The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-11
DEMOCRATIC RALLY.
Col. O'Brien's Eloquent Protest
Against Baskin's Monstrosity.
WHAT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY rs
A Memorial Adopted Protesting Against the
Baskin-Cullom Monstrosity- Ringing
Resolutions.

The Democrats had another rousing open
air meeting on Second South street, west
OF the White house corner, last night. A
brass band paraded the streets before the
meeting and at o'clock Dr. Payne called
the audience to order and introduced Hon.
t. b. O'Brien, who made an eloquent ad
dress lasting two hours. Mr.. O'Brien
held the closest attention of the audience
and was frequently cheered. He said:
am here tonight, fellow citizens, not to
appeal to your passions, but rather to
arouse your intelligence. Politics in Utah
are mixed up IN an abnormal manner We
ind ourselves living under q government
such as nowhere else exists in our COM
mon country, from the Atlantic to the Pa
citic. We have demonstrated by a sad ex-
perience that
THE IDEA OF LIBERALISM
is dead sea fruit-a whited sepul
chre. We are governed by party which
has no responsibility, because it has no
principles: 1t is hybrid, and, like
a certain quadruped, it cannot
propagate its species. But | am chasing an
lgnus fatius. The all-absorbing topic which
concerns the material, social, political and
religious welfare is the un-American and
IN Democratic pertidy about to be perpe-
trated in Washington-the passage of the
BaslSin-Cullom bill. 1t should have eman-
ated from Satan and not from man. 1t is
diabolical in principle and despotic in aim.
| ask Of you, my fellow citizens, if you are
justified in sustaining policy which aims
to Subvert the fundamental principles of
the constitution. But / am dreaming
The once great Republican party has
wandered from its moorings. 1t is gov
erned to day by a deacon, whose grand
fathers hat obscures his sense of
vision, and rests upon his shoulders.
He is a small man, unqualified to fill the
chair of that intellectual and brany big
man, Grover Cleveland. Applause. We
have in U tab protested against theocracy,
but we are governed to- day by theocracy
labeled Presbyterian1sm. From Maine to
California the long-haired deacons and the
short-haired deaconesses of Presbyterian
ism are being installed in office. Turning
from the national executive to the speaker
of the House, we discover there that
| Speaker Reed
RULES WITH ROD OF IRON
and pays no attention to the representa-
tives of over 30,000,000 of people. He
is veritable Caesar, whose partisan blind
ness will eventually lead him and his party
over the precipice of ruin. We can
not expect, fellow citizens, from
this Republican party anything unless
it be hatred and contempt, speaking as
Democrats. But Democracy stands forth
full grown Sampson and will in the
near future annihilate this party that
stands for creed and cast. It is true to it's
baptisimal instincts to-day. 1t was founded
in malignant hatred, and it has grown to
maturity in a more advanced stage of puri-
tanical bigotry. 1t is dominated by avarice
and is the shielder of the plutocrarcy OF
the D-gotten wealth which is blighting
the manhood of our nation. But my mis-
sion here tonight is not to discuss dead
issues. Rather are we here to commune
in sentiment upon the issue
that is vital to US all, whether
l hold in my hand article 1 of the amend
ment to the constitution which reads as
follows: Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech or of the
press or the right of the people to peacea-
bly, assemble and to petition the govern
ment for redress Of grievances" That
injunction, fellow citizens, was embodied
in our constitution by the heroes and pa
triots who suffered untold agony on the
icy Delaware and Waded in
THE BLOOD OF PATRIOT MARTYRS
on the field of Valley Forge. They gave tc
US Bartholdi statue from which for ovel
a century the rays Of patriotism
have flashed to the oppressed OF
mankind. I came from land ruled by the
iron hand of despotism for over seven CEN
turtles. l fed from my native isle to find
here refuge and an asylum of liberty, re-
ligious and political. But l am confronted
in this age Of progression by government
which seeks to subyert ana establish az
calling and black a despotism as the coun-
try which left. To illustrate 1 have only
to call your attention to the Baskin-C ullom
biil--a bill which embodies the disfran
chisement of native born Americans
makes them political pharias in their own
country ond brings them down to the leve
OF the pig tail from China or the Modol
Indian. Or, in other words, 1t seeks tc
nullify the action of the pa
triots in Boston harhor in protesting
against taxation without representation
1 have no sympathy with the Mormon po-
lygamist nor the Gentle bigamist, nor any
violator of law. But do assert that the
educated non-polygamist Mormon is super
latively in advance of the Hottentot or the
negro of Sierre Leon. am glad that an
standing upon the platform of nationa
Democracy. Democracy has always
shielded the oppressed and fought the OPP
pressor. My party in both houses of Con
gress is the old guard of freedom, standing
up for the rights Of the Mormon to wor
ship God at his own shrine without gov
ernmental interference. [ care not if al
the guns in Fort Sumpter were pointed a
my breast. | stand here to night to hur
forth defiant protestations against this un
paralleled crime of leaving Utah borl
mon without home or a country they Cal
; call their own.
WE ARE JUSTIFIED IN SENDING OUR PRoTEsT
to Washington, because if this preceden
is established at some time when w
are Wondering III forgotten graves, SOM
other party following in the footsteps O.
the Republican party will take up as
precedent the Baskin-Cullom bill to dis
) franchise some other sect. Already II
Boston they are agitating and organizing
an anti-Catholic crusade, and claim TIA
the precedent Of the Idaho test oath, he'll
to be constitutional by the supreme court
guarantees them the perogative to demand
the disfranchiscmcnJ of the Catholics
Oh my friends, remember where we ar
drifting TO. Should we tolerate this in
famous law to be enacted, we deserve to b.
pointed at with the finger of scorn b,
| future generations.
The eloquent speaker then read the peti
ton for the passage of the bill, which h
said emanated from the Morning Seper, an
was inspired in the brain of tue Bashi Ba
zouk, whose stock in trade was appeals t