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Show I REPUBLICAN ARGUMENT. Let a man take the Enqiunr of July 10th, and look down the second column on the local page until he comes to the head line "Republican Convention," and then read one of Mr. Whitecot-tox's Whitecot-tox's characteristic speeches. "The speaker was frequently applauded." Applauded for what? Applauded for argument? Applauded for intelligently discussing the questions now before the people? Applauded for clearing ud the mysteries of protection? No! Applauded for bombast, for scurrility, for pojaposity, in fact applauded for 1 'r .f t.im clnck.l iotfC opeeCIlCS. " Then the chairman was called for and he came "amid etpplausc," and then he eloquently said that "when you find a people who don't know their a, b, c's, there you will find Democratic majorities." majori-ties." (Great applause.) Then he said, "The great issue between the two national parties to-day is the tariff question." I appprehend, how ever, that the great issue should consist in the business of learning the Democratic party their a, b, c's. Let us see briefly whether the chairman was correct. Iowa once had the habit of giving a Republican majority major-ity ranging along from twenty-j twenty-j five to eventy-five thousand. Michigan could poll up thirty or forty thousand, Illinois could say, "Just as we told you, here is our usual forty thousand." Nebraska was sure to fall in, and Kansas reached the zenith of her glory when eighty-two thousand Republican majority was heralded to the world. Other states could be mentioned men-tioned were it necessary. Rut do not let us lorget unio. Times have changed. The Republicans Repub-licans begin to look upon Iowa with suspicion. Michigan requires patting on the back. Illinois is not near as good and pretty as she used to be. Nebraska Ne-braska has reached the point when it is necessary to fight to hold her, and it requires hundreds of thousands of dollars to hold Ohio to the old party, and Kansas, the State, the population of which has been called as intelligent as any state in the Union, slopped clean over. ! Now according to the Provo chair-j j main, the Republicans in the states j mentioned don't know as much as they used to know, or that the Democrat? are outstripping their opponents in the a. b. c. sciences. The Republicans held a meeting at Pleasant Grove .July Jith, and after music by the band, Mr. Whitecotton was introduced, and the report says: "He amused the audience for some time." So characteristic. 15ut after all, it is left to George II. Brimhall to explain the tariff and sich. At a meeting of the Provo Fifth Ward Republicans, he eloquently told the; difference between the Republicans j and the Democrats. Said Mr. B; "I j had a span of horses; while I was shoeing one of them, it kicked me and j knocked me down in the dust." Now j listen to the convincing argument. I i voluntarily exclaimed, "5fou're a I Democrat." The other horse ! the Republican horse realizing J that Mr. B. was giving their. J fejt prot'dion, raised its foot to be shod, and that proved" 0,111 be darned if I know what it didn't prove. But, Mr. Editor, such arguments should be applauded. What intellect! What descriptive representations! What a mass of remarkable coincidences! No wonder men are complaining of bruin trouble. If the Republicans had a few such men as Judge Zane (and by the way. Judge Zane is a Republican and a gentleman), the merits of the questions now agitating the minds of the people would be discussed in an intelligent manner. Argument would take the place of dead issues. Reason would be the prompter, fairness would control, and men would learn by comparators j illustrations. Yet. I T 'I'r'.'"''' i,'1"'"'"''-" '''""""-"",'; y wtjMyiiu mwm |