Show SAN SAM GILSON SPEAKS OUT I 1 had not intended to say anything either on the stump or the press but I 1 have been forced to do so by the slurs and imputations cast upon me by the carpetbag carpet bag party it is also due to some of my friends that I 1 should give the reasons for the stand I 1 have taken in the present con contests teste the reason I 1 a am in opposing this burlesque carpetbag carpet bag parody on lil eral ism is that I 1 am an american j in n every sense of the word and I 1 propose to exercise my rights as an american citizen cisgen I 1 come of a family who came to america in 1612 lu in every war both internal and with foreign rowers powers since their arrival in america some of the family blood has been spilled my fattier father fought through the war of 1812 against the armies of england in 1830 1 lie he was in the war against the sacs and foxes in illinois my life has been passed at the outposts of civilization b daling to advance the interests of mankind and in the establishment 0 of f the laws of our country in 1853 a boy of seventeen I 1 crossed the plains to california I 1 worked in marysville marksville Marys ville oroville lynchburg sacramento downie ville shasta and have been known in nearly all the cities and towns of eliat state in all portions of nevada I 1 am known and have been for years it is an easy matter to trace my record back my record in this territory is a part of the history of utah for the past twenty one years 1 I have been acquainted quain ted with all the acts of the liberal party also with all ali the actors who took part in that great drama in which a few men were pitted against the entire mormon 1 church I 1 know the record of every man both good and bad who took part in what we considered the struggle for liberty there was a small number whose watchword watch word was honor we had at times fair minded judges and district attorneys good aswell as well as bs corrupt marshals corrupt judges at times at limes sets of officers s who were all willing to do what was right to work honestly and fearlessly A change of administration would send us dishonest judges and marshals who would undo what had taken years to accomplish railroads were built and mines developed the tide of emigration was set towards utah we filled our ranks some men were honest while others were dishonest in the past men sacrificed their business donated their money allowed themselves to dunfor run for office and be sacrificed with success all this for amer jean ican principles what were the claims of the liberal partain part yin early daab we claimed that the laws of the country must be obeyed that no theocracy should or would be planted on the american continent that the power of the mormon formon church must be abolished free government must be established in utah that the ballot box must be pure aud and represent ahe will of the people church and atae tae be separated and entire freedom of speech and press must prevail we simply demanded what hat our constitution guaranteed ran teed this idith the rest of you fought for believing then as I 1 do BOW that we were right I 1 saw no change in the senti sentiments menti of my friends anti and workers coworkers co until 1888 when there seemed to be a chance for electing some of the officers of the territory corruption commenced to creep in D men with unsavory records were employed to defeat the ends of justice men whose records would put to blush anything that infested the west in early days then it was that after the ittle band of patriots had made it possible to live and have the rights of american citizens the newcomers like the vultures and hyenas of the desert swooped down after the battle had been won to to devour the slain what has become of the little band of patriots most of them have dle disappeared appeared from the scene some few however are seen standing on the high plane of honor and honesty looking clown from that exalted position upon the sickening sicken log scenes going on below some of the old guard have joined the band of the devouring fiends and by every possible means are endeavoring to besmirch and throw filth on oil those who have taken an honest position among those who are wallowing in the filth of the rule or ruin mob who once stood side by side with us ug is that despicable paper the daily tribune the men who own and are running that paper have been personally acquainted with me twenty five years and they know when they say that I 1 have uever done a days work in my life or that 1 I am not known to them to be a workingman that they wilfully and maliciously lie they know they lie when they say eay that I 1 am now or ever have been connected in anny way with mr obrien they kaow they infamously lie when they say that I 1 am a sorehead and mad because I 1 did not receive an office at the last city election I 1 say that each and every one of atheni are liars when they try to lead people to believe that I 1 am aill minu encee by any but strictly honest convictions LA a discriminating public judge mr landav mr goodwin mr nelson do you not know that before the registration closed for the fet fel auary election that I 1 came to you and told you of felonies and frauds being perpetrated did I 1 not plead with you to stand by our old blat lat form and discountenance frauds fraud fe did I 1 not tell you that after making the fight of twenty years as honorable men that we could not aff afford ord to th come into office by fraud did you not agree with me that if what I 1 told you was true that you would oppose it do you not know that these felonies an and I 1 frauds were committed as I 1 told you has there ever bee been n a word or a line in the tribune discountenancing the wrongs perpetrated by the registrars by registering votes in three cotin counties ties outside of salt lake cou have you ever said isaid anything w ji opposition to men being registered by proxy A few days after did you not dot labor with me to convince me of my error and did you not say you iad had as much right to commit a fraud as the mormon people did I 1 not tell teji you th theland enand then and there that it mattered mastered not what the mormons cormons Mor mons had done that is was ours to do right now you are well aware that this happened immediately after the first parade and long before the registration ceased and before any primaries had been had dodou do you or anyone else know of me doing anything looking towards the nomination for any office offic fc if ayou you do please speak out in meeting it is not my province now to attack any of the parties who stand today upon the carpet lag ag ticket it may hereafter be necessary to do so 0 I 1 know all of their records but I 1 will say something for the leaders A word about this party of carpet corruption crimes and cussedness it was conceived by an unscrupulous scrub from michigan and taken up by a howling mob of genuine carpet badgere honest citizens were dazed by red fire bre and in the excitement believing it was an hu honest nest loveth move they ey yelled hurrah the red fires have died out mens menis reasons have returned they see the corruption and deformity of this monstrous organization and I 1 do not believe they will support the party the reasons besides those given above for my opposition to this car pet bag party are as follows I 1 am opposed to hiring corrupt politicians to devise felony and fraud some of these felonies are as follows the central committee sent a car through three counties to register voters for salt bait lake city those illegal voters names still remain on the books of the second precinct unless removed recently this is no bonfield mormon lie the tribune gang knows it to be a fact for I 1 informed them long before bonfield was waa known to be in the city I 1 know and can prove that men were registered and voted whenever who never saw a registrar or took an oah I 1 know that men were registered who had not acquired a ret residence idenie in utah I 1 know of men who were not allowed to register who possessed every qualification and right that I 1 do only boniv that they were suspected of voting tile the peoples peopled ticket I 1 know that the registration off officers leers have acted in the most barefaced rind and unconscionable scio manner I 1 know that everybody ery b ody who did not liot fall in with the ca carpetbag carpet r I 1 be t bag steal has been classed wit with h mormons cormons and ostracised ostracized I 1 know and can prove by a senate doci document ament that one leader is a scoundrel I 1 know that all the leaders of bag party have many unsavory records I 1 know that one of the central committee is desirous of going to congress gentlemen of the liberal party par ty how is his record can you my old friends see by this statement why by I 1 am here fighting the khe campt bag party gentlemen emeD you said during the canvass for the february election that any one who dared to vote any but the carpetbag carpet bag ticket should be drummed into the peoples earn aamna the tune of the rogues march I 1 was not drummed into the peoples camp by that tune but I 1 went out a free man when you insulted yankee doodle and desecrated Sherm ns march to the sea in one of your resolutions in the last convention you said that anyone who votes any but the carpetbag carpet bag ticket should be sent out with the brand of cain upon him gentlemen I 1 will take the brand 8 H GILSON |