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

The People Have Spoken.
Richards said he had no sympath.
with this talk of unseemly haste O.
raliroading. The people spoke during
the middle of September. If they die
not speak strongly enough then the.
oid on election Gay. The convention
had been in session thirty days and i
had been a week since the gentleman
from Davis had begun to manufactur,
sentiment against suffrage. Yet not {
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. It was not a right
He saw how the courtesy had honorec
Roberts but he did not know that thu
convention had been overwhelmingly
honored in sitting patiently listening tt
the lengthy arguments of that gentle
man. That was a point he could moi
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
egotism. When he made the remark
ne was referring to the voting down OF
the previous question.
Richards, however, claimed tn re-
porter's notes would bear out mis- con
Sention.
No TING Would BE Lost.
James said that there would be no
injustice in postponement. There was
enough work on the caiendar-Worl1
that must be done before the conven-
ton 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 ne had always supposed fair
should say that a vote for postpone
menf was vote against suffrage.
Inat was not true.
Ihere was a colloquy between Chi
dester and James. and Button took
occasion to ask:
MI. James. you say you admit Mr.
Chldester was instructed to vote fo.
suffrage. If anybody wanted to vote
against it in his county could thew
nave found ca ldidate to vote for?''
James don't know. guess not.
Invited by the Ladies'.
James endeavored to present an in
Fitdtlon. put II was ruled out on Evans
op1ectlon. SO he read it as follows:
N0AdC4AI anu lAGHlDeTS of the
t-onVenuon-You are hereby invited
10 attend in BODY the won.an's mass
meeting at the Grand opera house TO-
morrow P'riday). which will be held
Tor the purpose of protesting against
equal suffrage being Incorporated in
Re state constitution and taking action
8 submit the question to a popular
pte"
ne communication was signed by
MS j. A. Froiseth and Mrs. NJ. e.
Eastor, members of the committee on
invitation.
Cannon-Will this be a meeting of
all the ladies of Salt Lake?
james, suppose so. They are GER
teri
Cannon-Will it be all the ladies?
James I suppose so.
Both Cannon and Twins called at
tention to the fact that the meeting is
caled as protest against placing suf-
rage N the body of the constitution.
James continued. saying there was
nothing To fear if majority Of the
people want suffrage.
Thurnan-Do you believe that a
principle which is favored by a major
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 We're 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
Akstes would see it was necessary to
submit separate article. They were
sent to perform a, higher duty than to
put in a suffrage clause. They were
s. make Utah one of the sovereign
ties. 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
to 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
seemed to carry the idea that all 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
separate article. Only in one case
some thousands would vote for the /
and in the other some /
thousands would not. The dele !