The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-04
AN ADDRESS,
Hon. John T. Game Talks to the
People.

ored with the nomination for Delegate
to Congress by the great party of the
people of this Territory This evidence
of popular confidence and trust is very
gratifying to me. 1t is encouraging to
have this assurance of the trust and es-
TEEN of my fellow citizens, and to feel
that my services, inefficient as they may
have been, though faithful and con-
scientious as l know they were, were
such as to inspire my friends
and associates with senti-
ment of continued trustfulness. l
will not deny that I am
proud of the honor that has been con-
ferred upon me. 1 am not onlysthat,
but am sincerely grateful and apSreci-
alive, and hope in the future as in the
past, to prove by my conduct and by
my devotion to the cause of those who
have honored and entrusted me with
the important mission of representing
this great commonwealth in the Ameri-
can Congress. that I am not unworthy
their faith and esteem. If 1 shall fail
in this it will be for lack of ability and
want of intelligence.
The news of the action of
the Peoples Convention reached me
at Washington, during the closing
days of the longest session of the Ma
tional Legislature on record. 1 could
not without neglect of duty and deser-
ton of my post at time when it would
have been dangerous to leave, do
more than telegraph formal accept
ance of the nomination. Returning
home at the end of the session, find
that election day is upon US. Hereto
fore, on similar occasions, l have been
pleased to meet the people in
their precincts, and with earnest
and eloquent friends, address the
voters On the issues of the
day. 1t will be understood that
circumstances have made it impos-
sible for me to go among the people be-
fore the election, and 1 am therefore
forced to speak through the press, and
in that way only.
l find that while certain progress has
been made by the right in its contest
for p1emacy, the issue is the same
that has confronted US these many
years; that the people are struggling to
hold their own, to maintain their
rights as citizens of the Republic and
the Territory against the assaults
and encroachments of ambitious
and unprincipled adventures, and
of men whose ain and effort
are to profit from the political subjuga-
ton OF the masses. While the attack
upon the liberties OF the citizen may
have behind it less of physical force
than 1t times in the past, it IS engi-
neered by individuals no less venomous
than formerly, and is supported by a
partyorganizstion as viciocs, as wicked
and az soulless as ever, and as desper-
ate inits methods. That the purpose
of the insignificant minority is to
further eDslave the people is proven by
its recently promulgated platform of
principles, and the conspiracy appears
TO be approved and supported by the
chief executive of the Territory who
: has only this week put in an official
appeal to Congress to reduce the COM
munfty to condition of political servi-
tude, with pronounced enemies for
masters. The same old cry of hate is
heard in the land, though there is
reason to believe that it is echoed by
fewer throats. The same old ISLANDERS
are reiterated by the same venomous
tongues, but fewer ears are ready to re
ceive them.
That we have reteined any of our
constitutional rights as citizens, that
any of the features Of local sslf-gov.
eminent are yet with US, are due to
the fact that the good people have
stood shoulder to shoulder and with
solid front have faced the enemy that
was eagerly looking for weak point
or break IN the ranks. The people
have been united in opposing the as
saults upon their precious rights OF
citizenship, and to that fact can we
credit whatever of success has attended
US, and whatever of republican gov
eminent remains. In the light of the
past, in the observation of the present
in the contemplation of the future, il
seems to me that the intelligence
and wisdom of the people vii
suggest to them the absolute necessity
of avoiding disunion; of drawing NOR,
closely together than eyer for the pre-
serVation of their liberties. Safety TO-
the individual and for the communit,
demands the same unity of politica
action on the part of the bona i'd
citizen that has given US victory il
: the past. In faction there is danger, il
disunion there is destruction. In M