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Show : TRUMBO TROUPE. It Showed to a Provo Audience Audi-ence Last Night- GOOD POPULIST TALK. Nothing: Said to Convert Democrat to Republicanism Bather the Artrumonto Would Convince Republicans That They Should Leave Their Party. Trumbo and his troupe of curiosities, including Wild Bill Glassman of the Ogden Standard, have been in Provo. They held forth last night in the opera house to a large audience. The John T. Marshal Solid Silver Quartette, four colored gentlemen, enliyened the show mightily with some good singing. The order of the speeches was: First, Charles Crane of K3no sh; second, John P. Meakin in recitation; third, Mre. Isaac Trumbo; fcuith,Pill Glassman; fifth the great. and, according to Crane, the only friend of Utar, the man of wealth (S. P. Ry's and sugar trust's) Colonel Ikey himself, and last and not withstanding the extensive adveitising that heralded his coming to the effect that he is tne greatest ol all republican orators of national fame and notwith standing his great ability to juggle words make outrageous unfounded and unreasonable charges against democrats, demo-crats, and to mix the whole up with a whole lot of Billy things said in such a way as to make people who hear thsm laugh the eiratic republic in stumper who did eo much to make California democratic last year, the man with such a record of convincing republicans republi-cans that they should be democrats while attempting to do the reverse that the Utah Htuto centra rfirmbllcan committee com-mittee were leery m. in ? and ruled that he should not stump the territory under their auspices none other than Col. Lee Pail child. Mr. Pairchild in his talk accused the detuociats of all manner of meanneBS and corruption and he Baid that as ignorance decreases in the land so does the number of democrats inhabiting inhabit-ing that land. He accused them of being unable to spell correctly of being be-ing illiterate, and that after he had sat all the night and heard the speakers speak-ers of this aistinguished, highly cultured cul-tured and othei wise republican side party make grammatical blunders by the halsful and had heard their chair man make such remarks as "Mrs. Col. Trumbo,"'Hon. Col. Pairchid," etc., in his introductions, and while making the accusation himself mispronouncing words and horribly butchering the pDgliBh language. Hia whole speech was a disconnected incoherent effort, lie said many words and people laughed at him, but he said nothing that people peo-ple can remember and think about only as they think of the funny sayings of the endman in a minstrel show. The'meeting waB opened by Charles DiMoisy, precinct chairman of the republican party. The regular republican organization consider this gang decidedly off-color and do not know whether they are doing do-ing the party good or harm. The regular reg-ular organization is alraidof the party, so Charlie did the thing that was expected of him by the bosses when he refused toengmeer the show and turned the load off his shouldera by introducing Crane as chairman. This should have done, but it didn't deprive Crane of his chauce to make a speech. Crane had his little say. He felt convinced that "this ia a democratic dem-ocratic year." He added sotto voce "of defeat." He said that splendid audiences, Bimilar to the one before him now, had greeted the party wherever wher-ever it had "tried to hold forth" republican repub-lican principles. Then he launched out in great glee reviewing the gains the republican party hab made in Utah in lb92-3-4. (DeMoisy had said that these gains were made by that party in those years more because of the work and money of the gentleman whom he was about to introduce as chairman of the meeting than because of any other thing.) The speaker felt confident that republicans will make gains Euflicient this year to take Utah into the union as a republican state. If Utah goes democratic thia year, he said, it means that we endorse Cleveland's Cleve-land's every act during his present administration. ad-ministration. And this proved to be the cue for each and every speaker that followed Mr. Crane, and my, didn't poor old Cleveland catch it? And the democrats ol Utah were whaled and blamed for all. He set forth as a fact the unqualified falsehood that the democrats of Utah are wagina a campaigu this yoar only of personal vilification of republican candidates and republican principles and saying not a word of tbe living, burning issue of the day, the remone-tization remone-tization of silver. JNo man, he said, in Utah, is so tied to political creed that he will not see the right and leave his party if need be to secure the re-monelization re-monelization