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Show WILL RECONVENE. Call Issued by the Democratic State Committee FOR STATE CONVENTION To Seconvene at Salt Lake City on Tuesday Tues-day October 22, 1895 at 10 a. m. Ana Issues Also a Kingriner Address Sottinc forth Plainly the Causes. The Btate central democratic committee commit-tee and many prominent democrats from all parts of Utah met at Salt Lake city on Monday eyening October 14th to consider the present crisis of I church interference with state that ia upon us, and alter due and calm de liberation issued the iollowing serious ane solemn address and call for the reassembling of the delegates that composed com-posed the convention that met at Og-den Og-den on September 5, 1895: Since the nomination of the democratic demo-cratic state ticket, through no fault of the democratic party, there has unseu a crisis in the political affairs of this territory. It has been caused by the efforts of designing und unscrupulous republicans, who have used ana distorted dis-torted ill-advised statements of high church officials in order to secure their own designing endE. Efforts are being made to cause the people who have been taugtot to reverence authority, author-ity, that the dominant church of Utah desires the defeat of the democratic ticket. This conditiou of things needs the senona consideration oi eveiy thinking man and woman. It piesenio oelore the people a question before which ail others are dwarfed. It relates re-lates to the rights of persons and the personal and political freedom of every individual. The democratic party, which has ever oeen the party of the fullest fieedom to the citizen, proposes pro-poses to meet this issue and to hght ltout that it may be settled for all time. That peace may come to the people of Utah. That the adopcion of the constitution that is pieaented lor the consideration of the people may not be defeated. It has no quarrel with any church ; it admits the right of every society to govern and control itd members in its own aftairB, eo long as the rights of the ttate or tho ricnts of other individuals in-dividuals are not encroached upon. Its grievance has been caused by those who are ready and willing to drag the croes of Christ in the mud and uuet and filth ot politics, to advance selhsh ends. It matters not whether this wb occasioned by innocent motives or in- noctnt action, the condition is here, and an issue has been laised. There should be uo injustice done to any man. There should bn no interference with ihe lights ot any church or of any individual; in-dividual; but (or the good ot Utah as well as ior tho good of democracy the question should be met in a manly way, and in a manner that the people will know that the democracy haa dpoken and will act accoidingly. " Therefore, in view ot conditions existing, ex-isting, in order that there may be issued is-sued a declaration of political independence inde-pendence and for the purpose ot declaring de-claring that no man or set ot men shall hereafter use the power or the name of any church or ecclesiastical authority to control the votes of the political sentiment of any citizen, the democratic state committee, duly assembled as-sembled at Salt Lake city on Monday, the 14th day of October, 1895, by uu animous vote, hereby directs the re assembling of the delegates that composed com-posed the convention that met at Og-deu Og-deu on the oth day of September, 1&95. at Salt Lake city, on Tuesday,the 22nd day of October, 1895, at the hour ot 10 a.m. All delegates to the late convention conven-tion are earnestly requeBtr d that laying lay-ing aside all business and excuses they attend this convention for the good of Utah and all the people, and thus aid in settling once and lor all one of the questions that has eo long harassed all classes in this territory, The convention will also be empowered empow-ered to take such other action than that stated in this call as the exigencies exigen-cies of tho occasion may require. 0. V. Powerb, Chairman. . A. McjJanikl, Sectetary. |