The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-03
PEOPLES TICKET.
General Election, August q, 1890
SALT LAKE COUNTY.
Is 1T TRUE?


1t a fearful arraignment of the Lib
eral p arty that is embodied in the Peoples
platform recently adopted. If true, it
should consign that party to perdition; and
the only question that any patriotic citizen
would ask concerning this Indictment is
Are the charges true! Here are the
charges:
Opposed TO the Peoples party is the self
styled Liberal party, which processes to ven
crate the constitution while violating its funda-
mental truths 1t arrogates to its members the
honored name of Americans while seeking to
deprive a large class of American citizens of
the substantial rights of freemen Through it's
persistent misre presentation the right of trial
by jury has been abridged and almost destroyed
in this territory. BY procuring unrepublican
test oaths and other proscriptive legis lation
it has disfranchised many citizens because
they would not support its men and meas
ures. For this cause only it has succeeded
in robbing the women of Utah of the elective
franchise after they had exercised 1t for fifteen
years. 1t has endeavored to supplant legisla-
ture elected by the people with commission
appointed by the federal government. 1t has
sought TO erect an insuperable barrier of preiu-
dice against the admission of Utah as state
1t seeks to extend to this territory the infamous
enactments by which, in Idaho, thousands of
law-abiding citizens are stripped OF every poll
teal right, solely because of their membership
in an unpopular religious organization. 1t
avows, through its organs it's intention to pro-
cure such Congressionalle legislation as will debar
all persons who belong to that religious body
from acquiring title to any part of the public
domain. 1t is therefore destructive Of popular
liberty and unworthy of the support OF any just
liberal and patriotic citizen.
docs the Liberal party seek to deprive
American citizens of the substantial rights
of freemenl
The infamy of attempting to deprive
Americans of the ballot, the most effective
OF the safeguards of any citizen, has led
the Liberal party or some of its members
1t times to deny the charge. The party
issued a campaign circular last winter
which said:
1t is sufficient answer to make to the attack
made upon the Liberal party 10 say that no
man has been nor will be DISTINGUISHED in
America who does not violate the laws of his
country. Whatever Congress may do. we are
making TO attack upon any religious organiza-
ton.
The disavowal of taking any part in the
disfranchisement scheme is paltry and ap-
parent. Compare the above bit of hy-
pocrisy with the following declaration
made by The same party few months
later:
AT meeting of the Territorial Liberal
Committee on the It'll of June, 1890, some
resolutions were adopted, among which
was the following, as it appeared in the or
gan of the committe next day.
Resolged, BY the Territorial Liberal Com.
mittee of Utah, composed Of Democrats and
Republicans, that they heartily endorse the bill
now pending before Congress, introduced in the
Senate by Senator CULuoM and in the House by
Representative STRUBLE, providing a test oath
for Utah, and earnestly requested it's passage
The secretary of that committee and
meeting. who is understood to have been
the writer OF the resolution, and was made
registrar for the county, is now the Liberal
candidate for the Office of county clerk.
MIR. DICKSON said in court, al say no
man who bclteees in polygamy is entitled to
the franchise
MIR. BAsKIN said, 81 say no Mormon is
entitled to citizenship
Quotations could be multiplied; but space
is worth something Many Liberals are
opposed to disfranchisement, but are too
mRch afraid Of the party whip to say so
publicly.
2-Has the right of trial by jury been
abridged and almost destroyed in Utah by |
the Liberals.
Trial by a jury of mans peers is a
fundamental principle of our national |
charter The supreme court has said that
sit is q right Justly dear to the American |
people. 1t has always been an object of |
deep interest and solicitude, and every en- |
crcachment on it has been watched with !
great jealousy
The Liberal party first induced Congress |
to enact the POLAND law in 1874, which de- !
creed that one-half the Juryinen should be |
selected by the clerk OF the district court /
"a Gentile) and the other half by the pro- |
bate judge Ga Mormon as long as |
the Office was elective). But the |
Liberal party was by no means salts
fed with having one-half the jurymen,
though they constituted at the time only
one-eighth Of the population. The party |
finally induced the passage of the
TICKER EDMuNDs law, by which the |
Office of probate Judge was made |
appointive. Thus all jurymen are
row chosen by members of the Liberal
party, and they choose no member OF the /
Mormon church for jury service. In Janu-
airy last 200 names of Jurors were drawn in
this city by FL. G. MCMILLAN, clerk of the
Third district court, and GEORGE w. /
BARTcH, probate Judge of Salt Lake county.
In ri this list not the name of a single
Mormon appeared. The list contains, how
ever, the names Of several of the Liberal