The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-25
JUDGE JUDD SPEAKS.
Principles and Aims Of the Demo
cratic Party.
LAW LAID DOWN BY JEFFERSON
The Entire Territory to be Canvassed and
Democratic Clubs to Be Organized
in All Parts.

Below is the full text of Judge JUDI.
speech at the recent meeting of the Demo
cratic club. A very fair synopsis wa
given at the time, but we believe th.
speech in entirety viii be read with grea
interest:
Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr.. President ant
Members of the Central Democratic Club o
Salt Lake County:
What, j ask, can be more fitting on ar
occasion of this sort where we have met tc
celebrate the victory of General jackson
than recitation Of the history of thai
party of which Jefferson was the founder
and Jackson the great disciple and exem-
plar. The history, my friends, of ciyillza-
Ion in respect to the government. presents
one prolonged and continued contest be-
tween two antagonistic ideas that, as |
snail undertake to show. found
and find elimination in the estab-
ilshment of the Democratic government of
America. The one idea is that of kings and
Kingdoms, of emperors and empires, of the
concentration of power in the hands of one
man or Of few men. These rule, as they
have insisted, by divine right; their rule of
government is that 1.-The voice of God is
the voice of the people" On the other
hand. the other idea is that 1.-The voice of
the people is the voice of God;'' that the
rule of the people is
TIE PROPER PRINCIPLE OF GOVERNMENT
and tends more directly and steadfastlv to
the protection and preservation of individ-
ual liberty.
These ideas, as have said, antagonlstic
as they are, have been the subject of one
long and continued contest. That contest
was transferred from Europe to America.
md han he A,-,.o
from England their liberty the history of
our country shows that those two
parties and ideas had their followers and
representatives upon American soil. Not,
1t is true, in the shape of advocates of
kings, but there were those who were
called Nationalist as contra-distinguished
10 those who Were called, and indeed called
themselves, Federaiists The bond of
union between the colonies forced upon
them by their dread of England, when they
mad gained their independence began to
weaken; and men began to cast about for
the formation of more perfect union IT
was then, Mr.. President. that this idea of
national consolidated government began
10 take shape under the lead of such men
as Hamilton of New York, and Randolph
of Virginia. 1t was then that the Federal
lstlc idea began TO crystalline in the minds
OF such men as Jefferson and Patrick
Henry, and the contest from that on be-
came marked and distinct
When the constitutional convention met
1t l1S7, might say prior to the meeting of
the constitutional convention in the city of
Philadelphia, that framed the constitution
OF the American government Mr. Jeffer
son was minister abroad, representing the
American government, and we learn from
history, that
THE IDEA OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
was born in his mind. We learn that on
the 18th day of December, l7S6. he wrote
letter TO Mr.. Madison, of Virginia. of
which will read you an extract. He saws.
II nnd by the public papers that your com
merclal convention failed in point of repre
sentation. If it should produce full meet
ing IN May and broader reformation, il
wlll still be well. To make us one nation
as TO foreign concerns, and to keep US dis
unct in domestic ones, q gives the
outline of the proper division of powers
between the general and particular
governments. But to enable the federal
head TO exercise the powers given il TO the
best advantage, il should be organized as
the particular ones are, into legislative. |
executive and judiciary. The first and last |
are already separated. The second should |
be. In speaking Of this. the historian
from whom / read, Alexander Il. Stevens
says: This as far as the author has heen
aole 10 discover, alter no inconsiderable |
research, Is the first embodied contention
OF the general outline of those nroner
changes OF the old constitution or articles
OF conf 9deration, which were subseouentlv
as we shall see actually and in fact EN-
grated on the old system of confedera-
ton. and which makes the most marked
difference between ours aud all other like
systems" Here, my friends, is, we learn
from history, the plank that came from the
Drain hot
came imbedded in the constitution under
winch this government has since lived.
WHEN THE CONVENTION MET AT PHILADELP HrA
as have said, Mr.. Hamilton and Mr. Ran
oolph were there leading the National
party; and Mr.. Pinckney. of South Caro-
Ina, anu patterson, of New Jersey, were
u leading the Federal party, and then
Tie contest opened in earnest 1t was a
question OF whether there should be formed
Oh One American continent national gov
eminent; whether the lines of the colonies
should oe wiped out; whether a consoli-
oaIeo government should be formed with
lts heao at the seat Of government: or
whether Uhe lederalistiG idea should be
pIeserVeo ana the people have a national
Soterhnent composed of the smaller
Z, or state governments.
We learn likewise from the b;S.
lory OF the times, that the struggla
asted day after day, week after week and !
n 0o5dla,; after month, and that finally the
nent that was formed was government :
u states as well as government of the +
United States. As was said in notabie /.
'ase by Chief Justice Chase, of the sue :
'reme court of the United States .erha :
tates forme d the union, the union is q creao
ure OF the states" There, have laid he !
ore you the plan. From that dav tn this :
he struggle has never ceased.
1t were idle for men to say that there ;s
10 difference in principle between the mo-
ltical parties that have prevailed from !
lme TO time in America. 1t were not only
die, but man who small SO assert
; either knave or an idiot +
AN it be possible that such great minds as 8
AMERICA has produced have been struggling G
Or more than century in a contest with I.
sch other over nothing! My friends, there +
To-Day Inc same contention between poll b
cal ideas that prevail in America, as there b