The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-04

Instead of asking Congress to pass
legislation providing for the govern
ment of the Territory by system I'M
known to the genius and Constitution |
of our country, ask Congressman TO |
come to Utah, or send committee OF |
their number-let them investigate,
hear for themselves, and see how the |
Mormons have written the story OF |
their material growth, in indelible char
acterS, upon what was the desert valley |
of the Great Salt Lake-now a land or
plenty, possessed by a people intell-
gent, peaceable, industrious, thrifty,
God-fearing and GOd-serying.
Applause loud and Iong-continued
threatened to make Mr.. Game rise
and bow his acknowledgements a second
time, but it finally subsidized or was
drowned by the strains OF the Seventh
Ward band, after which the chair an
nOunced as the next speaker
HON. s. f. THURMAN,
prosecuting attorney of Utah county,
who was received with a violent clap
ping of hands He said the people had
assembled tonight to try their political
opponents on q charge of conspiracy
against good government in the Terri
! tory of Utah. You, fellOw-citzens, are
! the Jurors; when the sun sets tomorrow
you will have rendered your verdict, and
/ that verdict viii be guilty as charged
in the indictment" He referred to the
oppression enforced against the weak
in past ages, of which the pages of his
tory were full; the absolutists striving
for the supremacy, the despots of the
earth fighting for the divine right of
kings; to-day we find the same stamp
of CorruptiOnists rearing their heads In
unblushing effrontery and shaking
their CORY locks under the name of the
Liberal party of Utah. The speaker
proceeded to weave a solid argument on
constitutional law, and in unstinted
terms denounced the Legislative Com
mission scheme as tyrannical and sub
verSive of the rights of true-born Amer
leans The Liberal party wished, he
said, to establish a worse form of gov
eminent in Utah than that against
which our forefathers fought. We have
a right to raise our voices against such
villainous measures, and We will persist
in that right till the crack of doom. He
did not believe the Liberal party con-
Sidered the Commission scheme cOnsti-
tutional They have never in all their
public speaking for the past four years
stated how or why the scheme would
benefit the people of this Territory.
They care nothing for constItu-
tional legislation, they care nothing
for the people, except to plumber
them Of their property and political
rights; and just here the gentleman
was reminded of an old story. Two
boys went to q peighbor's house and
bought pup it was bull pup. They
took the pup home and began to train
hn SDn
when he grew up he would not depart
from his teachings; but the boys wanted
l victim, and could find none till finally
I the old man-the father of the two
boys-agreed to get down on all fours
and initiate the actions of dog. The
pup got a good hold on the under side
OF the old man, when he shrieked
Take him Off boys! Take him off!
! But the boys only yelled, "a Sick him
l pup!" The old man continued TO shrieb
! to have the dog taken off, and the boys
{ persisted in saying, Sick him, pup!
! till finally the boys said, Dad, we
4 ! know he's giving you hell, but it's the
= making of the pup" The speaker sale
I Constitution hell, but it's the making
:; of the pup. There was but one
= plank in the Liberal platform anC
u that was in favor of a Legs
, lative Commission. God forbid it SHOULD
Il ever be too late for an American
{ citizen to lift up his voice against sucl
> an arbitrary peTversion of the rights O
q man. He denied the right of Congress
'e to enact such law They can neye
> make you nor me slave as long as W
. stand on American soil or under tn
. American flag. He had great reSpec
= for the Supreme Court, but, said he
u "even they are fallible." He then rea
a extracts from arguments on the subjeC
~ delivered in Congress by Senator Sun
~ ner, whose name ana sentiments wOul
II be remembered, he said, when thi
Il little Liberal party of Utah is fOrgotte
. by the American people. \ prope
~ view would impel any patiotic man
le rather let the Institutions of a peOpl
stand rather than make a breach in tn
- Constitution,
IL HON. WARREN y. DUsEEBERRY,
We Probate Judge Of Utah County, was II
70 next speaker, and he, too, was greete
n with demonstrations of welcome. tt
~ issue in Utah, he said, was one of tgu'
Of Of versus error; of right versus wrong, a
RS issue that viii last when our eyes an
III ears have ceased to see and. hear.
do had heard enough taught To conye
no him to vote for John L. Game. Whi
eel the people need is to wake up. Sa
OF Lake County should poll mo-
Y? than a one-third vote. 1t is IL
se- duty of every citizen to depos
that little silent messenger. of the W
he eff the sovereign people the ballot. II
Liberal party said two years ago that
lit the people would vote for 2. 7. Van ri
TO they would be saved from this poison
II legislative commission. If you ele
Die John T. Caine you will have to take Il
" fatal hemlock, which will kill every We
MT tIge of American rights. He believ,
Is our youth should attend political gat
IL erings and hear arguments for the rig
er- and wrong and learn the logic of Il
wrong as we'll The Territorial I4egisl
mt tive Assembly is censured by the Ii
ay eral platform because it failed to pa
10 laws against polygamy. The Jud
~ then showed the nonsense of this cry
Is the light OF the facts that the Cover
ng ment had taken the subject out of t
'eS hands of the Legislature. All {
OF sophjstry in the world could not hi
e9 the object of the Liberals in seeking L
III, II legislation they ask-pluuder. They z
ne arrayed against the Constitution and
erc people like Millions devil, Pierce as
OF furies. terrible as hell" Hon. John
Game will save us from that bad law