The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-19

u4u not see why American citizens should |
WISH to desert the Liberal party |
III or0er to train under another |
party simply because it bore the name of |
republican or Democrat. Were l." said |
the speaker, ito present resolution, it |
would be as follows: Resolved, That it |
De the sense of this meeting, composed alike |
OF democrats and Republicans of the ban |
ner county except one in this territory, to |
request the chairman of the Liberal party !
to call the committee in session and decide
upon the proper course to pursue in the
present crisis u
There were loud calls for the resolution,
and it was read again and adopted with a
whoop.
Continuing, Mr.. Allen said that he had
no objection to these Republicans organic
ing club. but they could not claim to rep
resent the majority of the party unless that
was the fact They must act legally. 1t
was q little strange that those Democrats
who favored the movement were men who
had scratched every Republican on the Lib
eral ticket.
Mr.. Allen closed with hot protest
against any division and urged the boys to
stand by the men who had carried their flag
to victory.
WILL TORE HIS HAIR.
w. G. VanHorne was the next speaker
He commenced by talking about the Nor
mon church, one principle of which, he said,
was that the church and state were all one.
Cries Of ''Rats."l Now if there was to be
church and state in any part of the union,
it must control everywhere. Until the Re-
publican party, in convention assembled,
decided to form an organization, he was op-
posed to any split
THE GENERAL WAS THERE.
General Connor said he had been Lib
eral cry since the party was organized, and
he Intended TO remain one until this theoc-
racy was put down.
mot SMELL OF THE BoITLE.''
JIM Bowman said that he yielded to no
one in his fealty to the Republican party.
Yet in this place he considered it his duty
to lay aside his Republicanism. He was
sorry that any Republican should try to
split the Liberal party. What could they
expect to gain by such a divisiona
In Indiana, wherever the Democratic
party had majority, the Republicans
be the. same here With the majority that
the Peoples party had, to say that they
would give any Gentle an office was to say
that they were fools.
RAKING UP LINCoLN's BONES.
Charlie Stanton then read the following
resolution, which he said was drawn by
Mr.. Cotton:
Whereas, Our martyred President, the
revered Abraham Lincoln, always was
opposed to swapping horses while crossing
a stream, and
Whereas, In military strategy the most
| dangerous movement any army can make
is to change front in the face of the enemy;
therefore,
Resolved, That this meeting deems it
most unwise and dangerous to disband the
Liberal party of Utah"
This resolution was carried with whoop
and yell q
AN UNKNOWN COMES IN.
w. H. Wallace, a real estate man, was
called for. He said that if this division was
carried out John T. Game and MILFORD
| Woodruff would hold the reins and would
run away with the principles of both par
ties, and then where would the Liberals be?
JAKE AGAIN SHOWS HIS EARS.
No one answered this conundrum, and
Jake Greenwald once more took the stand.
| He said he was sorry to see such men as
Critchlow and Treweek working for di-
vision, and it grieYed him sore to hear the
former call the Liberal party bastard
party. There were 5000 Republicans in
this county, and he guaranteed that they
would beat the Democrats and Peoples
party combined and elect majority to the
| legislature.
THE CoLoNEL's HoARY CHEsTNUTs.
Colonel Kaighn was the next speaker,
and he commenced by cracking some hoary
chestnuts, such as the Mormon leaders die
tating to the people what ticket they should
vote. He then urged the Republicans to
resist the movement to divide, which he
said had been successfully combatted be-
fore.
cR1TCHLow STORMS THE MOB.
Mr.. Critchlow, who had been quietly sit
ting in the audience, was then discovered,
and loud calls were made for him. He
promptly mounted a bench, and the mob
promptly commenced to howl. After in
viting him to speak and when he did make
make himself heard, efforts were made to
combat his strong logic with yells. 1t was
a trying position, but Mr.. Critchlow quietly
and calmly stated his views. He said:
81 don't wish to make speech, but as
we are all Republicans, you know it is
Republican pri nciple to hear before you
judge. (Yells). AS has been stated, l
have been a member of the Liberal party
and have worked for it's success For rea-
sons which seemed to me best, l, with
others, came to the conclusion that it would
be advisable to organize Republican
patty. (Hooting and yelling and cries OF
give US your reasons."D
Mr. Critchlow-Well, this is the reason.
don't think the Democrats would even
vote tor a Republican, and do believe that
, the Democrats have taken step which
they will never retrace. They have or
!, ganized and that leaves the Republicans
and only the Republicans masquerading
under the name OF the Liberal party II
left them as Republicans with only the
!, odium of the Liberal party, so far as the
Mormon people are concerned, attached to
them. For these reasons l thought it was
time to organize Republicans.
w. O.. Van Horne-I would like to ask
MIR. Critchlow why that meeting on Satur-
, day night was not regularly called by the
Republican committee.
Mr.. Critchlow-Simply because that
committee acted only once in four years
and was not supposed to do anything except
when presidential election came around
LIPPMAN's VERY CHEAP BRAY.
Then Joe Lippman arose in his majesty
and said there was man at the meeting on
Saturday night who had never been
Republican and who for years has beer
. working on the Salt Lake HERALD. That
man was Lance M. Earl. Then James
Devine, who last year tried to split up the
= Liberal party, and who had never worked
for any one except James Devine, was
there, and the votes of such as these offse
the votes of such men as John Daily anC
S Dick Mcintosh. As to Nick Treweek, he
Y wished to say that Mr.. Treweek had the
j. Office bee in his bonnet, and that accounted
] for his activity in this matter. As to thes,
men, Arthur Brown, Judge Zane and thu
J rest Of them, what had they ever done fol-
the Liberal party9 Had they taken off theil
e coats and worked for it! No, stree, they
had simply let the others work while they
] enjoyed the fruits of that working.
Mr.. Lippman spoke in an excited strair
Q for some time, and made many rasl
charges, which he will doubtless regre
chic aftar ha hoe cnI,aa1a1 lap,o,