Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-27
DEMOCRATIC RALLY.
Another Large Meeting Of Democrats
on Last Saturday Night. :.
Speeches by Messrs. Laney, Thompson.
Benedict, Rawlins,
And One by Major NOunnan That Was
Cut Off Short.

The Democratic rally in front of the
DEMOCRAT office on Saturday night was
well attended, with an unusually large
number of ladies present. The Firemen' s
Band discoursed patriotic airs, and The
speakers stand was illuminated with
fiambeauX and Chinese lanterns.
At a quarter before 9 Mr.. Simon Bam-
berger. President of tke Democratic
Central Committee, mounted the stand.
He said that in speaking of us, the term
Young Democracy had been used to
designate the Democracy of Utah, but he
wanted it to be understood that we were
not only young Democrats, but old Dem
ocrats as we'll, and he took pleasure in
calling upon one of the oldest Democrats
in Utah. Mr.. Francis X. Benedict, man
who had voted for General Jackson, to
be chairman of the meeting.
DIR. Benedict was elected chairman, but
upon calling for him to come forward it
was found that he was not in hearing,
and in his absence Mr. Bamberger pro-
posed that G. r. Barratt occupy the chair
until Mr.. Benedict appeared.
Mr. Barratt, upon taking the chair said
that he was hardly as old a Democrat as
Mr.. Benedict, but that his sentiments
were Democratic from his youth up to the
present time, and though he did not vote
for General Jackson, he would have done
so if he had had the chance.
MIR. Ii. S. LANEY,
Upon being called for, responded in a
brief address, substantially as follows:
He did not feel that he had the political
knowledge to be a thorough exponent of
Democratic principles, and as he was raised
i'll the political Egypt of the United States,
where church and State are governed under
one head, it was hardly to be expected that
his experience would give him the right to
talk about political abuse of which he
scarcely knew the meaning. Upon his visit
to the East, and by q two years residence
there, he had been convinced that boys at
the age of 16 years had more political
knowledge than the greater part of the men
in Utah. They were able to talk about it,
and explain all it's phases, while he was
lamentably ignorant of more than its first
principles. He was a Democrat because it
is the government of the people, nom
sectarian in its precepts, and because it has
the fundamental principles of right en-
bodied within it. Utah is beginning
to undergo process of political formation,
and though the past has been blank page
in the political book, the future promised to
demonstrate that Utah would have a politi-
cal identity. Like the SNOWFALL, which in
creases in size by constant rolling,
gathersing up the snow in its track, so the
Democratic party in Utah is extending its
influence and gathering strength. That
strength might not be felt in this campaign,
but the Democratic SNOWFALL would continue
to roll and increase in size until it was of
such proportions as to be the political power,
and the success of its ticket assured at every
election.
Some cranky individual in the outskirts
of the crowd had objected to Mr.. Laney's
delivery as not being loud enough, and
not suited to his taste, no doubt, so upon
MR.. A. b. THOMPSON
Being announced as the next speaker,
that gentleman mounted the stand and
spoke in substance as follows:
He would try to elevate his voice so that il
would be heard, as he wished his utterances
TO p6u6Urdbe every lOydl uedTb III bldU as
sembly. He WAS a resident of Utah.
but had gone into Montana fifteen years ago
and while away he had realized more than
ever that Utah had never become thoroughly
Americanized and did not form part of q
free government in a political sense. He
thought the popular ideas of this people
were foreign to the establishment of free
thought and free institutions, and unless
Church and State could be severed and a
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lem could not be solved. If Democratic
principles were instilled into the minds of
the rising generation the Utah problem
would solve itself and our lovely and pros
porous Territory would soon be admitted
into the Union as a State of some political
significance. Without that change there is
no hope, and it will be the earnest endeavor
of the Democratic Party of Utah to
bring about that change. Like the pioneers
that came to these valleys and caught the
first glimpse of the lifeless sea lying before
them, from the summit of the Wasatch
range, so does the lifeless sea of politics in
Utah impress the minds of those who have
the spirit to think for themselves. No man
has the divine right to dictate what shall be
the political faith of any people, or how
they shall vote. If we accept the principles
of Democracy, which give every man the
right to think and act for himself we will
political greatness.
The first Democratic ratification meeting
had been held two weeks ago, and in that
short time the strength of the young Demo-
Gratis of Utah had been materially increased.
The meeting then was one of q series that
would be held before the day of election,
and the present one was the third
of that series. The Democrats ask
you to consider their ticket in all
its points of issue, carefully in
quire into the public and private life
of those whose names appear upon it, and
compare them with our opponents, and to
not allow any man TO influence them to vote
against the dictates of free political thought.
We might fail to elect any of our men in
this campaign, but the outlook was not alto
gether discouraging. If this campaign
should be a failure, we would still live and
who knew what the next ten years would
bring forth. The long race was not always
won by the swift, or the greatest battles by
the strong, and that minority with right
on their side was often stronger than host
arrayed against them on the side of WRONG
In country of free thought father should
not say to his son: 'You must vote this ticket
because / do, and always have; and if YOU
don't YOU are a traitor to YOUR family,'' He
was an American citizen, endowed with the
liberty of thinking for himself, and meant
to obey the laws, uphold American institu-
tons, meant to vote straight Democratic
ticket on the Sd of August, and hoped the
grand work would go on in Utah until De-
asserted itself as the supreme power
in our local government.
AT this juncture
MR. FRANCIS X. BENEDICT
Appeared, and was installed in his place
rs chairman of the meeting, and upon be-
ing importuned to make speech, COM
Piled with the demand:
de said he was nearly four score years of
and had N.ntad nr,-fl;a,rr h,,4.