The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-06
4 PATRIOTIC APPEAL
Tammany Issues a Call for a
Meeting to Protest
AGAINST THE ELECTION BILL
Passed by the House-An Eloquent Letter
From Mr.. Cleveland OH the Duty of
American Citizens

New York, July f. : Tammany hall
had a big celebration today, and largo
audience attended the exercises. The first
speaker of the day was Congressman
Bynum, of Indiana, whose chief glory is
that he received the censure of the Repub-
lican speaker of the House of Representa-
tives. 1.-THE founders of the nation,n said
Mr.. Bynum, Ibid not believe majority,
however large, hold a right to deprive a
minority, however small, of it's natural
rights. 1t had right to govern, but only
with due regard to the rights of the minor
ity. Never in the life of nation has
such deadly thrust at its liberty
been made as in the passage of the
federal election bill. This law was not
intended for the south alone; it was in
tended for New York and Indiana Not
satisfied with unseating honestly elected
members of the House the Republicans
devised this scheme, to enable them to
count out Democrats before they could take
their seats. With voice, with pen and
with sword the people should rise in their
might and prevent the enactmJ Mt of such
law"
Congressman Crisp, of Georgia, said the
against the south, by assailipg it with
slanGers, to secure its passage, but having
made 1t law they would soon turn 1t
against New York, being ready to do any
thing to retain power.
Letters Of regret were read from eX
President Cleveland, Governor Hill and
number Of other Democratic governors,
Senators and Congressman. The letters
from Messrs. Cleveland and Hill were fol
md +h1,nn Shn
for each. Then came a number of short
talks by prominent gentlemen. Governor
Beggs, of Delaware, referring to the cleo
ton bill, said he believed in letting the
colored man have his rights, but not the
white mans rights too. This is {. white
mans government and he believed in sup
porting his own race.
Congressman Springer said the election
bill was an assault on the liberties of the
people. and the day was not far distant
when the people may be called upon to
make new declaration of independence.
Congressman McMillln, of Tennessee;
Allen, OF Mississippi; Kerr, of Pennsyl-
vania; Yoder, of Ohio, and Mansur. of
Missouri. also spoke.
A resolution was adopted declaring that
mass meetings should be called throughout
the country to denounce the federal cleo
ton bill and protest against its passage by
the Senate. Ex-President Cleveland in his
letter said, in part: ''The opportunities
and temptations presented to partisans ship
have brought US to the time when party
controli is far too arrogant aud when public
places and the true interests of the people
are too lightly considered. In this pre-
dicament those who love their country may
well remember with comfort and satisfac-
ton on independence day that the DISPOSE
ton of the American people to revolt
against administration still remains to
them and is a badge of their freedom and
independence as well as their secur-
lty for their continued prosperity and
happiness. They will not revolt against
their plan of the government for its pro
lection and preservation, supply every in
SEPARATION of true Americanism: but be-
cause they are free and Independent Ameri-
can citizens, they will, as long as their love
and veneration for their government shall
last, revolt against the domination of any
political party which is inIrusted with
power sordidly seeks only its continuance
and which, faithlessly violating its plain
and simple duty to the people, insults them
with professions of disinterestedness and
Solicitude which it eats out their vitals and
substance, and yet with all this we should
not rest in blind security During the ex-
istance of danger the masses of our country
men are brave and therefore generous {;
they are strong and therefore confident,
and they are honest and therefore un-
SuSpecting of that our peril lies in the
ease with which they may be deluded and
caioled by those who would traffic with
their interests. No occasion is more op-
perfume than the celebration of the one hun
dreth and fourteenth anniversary of Amer
lean independence, to warn the American
people OF the present necessity on their
part of vigilant watchfulness of their
rights and Jealous eXaction of honest and
unselfsh performance of public duty.'