The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-05
THE LAST SHOT 5!
Continuation of the Speeches
Made Saturday Night.
Hon. z. s. Richards Talks Simon Pure
Democracy-Dr Pixies Remarks-Rous
ing Cheers for Democracy.

Hon. z. 8. Richards Talks Simon Pure
Democracy-Dr. Pixies Remarks Rous.
ing Cheers for Democracy.
At the Opera House last Saturday
night the Hon. F. 5. Richards contin.
ued his speech from where we discon-
tinued the report, as follows:
REPUBLICAN METHODS.
Now you know something about Re
publican methods. If you have even
stopped to think about it, the people OF
this terri tory have had peculiar and
impressive opportunities to observe the
peculIarities of Republican methods OF
/ government in this territory. Some
years ago there was local court III
each county elected by the people
there was d system. not many years ago
whereby the prosecuting attorneys OF
the territory were elected by the peo-
( pie; there was time when the terrific
nal marshal served the processes OF tht
court who was a man elected by the peo-
pie; there was time when the county
court i'll every county selected the Ju-
rors right from the people OF the coun-
| ty and they constituted the JurleS thai
! tired the people.
liz 1874 the Republican government
said this was ali wrong; the whole au-
tholity OF the courts was wiped out eX-
cept that relating to probate business
ana divorce The district attorneys
and prosecuting attorneys were de-
prived OF their powers and jurisdiction ;
/ the jurors instead of being selected by
the people, one-half are selected by the
probate Judge and that probate judge Is
appointed 10y the President of the Uni
| ted States. and the other half by the
clerk of the district court, who is ais"
an appointed officer. ana now if the
whole people of Utah were united az
one. clamoring to have John Jones
serve on a jury, they haven got the
power to put him there,
In the latter part OF 1882 a law wa
passed by Republican, Legislators where
! by $4,000 people were DISTINGUISHED
without single hearing or the right Oi
! trial. The Democrats i'll the leglsla-
tive halls and all over the land raised
! their voices in solemn protest against
! that kind OF process, and the Republl-
can supreme court who sustained 1t
! held il to be merely the enforcing OF
constitutionally granted power AT
that time the Republicans appointed
the registration and election Officers
| Tor tins territory. Who ever heard
prior to that time, in the territory Oh
| Utah, of an unfair election? Who ever
/ heard OF Judge of election llimflaming
with votes and putting ballots III the
| box that were never handed to him
prior to that time? l never did and l
| guess YOU never did. Who but Repubil-
cans could ever dream of appointing that
august IN body the Utah Commission!
/ In Salt Lake City they appointed men
to register who were 50 Ignorant OF
geography that they didn't know
whether the boundaries OF Salt Lake
City did or did not extend to
| p. V. Junction on the south,
but they thought they did
! laughter to Corinne on the north,
/ Park City on the east, so as to make
sure they registered all along the line,
| (laughter), and at election time they
were so accommodating as to bring
them in by the train loads; not, how
ever, during the day, but during the
night. And have been told by par
ties, who are ready. willing and able to
prove their assertions, that there are
places in Salt Lake and Ogden where
men have been taken and there told
under what name to vote. They have
gone and falsely sworn those names 10
be their own, and come back to theN
place where they received their instruc-
lions and there paid money for what
they had done. And that isn't all. /
might elaborate for l can't tell you
how long Votes have been changed
for my friend Mr.. Young here votes
that were handed in at the window, but
were never put in the ballot box, but
others put in their place. Judge Zane
himself says it was a fraud committed
by the judges of election, an infamy OF
the greatest magnitude that could be
perpetrated in this country, and was
next to trepson itself. If the Republi-
cans had their way, we would have the
same sort of thing all over this country
as we have in Utah in the management
of our elections. They tried to put the
Force bill through the House, the OBJ
ject of which, and the operations under
1t were similar. That infamous bill
failed.
One other little instance. There was
a certain man who was chief executive
Of this territory and whose information
on the subject OF mathematics was so
limited that after his majestic brain
had handled a certain matter, he an
nounced that 1900 votes cast for one
man was majority over $4,000 cast
for his opponent. Do you remember
anything about it? Laughter. If
the Force bill had been in force at that
time that man who received l 300 votes
would have taken his seat against the
man who received $4,000 votes and rep
resented, no. misrepresented this terri
tory in the National Congress. This
is RepublicaniSm.
| havo heard some Republicans say
they want state government here
after awhile. | don't see why they
should. They have all the beauties of |
Capitalization of power here to per
fection Laughter Certain men
have gone to the Utah Commission and |
asked that each political party be rec
ognized in the appointing OF the judges |
OF election Those men were told ny |
that deliberate and august ~ body |
that eve don't know officially
yet that there are three political
parties in the field" They
knew there is a Liberal party,
buU w uOll kIlOW uuGlI dIG6T GDG
election what other parties there are"
Now, say that these are some of the
instances of the Republican Organiza-
ton.
The Democratic idea is that these
things are all wrong. They say that
you people here in Utah county have
the right to say who shall govern YOU,
that you have "a right to send a man of
your choice to the legislature and to
say who shall make laws for you, and
that tits not right for you to be COM
PEELED to submit to the details of so ar
rogant and useless a body as the Repub-
lcan Utah Commission. They say
that the people themselves are the |
source of power and these same men in ]
office are the servants and not the mas {
5ers of the people. They say that that !
grand theory OF government which was !
ADVANCE: by Thomas Jefferson, where !
5he government should be so near to ;
he people that when the great heart {
If the common people beat high with
nope and appreciation that every pull !
3ation of that heart should be felt in I
he seat OF government and should he /
IN inspiration to the peoples repre- t