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Show AS VIEWED JiY DEMOCRATS. Edited by Local Democratic Com. The debate held in the theatre last Wednesday evening between Thomas Marioneaux and Holtzheimer Democratic Demo-cratic stumpers and C. O. Whittemore and Major Grant for the republicans was an immense success from a democratic demo-cratic point of view at every step it became be-came more clear that the republicans issued the challenge with idea that the democrats would decline but they were bitterly dissapointed. . Mr. Whittemore confessed to some of his friends the day of the debate that he never was so nervous in all his life as he was over this debate. After the democrats had accepted the challenge to debate he flatly refused re-fused to come to time unless they would give him the closing speech so that he would have some show to bolster up his cause. Major Grant endeavoring to support McKinley and expansionism. Whittemore then told us that if James T. Hammond the republican nominee was sent to congress then the republican party would shower all sorts of favors on Utah; but if Judge King-was King-was elected we would get nothing. He then made a big talk on the Dixie Silk industry telling us that the republicans give it a bounty and legislate for its support. But Mrs. Caine the Lady who represents the Silk Commission of Utah who was at the debate says these statements have not an item of truth in them as silk is the only thing the republicans re-publicans had not put a tariff on, as it comes from abroad absolutely free. Holtzheimer amid a storm of applauses ap-plauses scattered their arguments to the four winds. Marioneaux in cold and unimpassion-ed unimpassion-ed logic held the flimsey arguments up to light of clay and reduced them to nothingness from whence they came; asking in line tones of scorn and irony at what school had these republican champions learned their logic'? Whittcmore's closing was grand example of nerve, abandoning all rules of debate he brought up matters that neither speaker had touched upon, well knowing that there would be no chance of being answered and by this ruse vainly endeavored to save something from the wreck. The democrats are well pleased with '. tlie results and teel their cause very much strengthened by the ad vent of the republican stumpers. |
