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Show ZANE'S VENOM. The Viie Stuff Seems to be Consuming Him. HE SPAT SOME OP IT OUT Last Night Upon, the Heads of a Crowd of Unoffending: Bepnblicans -Bead it and Become Diigaisted With the Republican Campaign of Lies and Abuue. The republicans of Provo have had one more rally. , .. Johnny Zane talked to them, and they are happy. If Johnny has a conscience, he's not happy. There were several empty seats in the opera house, howeyer it was a good sized audience. There were some ladies and a few democrats in the audience, but by far the greater number were ardent republicans. repub-licans. By the grace of Boss Graham Albert Glazier was permitted to act as chairman chair-man of the meeting. Judge Jones was sacrificed as the first speaker to test the temper of the audibnce. lie found it a cold and un-appreciative un-appreciative one. The judge recited a piece of poetry. The judge is not an elooutionist. Then he tried the tariff, the silver question, next the sugar trust. He said nothing worthy oi note,but he closed by asking his hearers to vote on Tuesday next lor delegates to the state constl tution who will insert a plank into the constitution providing for the granting of bounties. After some singing by the republican republi-can quartette JOHN M. ZANE was introduced, lie announced in opening that he could not expound the principles of the republican party, but that he would review and criticise the acts and doings of the democratic party and certain democrats. li abuse and unreasonable exaggeration exaggera-tion can be called a review and criticism, criti-cism, johnny kept his word. He never once attempted to show one good thing the republicans or any one r3publican bad done, or one reason why the voters should case a republican ballot on next Tuesday. It seemed that being in Proyo made him go baci to the old d-tys when he was prosecuting attorney and somehow he got it into his head that it was his duty to con vict the democratic party of some heinous crime, and he handled n as he used to handle the prisoner at the bar and all the democratic officers of the territory, particularly Joe Rawlins, Justice Merrlt and President Cleve land as he used to handle the principal witnesses for the defense. : The jury, however, had too much evidence before it and its verdict rendered ren-dered on Tuesday next will be an acquittal. ac-quittal. He said: Free trade England is the paradise of trusts. The Wilaori bill is. the particular friend of the sugar trust. The one-eighth one-eighth differential alone gave It ten million dollars. Richard Olney drew the papers upon which the sugar truet was made and in such a way that it could dodge the republican anti-trust Jaw. As soon as Olney got into office he decided that the anti-trust law can not be enforced. In the revenue law of the territory of j Utah there are exempted from taxation mining ckims. This meant the ground and the ore only. Heretofore mine owners paid taxes on their improve ments, machinery and fixtures under and above the ground. Justice Mer-rit Mer-rit has ruled that these are not taxa ble. But the poor miner in his cabin pavB taxes on his Jittle hut and on everything every-thing in and near it. By that decision de-cision half of the tax of Juab and of Summit counties is taken away from the treasui ies of those counties. Caleb W. West, governor of Utah, at Ogden, drew his old battered"', saber against a band ol honest laborers seeking seek-ing employment and said to them that they should go no farther. That old eaber hr d never seen light before since the time whtn old WeBt was confined in the penitentiary as one'of Srorgan's raiders. (Mighty cheering from the stage.) ine whole commonweal experience in Utah was reviewed and every act of the officers of that time ridiculed. Johnny next took a trip away over to Hawaii and scored Qaeen Lil awfully. awful-ly. According to Zane she i3 a very bad and abandoned woman, and besides be-sides this she ruled with a tyrannical hand. Cieveland annulled the treaty by which the provisional govemtripr.l was established. Cleveland's minister, Willis, didn't go to Mr.' Dole and the other Americans who were in control of the y rovisional government f-"TT H 1 tou- . t.... . ..pressed to her the regrets of tne paesiaect ancr asked her some questions She answered ans-wered that she would behead every man who had been instrumental in overthrowing her government and confiscate his property. And Willis went away paralyzed. The crown was offered the queen a second time, but the Americans of the provisional government gov-ernment said to Willis, "Go away, little lit-tle man, you make us tired." In epUe ol this tariff-tinkering, wage-smashing, queen-restoring administration the provisional government on the Sandwich Sand-wich Islands is still in existence. Some incidents during the passage of the Wihon bill were recited. When the bill was finally passed, William L. Wilson, who comes lrom a small town as insignificant and about the size of Pleasant Grove, found the mills all closed and the business of the country paralyzed. He went to his friends across the ocean, where he was banqueted, not back to his constituents. constitu-ents. - Zane stopped here to say that if he sa7 Judge Henderson coming up the street with Ananias on one side and tiapbaria on the other, he would say the judge was in very congenial company. com-pany. Judge Henderson had referred in his recent Piovo speech to theHome-stead theHome-stead and other troubles of 1892. ies, said Zane, there were striKes, but the men had plenty of work and were getting get-ting good wages, they wanted better wages. It was not as it is now, when men are seeking for work at any price and can't find it. By the time Zane reached Rawlins he was awfully mad. He ridiculed the home rule bill, found fault with the statehood bill, and that of the opening of the Indian reservation. "Did Rawlins get back the escheated property of the church?' he yelled. "Lei us pee, A'hen the litigation started he was attorney for the defendants. defen-dants. After all the row over the compensation com-pensation of Dyer and others, Joe. appeared ap-peared on tbe other side. He says his clients didn't object, but what of that? A lawyer ought to have a conscience, be can't act honestly and fairly on two sides of a case. Rawlins prepared a brief in 1892, two years after the manifesto man-ifesto was issued, arguing that polyg amy would not stop, and giving that as a reason why the property should be given back to be used for the poor of. the church and for the erection and; re- pair of meeting-houses, but should be diverted to the use of the public schools of the territory. The Bupreme court or the territory aeciaea tne case against him. He carried the case to the supreme su-preme court of the land. All he did in Washington was to go into the court and move that the appeal be dismissed." dis-missed." Zane declared that the decision of the lower court would have been affirmed af-firmed with without any interference by Rawlins. Zane also referred to the memorial on the subject by the last legislation. Then he lauded Frank Cannon as a modest, courteous man, and with tears in his eyes asked his hearers how they could sanction sqch a campaign as th democrats are waging, wherein their speakers, as O, W. Powers had done, cast aspersions on Buch honorable honora-ble men as President Wilford Woodruff Wood-ruff of the Mormon church. , He urged that everybody vote a straight republican ticket and closed. The quartette sang, and after three-fourths three-fourths of the audience bad gotten out of the building, a vote cf thanks to Zane was put and carried. |