Show OUR distinguished GUESTS thursday was a red letter aday for utah republicans the vice bial candidate and ibis party the great meeting at the opera house the sentiments of the speakers the interest manifested by all the people and in fact everything connected with the senators first day in our state was calculated to inspire republicans with confidence and to give to the allied forces of the enemy a foretaste of the certain defeat and gloom that will surely and certainly envelop them after november 8 senator fairbanks is truly a great man not a great orator perhaps measured by the effect ne has upon the audience but it must be borne in mind that le is not playing to the galleried galler led is not seeking to say catchy things to attract the thoughtless and command the applause of the strong lunged and volcanic with him the matter of selecting a chief executive by the american people is a serlona matter he places the battle above the line of personal feeling and passion and takes it to jhb plane of principle chere la in his nature no malice no feeling of bitterness he is a republican because he believes the principles advocated by that party are best for abo development growth and well be ing of this nation and ho challenges tho bober thought of he people of the country to the end that they should be republicans for the same reason he has no word of reproach tor pr criticism ot democrats as fluce eb simply invites anem to reason with him the great questions af the weal or woo of alie republic he tells them why he roust be a Republic anand hem p alft aw ft lo 10 i jonm oration of the questions he discusses lie is as we said at farst not entitled to rank as a great popular orator but he Is a scholarly man with a choice vocabulary 0 words an attractive presence a simple seriousness of utterance that charms and attracts his words do not flow in an impetuous torrent but they are fitly chosen and they come with a rhythm that charms soothes and convinces the audience which was a representative ogden audience which means that it la asgood as the best was in perfect accord and sympathy with the distinguished speaker throughout it Is easy to see after meeting the great boosler sen ator face to face li earing him talk and learning how intensely earnest and sincere he Is why he stands so high in the councils of his party and why so gooda judge of men as the late senator hanna should regard him so highly we wish indeed that all the people of utah could see hear and meet senator fairbanks the hon jonathan prentiss dolliver of iowa known as the hawkeye Hawk cye spellbinder was hardly in his proper form being handicapped by a husky voice yet he proved himself a master of the platform and justified his reputation of being a power on the hustings the iowa senator Is perfectly at home on the stump is quick to catch the trend of popular feeling and can with a story or a joke expose the fallacy of an argument and turn the laugh on an opponent aba audience expected much of senator dolliver and le did not disappoint the expectation he does not mince words in his arraignment ment of democracy and democratic false pretenses he is copious in words ready with facts and figures and drives the nail home with grace and precision senator fulton from the webfoot state was very loth to aspea and yielded to the solicitations citations soli of senator smoot and the chairman after he saw how good natured and attentive the audience was and how great the desire to hear an exposition of republican principles the senator did not attempt a set speech but he said enough to show that the people of oregon have made no mistake in choosing a sen ator and that he has the ability to present republican principles with force and power congressman water I 1 with the usual modesty of iowa men abao cutely refused to speak until the chairman taking the cue from senator dolliver introduced him anyway and tha way the iowa congressman lit into his subject stopped the outgoing crowd and compelled them to stop listen and applaud was simply a revelation of his power as a stump speaker he talks with extreme readiness has a boico of great power and flex is full of optimism life hope and faith in american institutions he showed a thorough knowledge of utah and utah affairs our public school system and simply walked or drove right into the hearts of the entire audience by his cleverness congressman smith is a brick and after this splendid TRULY american meeting how small and nar row and bigoted and fanatical and un american must seam the movement of the Kearn sites the cannon ites and the of utan and idaho the people of utah last night realized that we are in touch with the rest of this great country of oura that there is ao dividing line between states or between religious faith and belief or indeed of religious unbelief un belief which can separate the people of this great republic into classes indiana iowa oregon utah all met and commingled and we learned and felt that what is good for the people of these other states Is good for utah the dio is cast utah is republican she is going to keep step with the music of the nation no un amerlean Amerl can clique however powerful or rich can turn back the wheels of progress in this state or revive the hatred and bitter ness of the past |