Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-30
ENTHUSIASTIC DEMOCRATS.
The Meeting at the Denver Depot
Facts for Voters.

The Democrats held another rousing
meeting at the Denver & Rio Grande
depot last night. The Firemen's band
was in attendance. and made the air ring
with fine melodies. Several OF our lead
ing Democrats were present, and upon
the meeting being called to order by Mr..
Simon Bamberger, who made a few re-
marks suitable to the occasion, Mr.. G. r.
Barratt was called to preside as chairman,
and made some telling thrusts at the
local political situation, in a brief address.
The first speaker in the order of the
evening was
MIR. A. l.. WILLIAMS,
Whogave a most concise and well-worded
address on the present political issues in
Utah. He thought that the ideas of the
people of the Territory were
daily becoming more Democratic, and
that the precepts of those who
counseled a union of church affairs and
politics as being under the same head,
were being to measure set aside by the
thinking people of the Peoples party.
The present efforts of the Young Dem
ocracy could not fail to bring forth good
fruits, for its teachings were based on the
broad scope of an Intellectual elevation
of the masses. He knew that we had
strong ticket in the field, and in making
the assertion he was not actuated by self
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, but on the contrary gave
his sincere thoughts on the change in the
management of political affairs with that
ticket put forth by the Democracy in this
campaign, in power. There was no ques-
ton in his mind as to the change being
greatly for the better; the laws would be
amended, and new laws enacted that
would greatly benefit the people at large,
and the stigma that now clings to the
legislators put into power by the votes of
the people heretofore would be erased
from the minds of those who Justly stig-
Matte them, by cautious and comprehen-
sive legislation. This ticket placed in
the field by the Democrats was straight;
there was no nondescript about it, and
the men upon it were well known and
their past record could be easily looked
into. He hoped all of those present and
the friends OF political liberty and free
thought throughout the entire district
would march up like men on the 3rd of
August and cast their ballots for free
political thought and disunion of Church
and State.
The next speaker was
MR.. FRED. KEssLER,
A son of Bishop Kessler of the Sixteenth
Ward, and who has become Il convert to
the principles of Democracy, notwith-
his fathers high position in the
Church and his activity in the interests
of the Peoples party. Mr.. Kessler had
studied the question in relation to local
politics most thoroughly, land by his obser-
vations and inquiries had become thor
oughly convinced that there should be a
political identity for Utah. A code of new
laws should be enacted whereby criminals |
of every grade could be punished for their |
crimes, and the reproach cast upon our
lax system of dealing with certain class
Of offenders wiped out forever bv vieor- /
BUS measures in the future. The punish |
ment of sexual crimes and breaches |
against morality were made dead letter
years ago for the purpose of shielding
some of those same Legislators from
prosecution for those very crimes. They
'epealed laws that are in force in every
state IN the Union, and after doing that
lid not enact any others to fill their
places. Their policy had been to make
heir own position safe, without seeming
o study what the cost would be to public
The Young Democracy of
Utah promised different order of things
hould they be given the power to make
heir voices heard in the Legislative
Assemblies in the future; and that he
believed that their sentiments were sim
ere and chance should be given
hem by casting big Democratic
'ote at this election. He in
ended voting for competent men, and
dvlsed all the friends of honest legisla-
ION, no matter what their religious views
hight be, to come up and vote the Dem
cratic ticket, which espoused the cause
I right and a higher moral status than.
as ever been reached in Utah.
MR.. p. l.. WILLIAMS
one of his fine and highly in |
-ructlve speeches on the political and
loral situation of this Territory through
lie non-fulfillment of the trusts imposed
them by the people, by our Legislative
ssemblies. They had been elected bv
he ballots OF the people to conscientiouslv
1act laws that would free the social svs-
I'M from abuses; but instead of being
ne to their trusts they had taken away
hat little the people had to guarantee c
lem any protection against sexual I
1mes. These people had been placed
that position by their own ballots
trough so-called Peoples party" by
hlch, IN reality, their votes had been Z
erely to place men in power that were 7