The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-23
DUBOIS SAYS
CHURCH RULE !
MUST CEASE
Former Idaho Senator Talks on
Mormon Question at Gath
ering of Americans"
RESOLUTIONS AGAINST
P0LYGAMY ADOPTED
JOSEPH LlPPMAN AND c. S. VA
RAN DISAGREE AS TO PARTY
LINE IN CITY OFFICES.

sThe members of the American
party of Utah entertained last even
ing as their guest of hongr at an elab-
crate banquet at the Cullen hotel Fred
T. Dubois. former United States sena-
tor from Idaho over two hundred
persons were present at the banquet.
Following the dinner, several of the
more prominent members of the party
gave responses to tOasts.
The sentiment expressed by all of the
speakers was that the Americans" in
Utah would continue their political
fight until the dominant church ceases
to exercise it's political influence in the
elections here. Some of the speeches
made We're more rabid than others. JO-
seph Lippman was a representative of
the more radical anti-MOrmOn element,
while c. S. VaTian was a type of the
conservatives.
Spells to the Vietors.
Mr.. Lippman said that the Amer
lean" party was organized to down
the hierarchy ana that it would
eventually succeed. He responded to
the toast Americans Should Be Parti-
sans" and the sentiment that he eX-
pressed was Ito the victOrs belong the
people holding city offices who were out
of harmony with the American" par
tvs policy and urged that these peO-
pie should be removed from Office. He
said that the majority of the Amer
leans wanted these people out of Otf1ce
and said that the men having it in their
power to do so should remove these men
and replace them with American" par
tisans. To the MormOns, he said, Nor
monism meant competency, but to him
"Americanism" was competency. Mr..
Lippman was the author of the resolu-
ton introduced at the American" city
convention but later withdrawn which
was to the effect that each man NOM
mated as candida4e for city Office
should pledge himself TO appoint as his
subordinates only those who had the
Endorsement Of some one on the Amer
lean" city committee.
In addition to his partisan talk Mr.
Lippman gave a scathing roast to Ben
iamin Fay Mills, who, he said, came
to Utah as the hireling of the Nor
mon church to misTeDresent conditions
that he found here. He read from the
speech of Mills in which he said that
there was no liquor sold IN Utah until
the Gentiles came here. and then read
the records of the city recorders office
as far back as 1851. He showed that
there We're at that time in Salt Lake
and outside towns in Utah, saloons,
breweries and distilleries. He read the
record Of the purchase Of a distillery
owned by Brigham Young by the city
and the record Of the citys operating a
bar and a billiard hall at a time when
there were but very few Gentiles in
the state He said that he would offer
81 600 to go to any charity that might
be named by the state, if any Of his
statements were disprOyed. In addi
ton to all this. he said that the rec
ords showed that Brigham Young him
self from 1862 to 1872 had an open ac-
count in a saloon which amounted in
that time to over $4,000.
In a Conservative Vein.
Immediately following Mr. Lippman,
c. S. Varian spoke in a much more
conservative strain. His subject was
The Irrepressible Conflict" He said
that in his opinion the American
party should be above the petty office
grab, that it should be a lenient victor
and not one which was always on the
lookout for the spOils that usually fol-
lowed a victorious election. To his
mind the battle waged by the "Ameri-
cans" against MOrmOnism should not
be directed against individuals, but
against the system of which the ind-
viduals were a part
Frank J. Cannon delivered an elO-
quent talk on American First Princi-
pies" in which he quoted from Wash
ingtOn's farewell address. He said that
WashingtOn's plea for the preservation
of the union was just as applicable to
Utah today as it was to the republic
in the time of Washington. He urged
that the fight to prevent the church
interference in politics should be con-
tinued until il met with complete sue
cess. Thomas Weir spoke on why I
Am Proud of Salt Lake" D. c. Dun
bar on why / Am an American" and
Mayor John 5. Bransford on What
Salt Lake Most Needs"
After the speakers of Salt Lake had
concluded their addresses George A.
Black the POSTMASTER. introduced with Il
brief talk the guest Of the evening. Sen
atOr Dubois. The senator spoke on the
principles underlying the fight he had
made against Mormonism for the last
twenty-five years and the measure Of sue
cess with which his fight had met. In
urging the Americans of Utah TO keep
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