The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-24
AMERICANS HOLD
IMMENSE RALLY
Biz Audience Greets Speakers
With Unbounded Applause
and Enthusiasm.
NOT RELIGIOUS WAR,
SAYS JUDGE SULLIVAN
But Fight Against the Subvert-
ing of Popular Government
by Religion.

4 meeting marked with unbounded
enthusiasm was that held SATURDAY
evening in tho rooms of tho American
cInb on West Second South street. Ih~
sneakers were Judge George NJ. SuIli-
van and j. w Mckinney, candidate Tor
councilman from the First ward. The
points made by both the speakers were
telling. and the audience appreciated
their force and manifested hearty ap-
proyal by Iong.continued applause and
often cheering.
Joseph NJ. Cohen, vice president or
The American club, presided. He an"
nounccd that there will be another rally
Monday evening, at which G. W. Moycr
and w. j. nalloran will he the speak
crs. He also gave notice thai inc last
day for registration rs next lucsahhi{,
and urged all who had not gwen thls
alljmportant duty attention not TO
neglect il Tuesday.
Judge Sullivan, at tho beginning OF
his address, said that he had been so
enprosscd with his law business that
he had found little time for prcpara
lion, but that he had been assisted by
Judge \. T. Weber. the president OF
The club. Between the material fur
nished him by Judge Weber and that
which he found in an address dchv-
cred bv Brigham r. Roberts in the
Sixteenth ward meeting house year
ago, he believed he could present
statement of facts and a competent ar
guincnt.
Not Religious War.
! "In the beginning sald Judge SUI
liyan. Il desire to say that l am
not. and the American party is not,
waging any war against Inc Mei'hohs l
or against their religion. although the
opponents of the American party men
daciouslv declare thug 10 be the case,
for the purpose of arousing passion and
prcudicc against the American party
and of misreprescnting its purpose.
Every one has the inalicnable right TO
worship his creator according 10 Inc
dictates of his conscience. and lhe
American party declares that that right
shall he kept inviolatc: and so long as
church organization confines Itself TO
lis proper spiritual sphere IL cannot
be made an object of attack. How
ever. when the leaders Of Il church in
sist upon running roughshod over the
law ADD constitution and the rights OF
the people. and insist upon domlnat,
ing in politics and in the affairs OF
state, and insist upon pcrvcrting the
church from It's true object and make
Of il great political machine for the
purpose Of subvcrting popular govern
ucnt then VIC say that is opposed TO
American principles, is menace TO
free government, has always, through
oui all history, caused trouble and DIS
cord and strife, and we have right
ito fgh, against such Il peryerson Of
Il religions organization.
1.-The great issue OF this campaign
is Shall We have in Salt Lake City
American progress or ecclesiastical
stagmation and paralysis?
What Americans Mean,
American administration means
independence. Improvement, progress
and prosperity; while priestIy govern
mcut. whether the channel through
which II operates bo that aggregation
Of political moustrositics commonly
called the federal bunch, OF through
that dclcctablc cotcric Of pscudo-rc-
formers. aptlv dcnomiDated 'thc Alta
4 club SeX.eiic, or through COM
minghng Of both of these church agen-
( cIcs. means the cessation of improve
ments and slowing down of the
] wheels of progress, ii not actual deca-
dence and rctrogrcsson.
Judge Sullivan then took up the
speech OF Brigham ii. Roberts before
Eeuiioncd. He paid "A high tribute to
j Mr., Roberts as Democrat and an
4 American citizen.
Y 'Nc ind Mr.. Roberts, - he said. ere
viewing the official declarations of the
Church i'm which it VAS specifically set
furth that the church had no part in
nelitics. And then Mr. Forbes declared
that there were even at that time men
and women going -whispercrs-to
Z The homes Of the people. advising them
y directing them. in fact--to vote the
= Republican ticket, and tho result of it
MI w1s that. two weeks after Mr. Rob
y erts had spoken. four ont OF every five
Democrats voted the Republican tick
- et.''
81 When the applause that followed
q Judge Sullivan s remarks had suhsidcd.
Mr. Mckinney spoke. He was greeted
with acclaim. Mr.. Mckinney dwelG up
Son two main topics-thc independence
~ OF the voter from the Mormon church
viewpoint. aud the conditions which cx-
listed in salt Lake City under Mormon
snau1 American rule. Mr. Mckinney
r briefly reviewed the events that led up
~ TuItntno in onHoo Ic