The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-10-26
VOICE OF GOLD
NOT VOICE OF GOD
Chairman Cannon Makes Crest
Speech at Hygsm.
DISCUSSES The CAMPAIGN
MUST BE ON POLITICAL LINES
ALONE.
DISCUSSES The CAMPAIGN
Especial 20 TIE Herald. :,

II WAN OON- Ao.-O4Lc OF NIle Srcale1L
meetings in the history Of Cache
county was held tonight at Hy-
rum, the home of I. c. Thoresen, the
Democratic candidate for assessor.
Ex-senator Cannon delivered the ad-
dress OF the evening. His first sentence
was: II am here 10 enter my solemn
protest against the new proclamation
that the voice of gold is the voice Of
God" From that all through his re-
iteration of the declaration that "tha
people must not trust q party that
will not trust the people," the audience
listened with undivided attention. Mr..
Cannon has many times in the past ad-
dressed the people here. In the course
of his remarks he recalled his early
speeches here, and challenged con-
tradiction upon the declaration that
the present following of the Republic
can party has departed from the faith
handed down TO them by Lincoln and
Blaine. In support of his statements
that the people must not trust the par
~ that VIII not trust the people, he
pointed out that the Democrats favored
the election of senators by the people,
the initiative and referendum. and the
control of the trusts by the states,
while the Republican party insisted
uEOn blind following by blind follow
ers Of the blind C. o. P.
Great Enthusiasm.
Mr.. Thoresen was chairman Of tho
meeting. Every seat in the hail was
filed; every available inch of stand
ing room occupied, and the doors
thrown open that the crowd outside
might hear. Enthusiasm was rampant,
and at times the great audience was
thrilled to the highest pitch Of polit-
zeal feeling.
Numerous questions we're PROFOUND
ed to the speaker, and all of them
were satisfactorily answered. One in
diyidual disputed an assertion of Mr..
Cannon. who called the interrupter to
the front and convinced him out of his
own mouth, while the crowd fairly
screamed with delight
The Glee club and the Wellsville band
were in attendance; the vocalists
raised storm of applause with their
clever vocal hits, the one directed at
Fred Turner, and composed by George
W. Thatcher. jr.. being a gem. Not in
all the political history of Hyrum has
such a gathering been held before. and
the Democrats there are Jubilant, while
the many visitors from all parts Of the
county went home gratified and en-
Unused.
No Reference to Church
Throughout the ehairman's remarks
there was studiOus avoidance of any
seeming bitterness on the part Of the
Democratic party of Utah toward any
of the elements of Utahs citizenship
and lAznAFg hin W1ana "a pafQTanRa
10 ecclesiastical matters, simply avow-
ing his faith in Democracy and RECON-
mending its acceptance by the Utah
voters. In all private conferences both.
before and after the meeting had with
leading Democrats, including Chairman
Fullmer and the candidates for Office,
this was pointed out by Mr.. Cannon
and accepted unanimously by his fell
low Democrats. that the Democratic
party in Cache county must and would
wage honorable and clean-cut cam
paigns. without appeal to other feelings
than the political principles Of voters
or their preference for superior merit
in candidates.
All the rumors so industriously cir
culated by Republicans of an attempt
ed warfare by the Democratic party
against any citizen of Utah on account
of creed or other position, were dis
tinctly and unequivocally repudiated.
Non Political Lines Barred.
In this view the Democrats OF Cache
county are united. The proTocation TO
controversy on non-political lines is
incessant. There are some Republicans
in Cache county and there are visiting
Republicans who are constantly throw
ing down the gage Of battle on an is
sue of creed. but these Chairman Full
mer and the candidates studiously and
determinedly refuse to answer. They
insist that they will not degrade the
name or creed. or name Of ecclesiastical
leader in order to participate in 90
litical controversy. 1t has been an up
lifting day and Cache now takes up
the great LattIe cry of this campaign,
1.-The people must not trust the party
that will not trust the people"
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