Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-10-20
DELEGATE GAINES LETTER
OF ACCEPTANCE.
SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH,
October 18Th, 1880

lion. FrdllEliH S. Richards, Chair
man, and PCJDls's Terri yFiul
CcHtral COBgmKlec:
Gentiemen.-I am in receipt Of
/ your official announcement, that
I the nomination as Candidate Of the
/ Peoples Party for Delegate from
I Utah 10 the Fifty second Congress
I had, by the unanimous voice Of the
I delegates in convention assembled.
fallen 10 me. thank you for the
courteous manner in which the
communication is MAZE and the
kind congratulations embodied
therein.
To be selected a. the nominee Of
my party for the fifth consecutive
time, for 50 diynifiei AMI RESPONSE
ble position a representative Of
our grand and growing Territory in
the councils Of the nation. is an
honor not to be lightly estimated
nor received without some formal
acknowledgment.
The history OF the Peoples Party
Of Utah is eJ-Iela.ive with the
history Of the Territory itself. 1t i
an OutgrOwth Of that love Of free
dom and lCcal self-sovernment
which caused our people 10 seek
homes amid mountain Businesses
where liberty i supposed ever 10
dwell. Whatever may be the judc-
ment Of the present generation re
specting the founders Of Utah, the
verdict Of history, regarding their
qualities as pioneers, rs C0lDniZ-rs.
as the avant cOuriers Of CiviliZ ton
in the far west, must be, that they
had no equals Ia their time. Com
ing as they did 10 a region peo, led
only by savages, with so much Of
mankind as they found and all Of
nature itself stubbornly a.Tayed
against them, the nucleus Of their
present political organization was
mountaineering simply self-pre-
the first and foremost in /
stinct Of all animate nature.
the times have changed and |
VIC have changed with them. |
but the fundamental idea. the /
principle, Is the same rs it |
was, when, instead OF the POLITICAL |
strife, noisy declarations aud snowy /
now confronting Us, We en-
the forbiddlug elements,
the unyielding soil and the unwel-
come disposition Of the savage.
The record OF the Peoples Party
its members be regarded
Is re!isiOnists, c8l0nists, frOntiermsn
" pOlIticians-spaTBles all along the
iathway Of the wild west and
Trough the gateway Of advanced /
civilization. In hOnoriDg the party
md the illustrious names associated
With it, We do bit honor our
elves. That il has had and may
till have faults is not 70 he denied
nd need not lie excused, since It j.
he work Of man, and man is never
erfect. Ii was, however. and l.,
he best thing in the way Of political
that could be devised
Jr our mutual benefit and pro-
5ctiOn, and its record O: successes /
nd hOnOTs justities US in reyereing
: founders and in announcing
new our allegiance to the princi-
les Of free government proclaimed :
! the platforms Of the Peoples
'arty.
What Is the issue confron ting us
day? Is it such a condition as is &.
eing wagei on all sides Of us 20 the
lst, the west, the north and the
,uth? All, no! The tariff, the
ghts Of States, the question Of re- I
IprOcity, the enforcement OF Con- l
itutiOnal amendments-nOne Of :
lese have We to deal with. What
now agitating our fair Territory
/ political way is the came ques- c
on that was introduced by our Op- J
Dnents, when the s0-called LIB /
al" Party was born-the craving }
the minority TO rule over the \
iajOrity. One by one the sacred