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Show THE WORK MS ON. Rousing- Meetings Being Held Throughout the County. Payson, Spanish Fork, American Amer-ican Fork and Santaquin Come to the Front. Excellent Democratic Fcod Dished Up by Tasty Democratic Coo Its. Pursuant to the published call, the Democrats of the Provo Third Ward met in tne Assembly Hall on Wednesday. Wednes-day. June 17. W. II. Brown was unanimously elected chairman and A. V. Olon secretary sec-retary of the meeting. The Glee Club rendered the "Star Spangled Banner' n a very creditable manner, which was recehed by the audience with up plause. The cbainn-in stated the object. of' t"'i mer-jii.Lr, ;md then said it was necessary tint there be two polities i. allies in Utah, and we must study the principles of each in order to determine de-termine which party we wish to af-fii.aie af-fii.aie with. In ether words, shall we liave a strong central government, as me uepuniicans advocate, or shall we have a government bv the people and for the people, ss the Democrats advocate. advo-cate. 4T am sorry that the women cannot vote, because the Republicans have disfranchised them (applause), but w,hen the Democrats get into power they will see that that right is restored to them." Mr. Ed Olson was then introduced, i opened up by stating that we are i : il Americans and all under the same hag. It is the err of the Republicans Re-publicans that the Democrats are the enemies of the Mormon people, but let'me tell you that it is j:he Republicans Re-publicans who have always been tlieir enemies. The Republicans at one time proposed to exterminate the Mormons Mor-mons by any means possible. The Democrats want to see the ballot placed into the hands of the people, and not for men to vote for them as the Force bill proposed. The speaker then referred to some of the Asiatic and European governments and said: There is a move ni Europe to stop all American products. What will then become of our American farmers? farm-ers? It will create a greater panic than the McKinley bill. Hon. W. II. King was then introduced intro-duced as one of the Democratic champions, and received prolonged applause. He opened his speech bv saying the greatest men that ever lived Imve ' Wnnged t-ihxjmu cratic party, not in America alone but in all the world. Take any of the large cities and there you will find Democracy on the progress. I do not believe that any man should join any party simply because of somebody some-body else's actions. Join the party from conviction. Do not coquette with any of the parties, my friends, but join them honestly. If you find the Republicans the party you favor, give vour undivided allegiance to that party, and vice versa. The statement has been made that it was the Democrats Demo-crats who took away the right of women to vote. Let me tell you. Mr. Edmunds (Republican) introduced the bill that robbed the women of their franchise, and that all Republicans voted for its passage in the Senate except ex-cept Mr. Hoar, and all the Republicans in the House voted for it except J. O'Hara, and he was a negro. He then referred to Czar Reed, the Republican tyrant, who did all in his power to work against the Mormons. What party has always been in favor of test oaths?- the Republicans. Who has furnished this territory with carpet-ba carpet-ba guers ? t h e Republicans. Judge Dusenberry was then introduced intro-duced as the chairman's past tutor. The judge made one of his happv speeches, and was warmly applauded by the people present. The matter of organizing a Democratic Demo-cratic club for the Third Municipal Ward of Provo was then agreed upon, with the following result: President, E. C. Henrichsen; vice-president, D. P. Felt; secretary and treasurer, A. P. Olsen; executive committee, G. W. Craig, S. A. Pace and Geo. T. Peay. Some twenty new members signed the platform. AT SPAXISn FOIJK. Thursday evening last the patriots j of Spanish Fork must have felt their ! hearts beat in unison with those grand truths so clearly and so forcibly presented pre-sented ny the two leading Apostles of Democracy in Utah, Hon. John T. Caine and Hon. Wm. II. King. Mr. Caine in his "presentation of the principles prin-ciples of Democracy did not attempt to prove their divine origin, or superiority superi-ority for the welfare of mankind by slating that John Doe or Dick Jones believed in them and therefore they were irrefutable, sacred and should be accepted without further statement or investigation. But, the gentleman went down into Hie depths, turned them over anil over, brought them out into the sunlight, analyzed them one by one. compared each with the principles prin-ciples and practices of the Republican party and that too in such a manner that comparisons were made easy and judgment readily formed, s Centralization of power received a scoring, its ultimate results were exemplified ex-emplified in the "haughty, tyrannical rulers of Asia living in opulence and clothed with absolute power over the lives and properties of their millions of subjects while the latter, the subjects sub-jects of these despots, lived in squalor, ignorance and misery. The political history of our country in its chief bearings was lucidly shown, especially as to the powers of the general gen-eral government and the states respectively re-spectively under the constitution. W. IL King was ready to act as a political pi iest and marrv all who wished to unite with Democracy. Democratic principles contain the highest, holiest ideas, they embody equal rights for all, special privileges for none. It may be sufficient to say that the gentleman was listened to with wrapt attention, applauded at frequent intervals and did more than any other one man in defining the principles of Democracy and in making converts. .llilMli.ll.ilH,li.HIIRiim.mRMIIi.lll.liiilKiilliLiiiiuM iniliWnJiiflHU.ii.Mii IIIPW ILpmg.) |
