Show PEOPLES ratification january 29 was not the first time the theatre has been crowded to its utmost by a political meeting of the peoples party but there could not be a better attended one as the building could accommodate no more even with standing room the enthusiasm was wag almost unbounded and to Is only equalled equal led by the earnestness with which the people are engaging in the cam the special drum corps and bands paraded the streets before the hour of meeting and when the theatre doors were opened at the crowd surged into the building which was literally jammed anu and many had to turn away the front of the stage and circles were decorated with the stars and stripes while arranged around the stage from the boxes were the beautiful banners of the various peopled people Is party clubs the whole forming a delightful picture while the peo people p le were waiting the special drum corps and the gatling galling band played on the rising of the curtain there was discovered on the stage the nominees on the peoples ticket and the municipal central committee members and members elect seated attached to the curtain was a large canvas on which were the names of the peo peoples les le s c indicates indi dates for mayor recarter recorder Re corTer treasurer assessor and collector marshal councilmen justices of the peace and aldermen As soon as the scene was presented to the view of the vast audience they broke forth in thunders of applause HON F 8 RICHARDS called the assemblage to order and began his address he had bad uttered but a few words when his voice was drowned in the cheers that shook tb the e very building when he mentioned the name of spencer clawson there was another outburst and it seemed as if the people could not nod restrain themselves the name of heber M wells caused a repetition of the tempestuous john H rumel bous applause Y jr r was similarly greeted and after a momentary pause but before the speaker could proceed there came three rousing cheers the mention of A W carlson carison was wag the signal for far another A mclean the people again went wild each of the candidates on the entire tiro ticket was mentioned and each was waa greeted with bursts of applause mr richards speech was as follows ladies and gentlemen the trusted who com composed sed 1 the ort municipal convention of the he peopled s party have performed the im portent labor which you devolved upon them that they have discharged their sacred trust with wisdom and fidelity is attested by your presence here tonight and by the thundering applause which has greeted the work of the convention we are here to ratify a ticket that would do credit to any municipality in this great republic weare we are hereto say that we are proud to sustain for office in salt lake city the men who have been named in this building within the past forty eight hours not only do does e 8 the mention of the names of these thes e men arouse our intense enthusiasm but when we calmly reflect on their character we are convinced of their superior merit scan the list for mayor spencer clawson A native born etonian Uto nian A man whose career has been marked with enterprise land and push whose character is above the oreath breath of malice and whose ability is unquestioned in utah and t the surrounding territories his name means progress pro grems as and success while in financial centres bentres and in in of this land it la is the synonym of commercial integrity teg rity with such a candidate for mayor victory would seem assured for recorder heber M wells a young man who catered public life when a boy and who has made himself familiar with every de department rt of the municipal service from r om the least important office to that of mayor hie ability integrity and urbanity urbanity have won for him thead admiration mi ration of all classes of people while his patriotic devotion to the cause of right and his self abnegation have made him the idol of his party our opponents even now concede his worth and on the of february they will witness his reward for treasurer august au gust W carlson carison a man whose character is his bond his reputation is such that the best men in this city would pledge a million dollars if necessary as his bis security it ads was the boast of the outgoing republican treasurer of the united states when grover cleveland was elected that the democrats found a deficiency of only one cent when A W Carl carlsone CarlBon sons 8 term of office expires his deficiency will be even less lem it will be nothing he is that kind of a man for ameer asse csor and collector John john H rumel jr I 1 see from your applause that I 1 need not tell you who he is ia A man who knows the value of time and energy A man whose heart to is big like himself A man who knows all about moving trains except running a special tion train to P V junction hp he did not buy his nomination that way he got it honestly and that is just the way he will administer the duties of his office for marshal gilbert A mclean when mae mac played baseball the boys used to say he played for all he was worth that is 18 the way he will conduct his responsible office when he drives an engine he be gets there on schedule time that to is the way he will do on the day of february next before sunset councilmen council men william