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Show FOURTH WARD REPUBLICANS. Prof. Geo. II. Rrimliall Makes His Maiden Political Speech. The Republ icaiis of the 1' if th ward met in the Central sclioolhouse last night. The meeting was called to order or-der by II. S. Pvne, president of the club. ' Chairman Pyne stated that in the ab-Mcnee ab-Mcnee of the secretary a nomination for an assistant secretary would ne in ir dir. Mr. Skehon was elected to that oiliee. Geo. Sutherland was the first speaker. He talked of the political status of the territory which had existed in the past, slating he was pleased to see the chanire. He then traced the history of the Republican party from l-Sofi, and Compared it with the Democratic party, claiming that it had been proven that the Deuiocials were universally wrong, and the Republicans were universally uni-versally right. As an instance of this he said the Democrats were the cause of the relielliuii, and that the doctrine of secession was taught iiv the Democrats, but the Republicans Re-publicans had succeeded in driving out this notion al the point of the bayonet! during the civil war. The Democrats! objected to the emancipation proclamu- J tion. They opposed the re-con-' strtietion "of the south, and J the establishment of National banks, also the homestead law, ! but they have since acknowledged that the Republicans were right, and evt rytiiing that had lieen inaugurated lor the good of the country had lieen started by the Republicans, and in every instance the Democrats had been opposed to all great movements made by the Republicans; but they have fmaliy acknowledged that the Rc-ub cat s werj right. The Republicans have lieen at the head of every progressive progres-sive movement, while the Democrats have opposed every live movement. The speaker claimed that the tariff: rul-d the wages of the workingman, ai d if the Democrats held sway the w ages of the laborers would be as low-as low-as England's, while the citizens of the United States would be reduced to pauperism. j Mayor Booth was introduced. lie thought a great mistake had been made by both parties by keeping their meetings meet-ings too long, thereby wearying the listeners. lis-teners. He had heard a great deal of kicking about what the papers bar been saying, but it would be better for both parties not to be too touchy. I The Democratic paper sas that no one should belong fo the party of robbers. rob-bers. I have no liiht to kk-k, because I do not belong to that party, and if I ) m in 111 iiwiiiii.nni)iniiviiiri inH'MHHmruim mwni ! shoti'd quote the words of Horace I Greely that all Democrats are not horsthieves but all hoise thieves are j Democrats, and then say. if there is a j horse thief here who does not agree with me let him say so, why no one would contradict me. If two farmers got to work to water wheat and one should prefer to water his land by furrows fur-rows and the other should see tit to float his, there is no reason why they should ! quarrel over it, and that is nearly the ! condition of the two parties. The biggest j difference, however, is this: that the ! party that is in power wants to keep i there and the party that is out wants ! to get in. The speaker then I dwelt on the principle of strong j government, that it was always j thrown at the Republican party that their principles tended to 1 monarchy, while the Democratic party I had it said of them that their princi-! princi-! pies led to anarchy. It is a matter of history that no monarchy had existed in the United States, "while on the other hand anarchy had existed. "But" says the speaker, "I an not going to charge the Democratic party with this." The speaker claimed th'at the whole proposition of strong government govern-ment resolved itself into this fact, that when the United Stales entered into a treaty that it would have the power to carry it out. The speaker closed with promising to talk on the tariff at some future time. Geo. 11. Brimhallsaid he was a Republican Re-publican from principle, as he had examined ex-amined both platforms and had joined the Republican party not because he liked the Democratic Demo-cratic platform less, but, because he liked the Republican p..rty more. He referred to the time when, as a boy, he cut lucerne with an old scythe, and he believed that he owed it to the Republican Re-publican party, that, he could now sit on a spring seat and sre the grass mowed down. The speaker closed by saying that which ever party a person joined, he should alwavs stand on the broad platform of patriotism. Chairman Pyne made a few closing remarks, in which he clnimed that he had examined hoth platforms and had concluded that the Republican party-was party-was the party fr Utah. Brother Pyne also made the astounding assertion that the Democratic party always appealed to the prejudice of cue people and not to their reason. Mayor Booth announced that con-cressnian con-cressnian Orr would be at the Opera House on Monday next. J. C. Clove, Benj. Bachman and Jesse J. Fuller weie elected delegates to attend at-tend the Ogden convention. The meeting then adjourned. |