The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-03


had another history for Europe.
The gentleman made a mistake ir
pursuing his Napoleon and leaving the
grand old guard of his arguments &c
live and meet him here again today
CApplause). ~
More Convinced Than Ever.
I might, sir, before have had some
timidity about the position l assumed
and the arguments I advanced, but
after throwing them out here for the
inspection of this intelligent conven-
ton, with champions arrayed against
them. whose eloquence and power OF
analysis were sufficient to point out the
fallacles in them, if they existed, since,
sir, the attempted argument was aban-
doned and 1 singled out for their pur-
suit, I stand here today more firmly
convinced of the correctness of my
position than ever before in all my life.
(Applause).
Next, must pay little more atten-
ton to my eXpediency argument. Is ii
answered when men get up here and
mock my fears and tell me that my
/ they ill-founded? Let us consider it.
/ What means the interest that is sud
denly awakened in this subject? Why
are these halls crowded? Why are
mass meetings called? Why is the
press of this territory, warning you
members of the convention and echo
ing and giving voice to the fears that
I have the honor to express on the
floor of this house?
He read editorial comments of the
Ogden Standard and the Argus ex-
pressing such fears.
Voices from All Parts.
This committee in language (which
neither you nor I approve, pointed out
this danger. This comes in conflrma-
ton of it. Read this mornings papers
on the theme. The Tribune warns you
of this danger. Even The Herald has
begun to move sufficiently to confess
that a CLIQUE exists to prevent the at
tainment of statehood. These voices
that you hear from all parts of the
territory warn you OF the danger into
which I believed from the first you
were running, and 1t is idle to close
your eyes or your ears to these circun1-
stances. You may as well. like brave
men, look them in the face and pre-
pare against the evil day. 1 hold in
my hand g bundle of letters and dis
patches, from all parts OF this terri
tory, one from the chairman of the
Democratic committee in Ogden. in
forming me that two-thirds of the peo-
pie of Weber county are against this
proposition. (Applause).
St0IenOCQ.
Kimball, of Weber, believe he is
right
Driver. of Weber-That is not true.
Roberts-They join, both Democratic
and Republican chairmen, in asking
you to delay action until the senti-
JnentS of the people may be voiced in
Ogden city tonight. 1t is folly to tell
me there are no grounds for these
fears But it is not alone this fear that
: - al,
Utah first of all The gentleman re-
fused to accord to me the position of
a HoratiOuS at the bridge I am not
Leonidas in the pass Of Thermopalae.
I am not hero fighting for freedom.
That may be true. 1 only ask that
statehood shall be worked for in behalf
of the peopie of Utah and secured
and I believe that is the first
essential to liberty for this
people and for that I mean to contend,
and ask this convention TO remove
even the pretext which men erect as
an excuse for acting against it.
Gentlemen say that if we cannot
have statehood with suffrage they pre-
fer territorial vassalage. The suffrage
is your only battle cry of freedom.
Statehood must be relegated to the
rear, and gentlemen, with eyes shut
and teeth set are determined that
statehood sink or swim, they are go
ing to have suffrage. If it should come
to a question in reality and in truth as
to whether we should have suffrage or
statehood, they demand suffrage in
preference to statehood without il.
Would Be Bull Folly.
take offense at what L am going to
say. If you get excited hold on to
your chairs. am taught 1T by my elo-
duent friend from Salt Lake. If, in
spite of all the dangers that exist. you
will rush on and have suffrage
whether or no, I want to tell you that
it would not be even bull sense; it
would be bull folly. Pardon the
coarseness of the remark; L learned II
from our poet delegate. applause and
laughter)
There is another gentleman to whom
I must pay my respects. cannot ac-
cept the views expressed on the floor
of this convention in relation to the
duties of representatives of the people.
The remarks of the gentleman from
Salt Lake CVarian), who laid us down
the political law that the delegate had
no choice but. merely to voice the SEN
timents of the people upon PROPOSE
tons, l think was mistaken. am
not unmindful of the fact that his po-
litical experience is such, his wide
practical knowledge of the affairs
of government is so mucn great
er than mine that 1 ought TO
defer to what he said upon this
subject, upon which, Of course, he
has special information. But he will
bear me out when i say that leaders
of political thought and men who have
been in representative life take differ
ent views upon that subject.
A Delegate Not Stick
There are some at least who do not
believe a delegate becomes a stick;
that he does not rise above the coDdi-
ton of an agent TO carry out the
wishes of mis- constituents Among
that line of statesmen who claim for
themselves a wide margin for the OPP
Grafton of judgment upon which TO act
for the good of their constituents, as
circumstances arise. a man who stands
at the head of that school of statesmen,
is no other than Edmund Burke. Let
me read to you what he has said upon
the subject:
b. authoritative instructions, man
dates. issued. which the member is bound
biindly and implicitly to obey, to vote,
and to argue for, though contrary 10 the
clearest conviction of his judgment and
conscience. these are things utterly un-
known to the laws of this land, and