puller fuller john william groesbeck arnold G giauque Glau que john G robinson R K thomas eli A folland frank H hyde oscar osar H hardy richard Y young ng J F fewson ewson smith william illiam AV 1 tuddenham udene nephi WC layton joshua midgley midgley and frederick A mitchell justices of the peace james W eardley thomas hull ward E pack jr george D william naylor nay lor aldermen john G smith PW madsen W A hodges S P alexander mcmaster Is there one of these men whom you would blush to own as a chosen representative of our party cries of noll no noll no nolla no no not one they are all stalwarts stal warts and here we have a superb train crew with clawson for conductor wells as brakeman molean mclean as engineer carlson as fireman and rumel as train dispatcher there is no danger but that fuller and all the other passengers will roll into the city hall depot on time they will never be stopped nor delayed by snow blockades it is the other party part y that chat will be snowed under I 1 feel proud of our nominees because every one them is worthy of all this enthusiasm if he stood here alone the subject of this ratification aaion do our opponents present such a ticket who ever hears anything of their men except the head of the ticket and the registrars who are receiving the reward of their party fidelity I 1 want to tell this audience that a good mayor alone cannot make a good administration the men on their ticket whom the liberals scarcely deign to mention in their speeches the men on our ticket whom we name with confidence and pride I fr mean the councilmen council meo are the ones upon whom will rest a large share of the responsibility for this cites welfare during the next two years it to is an aphorism of mechanics that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link tested by that rule what is the I liberal ticket it to is a chain of bulrushes bul rushes by the same rule what is our ticket it is like arloof one of the cables of the brooklyn bridge when we have ratified this ticket until we are hoarse when we have cheered and hurrahed hur hurr abed until our candidates and the rest of the world know that we are filled with triumphant u hope let us go forth to a labor which shall not falter until the polls close on election day with clawson and every other of our candidates winners by a superb and best of all by an honest majority after the storm of applause which followed mr richards introduced as our next mayor may or SPENCER CLAWSON who came forward and was greeted with wild and prolonged cheering lie he said odd mr chairman ladies and gentlemen 1 would bo be devoid of all the purer sentiments of manhood if my heart did not nob swell with pride while standing before a gathering like this tonight to receive at your hands bands such a manifestation of endorsement dor and support I 1 hold in common with all men the right to act and think as my conscience shall dictate and I 1 especially hold sacred the right to sustain the principles of correct government which are harmonious with the glorious principles of truth and liberty applause we are hearing the end of a political campaign that has developed much bitterness and ill feeling on both sides but I 1 propose to be led if I 1 am elected for the important office to which you have nominated me solely by a desire for the public good to follow as near as possible the line of my official duty to all classes of citizens citi zens alike applbaum Ap A the platform ot of the peoples People la party embodies what is needed as a guide in the safe just and economical government of this growing city a city that is destined to become the greatest of this vast mountain region applause the motives that underlie the he liberal party are not such that I 1 can consistently endorse althou although h in there are men of sterling worth in their ranks notably the gentleman who to is their candidate for mayor prove an best efforts to defeat do not my friends let the success that has followed our past political experiences lead us to be less leas vigilant and zealous in the present struggle but on the contrary lot let us unite and cast our legal votes for the man of our choice see that they are honestly counted and the victory is ours cheers W when ben quiet was again restored mr richards evoked another storm by introducing HEBER M WELLS who said mr chairman ladies and gentlemen my friends tell me the announcement no that I 1 am no speechmaker to is getting very stale and I 1 tell my friends friende stale as it is that it is as true as when it was originally made I 1 suppose I 1 stand before you tonight to be ratified as your candidate for recorder of this city I 1 stand before you also as a candidate for your votes cheers I 1 am told it is the proper thing on such occasions as this always to point with pride to the candidates of oneca own side hide and to recoil with homr at the mention of the fellows on the other side I 1 am sorry to be obliged at this time to somewhat reverse this order of things I 1 am about to tell you something in regard to one of your own candidates at which you will doubtless recoil with horror notwithstanding all the caution all the prudence all the judgment exercised by the recent convention they have nominated a 11 suspect f laughter 1 I have a document which will explain