| Show THE 11 MASS IN respectable CITIZENS 1 TAKE tile TIIE PART OF L LOOKERS ON WN AND WHEN aoe TOE INSULT ler LIr resolutions ARE VOTED ON DEFEAT their br BY AN 11 I 1 I 1 INC INO I 1 I 1 MAJORITY in response res ies to an announcement made on saturday that ansi anel an indignation 1 1 dl n meeting I 1 would would be held 0 on n saturday even evening ingin in the federal court room about 8 people began begar to gather i and end in fiall an hour houn was as pretty ret rel well filled by an audience such uc as I 1 Is sel sei seldom om looked upon in this it was as composed pomp comp 1 ased chiefly of the rag rab rabble rabbie I 1 loafers and saloon saloan bubul bummers ers te gle lowest io order of society our community is afflicted here and there could dould be seen the faces of re ret a t spectacle spec table gentiles GentIl eg who seemed to febi feel st str sti angely rangel X out of place but not a glimpse could be obtained of any prominent ent tnt or ot bil bli business siness men standi standing ilk in the door and at the rear of the te hall were a few citizens whose part vart was that of look lookers erson ergon on at half hal past 8 9 general I 1 maxwell stag staggered ered up p to the front and noisily rap rapping i ng his cand can on the desk called the rne rac meeting eting to erder he mumbled out 1 something about doln doin doing so ba because e lie he hau bad been baen one of those who made madd the call for a meeting th there ere h had d b been een a hitch somewhere where and somebody ody had bad thought that the hafla flag 7 had bad been insulted he then asked f for tor or the nomination of a chairman and the nanie parile of ofa P 11 williams was he was accordingly chosen to the position mr air williams took the mhd chair chain and asked that a secretary be appointed somebody shouted for tor nir mr air cook and quite a number asked who is nir mr cook rename of JW pike was then placed in nomination but that gentleman eitleman ent leman ieman promptly declined mr lir book cook was wag then elec elee elected tedi and took his the chairman asked the pleasure treasure of the meeting and land E D euan egan moved that a committee ef five on resolutions ons be appointed A Along iong long silence here hereen ensued the chairman evidently being wat gat at a loss to find five men of any respectability who would under taketo express in the form torm of resolutions the sense of such a gathering some gom eperson person steppe stepped cito olto desk with a written suggestion suggest gon lon and immediately lately after the chair announced the following committee E D egan prof hennell benner denner major J M U rev AB A breeb beeb les ies and col henry page the committee retired and the chairman seeing his opportunity to vent his bis spleen began the harangue the circumstances which had idd brought forth this meeting occurred on the aist last fourth there had been but few instances when such a thing had bad occurred as took place on that day in a time of profound pro lound of people were rejoicing on the national na tiona tlona anniversary than which none done had been more auspicious there had bad inthis in this city been maae made made maae an insinuation that our countr count rys 9 institutions had failed and the flag a and thel nations honor had been placed place at st half halt masv mast because Liberty was dead X WA tai I 1 jt u ij ile he did not think there were men so depraved place the flag at half mast in token of mourning he did not know until a late hour houn that thab such a deed had been committed which was equivalent to an insult to a mans roans wife and family Appi appl applause duse ause there had been but ona on expression except that void vold voiced edby by a weak wealch and contemptible city council applause and yells and of the DESERET neww NEWS wild yells and ana ap applause ause the apology bein wor worse se t han than t the t e orl ori original inal inai offense there had beba another paper h had taken all sides of the question it was difficult for him to pass upon the street and treat with sivility one who would put the fla fia flag at akif ait alt mast mist for a whim ll 11 he had thought all the week sach a meeting a as this should be called calledo the insult had bad been offered because of the enforcement of an ascertained constitutional law and because some soma of the criminals were suffering for their acts he thought the apology deserved severer condemnation than did the act itself at the close of this effusion a motion for an adjournment into the street was made it being asserted that there were thousands wanting to I 1 listen sten to the speeches who could not gain admission to the court room the motion was carried aad the mob went out into the darkness to shout themselves hoarse the speakers repaired to the balcony in front of the tho wasatch building where cries were hear heard ador AJor fon for diax Alax maxwell wL that miserable and de individual stepped forward and made a rambling linz incoherent speech the inspiration for which it was evident from the manner of its delivery belive 1 was derived from the whisky bottge bottge he sald said that on the fourth in every landi laudi laud land even chima china the flag had been swung at full mast in panama they had been compelled to kiss the flag but butr hereen here in the rock bound cradle 1 of l freedom the flag had bad been floated at half mast here the speech became so frightfully muddled and brok broken n that the crowd began to groan until ea the general was aroused and pointing to a flag which hung in the street shouted levake strake take that flag ila fla down if you dare 5 that fla fia flag floated over baltimore it ift cost and was given give Greenman who loaned it to i the grand army for usa use tonight to night I 1 that grand army has been inaugurated in blood here he dewent went off into a jargon of halts and yells which was elble and the crowd below groaned again at which he declared that when the mob began to shout he would stop a statement that brought great relief 1 he had been beeh warned by one of capers papers that they would make it hot for him lin a warning which had its existence only in the guilty guilty conscience and befuddled miu mind of the general the flag had been insulted several times before but this was the last