The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-14
DEMOCRATS AT OGDEN
Hold a ROuSing Ratification
Meeting Last Night.
AN,ENrHUSIAsTIC GATHERING.
Speeches Made In EuIoGfes or the
Principles OF Democracy and
it's Candidate.

ROlGCally speaking, yesterday was
the leading day, distinctive, as it y i'll
always be recogized. of the advent OF
pure, unadultersted Democracy in
Weber County, when the first official
public gathering Of the party ever held
took place in Ogden City and it is
needless to say in Weber County. And
no more fitting occasion could fortune
have seized or retained for the inaug-
uratisn Of Democratic ideas and prin-
ciples than the present one, coming, as
itdoes Immediately after the unanimous
nomination of such gallant leaders
men of the people, whose lives have
been in the interest of the people, as
Cleveland and Thurman, names which
the people respect, admire and love
successes and generous policy, carry
inherent in themselves, certain victory,
owing to the peculiar motive of the
creed by which three such eminent
statesmen have been chosen SO signaliy
and enthusiastically 10 be the standard
bearers OF the party of progress, the
party which founded the country and
made it possible for it 10 occupy amid
che nations of the world so prominent 8
position, position which is at once
unique and grand.
AT about 730 o'clock p. IA, the brass
band anuouHced TO the people of Ogden
that in the Lester Park Pavilion
tSere would take place, thirty minutes
later, a great meeting that would ratify
the doings of that great assemblsge OF
people which convened in st. Louis on
June 5th, aud paced for the peoples
endorsement the names of Grover
Cleveland and Allen 6. Thurman, as
the two first officials of the great Re-
public.
At about 8 o'clock, the brass band led
the way to the hall, and some two or
three hundred people quickly followed.
On the stand there were the following
gentlemen: Chairman John a. Boyle,
Hon. @. G. Richards, Judge R. K.
Williams, Judge Thomas D. Dee, Had
ley D. Johnson, Nathan Tanner, H. II
R9lapp, Bernard White, Hon. Joseph
Barton, John Watson and others.
Tne pavilion was hbsrally dressed
with buuting-the stars and stripes, OF
course. occupying the most c)nspicu-
Gus places Immediately above the
platform were two pictures, they being,
1t is almost superfuous 20 state, repre-
sentative of Grover Cleveland and Allen
G. Thurman, in the centre of which was
the following extract from the platform
adopted at the late Democratic National
Convention:
That lust and liberal policy should
be pursued in reference to the TerTitor-
les; that the right of self-goVernment is
inherent in the people and guaranteed
under the Constitution.
Chairman John A. Boyle, after m -
ton had been M de and carried, E ecsi lg
Judge z K. Williams to the chs irm n
ship of the meeting, introd' ced Mr..
Williams to the audience. Thi sg ntIe-
man made a most excellen' sp sch, a
portion of which is as follow s.:
The Democratic Plato N, as of old,
means the greatest good to IN great st
numb ar and recognizes as worthy mem
bers of the party aillaw-abid ng citizens
who subscribe to its principles, support
its nominees and adopt its usages, With
out regard to past political utilization or
religious cOnVi;tiOn, thus vindicating its
high regard for the pure requirements of
our Federal Constitution. with it's prin-
Cipies laid broad and deep in the foun-
dations of civil and religious liberty.
How sublimely this contrasts with
the doings of that Insignificant few,
who, ignoring both the principles and
policy of the national Democratic party,
and the enduring principles of the
constitution, would, under the false
pretext and sham pretence of superior
loyalty, exclude from this national
party the great majority of tbs legal
voters Of the Territory. under the false
and fraudulent plea of the iucOmpati-
bility of their religious convictions
with the principle of loyalty to the
United StaFes Government. And when
of this pretentious few are considered
this monstrous sham becomes all the
more apparent.
If an overwhelming majority of the
living pioneers and the young genera
ton who have offended no statute of
the United states, bu. are legal voters
under both Federal and Territorial
laws, and who are to the manor ma
tive born or naturalized, and the de-
Scendants of those who brooked the
hardships, dangers and disasters of
settling q barren waste, hundreds and
hundreds of miles from even the
frontier settlements OF civiliz ltion,
after an age of deprivation, labor
and toll, with all It's large
improvements aud vast accommodations,
should refuse to allow this insignificant
and adventurous few to dedicate their
political status, or govern their per-
sonal property and civil ri. hts, what
upright. honest, liEera!-minded men,
who reveres the Justice Of God or the
just bsnefcencs OF our divineiy Inspired
constitution dare say nay, or be sur
prised at our refusal? And more es-
pecially, can not tame submission to
such political injustice and tyranny be
expected from those who, like myself,
have been lifelong Democrats aud who
gave to the government sill their aid and
loyalty in the perilous times of the re-
bellion, and constituted part of that |
Spartan band known as war Democrats,
and who gave to the nation Hancock,
q Mcclellan, a Seymore, a Tilden, a
Cleveland anu Thurman.
Ny fellow Democrats, there are but
two great national political parties, the
Democratic and the Republicans, and
she one or the other of these great