of silver. Mr. Crane then said that democrats have struck down waces, silver, wool, wheat, in fact everything and placed the country under a heavy load of bonds. Then he branched off; onto his favorite theme and said again that democrats are resorting to all manner of chicanery, vituperation and appeal ing to the prejudice and passion, not to the intelligence of the voters. This is a battle, he said, for bread, for prosperity. pros-perity. It doesn't matter if the con-didates con-didates for office suit us or not, it is the principles of the party they represent repre-sent not tbe men for whom we cast our votes. John P. Meakin recited "Dandy Fifth" quite creditably. Then Mrs.Isaac Trumbo recited an effort ef-fort some good republican had prepared for her. She occupied a half an hour or so in its deliyery, but it contained nothing in particular other than an euloey on women and the vmnt wnrt for good they can accomplish in politics, poli-tics, She said Utah cloth and Utah silk make the prettieat of gowns The great and the only Bill Glas-mann Glas-mann was the next speaker and he was the only speaker who attempted to answer democratic argument. He first read from issues o the Salt Lake Herald dated November 12, and November No-vember 15, 1892. These art.cies told of the great good that would come to the country because of ita having elected the democracy into power. Of course the Herald then did not realize the great bh ck in the road of progress republicans re-publicans were about to throw, and promised that good and prosperity prosper-ity in the very near future. Bill dwelt upon those promises, insisting that the hard times we have experienced were all because of democratic ascendancy. Then he tried to prove that Jefferson was a protectionist and said he was not only this but was the father of the system of bimetallic currency the father of free coinage of silver if you please. Then he landed onto Cleveland and went away over to Hawaii. He came next to the claim of democracy democ-racy that the recent hard times were tbe result of the operation of bad re publican laws and told about an old man in Ogden who had heard thpt same claim several times before when in early times democracy had been elected to power, ridiculing the meanwhile mean-while a railroad bridge Btory Judge llhodes had used in illustrating this claim. An old and good engineer had run a train over a cer ain piece of roa 1 for thirty years. On that piece of road wob a bridge that had been patched and patched and made to hold up. The old engineer knew all about the defects and managed to get over it each trip all right, but after thirty years a new engineer was employed. He saw that the old engineer had gone over the bridge all right and thought it would stand. He dashed his train across it and fhe crash came. Ben Harrison was the old engineer, Cleveland the new. The different high tariff enactments enact-ments were the patchings on the bridge ana they were not sufficiently strong to sustain the bridge while a train was being run over It as a train should be run. Bill next took up the "golden era," 1846 to 56 during democratic rule of which he said democrats loye to prate. He undertook to prove that the prosperity pros-perity the country then experienced was due wholly because of the wars that were then waging all around us, Tbe United States, Prance and New ; Zealand, (he said, withstood the shock of the Baring failure because they were silver using nations. But he thought that the crash, if it was to come to our land, should have come, then and not waited until 1892. Then he landed onto Cleveland with all fours and accused ac-cused him of all manner of horribb things- Colonel Trumbo was next introduced. He paid glowing tributes to Hons. Moses Thatcher and Jos. L. Rawlins and John T. Caine, but said not a word of one republican candidate. Bill Glasmann was the only speaker of the night who spoke once of any one republican re-publican candidate. He mentioned thenane of Beber M. Wells. The colonel said the reason democratic senators sen-ators and congressman Bhould not be elected to go to Washington from Utah is because they have nothing to trade for ail er. Republicans can go theie and say to the men of the east we are protectionistsbut if you don't give us free silver we don't want protection. Then he told how grand it ia to be a re publican and asked the voters of Utah not to bnry themselves in the ruinB of a lost cause, meaning democracy. He closed with an eulogy to the members of the G. A. R Lee Fairchild was the last speaker. An idea of what he said is given in the opening ot this article. The large audience was patient, but very cool and undemonstrative. Very little applause was given, |