii 0 consistency consi stancy you do not perch on the republican bannor banner the republicans never fail to chant the praises of the colored race when democracy declared that certain peculiar pe euliar and doings on the pacific under harrisons administration should be investigated vesti gated they forgot the dusky queen just as they forget tle ali e colored colore dynan man for public office and cried out loudly for the old flag 0 and an appropriation and they have opened the campaign and declare that the fight is yvon won on their fingers they count a few feeble minded children ildren cli of democracy who have wandered into their camp why no one knows unless they are arc strayed y ed or stolen but re republicans public ans wax exceeding joyful the handwriting hand writing how bow everis on oil the wall and their waterloo is ahead I 1 why should people in in ill he light of history hib tory in the light of living ar all about us desire publican success why should they desh besiie e longer to prevent our manufactures from com competing petin with all the world why should they urge that the settlement Bett lement of the silver question should he be placed in the hands of it a party parly choso chos 0 ric rich h men and leader t take their financial ideas from tle the bank of I 1 england ng la n 1 I every mine that is iq los closed down every discouraged silent damp mill is an arvurne argument t against 7 republican rule every n other mother I 1 who during the coming winter shall hug her freezing babe to her breast is an argument against the party which in ill the last congress made it pop possible sible for tile the cal CL 11 barons of the east to set their own price on coal every acre of land with its reduced valuation every mortgage thereon which is ra rapidly eating the substance in in a argument a against the republican party every do dollar I 1 I 1 ar taken from froin the farmer and his family that some come great manufacturer shall have more and inore speaks louder than words for revenue and financial reform do you desire to see an all ideal republican town controlled by republican methods then look toward starving pullman with its pauperized tenants and its wealthy owners ind and tell me ino whether you on have th the e hardihood to desire that such ruch conditions shall everywhere le bo found the democratic party coming 0 as it does from the deop people e his 1118 the power to reduce to the ranks every unfaithful leader and to demand that tile the will of the citizen shall be heeded you will declare your principles today you will say sav that there must be free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 whether england wants it poor not and democrats will insist that the silver so coined shall be aed as a money of ultimate redemption the same to as gold and this afternoon you will till no nomi minata Dato rawlins for congress Con grese you will do so for you could not face your constituents constituent is if you did otherwise you want him tho the democratic party as a unit wants him and ganv many independent republicans public ans who admire his brilliant record desire that he be our nominee ile he secured the opening of our reservations he obtained 0 a eite ite for our university lie he restored the money of our leadin leading M churchard chur church chand and he gave gave statehood to utah B brave ri ve eloquent true as steel and faili ful as tile the stars lie he has earned the good will of all and richly deserves the reelection election re which utah will give him when we shall leave this hall let us return to our homes and work for our candidate and our principles let our campaign be clean and dignified let thie there be no faltering let there be no hesi hesitation prepare for the dawn of greatness place in her hands the democratic banner write upon her forche forehead ad the principles of democracy and your children I 1 en will rise up and call you ble bless assed 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