NO CHEERS FOR WALLACE.
Republicans Silent When Speech Is
Delivered in His Defense.
The principal attraction at the meeting of the Ninth Ward Republican Club, held at 1335 Grand avenue last night, was an address by Representative William A. Shope, in which he strongly commended the public utilities proposition as advanced by Mayor Beardsley. A speech approving the course adopted by Judge Wallace with regard to the Sunday closing movement, delivered by James Smith, county license inspector, was listened to in dead silence by the voters assembled.
Charles W. Walkem, an avowed candidate for the board of aldermen, discussed the public utilities bill from the mayor's point of view.
