The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-05
tSUFFRAGE YET
THE THEME.
Continued from page -
The People Have Spoken.

The People Have Spoken.
Richards said he had no sympathy
with this talk of unseemly haste OF
raiiroading. The people spoke during
the middle of September. If they did
= not speak strongly enough then they
did on election DAY. The convention
had been in session thirty days and ii
had been week since the gentleman
from Davis had begun to manufacture
sentiment against suffrage. Yet not a
T. nonstrance had come into the con-
vention from the constituents of any
one. The courtesy of closing the de-
bate had been extended TO the gentle
man from Davis. 1t. was not a right.
He saw how the courtesy had honored
Roberts but he did not know that the
convention had been overwhelmingly
honored in sitting patiently listening to
She lengthy arguments of that gentle
man. That was point he could not
see. He called for the regular order.
Roberts explained he had not meant
tie convention had honored itself in
listening to his speeches. That would
nave been too gross an exhibition of
egot1Sm. When he made the remark
he was referring to the voting down of
the previous question.
Richards, however, claimed tbs re-
porter's notes would bear out mis- con-
Sention.
No Time Would BE Lost.
James said that there would be no
Injustice in postponement. There was
enough work on the calendar-worlz
that must be done before the conven-
tlon closed its session. IN asking for
postponement he was sure he voiced
the sentiment of 10000 people Of the
county. They are not confined to any
church or any party. They came from
emong the suffragists themselves. A
hlgher principle than that CO suffrage
Is at stake. 1t is the very life of the
constitution. He was surprised that
men whom he had always supposed fair
should say that a vote for POSTPONE
1neht was vote against suffrage.
sIhat was not true.
Ihere was colloquy between Chi
dester ana James. and Button took
occasion to ask:
Mr.. James. you say you admit Mr.
Chldester was instructed to vote for
SURFACE. If anybody wanted to vote
against it in his county could thew
nave found a ca ldidate to vote for?''
james, don't know. I guess not.
Invited by the Ladies'.
James endeavored to present an in
EiCatlon. put 1t was ruled out on Evans
objection. So he read it as follows;
Mr. President and Members of the
TO attend in a BODY the wonan's mass
meeting at the Grand opera house to-
morrow Priday). which will be held
ior the purpose of protesting against
equal suffrage being Incorporated in
BE state constitution and taking action
= submit the question to a popular
Npte"
-he communication was signed by
N%sa j. A. Froiseth and Mrs NJ. %.
Eastor, members Of the committee on
invitation.
Cannon-Wil this be a meeting of
all the ladies' of Salt Lake?
James suppose so. They are GER
tainly not Of Sanpete valley QLaugh-
teri
Cannon-Will it be all the ladies'?
James-I suppose so.
Both Cannon and WINS called at
tentlon to the fact that the meeting is
called as a protest against placing suf
frage in the body of the constitution.
James continued. saying there was
nothing TO fear if majority Of the
people want suffrage.
IhurInan-Do You believe that a
principle which is favored by a major
3ty of the people should be kent ont
of the constitution through fear?
James did not directly reply. He said
the best way OF testing was to wait
until the people could be heard from
He was sorry for old conditions and
now they were hardly wiped off the
slate he did not want to see them re-
newed.
Can They Hear the Murmur.
Lewis, of Weber, said he could no
longer remain silent. In the interest of
his constituents and the people of Utah
ne must speak The gentleman said
there was no remonstrance. Could he
not hear the murmur of the rising tide.
Let ten days go by and there would
be such remOnStrance that the dele
R<etes would see il was necessary to
submit a separate article. They were
sent to perform a higher duty than to
put in suffrage clause They were
g. make Utah one of the sovereign
tes. His constituents had said they
would vote against statehood If they
could not vote for it with suffrage He
would vote for nothing which would
endanger that. He denied that he was
against suffrage when he asked for
postponement. The good people of his
county rad spoken and he was willing
10 let their own voices be heard.
For Good Feeling.
Goodwin said if the suffrage article
should be postponed discussion would
then end and the convention could get
down to work. Richards had said he
had listened five days to debate and
SeSlhSu " Sol > IiS iOO6 lidI dIL the
debate had been on one side. But
Richards had taken some little time
himself. There were only two speeches
longer than his. He had said he would
vote. The men who were trying to
rush the thing through were making a
mistake. They could not help woman
suffrage more by placing it in the con-
stitution than by submitting it in a
separate article. Only in one case
some thousands would vote for the
constitution, and in the other some
thousands would not. The dele