The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-23


lay down their lives. 1t is a principle
of personal liberty, the principle of
political freedom. the principle before
which all questions are dwarfed In
all ages when the people have sought
] to establish their rights. those who
were in power and believed they were
safely entrenched have endeavored
to laugh their efforts to scorn, they
have ridiculed their motives. they have
distorted their purposes, they have
sought to belittle that which is dear.
as dear to the intelligent and liberty
loving man as his life.
In the present crisis that is now to
| be met by the Democratic party, his
tory has repeated Itself, and upon all
| hands men who believe they are about
to secure the fruits of unlawful inter-
ference with the rights of the people,
have cried down the idea of your re-
! assembling and laughed at the thought
| that YOU had a grievance; have tried
to belittle the question. History will
again repeat itself when this con-
! vention shall have acted and the peo-
pie shall finally have passed upon this
issue that is now thrust upon them,
for they who laughed will be buried
1 beneath the avalanche Of votes. Gap
plause)
The Highest Statesmanship.
eve are here, then, assembled upon
a grave occasion, to consider ques-
ton that requires the highest states
manship. If it were needed for me to
say anything upon the subject, my
words would be for you to approach that
work as you would approach the act
of making your will before going upon
the field of battle. That which you do
here today not only will be part of
the history of Utah and America, but
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woe of this people, which God knows
have had enough of sorrow. distress
and suffering. (Applause) If you act
with moderation. yet with firmness.
if you meet this issue in no spirit of
passion; if you take from your minds
all malice, if any there be therein,
| then your action will be that your
children and your children's children
Will rise up and call you blessed for
what you do this day. (Applause.) So
the thought that I would suggest to
You is that you approach this question
in the spirit that I have indicated.
with no thought of wrong toward any
man. but with the firm resolution that
in the matters which are of the people
and belong to the people, the people
shall and will be free. Great cheering
and applause)
Those whose heads here are silvered
winters have but to turn their
thoughts back to the long, the dark,
the terrible night that Utah has passed
through; you have but to consider the
distress that you have witnessed-and
it has not been confined to MormOns;
it has not been confined to Gentiles-
all the people here have tasted of the
cup of bitterness that was thrust to
their lips. 1t had been hoped that all
that which had caused the people 50
much sorrow and suffering had been
buried never to be revived 1t had
been hoped by US that henceforth there
would be no division here politically
upon religious hnes-that no man
would seek to play upon the religious
feelings of the people Year after
year, campaign after campaign, there
have been interjected into our politi-
cal affairs that which has been said
would be and that which should be
and that which hereafter shall be kept
out. (Applause)
The elimination Merely.
1T eliminated in recent occur
renee that is a part of the history of
this territory, and true indeed We're
the words of those who, in a spirit of
sarcasm, stated that the chairman of
the state committee, recognizing that
his party was defeated therefore asked
for the reassembling of this conVen-
ton. l was confident of victory the
day before the fateful Monday, and 1t
was an army fleeing from the battle
field on the Tuesday following, and
why? Because in every nook and
corner in the territory there were men
and women who We're saying that our
candidates and our party were under
a ban, our own people disheartened,
knowing the power and influence of
those in authority knew not what to
do or where to turn; felt that without
any fault on. their part, a victory that
was theirs by right was being in an
unjust and wicked manner taken from
them. So upon carefully considering
the situation, there came news in the
papers, before we had taken any ac-
ton, that our candidate for Congress
was to be forced to resign, and there
were remarks flying here and there as
thick as snowfiakes on a winters day
There were questions coming and de
mands being made that action should
be taken. Finally, the state committee
was assembled. and it considered this
matter seriously and carefully for
hours, and it determined that this
question having been thrust upon this
people, at this time, it was the duty
of Democracy, which is always unter-
rified. to meet it like men. (Applause)
ing the source of all political power it ,
could only be properly met by the rep
resentatives of the Democratic party /
coming from all the different quarters
of the territory, in convention as
ssmbled, so that when the word was
spoken as to what Should be done.
it would be with the majesty of
that great party founded by the man |
who wrote the Declaration Of Inde- |
pendence. (Applause9 So we have
asked you to assemble here TODAY ir a [
spirit of kindness toward all. but with
the firm determination that we propose I
to march forward to victory. For nv
own part when this news came to me.
when I observed that our people were /
discouraged, 1 felt and I said. that if (
we are TO have the victory that was
within our grasp, taken from us by
Interior means, then we would {
know that this territory was !
false to the pledges that it !
made to the nation; we would know
that this people were not the honest /
people that they had said to the world |
they are. We would know that we had
better far remain here under the tutel- /
age of the national government and {
we should not enter the Union under
false pretenses, but that we should
take down cur ticket and vote down
the constitution Tremendous ap-
plause)
People All Right.
that your committee proposed to stand
principle of human liberty and politi- /
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