The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-07
THE utah CONTEST
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to summarize the points which he had pre-
viously tried to make.
JUDGE BENNETT WAS THE NEXT SPEAKER.
He was cool, logical and temperate, had
his facts and figures at his fingers ends
and was frequently applauded vigorously
by his Republican colleagues. He began
by referring to the nonsensity OF going
back into ancient history. We are all &C.
quainted with the Mormon problem. In
the autumn of 1890, tbs authorities of the
Mormon church declared against polygamy
and Mr., VariaL, himself. admits that the
pronounciamento have been obeyed. Prior
to that there were but two organizations in
the directory. The Peoples Party, COM
posed exclusively of Mormons, and
the Liberal party, composed OF
Gentiles and few who had
apostecized from the Mormon church.
There has been skeleton organization OF
both national parties much of the time,
but they did nothing else than to get to-
gether once in four years to send delega-
to both national conventions and neither
of these old organizations had ever put a
ticket in the field to this hour. One month
after the pronnounciamento of the Nor
mon church, the Democrats, who were
ahead of US, got together and began to
organize. There were 10000 voters turned
loose to vote which ever way they wished.
The Republicans stood about in little knots
and discussed the matter, deploring that the
Democrats were going ahead of them but
nothing was done until May, 1891, when MIR.
Brown himself and Others among whom
was Mr.. Varian, concluded that the proper
thing to do was to come out on party lines.
We had good company, too. Judge Zane,
Judge Blackburn, Judge Miner, OF Michi-
gan, and other prominent appointees of the
present administration we're with US, and
are to-day. Feeling necessity for enter
ing the field to secure our share of these
liberated peoples votes, we concluded we
should be disloyal to the great principles
Of our party, to Grant and Lincoln and
Garfield, if we didn't organize. We knew
the Liberals would be against it, but we
were not working for Liberal, but for Re-
publican ascension
Here the Judge submitted the call for the
original mass meetings and explained that
it was extended to ali to come in, and was
from the Republican party of Utah.
WE PROCEEDED IN THE PROPER WAY.
We organized one convention after
another until we now have thoroughly
complete and splendid organization in every
part of the territory. He here read from a
pamphlet prepared by his delegation, Civ
ing complete history of the Republican
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which ensued. and later OF the convention
which selected Cannon and Salisbury, and
demonstrated the genuineness of their
claims to seats in the convention. He said
that the Mormons were Republicans from
princlple-good hsir-pulling Repu blicans,
and he would stake his honor they were
sincere. He then proceeded to show how
the party had grown since the national
recognition until now it had over 5000
votes and 1873 clubs in actual operation,
while in the city elections since then the
Republican vote had nearly doubled. The
Liberal party was disbanded in many
places.
Warren-Wnst leads you to think the
Liberals will disband when they carry the
largest cities of The territory, viz. Salt
Lake, Ogden and Park cityl
Bennett think they will disband be-
fore long.
Warren-Isn't.it true that the Mormons
vote on instruction!
| John Morgan-No, they don't. am one
OF them and don't.
Nor l, nor l" said dozen voices.
VariaR-We say they do, and one state
ment may 90 against the other right square.
| Mr.. Bennett, continuing, referred to the
defeat of the TatIock resolution, which
was owing to the fact that Allen and
Goodwin voted against it. Goodwin here
arose and ex Explained that he was not pres
emit when the resolution was introduced,
and had no opportunity to vote one way or
the other.
Brown-Are you in favor of It nova
No response
ticles of association of the Liberal Republi-
cans, saying they were only Republican on
national issues, and affirming their purpose
to not in any way disturb or attempt to
disorganize the Liberal party.
do you believe such party as that can
receive recognition by the great Republican
league of the United States?" He then
touched on statehood and denied there was
any set purpose to unduly hasten state
hood, but that portion was still our plat
form. He then read Goodwin's article OF
last January supporting statehood, and
SCORED A BRILLIANT POINT AGAINST HIM.
Concluding, he said we are no Peoples
party, no Farmers Alliance. no Liberal
party, but Straight Republicans, and ii we
| get full and complete recognition will make
Utah Republican state. We want your
aid to bring those people up into the life
and light Of the Republican party.
FRANK j. CANNON WAS THE NEXT SPEAKER
and succeeded In putting so much vim and
magnetism into his effort that he many
times thrilled his hearers and at all times
he was given the closest possible attention
by the committee. He said there was a DO
litical reason why he and his colleagues
should be seated aud also one of morality
and justice. His opponents were repre-
sentatives OF committee wi thout q party
For more than year straight Republi-
can ticket had been in the field and where
did any of them ever votes He had voted
! it, and so had Salisbury and he had
tramped all over Utah 10 persuade others
to vote it. He proceeded to show by sta
tistics of Liberal losses that the Republi-
cans gained strength from the Liberals as
well as accessions from the Peoples party.
He referred to Variants statement that the
Liberal party was founded on principle
and showed that in counties where they
have not the ioaves and fishes, they are
disbsnding. He was q member of the Nor
mon church. For years he was cropping in