| Show iT WASt T MUGHE The Republican Rally At Spanish Fork Last Night HAD LITTLE EFFECT It was a Mammouth Affair to Glare Glamour Noise and Number but Powerfully Pow-erfully Weak as to Logic Franks Ha ran gue Jones and Booth Speak The assertion made early in the I campaign that the republicans are to make Utah county their principal battle bat-tle ground is being proven true Yet it is not being done in the way it was expected We had reason to believe they would give us a battle in which at least a few heavy shots of logic would be fired We did not expect that they would spend all their ener yin y-in turning the towns ot the county upside up-side down with noise and din but such seems to be their plan The scheme ia to take the drum corps the marching clubs the flambeau clubs and as many republicans as can afford the expense from the other towns of the county into the especial town they propose to bombard Bj this means of course they get a crowd of course they make big parades and of course they get big meetings and of course they make much noise and a great show They did all this at Spanish Fork last night and they had a grand parade there were two well filled meetings and the town all the night was one wild scene of boisterous revelry The saloons did good business Cannon Jones and Booth were the speakers Cannon had taken his cue from Joseph F Smith and said that Providence Provi-dence gave us statehood Of course he forgot to say that God Almighty showed His good sense in selecting Joe Rawlins Raw-lins the foremost Utah democrat and a democratic administration as the instruments in-struments through whom and which He wa to give us this great boon Frank didnt say that God slighted turn in refusing to let him go to Washington Wash-ington and help that wonderfully powerful pow-erful republican minority to crowd statehood down our throats whether we wanted it or not Fraukie opened up his talk by saying that the whole people of the United States are calling to Utah to help them help them to what was not made clearonly he was sure they were not going to wait thirty years for the relief to come and that gatthng guns would not be turned on the unfortunate unfortu-nate ones Then he branched off in a sweet sweet song about the hard times and how they were all brought about by the wicked democrats In 1892 there were fewer men employed than at any other time in the history of the country Ihe next day after Cleveland was elected the working people peo-ple went In p the tactorifs hoping that their sufferings would be appeased but > their sufferings continued under the Cleveland administration From this he went on to show that it was the threat pf tree trade that made the manufacturers man-ufacturers close their factories but didnt say what it was that made them close their doors reduce wages throw men out of employment etc in 1892 when the hard times were being born under the Harrison administration Frankie tried to be a little funny by referring to the fact that Cleveland was at Home when hs last I babe was born It may be that Frankie is not on hand when his offspring make their appearance appear-ance on this stage of action but it is no disgrace to Cleveland because he is Then the wouldbe delegate in i congress con-gress opened upon the silver question Heed Clarkson Harrison McKinley and all the leading republicans are free coinage men and 16 to 1 at that Senators Jones and Stewart and all those illustrious silver republicans who have left the republican party must be wrong when they say there is no hope for silver in the republican party for Frankie says so He says that the only hope for silver is in the republican party and he says further that protection is so closely allied to silver that they are married He excused the extravagance of the last republican congress and then said it is true some of the factories have started up since the democrats have passed their tariff bill but he thought they would close again whenever the democrats begin again to tinker with the tariff A side issue was here made of Wm L Wilsons trip to England Frankie thinks the Buttons laughed in their sleeves at the democratic congressma He thinks that Wilsons work in testing down the walls ol protection was paralleled par-alleled in its awfulness only by Governor Gov-ernor West when he turned the gat ling guns on the commonwealers Frankie is getting bold He made one reference to the last and only republican re-publican Utah legislature He didnt dare jump onto the democratic income ax though His reference fo the legislature Islature was to say that the onehalf mill was taken from the schools to pay he debts a new name for bounties of the territory It isnt a question with Frankie as to who got back the escheated chord property but as to who should return to us the 1260000 taken from us by the reduction of the wool tariff Of course he dont take into consideration the amount of money this tariff is to save us in reducing the price of cloths and he dont worry himself about the tens of millions ot dollars loss to the mining interests of the territory by republican re-publican legislation He closed his lecture by saying that he believed the county would go repub lican that he believed even Spanish Fork i would go republican The horse hugh that greeted him on this last assertion sertion made him take it back and say bat well if it didnt go republican his time he believed it would next time Judge Jones followed in a very dry irksome talk about hew prosperous things were in 1892 and about how he told us then how things would be now Bishop Booth was tailed up to do the clowns act at the close The burden of his very coarse and very awkward jokes was that the democrats two years ago didnt have sense enough to believe what he told them two years ago |
