The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-05

noS be good government unless there shall
DC an intelligent discussion of the great
questlons which lie at the basis of all
| governments. We need. j confess in this
country of ours academic discussions.
Many people are attracted bv the
oeeiaratlon that this party or that party
can put money in their pockets They
uon inquire what there is back of the
party. Ihey do not understand the func-
llon OF government, the limitation of the
governing pOwer-the executive judicial
ana legislative departments-but they al
low the question of getting little money
70 control their action as citizens. Such
thing appeals to too many and weidO
not have that intelligent discussion of
great problems essential to developing a
great people and make them self-govern-
we have in Utah at this time a dis
turbing factor. Who is to blame? The
republican party-not alone-the Amer
lean party, that abnormality that lille
sItImate product of the Republican bosses
and machine within the state of Utah
Republican Mistakes.
If there had been no Republican party
IN Ian there would have been no Amer
lear party III Utah If there had been
an honest an honorable, legitimate Re
l,uDlican party IN Utah there would not
nave been an American" party in Utah
" the Republican leaders, if the bosses,
the clique, the miserable. wretched fac
tlon which governs the Republican party
lGday, had taken council from the wis
dom of Democratic utterances and
Democratic declarations. there would
nave been no american party in Utah
today | am not defending the "Ameri-
can party. ] say again, it is an alb
normality, but L don't agree with some
that all the people in the American"
party are scOundrelS. who desire the dis
reimbursement Of the Mormon people of
Utah | know good men among the
Americans. many of them high minded
concerned. trust my convictions and civil
liberties with some Americans that +
know. as well with some Republicans that
Ny friends, the Democratic party
stands in this state as the conservative
force We, have no friends to reward, we
Tense of the rights OF conscience and re
hgiOus liberties of Mormon and Catholic
of Jew and Gentle alike We stand here
praising the great men and women that
laid the foundations Of this splendid and
glorious commonwealth. We stand here
10 praise the commercial activities the
genius. the Integrity. the loyalty of the
thousands of Gentiies within the confines
Of this state. who desire peace and legiti-
mate policies.
Destiny of the Democracy.
Why. my friends (pardon a personal
alluslon1. q few years ago a few of us met
over here III the old city hall and organ
lzed Democratic party. There were not
abused US. the Tribune abused us. other
papers abused us-said we were a dis
tGrblng influence in Utah. We came to
realize the fact that i'm a republic such
as this there was no field for an Ameri-
can. or Liberal. or Peoples party: that
we should be either Democrats or Repub-
hcans. and fight for the maintenance of
the great principles advocated bv those
parties respectively. BY and by the day
came when the old Peoples party and
the old Liberal party laid down their ban
ner gave up their weapons. and men and
women Joined hands and stated in their
declaration, there should be peace and
fraternity in this state. The Democrat
have remembered that. have remembered
the combination of the old fight have
remembered the bitterness of those old
days. and the Democratic party from the
day of its organization in this state has
stood for a proper line of demarcation he
tween the church and The state. and while
IL has been vigilant and courageous in
declaring its rights as political organi-
cation. il has never infringed on the
rights of conscience or the prerogatives
of any religious organization. While we
demand that there shall be absolute sepa-
ration of church and state, the Demo-
cratic party does not in any way interfere
Oh any religious organization. We say:
Render unto Caesar the things that are
Caesars and unto God the things that
are Gods. But the Republican party
from the beginning has been servile and
Sycophantic. and determined to drag the
dominant church into the arena of poll
tics in Utah. When il could not win by
When it could not win by arguments. ad-
dressed TO reason. IL has appealed to re
ligous prejudice and foully and libelously
assailed the Democratic party.
And now what is it doing? Having