The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-10-29
THE LIBERAL RALLY.
The Walker Opera House Well
Filled.

Al .OO n 1dSG night, Gn6
Opera House was filed with Liber-
ais and members of the PEOPLES
party, to hear the great guns of the
former party in campaign addresses.
The Silver Cornet band played sew
eral times, and after the tune Hail |
Columbian Judge Mcbride called |
meeting to order, and said that the |
Liberals, especially Of the Second |
Precinct, had met to hold converse,
and look over the battle to be |
fought, not with bloodshed, but
with ballots and reason. For the
| first time in the history of Utah the
party on the other side side has is
sued q platform, and though the
champion on our side has issued a
challenge for discussion the repre-
sentative of the opposition has re-
fused it; but he has followed our
speakers around the country and
tried to obliterate the marks we are
making On the Peoples party. Our
nominee has been called carpet
Dagger, but have been told by the
friends of John T. Caine, that a
carpet sack would have contained
all that he brought to this country.
Judge Van Zile has been called an
Office seeker; but it is hard to make
US believe that John T. Caine has
not sought Office all his life, and
taken every one that he could get
hold of. The fact of church and
state being united is now denied,
but the fact is patent that no man
can rise in political life here unless
he has grown to be big man in
the Mormon church.
| AS Judge Van Zile arose he was
greeted with cheers. Something
| has happened in the Territory of
Utah, he said. He found that the
| cry was going up "Wbat shall we
| do to be saVed?" and the answer
! came back from the Liberal party,
Repent, every one of you, and be
| baptiZed" and come out from among
the Mormon church. 1t is politics,
not religion, we wish to discuss, and
we do not care to what church you
belong. l have 10 abuse to use; my
opponents have to use that and feed
upon it, with slang and filth; there
is too much reason and loyalty in
our party to waste time in any
such trash. They will play with the
| tub while we sail away in the ship
with the United States flag on our
mast. There is a starting point in
this discussion, and that is that this
is the best and grandest country on
the face of the earth, and that the
fundamental part of our life is that
all men are equal before the law
no favoritisn for one part of the
4 people and a neglect OF another part
t of them. What is it to be an
/. American citizen? The naturali
zation law gives US q definition, and
that is that.yon be one of the fam
ily, live as it lives, swear that you
Q are well disposed toward its gov
ernment. love its written
l Constitution and laws, be
loyal and true and renounce
4 ali allegiance toan Y foreign p0ten
tate or power, and If you say that
:, there are laws you don't want to anc
: can't obey, Uncle Sam don't wan
you, ana you had better walk RICH
out of here. There is once piece Of
? furniture in that home that ha:
Ecost Uncle Sam more than anything
else and which you must respec
and revere as sacred, and that il
e "eQuai rights before the law" ant
d no one can afford to have tha
e marred or defaced. Now if there
are more privileges given to an,
man or set of men or women il
$ Utah, the pride of the house is dis
n troyed: and if it can be done here
it can be done in California, il
Pennsylvania or III New York, ant
the viii Of cliQues or parties in eacf
state and county would be existing
in defiance OF the government
breaking it into fragments. Might
not right, would prevail; and w
should so back into barbarism, liY
I" ing by the blood that is shed ant
and by what is acquired by sbee
might. The Judge said, again, tina
he was not fighting the people Q
= the church, but was lighting for tn
words enblazoned on the escutcheol
of our countryof equal rights befoF
the Law.
Here Judge Mcbride said that II
WAS informed that there was
crowd in the house who had agrees
o. to raise 4 cry Of fire and create
=, panic. If it was raised, lie Wishe
= the people not to be alarmed.
s Judge VapZi!e then resumed
a. We cannot afford to be broken VI
js- In this Territory, he had been told
n, there is favorite expression anon
ait the Peoples party: f'Fbis pe0pl
and this peculiar people" Now,
you were to go into New York stat
i and use that phrase you would
put in lunatic asylum. In tn
territery it means that this poop
-@ are separated from the people OF Il
United States, aRd the Liber
party stand here to represent Htl
70 people" OF this grand Union. Nov
- there is another expression, eiou
To- sIders." Did you ever hear it? "
nS don't call anybody outsiders, b
there Is alparty which does use TIL
term. If there are outsiders the
must be insiders. and we find TIL
the insiders are 'this people He
is comes q separation from the Peep
ers of the United States; and sooner
rs later that organization of men al
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