The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-16

The people are with the Democracy
in the fight it is making against any
mingling by the Republicans Of church
with the affairs of state From all over
The territory come words Of encourage
ment. Men who have seen how the
democracy has been cheated in the
past, are saying that they are ready
10 resist any underhanded methods
used by Republicans The people, too.
are rallying to the support Of their
honor The evidence of this is seen
in the reception Of Roberts and Caine
in their trip through Summit and
Wasatch counties.
PARK CITY. Oct. 15.-Park City is IN
roar over B. il. Roberts. and it is safe
TO say that never in the history of poll
tics, not even in the palmiest days Of
. Liberalism. when the Park was the
z very citadel of the fortress of Liberal
ism, has there been the excitement over
a political event that there is over Rob
erts' marvellous address of last night
You can best appreciate it when l tell
You that people began to cram into the
opera house before o'clock, that lit
tie after Z. it was impossible to set near
the front, side or back doors, and that
that vast audience sat without budg-
ing, or ! believe without desiring 30
bulge, TIL twenty minutes to y o clock
listening with breathleSS attention to
the stream of oratory that flowed from
the lips Of the wonderful speaker. The
overwhelming part of the audience was
aFplade up of Republicans, that was very
y. Vident from the Coldness at the opening.
1t even took Roberts nearly an hour to
thdw through its reserve; but when the
ice began TO break up under the inf1u-
ence of his blacksmith, Sledge-hammer
blows, the enthusiasm grew to a. pitch
like that seen at the most pronounced
Democratic meetings where he has
spoken. He hammered away at the re-
cord OF the Republican party on the
silver question from 1873 TO this date
and contrasted it with the record of the
Democrats. showing that six out of
nine democratic state conventions held
for free coinage, while not a single Re-
publican state east Of Colorado had
opened its lips except to condemn silver.
and punctuating it all with the telling
Illustrations. the powerful flights of ora
4. tory which have made him noted. till
s he had his audience literally bowling
with enthusiasm.
On the Vital Issues.
But he reached his sublimest when in
concluding he turned his attention to
matters which have occurred in the
camSaign during the past few days, and
there was a breathleSSneSS in the vast
asSemblage, a great part of which re-
manned standing TO the close, almost
f'~is'-NA IA NAN'NN ,A.NeAf''. $3.50 -iU
took up this part Of his subject. Every
where that he and Mr.. Game had been,
he said. up and down Cache county and
BOX Elder county, they were told that
Frank Cannon. advancing to the side
wings in a theatric whisper, advised his
hearers that If two or three days before
election amy grapevine eaessaSe on an
underground wire came fro n Salt Lake,
telling them it was the wiSl of certain
people that Brother" Roberts should be
elected and Mr." Allen defeated, not
10 pay any attention 10 it. With all nv
heart" said Roberts. Il say 50 too. I
want no election Won by such means
But let me sly that of an TIE men in
this territory who should make any
such statement. Frank Cannon is the
last man. He knows too well what such
methods mean. no man better. But If
am moi TO be elected by means of this
grapevine wire shen ] protest to You.
I appeal to you my fellow citizens TO
h see that ! am not defeated by it."
The roar that arose here battles my
attempts to describe it He then went
on in d calm and dispassdcnate manner
10 speak of the events Of the priest
hood meeting. in which he had been crit
icized by his church leaders He said in
all frankness that he recognized their
! right to criticise him; if he had dis
& 'obeyed any church regulation. he should
never complain at that. What he did
complain Of. and his voice rose to an
3 3nftW Tse that Repubcan polticis %
all over the territory were making of
this eVent-an event which ought to
have been passed bN, Whlch would nave
amounted TO nothing but for the mSrep-
reservations of these politicians. who
went out winking, nudging and whis-
pering, and in remote places, announc-
ing to those weak and foolish enough to
listen to them. that Apostle Thatcher
and President of Seventies Roberts We're
out Of favor with the authorities. and
hence should be defeated At the polls.
He said il he thought he had been nom
mated because he was a Mormon or a
church official there was no power in
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keep him from reSigning. He was proud
80 believe he owed his nomination to
the fact that he was a Democrat, and
that he had the confidence of the people.
He appealed TO his auditors OF TO Judge
the people Of Utah by what had oc-
Cured; they were true, honest, upright.
He had affixed his signature to the con-
Htitution, meaning TO abide by all its
provisions ard one OF those provisions
was that the church should never d. n
adopted and carried out by the people
Of Utah. On this. he said, he stood and
would continue to stand fighting till
the last.
Never SO Strong.
q IT is impossible in hurried survey
Fsike this to give an adequate idea of the
krnarNels of his address. 1 have heard
md Roberts at what / thought was his best
the constitutional tutor -. convention but
self as he was last night in Park CITY.
At the end of his remarks a man leaped
TO the front OF the stage and proposed
three cheers for Roberts which were
given with q Will r. c. Chambers pre-
sided. and Mr.. Game made a brief ad-
dress Both were well received. and the
Pyper, Whitney, Patrick, Peterson quar-
fetee who have named themselves the
"B. II. Roberts quartette," had to sing
SIX times.
In Kamas yesterday afternoon. Roberts
delivered d shorter speech, but touched
on the church matter in much the same
way and was greeted in the same enthu-
siastic fashion. The house was crowded
even though it was an afternoon meet
ing Mr.. Caine and Mr. Chambers were |
Z also enthusiastically app1auded here on |
the way back, Jack Keetley had hand |
some suppeF provided at the Ontario
four voters. thirty-fonr are Denocrafs
At this point Mr.. Chambers was apprlsea |