lain the situation more fully before ore reading it I 1 desire to commend the wisdom and forethought of the convention which in its last hours resolved that in case any of the nominees on the ticket were disabled or rendered ineligible in any amy way before the election that the central committee should call the delegates together again to fill the vacancy so occasioned I 1 tell you that the convention wiser than it knew now is the time for you to recoil with horror attend ov OF UTAH crry CITY AND AIM COUNTY OP OF SALT LANZ LAKE an 68 I 1 david webb a qualified voter of the city of salt bait lake hereby object to the right of heber M X wells wel 1 s to vote for the following reasons to wit he is a polygamist following lu loud yells of rats bats I 1 cobwebs I 1 fraud I 1 etc signed D WEBB objector this morning I 1 showed this paper to a liberal friend ile he asked me if mr webb know knew me I 1 replied I 1 know whether he did or not he said if I 1 had bad beon been a good trotting horse he would know me because he knew all the good trotting horses in the city then for the first time since my nomination as recorder I 1 regretted I 1 did not get there as a mare screams and hur I 1 E rahal or something of that sort though perhaps if I 1 had mr webb might have Jis discovered covered a worse metres next nest than ever I 1 know an old man who has trudged past my door ever since I 1 was born and before too I 1 guess he has lived here so long that the bo boys call him jocularly y t the he oldest inhabitant ff 11 today he w was a s accused by mr webb of being a non rest resi dent cheers I 1 lam am informed that mr george M scott the liberal nominee for mayor says that he wants a fair election or no office I 1 now warn he persists in such statements as these mr webb is liable to object to his right to vote loud and long applause appl I 1 let me i tell him that the fact that he has lived here fifteen or twenty years is no bar to his being objected to as a non nor is if the fact that he has no wife at all a bar to his being objected to as a polygamist its cheers J the peoples peopled party doffs its hat to mr scott and asks him andall good citizens to unite with them in securing a fair and impartial count prolonged cheering three hearty cheers were then given mr wells following which came a piece by the drum corps A W CARLSON next dext came forward amid applause he said he realized very keenly that poring over account books for wenty five years had not qualified him for the stage but mv experience may be of iise ase in the position of treasurer and help me to bring out a clean balance sheet and keep the cash straight had I 1 consulted my own feelings feeling sI should have asked at the convention to have my name withdrawn but this is no time for the peoples peopled party to back out applause the backing must be done by somebody else I 1 am proud to be associated with the names on this ticket I 1 know them all to be honorable men aled worthy of the support of every fair man and honest citizen of salt bait lake three cheers were given for the ticket and then PROP PROF J H PAUL was introduced and warmly welcomed he said much would be said of the candidates and he would mention but the one whom he had the honor of nominating in the convention ven tion for marshal gilbert A melean mclean applause I 1 need only refer to him as a great worker and not as a great talker cheers chee re I 1 will also refer to the liberal platform its first line says the liberal libecap Libe raP party of salt bait lake is composed of over 20 residents of the city cries k 1 I there is no census of 11 ll liberals taken taked but there is a census less than a old from which you can easily judge the truth of the claim this census shows that in this city last july there were school children of mormon parentage and only children of liberal parentage a you see this line in the Ti liberal berall platform is putting it mildly a mistake another sentence is the liberal party refers with pride to its achievements in the past laughter I 1 should think it would it has deprived you of trial by tta jury ury it has deprived the women of utah of the suffrage it has taken away from you the right to elect certain of your officers it advises your disfranchisement asks that you be prohibited from entering the public lands and clamors for other unjust measures I 1 think it should be proud of its infamies amies Ano another therline line office belongs to no man the four registrars did not seem to hold bold that did they applause to is hereby pledged in our water service until pure water in abundance shall at all times ti mes be at the command of consumers A good plank it is taken entire from the peoples peopled platform cheers they rhey say we believe in local self government J they should have added by the salt lake laketa tra bune laughter that paper advises the depriving of mormons cormons Mor mons of every right the cL liberal eliberal platform to is signed by baskin Ba skirt who drew the infamous bill now before congress for your disfranchisement cries of shame on them the liberals say they believe in free schools they have opposed by vote and lawsuit every attempt yet made here to t have free schools schoola scho oln shouts of sol I 1 the liberal party pledges itself to the lowest possible rate of |