Show EDITOR JOURNAL the opening meeting of the pent in richmond was held last saturday nigh t in the old hall the well ivell known and beautiful strains of music that were discoursed by the richmond city cily baud sounded clear on the ni night ht air before the appointed time for the meeting to commence eri enlivened liveried and reminded our voters that the campaign is i now on the speakers of the evening were L it martineau and JO jos morrell of logan mertin Mer lins z wa called to order by thos griffin Ur iliin and mr martineau Martio eau was introduced ile he spoke of his having been in chicago at the time of the national democratic convention and of his being appointed a delegate in the abie absence ence of one of the utah delegation it was an event never to lie be for forgotten golten as it showed exactly that the fight e for and against silver was between the toiling masses and the corporations trusts and money kings of the east this grew wore more app apparent ar each day of tile the convention u until n at lat tile the most unconcerned observer could not fail to see where the line wab drawn david 11 hills great and powerful speech was made in behalf of t the his minority report on platform opposing aref coi coinage nate 0 and for five or ten Wil minutes lutes the convention was carried from its feet in favor of the cause causa of the gold standard but when dryan was called fur for and made his speech favoring the majority report ile he carried the convention and a platform was adopted favoring tiie the free aud and teed coina coinage e of silver at the ratio ot of 16 to 1 sir mr bryin has since carriel carried on a wonderful campaign having made from 3 to 27 speeches peeches a day the speaker knew and king personally lly judge king is an eloquent speaker and defender of free silver a man who cannot be b ought bought g and one who is capable in every respect to represent the people ale of itah atah I 1 in n the halls balls of congress mr holbrook though an honest man and nn an advocate of free silver cannot make a speech and although his mind were overpower ovel powering him with willi thought that lie he would lil like e h his fellows to know he be could not lite sent it before them in an intelligent manner ile he spoke of the citizens citi ens move in the county as bring being the worl work of designing republicans of the county to get the support up port of dissatisfied Delno democratic cratic onice office seekers to enable them to carry the county demo chats should take no stock in in euch proceedings mckinley McKill lu says gays that instead of opening tile the mints minis of the country let us open till fic victoris toris all and give our people work this is an absurd urd ai a i tho neat are already floo hooded ded with manufactured goods the foundation of tile thi matter is to open the mints minis pet get money aito into circulation and then own the can buy I 1 lose gold go idi anil and abu create a demand demand fr for goods good 0 is the hie only ii ay to I 1 open tho the factories tile the speaker then showed the be bone benefits fits of 0 tile the country being beina flooded with filer when the englishman brinan his bullion here to be coined he must take U p S S R silver dollars dollar for hin big bullion andas and as they areno are no goo goud I in england he be will have to invest bis silver here a and nd buy ame american rican goodz goods which will give ark to aal american r an workmen to prod produce U ce these goods good the speaker then introduced mr morrell as a man who could tell a joke ping fing a bong mike make a speech Epe eeli etc mr morrell was pleased that some tirre had been left hin him in which to tell a few jokes joke s sing ing a few sooga and talk about the mortey money question quellion told how haw he had bad been trying to get a few dollars honest colars Io lars hard dollars cat ca t iron dollars lar t hard earned dollars dol larf big dollars dollars that look like a wagon wheel explained how lie he and others who have anything to pell cell are bailin failing n to get these dollars ani in to get them must pell kell what they have at a very great sacrifice sacr idee all his speech lacked was the few frengs that tie lie havo have time losing altogether the meeting 41 passed off quietly and the democrats enjoyed a good time R ilesa e s re y I 1 zip RICHMOND oct 19 10 |