Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-29
AT BOUNTIFUL.

There was a Democratic meeting at
Bountiful last evening which was we'll
attended, there being present some four
or five hundred people. While much of
the doctrine taught was doubtless new to
many in the audience, still the audience
listened attentively and respectfully. To
Mr.. Stoker the Democrats are indebted
for the use of the Central School
House, and that was filed to its
utmost capacity, while there were as many
on the outside as on the inside. One
noticeable feature was the presence of
so many ladies. There was some little
interruption of the speakers, but not
enough to amount to anything. The
chief topics discussed were the foundation
of the Democratic party and the parties
that had been opposed to it, Mr.. Sheeks
related the history of all these parties,
and told how the Democratic party
had outlived them all, because
that party was founded upon
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then went on to discuss the local issues,
and to many who were present his COM
ments upon the condition of affairs here
and the cause of the present unhappy
condition of this Territory, must have
seemed strange indeed. The other
speakers followed in much the same
strain, and the facts in regard to Utah
were told as they are; and, as one of
the speakers said, in speaking OF
the advice given TO young and
old men in the community, that if they
had all followed counsel they would all
have been in the Penitentiary, or at least
the officers of the law would have been
after them. The statement raised some
commotion, but was finally accepted as
true. The meeting at Brinton's was of
much the same nature, and the school
trustees there were very kind and courte-
GUS to those Democrats who spoke there.
There the school house was filled,
and the audience respectful. These
meetings are having one salutary effect
at least, and that is to cause the people
to reflect, and the great fact has already
been impressed upon their minds that
the Peoples party have not had the
decency to go into the field and ask them
for their suffrages and support, and that
that party deems it their inalienable
right to demand that the people vote
their ticket. The Peoples party is treat
ing the voters as though they were but
80 many machines to be set in
motion on election day at the bidding of
some boss. The Peoples party has de-
clined to uphold its principles to the peo-
pie or to condemn those of the party
opposed to them, but has relied upon
authority and not upon reason to win the
election. 1t has ignored the voters, but
has fawned at the feet of its masters,
and has asked what is their will, that
their bidding may be done. We tell
the Peoples party now that it
makes a grave mistake by ignoring the
people and the issues of the day But its
blunders have been in aid of the cause of
Democracy, and for this we givei thanks.
There was one incident at Bountiful
that is worthy of note. The Democrats
endeavored to obtain the Liberal school
house in which to hold their meeting.
This they were unable to do, as the gen
tleman who has charge of it, a Mr..
PEBBLES, refused to allow it TO be used by
the Democrats, saving he was opposed TO
the Democratic movement. 1t is needless to
say that Mr.. PEBBLES is a Republican, and
the Democrats who held a meeting at
Bountiful last evening are under obliga-
tions to member of the Peoples party,
Mr.. Stoker, for the use of the Central
School House. Apparently all the oppo-
sition to Democracy in Utah does not
come from the Peoples party.