The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-03
TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR.

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we have looked forth to the time when
we should be able to choose our own
| leaders, to choose the officers who
| should serve us, and now, through the
| generous act of the Democratic party,
we have it within our easy reach.
Behind the dark clouds of a fierce
| political storm we have it within our
! power to state what we shall be on
| the 9TH day Of the present month";
! we shall be free people, enjoying
the rights of free men in our liberty
| and showing to all the world that we
not only love the principles underlying
! the constitution and law OF. the United
| States, but that we are loyal to the
| government, to ourselves and to our
children; and in making that state
ment might add that it is better for
us to fail in all the efforts that we
have made or may make than to go
into this Union under false color.
! (Great and prolonged applause). The
Democratic party of Utah would rather
go down never to rise again, with
honor, than to be lifted UP and made
victorious at the price of their .integ
rity. Much cheering and applause).
RawIins an Honest Man.
Every man and woman and child in
| this territory should be willing to en-
dorse and represent to that man Chere
the speaker turned and pointed to Mr.
Rawlins) the debt of gratitude which
they owe him. Cheers and shouts of
Hes all right.O His statements have
been, are now and always will be, re-
liable. Joseph l.. RaWlins is an honest
man. Applause) Let me repeat that
he is an HONEST MAN. which is the
noblest work of our Father. No word
that he has .Ver spoken in our behalf
has been susceptible of a. double mean
ing. He has been true to himself and
to us. We have reason tonight to
congratulate ourselves. to demon
strate and forever ratify our favor.
The responsibility viii rest upon us
and not upon others. Once more 1 say
to you my friends, that l am thankful
/ to you for the evidence and the assur-
ance and the trust which you have
imposed in selecting so weak person
TO represent you, should we have the
good fortune to have a majority in the
first state legislature. appreciate the
great honor and While l have no ambi-
ton in these lines-as I view 1.-THE
honor, the integrity, the peace, pros
perity and the greatness of the people
of Utah, will either be demonstrated
for or against US on the 5th day of
November. And it is my humble be-
lief that Utah will go as we shall in
this county and city, with an over
Whelming majority. CHEERS and pro-
ionged applause.)
AS an American Citizen.
At no time in the brief experience I
have had with you have I ever ap-
peared to the people in politics as a
church official As l stand tonight, I
have stood in the past-an American
citizen, claiming only those privileges
WHICH ] am perfectly willing to &C
cord and which have always accorded
the humbleSt Democrat OF this terri
tory. And therefore l am free in say
ing TO you tonight, that there are no
apostles, there are no presidents, in
politics. Continued applause.) 1 will
make more startling declaration tran
that and will say tonight that the DEM
ocrats Of Utah have not. by direction or
otherwise. made of politics a dirty
pool. They have been honest and out
spoken. free from any influence from
any organization whatsoever. And I
will say tonight, without fear, that if
there is a Democrat, from st. George
on the south to Idaho on the north,
who has offered to use church influence
in order to prejudice mems minds in
voting, give US his name and we will
ride him forever outside the party
prolonged applause) When we win,
as we shall do, (applause), we shall
win upon that platform, so far as we
are concerned, there having been no
attempt of union of church and state.
(Applause) The Democratic party has
demonstrated, most of US by words
and works, our opposition to union
of the two.
Democrats Are Honest.
We have never thought it necessary
TO drag the robes Of the holy priest
hood of Almighty GOO into the dirt, in
order to accomplish q victory Great
applause) If such work has been done
we leave all the dishonor and con-
! tempt with those who deserve it. Gap
plause) The light has rested nowhere
upon a more honest and courageous
people than are the Democrats of Utah
territory Cheering and hand clappingD
And they need not or do they ask, or
would they expect any assistance from
any other source. (Applause) Behind
the dark clouds that furnish the Ques-
ton of church and state let all ma
tons know that Utah stands on her
honor. We shall go into the Union
honored and respected by our fellow
citizens throughout the world.
Ladies and gentlemen and fellow citi-
zens. thank you for the honor you
have done me in the past, for the tes-
timony of your respect and evidence
OF your sincerity this night in this hall.
] congratulate you upon the great and
courageous party with whom YOU have
allied yourselves and that Utah is re-
deemed, and when she enters as a
power into the Union, history will re-
cord the fact that the Democrats made
it 80. Oproarous applause.) This is
a most glorious meeting. a majority
of people, while they have respected
and do tonight respect an honorable
church, and while their position ard
standing in that church is worth more
to a majority of us than cur lives.
there is something still more valuable
than that and that is our personal hon
or We owe it to the government and
we shall pay it gladly and pay it with
interest. Grover Cleveland will be broad
enough to sign the bill of admission
for with all mistakes he may
have made in finance or however he
may differ with US on that point, he
is a broad man. AS American citizens
we have spoken above board in the past
and so we shall do in the future.
Planting our feet upon the solid foun-
CATION OF honesty we shall win on the
81 day of November, if the >sople of
Utah are what l have always consid-
cred them to be, honest, upright. and
courageous. applause and cheering to
the echoD
When Mr.. Thatcher closed his re-
marks, the audience were simply cleo
trified. 1t was the greatest speech ever
made in Logan. His voice was strong
and clear.
Mr.. Rawlins was the next speaker 1t
is the common talk and conversation
since last nights meeting that no one
ever heard a mora sensible more