The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-17
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speech was received with every demon 4
stration of approval. In the course of
his address ne took hard fall out Of
Postmaster Thomas and held the lit
tie ex-governor up to contempt for
his criticism of the Roberts resolution
adopted by the Democrats.
The meeting was called to order by
Chairman ]. A. Smith. After a song
by the glee club, and few opening re-
marks, the chairman introduced the
speaker of the evening.
Mr.. Roberts had been. presented with
a rose by Republican lady, which. he
said. he appreciated; after having been
so long in a thicket of thorns He then
entered upon the subject of finance,
discussing it in a forcible manner. He
showed how the Republican party had
gone from bimetallism to the gold
| standard; also how the Democracy had
stood solid for bimetallism. as evil
/ denced by the reply of w. J. Bryan 10
the plan of Bourke Cochran. He said
/ that if silver were placed to the rear
! Democracy would triumph at the cleo
/ tion. He scored the present admins
/ tration on its policy of Imperialism, and
| advocated the expansion advocated in
| the constitution of territory wherein
| the people are governed by their own
! consent. He then quoted from the Re
publican organ from the speech of
Postmaster Thomas at Alpine.
Reply to Thomas.
Replying to Thomas on the Roberts
} case Mr.. Roberts said
/ Il see that Ex-Governor Thomas is
/ represented by the Salt Lake Tribune
! as referring in his speech, delivered on
/ Thursday night, at Alpine. to what is
commonly called the Roberts case.
He refers TO it as forced into the cam
paign by the Democrats and is then
! quoted as saying that the case was
dead and buried and should remain So
AS a non-M Mormon citizen continues
/ the Tribune's report Of his remarks
who had made Utah his home and ex-
! pected to live here in the future, he
/ protested against the attempt of the
! Democratic party to make Utah the
storm center Of the Union
He is represented as saying further
that the congressman to be elected is
not going to Washington to vote on the
/ Roberts case take it that it is very
kind of our ex-governor to impart this
solid piece of information to the good
people of our commonwealth.
" The. Democratic party continues
the report of the speech. has dragged
/ irrelevant issues into the campaign.
and attempted to array one element of
I the population against the other. He
protested against this attempt to run
/ political campaigns on prejudice
In full view Of the manner in which
the Tribune coterie of Salt Lake City
and of which Arthur L. Thomas is ad-
vocate and leading member, in view of
the manner, / say, in which that
cOterie ran its first campaign against
the Democratic candidate for congress
in 1898. and the means they employed
after the close of the election to defeat
an expressed will Of the people of a
sovereign state-when one speaks Of
the appeals to the bigotry and preju-
dices to the passions of the people Of
the United States to encompass their
object-in view Of all this, Ex-Governor
Thomas protest against running cam
paignS on prejudice appears to say the
least. a little ridiculous; but our dis
tinguished little, ex-governor had evil
IDENTIFY misapprehension Of the clause
Of the Democratic platform which ne
was discussing. It does not attempt to
make the Roberts case an issue in
this campaign. There is no attempt to
permit the Democratic congressman.
we shall elect to agitate that question
in congress. There is no appeal TO
prejudice in the resolution. and no at
tempt to array one class of our pOpula-
ton against another. AL these things
are false creations Of Arthur L.
Thomas Over-wrought mind.
Facts in the Case.
''The plain facts are these: The
Democratic party in 1898, nominated
and the people Of Utah elected a man
TO congress who possessed every quail
fication required by the constitution Of
the United States for that Office. After
his triumphant election by the people
OF this state, a conspiracy WAS formed
| to defeat the viii Of the people as ex-
pressed at the polls. By misrepresen-
tatiOn and the vilest appeals to the
predjudices and passions of religious
fanatics of the east, an agitation was
set on foot resulting in defeating the
/. will of the people. The Democratic
party when convened in convention.
denied the charges Of wholesale law
, lessness with which the people Of the
state were falsely charged.
TT denied that the people Of Utah
, had broken faith with the nation, and
deplored the action of congress az be-
ing Unconstitutional in refusing to ad-
minister the oath Of Office to a man
duly elected and presenting the same
credentials as other members who were
: admitted TO their seats.
Where is TIE appeal to prejudice?
Where is the effort 70 array class
against class? When the people Of a
state are slandered, is II out of order
10 denOunce the infamy7 When charges
Of wholesale lawlessness are made,
may they not be denied? should Ike
to know what Arthur L Thomas
) standard OF manliness consists OF. Are
the people OF Utah to be lost to every
sense Of honor. that they can be
: slandered without resenting it? Speak
ing for myself, I viii z0t do it. and I
shall be ashamed of any connection
with the Democratic party wheH il be-
comes either so weak or so cOwardly
! that it cannot prevent the wrongs OF
] a people as well as contend for their
rights"