The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-08-01
The CRUSADERS.
Judge Foreman Afflicts a
Handful OF People.
Elmer 3. Jones Converted to Liberalism
by an Old Farmer Down in the Quiet
Town of Mona.

( Town of Mona.
The Opera House band last night
made a circuit around town in Knight
/ band wagon. announcing the fact that a
/ Liberal rally would be held in the
Courthouse. About $50 O'Clock a few
of the "ch0sen" were inside the rail
ing, while on the outside number OF
citizens were seated.
Judge Sutherland called the meeting
/ to order, and made a few remarks, in
which he announced that Judge Bore
man would talk to them, and that their
talk would not wear them out, as the
/ Democrats had done. He then intro
| duced Elmer B. Jones, who said he
came TO Utah knowing nothing about
Utah. only from the newspaper reports,
therefoTeh he came unbiased and unpTeju
diced. He had always been Republican
and could not be anything else If lie
tried, and when the division on party
lines came, all the patriotism in me
was aroused. and | could not sit quietly
/ by and see the Democrats carry off
everything without an effort for Re
pubicanism. l wish to correct the
rumors that nave been on the street,
that | was first a Liberal and then a
Republican, and now a Liberal.
The speaker then told how he took
up the cause of Republicanism, and
went to Mona, Juab county, to talk to
the people there. lie had a conyersa-
ton with an old fellow just previous to
the meeting about the Mormon Church
controlling the votes of the people. The
old fellow told him that the church did
not have anything to do with 1t. The
speaker then asked him what he would
do if the leaders of the church would say
after while, here we think it time to
reorganiZe the Peoples party. "WeIl, ;"
said the old fellow, If thought it was
right would join it," This answer
knocked all the Republicanism out of
Elmer B. He growled little because
he did not receive applause for that
speech. He then resolved to become a
Liberal. The speaker then chewed the
Tribune hash about Eastern men hay
ing no confidence in the MOrmOns, at
tributing the financial distress of the
country to the fact that the Liberals
were not in power.
Judge Boreman was then introduced.
After saying he had been in Utah
a great many years, he launched
forth into a string OF abuse on
Brigham Young He did not
want, however, to abuse those
who had belonged to the Lib
eral party, and who had wandered
off after strange Gods. He Iated them
sOundly, nevertheless, for having left
the party when victory was just with
in reach. He eudeavOred to show that
if the Liberal party was dead, the two
national parties in Utah would be con-
trOlled 10y the church, and they could
not help themselves. He dWelt on
the statehood subject, and seemed to
be much hurt because the parties would
not come out and say they favored or
did not favor statehood. If they would
say something about it, the Lbs would
then know what to do. Statehood was
the only issue in Utah, and yet not a
word was said about it in the platforms
of either party. He hit the national
parties hard for getting men
from the east to come here
to talk to them. The Republi-
leans got it in the neck about Horn, /
while the Democrats got Hail Column |
bia about DR.. Miller coming to Utah |
He then set off on a train OF slang and
abuse about polygamy, using the
language of the Trjb. The gentleman
was interrupted frequently by outburSts |.
of silence when he had made some great |
point. His speech was very dry
throughout, so much so that some of I
the Lbs went to sleep. At the con-
clusion of his speech the band PLAYED |
Orally Round the Flag"
A. g. Sutherland, after a long pre-
amble, in which lie eulogized the Tfb-
une, read clipping from the Salt
Lake Times, in which they copied a
piece from the Trib, stating that the
division on party lines had been iuaugu-
rated by the MormonS, the Times CON
this statement. Just why
be read the clipping or what was his
object, was not apparent. He could |
not have any confidence in the Nor
mons in this movement, and concluded |
by saying he thought it was scheme
OF the enemy.