The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-22
RALLY
EVER HELD IN ZION
Salt Lake Theater Filled to
overaowing With Magnih-
cent Audience.
REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS
JOIN IN RATIFICATION
Speeches Were FOrcible, Earn
est, Patriotic, Eloquent
and Pointed.
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crossed the desert to establish liberty here,
thnt fherc might be the widest possible
scope Tor the exercise OF individual right
within The Law. - that men might grow TO
so that the wilderness might bo redeemed.
and SO that States Of glowing glory might
DO added 10 the hag. In The mutation OF
the years. their work and their purposes
nave merged into other things, it became our
duty to take up the cause whore il had fall
en- from Their dead hands and, trampling
over many Of our incliuationS and self inter.
es's, determine that Utah should be the State
that her hrsL pioneers hoped she would be.
Rsiorencc has been made TO n personal
convention held in this hall on yesterday.
chi A. personal convention because il
was the convention Of n party which has
been leased by Apostle Smoot from President
smith, President Smith holds tho right and
utle 10 the party and Apostle SRoot enjoys
the emoluments as long as his lease shnll
last, which Will he during the good behavior
Smoot
Two or ihyee strong mon OF that convcu.
lion attempted 10 utter the truth which is
crying out TO be heard in Utah. They recog.
njze that the one vital issue here is whether
the church shall dominate tho State or
whether the citizens shall be FREQ 20 govern
themselves in civic affairs And they were
ed disapproval. The men who wanted to
silence truth, lest it combat their own un-
TRUTH were there in force; the men who
wanted TO silence truth, because their pollti-
to themselves, wore there in force, In force,
too, were the men who would prefer 10 be
wrong than TO be Americans.
Regarding Church Democrats.
Enough has been said OF that conv entjcn
by, others let me point you TO another which
will convene in this city on the ath OF Octo-
ber ncSt 10 represent the other quorum OF
the church in politics. IT will call itself
''DemocrHtic,' but 1t, nevertheelss, viii be a
will direct its nominations. through tho
church agencies scattered abroad in Utah,
through tho whisper that will havo gone
dictated TO the chief spokesman of his Dem
ocrauc quorum TO say that the Church is
not ia politics" II it shall seom good to
Apostle Smoot 20 offer up Judge Powers on
tho sscri6osI altar the nomination Tor Con.
gre6s Will be rendered 10 the Judge. II it
shall seem good TO Apostle Smoot ia punish
by defeat at the polls the recalcitrant
Judge Frick for having insisted upon Re.
publican nomination MS Associate Justice OF
the Supreme court of Utah, Apostle Smoot .
personally controlled Democratic convention
mon, OF such known popularity in the State
that Judge Frick also Will he sacrifice
70 accompany his Democratic brother, Judge
Powers, and the only answer no VIII be able
20 eStort from the apostolic lips will be;
''We warned you in advance that you were
scarcely well enough known Iu tho State
TO reach for so high a dignity"
There will only be ono slight variation Ia
the two conventions; In the Republican con.
ventlon IL was declared by the defeat Of
the Harrington resolution Tint the Republl-
can party would not oppose the Interference
OF high ecolesiasts In politics, and in tho
Democratic convention there will be a do
elaration that the Democracy ia against ths
Interference of high ecolesissts In politics
but there is mono 70 oppose OF the two
tho Republican declaration was the bolder;
il knew that il was directed by an apostolic
boss and IL did not propose TO pretend other
wise. The acceptance by tho Democracy of
Brigham II. Roberts sB its spokesman. to tho
effect that there was no church dictation In
Utah, has served TO show how nearly 10 tuo
throttle. Of Democratic control is the hand
OF Apostle Smoot
Little More Numerous.
The Democratic quorum is a little more
numerous than tho Republican quorum, but
the Republican quorum is the superior in
ecclesiastical authority IN the politics Of
tion,s work will be absolutely subsidisry to
that which was held on yesterday in this
city.
Occupying Its own place the American
party convened today in tho Salt Lake Thea.
ter in its second general State convention
to nominate, officers and 10 make declaration
OF It's principles. You have heard the living,
burning words in which the great wrongs
of Utah are recorded and in which, the great
rights to which we must strive to attain are
placed before our eyes and conscience, I
said in words which have been written aud
written again and have been read and re.
road, THANK God for the American partyl'
when I heard this free exposition OF Amerl-
can principles this aftornoon In the platform
presented by the chairman, Col. William
Nelson. Those arc tho principles in politics
By which the State will 1.-Two; and tho braEcn
are the things which would destroy tho
State To-day we nominated free men on 4
FREQ mems ticket Tomorrow the convention
will nominate officials for this county who
will bo truo TO their principles. and In this
coming campaign We will carry the principles
OF Utah'c freedom from noyth to south and
every ono. hearing shall recognize that with,
in the American party there is no hatred
OF sect no bigotry, no antmoslty toward
mined, sei.sucridcing labor for the upSniid.
ing OF the commonwealth, that II may he
worthy OF all the promise OF its glorious
birth.
"I never hear Mrs. Plummer sling, %,
Ny America without being carried back
to tho time when | feared that would
never live to say this is my America
For through all the dark days and years
It seemed as if we OF tho generation to
which belonged In Utah were TO be con-
demned to bo allen In the land of our
birth The happiness OF that day In
which | could truly say this Is my
America comes back TO me now. and
remember when / pledged in my inmost
soul that never while | lived would
desert the flag without stain
Unwritten History Told
81 am going TO tell you chapter Of
Utah history which has never been put
before the public before, and ] am the
| last living witness TO Vt. In 1854. after
my first service in Washington, | came
| back 10 Utah and | said 10 him who sent
me there-l may state that | was there
| as secretary TO the delegate in Congress
| tho Hon. John T. Caine. and 1 had gone
| there at the Same direction which hnc
| sent him there, the direction which We
| who were Mormons accepted at that timo
| while 1 was In New York the tele.
graphic instruction came for me to sc
| to Washington. After the session wa:
ended I came back. and 10 the courteous
and dignihed gentleman who stood ut the
| Ind of the church In those days. Johr
| Tnvlor. I snid, President Taylor. yol
must give up polygamy. Tho Nation vii
| NOT always endure It. And impatIentls
and with that splendid arrogance which
set SO we'll upon him, he set me aside
| tS m hands of Cod