Show POLITICS AT PROVO the republicans of provo met in the opera house at that place on monday june 15 among those occupying seats on the stage were the hon nines james shar sharp C W bennett and john morgan of ta salt allt lake city B B R eldredge peter stubbs J W R N S holbrook J C graham and several other leading republicans of provo after a selection by the band mr eldredge DOMi nominated Dated J W N as chairman the motion was carried the chairman said in substance the republican organization has always courted investigation there to ie no part of our record that we wish to cover up this is 19 the party that has been at the head of every POI political lotical reform in this con country applause there are many democrats who will likely hear bear things this evening that will startle them As an organization the democratic party has stood in the way of progress there are many people in that party that are honest upright and patriotic men who when the nations life blood was about to be spilled helped to save it but as a party this was not the cue case we invite you to listen to the arguments that we have to offer compare them with what our opponents give and when you jou have the open book before you we are not afraid of the results applause hon HOD james sharp then read the address from the temporary territorial committee he was frequently applauded plau ded mr john morgan said in coming before you tonight to discuss the political principles that are agitating the people of this territory I 1 desire to be free and to present my views in a manner that will be fair not dot such as will stir up strife or animosity the political situation in this territory is one that is almost anomalous we have had broken up the old political parties and in the change that is taking place we do not expect thattie that the results which a great many people have looked for that the griat great majority of the people of utah will join the democratic party I 1 have not changed my ideas at all I 1 have always been a republican the two great principles in which the national political parties differ are the tariff and the powers of the general government the rho question of states rights is a very old one when the southern states wished to secede from the union james buchanan Buc banan who was then president of the united Stat essaid that the government had bad no constitutional right to interfere with a state abraham lincoln on the other hand said that it had and took measures to stop the acts of secession applause I 1 have been forced into a position that I 1 did not desire from the statements of the democratic newspaper newe paper the salt lake herald to the effect that the democratic party has been more friendly to the people of utah than hae the republican if we take history for it we will find that in nearly every case the active opposition has come from the democratic tion I 1 should not have brought up this matter if it had bad not been agitated by my opponents in education also the republicans have always been in the lead from a comparison of seven or eight states which are democratic and the same number of republican states those of the latter are very much in the lead I 1 take it that the states which go republican do so on account of the higher education the people receive fask I 1 ask you people of utah who have made such a 14 proud record in matters of education do you wish to ally yourselves with a party that has such a showing of illiteracy as the democrats I 1 say that a territory which shows an illiteracy of only 5 1 per r cent as utah wip does that it win never go democratic ocra tic it knows too much it ha 3 been said by the salt lake herald that a man in order to be a mormon ll has to be a democrat there never was a greater mistake the democrats pretend to filow jefferson who wrote that all men were created free and equal yet during halt a century of democratic rule there were four million human slaves in this country it took a republican administration tion to free them and in all mattere of progress that party has has always been beed in the lead and so it will continue to be applause C CW W bennett it to is not only proper but it is a duty for the people of utah to study politics it is my purpose to show you that it will be better for you to ally yourselves with the republican party the party came into existence in the fifties and put up as a candidate for president general john C pre fre munt who was defeated by james buchanan Buo hanan in 1860 0 the republicans were successful in putting in a 4 president it was soon after this that the war broke out and it was then that the doctrine of states rights and also that of slavery were forever put at rest in this country applause the republicans public ans presented for adoption the thirteenth amendment to the constitution which to is that slavery or involuntary servitude except for crime committed shall not exist in the united states the democrats as a party opposed this amendment but it was carried and now our opponents say they are glad of it the speaker here read from a speech of general james AO arfield in the national republican convention in 1880 when he put irk in nomination for the presidency hon john sherman all the thought all the eloquence which could be brought to bear on the subject euble ct could scat scarcely cely show the labors of the republican party better than that extract from general era garfielda Gar fields speech which I 1 have read As to the principle of protection it is one of great importance our democratic friends clamor for free trade some of them and others ask for a tariff for revenue only none of them ask for a tariff for protection the first law of protection was passed in 1789 there were few articles at that time that were included in the law but it was seen at that early day that american industries ought to be pro it was the second law passed by an american congress the first one being a law providing for oaths of office modifications to this law were made in 1816 and a financial depression followed so ever since when protection was the rule there was national prosperity and free trade brought on the reverse condition it t was th through rough this protective policy that the government was able to pay the war debt it is argued that the burden of protective taxation falls on the farmer the republicans claim that a protection tariff not dot only raises the wages of the workingmen but lowers the prices of if manufactured goods by bringing into active competition our home manufactories manu factories the mckinley bill has lowered the price of cotton cloth half a cent per yard and that is only one out of many articles that might be mentioned to show the same thing utah is interested in the success of the industries of this great country at least we are patriotic enough for that if there is nothing else to cause an interest we are not deciding for only a day but it is for all time that we wish to look for ward we some time will have iron manufactories manu factories in this territory as we have a woolen factory built and a sugar factory that will soon be in operation we all wish to see these succeed it will be impossible to have them succeed if they are not protected our mines also would have to close down if the duty should be taken off lead the farmers are to a great extent dependent on the mines as one half the product of our mines goes to pay for farm products the republican party asks your consideration of its principles and calls your attention to the achievements it has madland made and invites you to enlist tn in its ranks hon jas sharp we are confronted by a condition and not by a theory the DatI national parties ask us to join them we are not to judge fudge a party by its actions towards us exclusively there to is nothing in utah but that leads me to the f fundamental und principles of republicanism the democrats are not free traders as many would have you beM teve but they are democrats with republican principles we are in favor of utah first because if we wedo do not sustain ourselves we injure the nation to that extent that we fall fail utah never can be a great agricultural state on account of the surroundings and the climate if we wish to become great we must do it through our manu fac features tures what hia has made us great RR as ft a nation is ia protection if we take the tariff off wool it will drop in price from fifteen cents as it to ia now to five anve or six eix cents so it is with lead all our mines would have to close the great majority of the people of utah are protectionists projectionists whether they are democrats or republicans I 1 believe the republican party to ia the one that will make utah a great state we invite you to our party but if you can cannot not join us be democrats but whichever party you join I 1 know you will be true and loyal to the union of this great country cou the proceedings shortly afterwards 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