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Show ' I More Politics The Hon. Fisher Harris, it is said, is on the stump for the Democracy: Lest some of the faithful faith-ful might fall to hear him, we append, grat, a portion of his speech, which runs along these lines: I "My, fellow . citizens. It is a pleasure for me to stand before so intelligent an audience as graces this hall tonight. I am constrained to say that I never had the honor to address a more Intelligent gathering even in my native state of Virginia, a state which has the distinction of : being U19 birth lilac of George Washington, i ; Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chief Justice Joim Marshall and other distinguished citizens and which' in tilts earlier and 'purer days of the t : ' Republic was "The .Mother of Presidents." "In that glorified state I imbibod my political t . principles from the very fountain head of Demo i " cratic wisdom as distilled in the brain of the. immortal Jefferson, as interpreted from the supreme su-preme bench by that first of jurists, the Hon. John Marshall. viU . "Hence in ray very sbul I am an expansionist. I approve, of the conquest of the Philippines, I j hope the government will now correct the mis- r take of otir'Jinving given the people of Cuba the boon of self-government I am inflexably opposed j to the ownership of public utilities by the gov- I ' eminent, .as a .violation of a cardinal principle of the great Deniocratic party, that there must bo L" ... 110 further centralization of power in the federal j xoverrfme'nt, lest "the sovereign rights of the in- dividual states may be trampled upon. r "Hflce I most cordially endorse the ringing Platform under which the invincible and proud Democracy of Utah have this year arrayed themselves, them-selves, and especially that clause Which endorses that noble standard-bearer, Hon. Wm. J.- Bryan for President in 1908. ' "I speak, my fellow citizens, in an entirely dis-interested dis-interested spirit. I am. not a candidate for any ofllco, indeed the few offices I have held in Utah I. have been obliged to aocept through the sup-port sup-port of black Republicans, a majority of Whom I suspect were just common Yankees, which you will admit ought to be enough to break any gentleman's heart who was born In the illustrious state of Virginia.0 There is more to his. speech, but the foregoing is enough to show his style. & &t There is a slandei on Councilman Fernstrom going the rounds which it gives mo great pleasure to correct. It is to the effect that the skulls that were dug up somewhere about Ninth West are of men that the councilmen assassinated in the old days Avhen for a few seasons, to prove his devotion devo-tion to the church, he served as a blood atondr. He can prove an alibi, for eveiy man that he killed in those days, he weighted down and tossed into the Jordan. It is a shame to start fctorles calculated to injure the reputations of good men. 4 & & The News the other day in a moment of ecstacy closed an article on Sheriff Emery with the word, "Hall all Hall." Candidate Howells says the News editor has explained to him that it was a typographical ei's ror; that what he wrote was: "H 1 all H 1 to Emery." . & Judge Bartch asked, so we unclqi-stanfl, the other day on hid return from Nevada, what ho thought of having his seat ch. the supremo bench occupied by Judge Whitecotton; that the ox-chief ox-chief justice choked for a moment and that then in a gurgle the words come: "There are things that had better never be said." |