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Show REPUBLICANS HOLD REAL AND ROUSING RALLY James DeVine Thrills and Convinces Hearers Beaver Glee Club Renders Fine Music. Opera House Has Standing Room Only HOPES of the local Republican leaders for a successful rally, ral-ly, last night at the opera house, were more than realized, despite de-spite the fact that a large number 'of people were attending the Home and School Organization meeting at the high school. County Chairman Morris presided in his usual acceptable accept-able manner. James DeVine, of Salt Lake, big physically and big mentally, was the speaker, and he gave his hearers real, substantial, definite food for thought, not fanciful moonshine or stilted oratory. Despite the counter attractions elsewhere, the hall was well filled when Mr. DeVine began his address, and before the close, there was standing room only. Mr. DeVine asked his audience to forget for the moment that they were Democrats or Republicans or anything else but plain American citizens. He asked them to Imagine themselves as members of a jury, waiting to hear and weigh the evidence evi-dence as furnished by the history of the present Administration. He went back to the days of the Civil War, and reviewed the history of the Republican party from its birth to the present time; then he dispassionately dispas-sionately reviewed the history of the Democratic administrations. He took up the planks of the Democratic Dem-ocratic platform and showed how some of these party pledges had been broken. The one-term plank, the reduction of government expense plank, the civil service and reduction 'of "useless offices" plank, the Panama Pana-ma Canal tolls plank, the constitutional constitu-tional protection of American citizens citi-zens and American property plank, and others. The present Administration has spent a hundred millions of dollars more than any other administration. Instead of reducing "useless offices," it has created 31,600 new ones. Speaking on Panama Canal tolls, the speaker said that he had never expected ex-pected to live to see the day when a foreign power could dictate the policy of this country. He said that on the day we allowed England to dictate in this matter, we surrendered surrend-ered our national sovereignty. Then Mr. DeVine took up the "ho kept us out of the war" slogan, so dear to the hearts of Democrats. He showed conclusively that instead of "keeping us out of war." President Wilson had plunged us into war with a weaker nation and we are in an actual state of war today. He asked his hearers who was brave enough to go to the mothers of the boys slain as Carrazal and Vera Cruz a." 1 tell them that their sons were not killed in. war. They would indignantly exclaim that their boys were killed I in the defense of the flag. If it isn't war. what is it? "He kept us out of war." said the speaker. Whet foreign for-eign power was anxious to go to war with us? European countries had nil they cn".M take care of theni-; theni-; solves, snd were the Inst ou earth to j w;tnt this country to mix in. Tie 'then took an the Mexican qurstion. showed how the Administration had brought about the unfriendly feelim.--;wi!h Mexico, bv attempting to dic tate to that country as to whom it should have for President. He handled hand-led the entire question in a masterly and convincing manner. The Beaver Glee club, composed j'of Ray Barton. Ray Williams, Ida Grimshaw and Lucy White, rendered splendid music, both before and at the close of the program and received re-ceived merited encores. Beaver should be proud of her quartette. George C. Murdock, Jr., was pianist for the singers. |