The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-01

sonal comfort. and do some service for
the public good. as he understands it.
In the ordinary tests of political par
ties in the United States. men differ upon
questions Of foreign policy, or internal
/ economic government; but here. my
friends, YOU have a principle about which
/ no American can differ They are prin-
ciples which you cannot ignore They
are principles which you have inherited
from your fathers. They are principles
Of government for which your ancestors
( have shed their blood. Therefore. my
friends. you cannot ignore them with
out loss Of self respect, because, II you
ignore them il involves a failure Of duty,
and a failure Of duty, my friends, always
Involves some loss Of self respect. There
fore. ii is your duty, il is my duty. 10
stand IN for the principles which are
announced in the platform Of the par
( ". and which were promulgated on the
fourteenth of September i'm this house.
There is another thing. my friends: In
politics and i'm public life. no man who
ls worthy 10 be d public man, no man
who would cali himself a statesman, can
afford 20 i.nore or surrender his convic-
tons for any personal or temporary party
advantage
In other days. my friends. I remember
men who were not of the party of MIR.
Lincoln in the great struggle for the
preservation of the Union. They scorned
the suggestion that only those who be-
longed TO the party in power should sup
port the government in its great strug-
duty not to consider personal advantage,
or party advantage in the struggle TO
uphold the principle for which the Ameri-
can party of Utah stands And to that
class Of men ! profess TO belong. The
man who viii not surrender his cOnVic
tons for any personal or party advan-
taSe. who viii not surrender American
principles for any temporary advantage
those are the principles which l have held
all my life, and. my friends ] am too
old TO change them In the course Of ma
ture / can stay here but a few years
longer: but when | am zone. whoever
shall stand upon the turf beneath which
shall re1Ose my ashes. shall never say
that there lies one who surrendered his
convictions of duty to American prin-
ciples for any personal or party advan-
tage
Judge Hiles was given an ovation
when he came forward and his re-
marks were spplauded literally all the
way through.
Petitions Circulated For Ticket.
On motion of H. ]. Dininny the state
committee was empowered to fill va
cancies on the ticket The ticket will
have to go on the official ballot by pc
titiOn. Copies of the petition were cir
culated through the convention and
were generally signed. While the petit
lions were being started the drum corps
appeared on the stage and played.
After the other members of the corps
had Withdrawn, Drum Major Gleason
gave clever exhibition of baton
swinging.
Mr.. Critchlow, in announcing SEN
ator Cannon referred 10 the fact that
he had voted for him for senator and
expressed pleasure at being able 10
present him 10 an American party con-
veutiOn.
Senator Cannon was i'm a box at the
right of the stage. II was found neces-
sary FOR him TO pass out through side
exit and enter by means Of the stage
door. Mr. CritchloW apClogized FOR the
delay. whereupon somebody shouted
from the body of the house: Mr.
Chairman, let's adjourn 10 the taber-
naclei"
Senator Cannon appeared presently,
and after greeting Mr.. Critchiow by a
handshake, addressed the convention.
Mr. Cannon said
Sir Chairman and Fellow CitlzenS-Is
/ this party organized to make more trouble
for long-troubled Itah2 Cries of "No.
I That is not right. That is wrong. > II so.
! then no man nor woman who hopes 10
live I'm this splendid state and ShO hopes
To leave "a heritage Of fame for himself
AID glorious opportunity for his children.
SnoLid nave any part in the movement
] Is lOlS party organized 10 make suffering
Tor the Mormon people. to dlsfTanchiSe
them. 20 put manacles upon them. to add
trouble I'M the future TO the lOnG-cudurcd
/ troubles of their past2 Then. if so. no
man. nor woman IN this assemblagc. or
I IN the state Of Utah WHO now enjoys
/ physical comfort which comes from Z,
great work that the pioneers did here in
/ early DAYS should take part in this move
meut- But II TINS party IS organized
/ that those who come after us inay have
tho blessings which were promised with
statehood. then We ali belong. ar should
belong 10 that party And if thst be- the
! motive and the hopes, ! am proud to
/ wear the badge Of the American emblem.
/ J cannot forget my hour of price. that
time Of greatest sensation in nv life.
when the fOrty-fifth star Was added TO
+ this flag ana for the first time / realized
! that I was an American citizen
No Mormon Disf2anchisement.
| This party viii succeed Just n proper
ton to the purity Of its motives. II II
goes into the great warfare in Utah
I without the hearts OF its members il Will
| attain no enduring success. Love begcts
love. and III We are organized here as a
/ protest against injustice n we are or
/ gapiZed here in order 10 win TO American
ism those who. for the moment. arc being
led from its highest ideals. and We APP
peal 20 them with common 2ffectiOn
+ which al American citizens owe to the
J Institutions Of our common country
} then they are welcome 10 the freedom
/ which the American party vii: bring to
( them. | Will not belong t. any or2aniza-
| Ion into which a Mormon cannot enter as
/ vi lipgiy and as freely as any other citizen
/ II mas been recently said that because
! this movement spTang almost instantly
INTO its splendid massive proportions. and
demands the enfranchisemeut OF the peo-
pie of Utah from the control Of a priest
! hool OF q dominant church here. that
every man who holds any priesthood in
! that church is by Gs-l say BY us now
/ to be exercised from holding any political
position or from exercising any political
SWAY That is not true. No nan with
/ Amcrcanism I'm his heart ia this state
has ever proposed the wholesale dis
! REIMBURSEMENT of the Mormon pe0pic anC
( 100 man with Amcricauism In his heart IN
this state has ever proposed to take away
{ the political rights from any Mormon
/ citizen.
Barrier Made By Church.
The man who thus proposes is not 4
Mon mon. Is not an American and does
not Belong TO this, cur party we q,
not oraw the line. il ha5 been draw
for us. and for Them. The church. itsel-
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