time zane zanel zane came the crowd but tile the chief justice had too much self seif re speet to appear appear and some one ouk feebly suggested varian and that individual stepped forward he sald said the ahe flag g represented the national life of the government and any act which tendered to lessen respect for it was a blow at the american people when the half halt masting was done he did not tot think sufficient importance was vas attached to the act the excuse eiven given for it was amol a moie moi e powerful powers ul insult than the half masting itself behind the whim was a more sinister motive twenty four years a ao ago o the guns at fort sumpter boomer boomed forth for the enforcement of the law and it was the e J enforcement of the law that gave cau can cause e for mourning in utah the speaker thought the adoption of a protest and resolutions was all that could be done at this meeting the action on the fourth should be deprecated there was a small smail minority here who had not lost their respect they never had any for the nna fla flag gand zand and if their sentiments were expressed with decorum the na nation tion would approve them this minority would eyet yet bring utah into line no speakers who had the least claim to decency could now be found willing to come forward and a last resort was had to a foulmouthed foul mouthed braggart whose blasphemous and vile utterances were of the most shocking character C CH H M klien kilen y agramonte gramonte lie he began e n F fellow I 1 ow c citizens 1 a and nd some who are not fellow cit citizens z e 1 I yells on dome too much ho honor no artl he e said there was one thing he possessed and was cussedness sed bed hess hebs ness to speak thoughts his bis his blood had been shed for the flag flap and he was willing a lot more of it should be b e it if all his manhood had been lost he never possessed anthe still had lots of cussed ness bess left and that was considerably aroused utah utah had been the last spot or on earth made and here the blew few traitors were planted hisses and yells here the wife beater grew frenzied and shouted who is this phillips bishea Is he a citizen does taking in out papers make a man a citizenly citizen bere nere here a voice from below answered yes 11 youre a liar the speaker then proceeded to utter the most villainous falsehoods charging marshal phillips with being among those who threw filth on mr nir and mrs airs stenhouse Sten bouse many years ago that one of the police had told him he was spotted he declared that thu the mob were to blame for asking the fag to be rtin ran to full mast instead of putting it ther they they had people to back them they hey were being imposed upon he want to say sav arfy more and the crowd want him to and closed by yelling when ewhen the time comes call on me mel amid shouts hisses and groans the next speaker was a tetti ietti pettifogging pettifogging fogging lawyer known as col kalg kaig hnot not huot whom j dig dyg fidelus fid ius lus ta ulf uit if any good is known it ought to be made public he declared it had been a premeditated insult koput to jut iut the flag at half mast and the action of a newspaper in defending it had been a g greater reater insult it was not the whim ol 01 a policeman li ceman but in obedience to the rulers of this lair lain fair fain territory who dare not meet the execution of the laws but wao woo were skulking in some under ground cellar he condemn he coolness of gen mccook evi evl evl evi dently because he was afraid to but would sav that il it the founder of or the fort had been commandant things would have been different he had spoken to gen connor who said that if he had bad been there the the nags hags would have been run to the top of the ile mast or he would have poured hot shot into the streets of Salt Lake cit city the speaker wanted to show that he L had some fight in him and said he had an old uniform and a rusty sword that it might be necessary to use again in case the people might raise a storm they could not conf couf contro controls foi fol lr he ridiculed the them idea of mormon Mor mont moat loyalty and said they must llave been pretty mad when the flag was half masted the barof war of the re rebellion bellio u had failed la in the attempt tolo 2010 to lower the flag andon and on the last fourth nobody more earnetz earnestly denounced the half masting than eli oll did those who fought against the flag this had not been the ite first time the flag had been ells clis dishonored honored in this cit city but it would be the last after delivering himself of this billingsgate 1 the colonel retired the committee on resolutions here entered and reported the following 11 whereas the flag of the united states was placed at half mast on the churchard chur church chand and public buildings of salt lake city on julyeth july ath and ke kept t there b by threats and armsby arms by the mormons cormons of this city and this action was afterwards deliberately supported by the city council in formal action first this desecration was a deliberate expression of mormon contempt and defiance of the law which that flag represents second thad that rh atthe the existence of disloyal mormonism menacing free institutions as it does is a standing insult to the flag of our country third that this insult to the flag and the nation ia Is in keeping with the sentiments of representative mor bior mons as shown by their words and actions for the last thirty years E D evs EGAN N E benner BENNEK al A B PEEBLES JAS IL HE hesky HENKY sity PAGE pare 11 at the close of the reading the chairman stepped forward and said all in favor ot of adopting these resolutions as the sense of this meeting will say aye ase 11 A hoarse yell of ayel abell went up fro from in those nearest the stand representing the hoodlum and blackguard lenient chairman contrary no 1 by 1211 ta this 1 s time a large number of citizens ad 9 gathered around the outside and nol no I 1 nol noll came with with deafening heers cheers z from at least three fourths fo U of of the assembled throng there was considerable sid erable hesitation on od the part of the chair chairman r nan dan at the result which he felt too chagrined to announce the besotted individual who called the meeting in moved an adjournment and iid the cr crowd 0 wd dispersed |
