The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-22


out stain would be tho chiefest anxiety OF
every American
Ia the peoples hands the ballot. TINT through
il the individual opinions and desires OF
the people might and expression; and d,O. saeF
such q people would be as the voice OF God,
What Its Purpose Is.
BUT in our midst q power has been up
raised which has for it's purpose the under
mining of that constitution which the fathers
plant upon our FREQ soil precisely such n
dcspotsm as thoao that hove kept tho men
OF Asis hnlf'barbarons for four theuaand
years, and because OF which the shores OF
that land have boen strewed with the wrecks
of hundred nations, which perishcd be-
cause they were rene" not fs s, to live; ,u. n,,,,.,
jects that implicit obodiOuco to them is their
firss duty and that their chief by divine
right has absolute rulo over their lives,
Ii is TO protest against the carrying Of
this assumption into politics that wo arc mot
today.
II is IN defense of what the fathers DO.
oueathed TO TN that we arc here.
II is that our children may havo pcsoe,
and an even chance, " they are worthy, TO
win for themselves honors and fortunes and
fair names.
1t is 10 stand All object lesson that when
the children of Mormons may ask why,
while every other religious belief in our
country has fHl right Of way, the Mormons
here, and in every oihor region OF the Re.
1sthmaolitcS-thoir hands against every man
and every mans hands against theui-the
truthful answer may he given, because they
are an alien power; they exact from their
followers higher fealty for their temporal
Kingdom than is given our Republic, and
hence, every one OF them is enomy TO the
cardinal insistcnce on which our Governmsn.
was founded-the absolute individual liberty,
under the law, OF every man.
Inalienable Right,
". are hero 10 proclaim the inaienable
rights OF mnn; the imperial prerosatives that
are womsas; 10 protest against the slavery
OF men, and the degradation OF woman-to
exalt the sovereignty of our Republic
M WHEN, & two years sss Reed soot ISms ss,s TO
tilted and unaShamed assumed tho roll of q
coarse political and pricstly boss and named
and county offices, counting upon his ccclesi.
nstical authority To whip his subjects into
voting for the mon SO named; for that crime
citizen of the United Stntes, for the felony
was treason against the sacred principles
on which our great Republic was created.
And every mnn who. through awe o; that
ecclesiastical power. obeyed him by the act
proved that he was not 6t TO be called
citizen OF the United States.
They will Ali the State with the old party
cries during tho next six weeks
| nm not hero 10 question their sincerity.
but you and ], and all of us know that not
one of them expects TO see one candidate on
their tickets elected through the indorse-
mcnt OF another OF the hftcen men
who rule this people
Against tho shame of that We protest and
ior the sake OF our country. for the sake Of
the nss'f and Of Su5 Su5
hood OF our State may he restored; that
tho sanctity of tho womanhood Of our State
%ezymoS ss By which We meSn n.
officers OF that church, shall get out of poll
tics.
And We pledse, ourselves to mriptsin this
contest until truth and right and liberty and |
eternal Justice shall triumph.
Committees are Named.
At the conclusion Of Judge Goodwin g
remarks, he announced that the next |
order Of business was the appointment !
of committee on platform and reso-
lutions. B. B. Haywood moved that the |
temporary organization be made per
manent and that the chairman appoint |
a committee Of five on platform and |
resolutions, which motion prevailed.
Chairman Goodwin then named the
Nelson, chairman; Judge George F.
Goodwin, DR.. A. P, Rankin of Box
Elder county, B. B Haywood and Judge |
Ogden Hiles. The committee Mt once |
retired TO consider it's report and II. |
II. Dintnny moved that the meeting pro-
cecd to nominate candidate for Con- |
gress and for the Supreme bench. This |
was recognized. Mr.. Sanford said in |
part:
Fellow Americans:-Yesterday as I |
sat In the gallery during the conference.
and as that important resolution was |
under discussion. and when II came TO q !
vote, looked over the delegation from |
Salt Lake, which was comprised OF a |
number of delegates who four years ago,
when Senator smoot was a candidate, |
openly fought him on the ground that an |
apostle should not be elected to O. high |
position In the State, and they were |
asleep, apparently. when 1t came to a
vote. And / wondered IL they had been |
crawling 10 those influenoes-if they had |
lost some Of that manhood which enabled |
them four years ago to make tbs open
fight.
And then thought probably they |
believed II they stood up they would be |
counted as opposing the dominant church |
leader. and 1t would lessen their in
fuence In the convention, and thereby |
minimize their work for their friends
whom they desired nominated. Giving
them full credit, ! believe It was the
latter, but I thank God that today We
have party which comes out In the
open and says we are opposed to the |
domination OF church, and we are op-
posed to high ecclesiast in public place.
My friends have told me to stay within
j
over the numerous Geutiles In the dele
CATION thought to myself IL they have
not manhood enough to stand up In the
party and cast vote, what effect would
1t have had upon the rest OF US IL we
remained Ia the party?
The time has come In Utah whom tho
dominant interests here shall cease send
Ing ambassadors to Washlngton to
make treaties Of peace with the dominant
party for the protection of themselves
and their unlawful practices. And I
thank God that the time has como when
we shall send man to Washington who
shall say. II como here from Utah to
represent the same class Of people that
you other men represent; people who
ask no special protection from the people
OF the United States. because wo are
American citizens"
Is One Of Knockers.
The man whom desire to place before
this convention Is of iron nerve: he is
one who never has sought the dominant
ioG, of my Ia