Show democratic ratification the democratic ratification meeting at the knutsford Knut stord last night wa a large and one music filled the air and vast crowds of people thronged thron ged the streets and were addressed by prominent democratic Domo cratic speakers from the balcony COLONEL LETT announced that the ine meeting eting had been caled for the purpose of ratifying the nominations hit were made at chicago and also alao to welcome that band of I 1 patriots that thai did mch kuch yeoman service tor for the people of utah and the united un cited states of america applause A someone said there was not dot room enough out doors to accommodate all the people who come nominations we are are here he be said as democrats we under und ennd alvind mat term and we propose that the he people of this territory shall understand it according to the light that is ie in them we want to say bay to these men well done good and faithful servants we have not come here berei to may eay a word that will offend the benal tive we say may to all democrats Demo orata who believe in the principles of Ja jackson ekson jefferson and cleveland aal applause hauae Iau ae we feel there has bag been some rome on local questions but these are ara of minor importance and OW have been settled fettled at chicago renewed applause pla uee we believe we ought not to have any sectional local strife to interfere with our local prosperity it will not be long after Grover cleveland and adlai adial stevenson take their seats oats until they shall welcome utah into the constellation of the states the brightest of all the jeweled commo commod u jl rf JUDGE JUDD said the democracy of utah today la is the democracy of the nation when the democracy assembled at chicago with pride announced that democracy covered all that which came down from jefferson to grover cleveland it took in all of utah democracy knows no sect no creed but only asks loyalty to the government applause so bo far a those who opposed us at chicago are concerned we recognize them as democrats our differences were local and they had bad a right to their opinions but after they carried them to chicago and the great arbiter of party differences decided against them they should abide by the decision they made the best fight they could and we must respect them for it many of thera them told me they would hereafter act with us in supporting grover cleveland applause the democratic convention at chicago came as near saying that they favored statehood for utah as they could give the people of utah tab the alie right of self government and the people will take care of themselves applause the democracy of utah will never cease this fight until the they place utka among the galaxy of states on ob the flag let us put our shoulders to the wheel and ou on the ath of march 1893 graver cleveland will be inaugurated president of the united states slates MUSIO MUSIC AND TELEGRAMS the loga i band played a stirring selection after which the following congratulatory telegrams were read OGDEN U T june 20 hon H C lett I 1 am prevented from attending your ratification meeting tonight please express my regrets and you speak for our committee 0 C RICHARDS washington A C june 29 hon H C lett chairman utah does well to ratify the nominations of the great convention in whose councils the representatives of her democracy were given unanimous wel welcome coIne and who contributed their full part IQ ila the selection of the great winning ticket democratic friends here propose to tight fight it out on the line of home rule justice and freedom tor lor utah until vio vie tory Is in won if it takes all summer CALEB W WEST to H 0 lett chairman 1 I cong congratulate rat utah democrats upon the recognition given them by the national convention democrats can always be depended on to 10 extend equal rights to the people of utah I 1 regret I 1 cannot be resent present and participate in your rejoicings rejo icings we the election of cleveland and Stevens stevenson means meana much lor jor our territory for utah and statehood JOHN T CAINE a washington DO DC june 29 to C lett Tho ho s nate enate has voted 28 to 24 to continue the utah commission at a reduced yearly salary of 2000 every democrat but one voted to abolish the cammi commission ston and every republican but three voted to continue it JOHN T CAINE COLON EB MERRITT maue repeated humorous references to the at chicago and how hopeless and undeserving their cause was and how bow they were completely vanquished by the straight democrats democrat he closed by saying that grover cleye laud land the greatest and best mn man who had been nominated Bomina ted to the preal deney dency since the days of abraham lin coln coin PARLEY L WILLIAMS said I 1 apprehend that the convention that assembled at chicago was wa never excelled in the personnel of the th delegates in the history of the world in this convention vital were decided against which no true j democrat will dare to dissent it deolar 1 ed lie its adherence to the principle of u local self government applause it decided decide d against the force bill applause it asser teB against the party parly in power from perpetuating itself in indefinitely applause it power spoke against unnecessary taxation it said that the least government con eistedt with order was the best government the peoples peopled will spoke in that convention they nominated the demanded a man maia people man the ran farst st and foremost in the heart of the who is the embodiment people a man of democratic principles and is a platform in himself HOX HON MOSES said amid the day of heroes had almost passed but when the delegations be ased fin to gather with lightning speed about the name of f grover cleveland until it beca became baig like fiat applause the rolling of the ber this great man of 1878 when wrote his tariff measure he knew it would defeat him but patriotic as aa he be was he signed it without a tremor in the interest of the po people boies and le his name overcame aray gray and all the other favorites favorite and he will roll on to victory in november SAM SAIK GILSON said eald he believed that everything in the united states should be free protection only makes millionaires and tramps he would rather have a traveling sand biller or a floating iceberg another reason he was a democh t was because he a tuscarora TuMS arora laughter next november when the tuscarora Tusca s will be hovering ho verine over the darkened past they will 1 have hav i e to shift for themselves HOW HON W H KING said aid the democrat party was the greatest friend the people of utah bad ad the democrats voted to abolish the utah commission and the R pub heans voted for it I 1 tell you that the democrats have always been the true friends of local self government all over the world republicans believe in the centralized and paternal views that all along the sands ot of time have led lea to oppression J ja B TIMMONY CI am billed to speak on the liberal party voice its rotten 1 I want to say that with the thermometer bobbing up at the a avid and without a sanitary inspector I 1 do not propose to stir up the pool great laughter there is no P people eople from ocean to ocean that are in interested te rested in the election of a president as much as the people of utah the dree election tion of cleveland means the end of pee heelam it means the end of the utah commission it means the end of election registrars who carry elections as they please lease it is the first time in twenty five S ve years that I 1 have not been out at them with the election of a democratic ic president next fall we will have a democratic senate within two years and nd you will hear of utah being admitted as a state S A KENNER mr kenners theme was fhe he practical politician 21 and he be demonstrated his bin capability of handling bandling the subject jae he was given a welcome that chat amounted to an oa tion ja in years gone by we had but little use for the practical politician but now he be was ubiquitous and indispensable the theoretical politician was like the car pet warrior very fine on dress parade but no account in action ailed alluding I 1 ng to the unfavorable weather at chicago he be reminded the audience that satin satan was the power of the air and he never did like democrats the ticket was wae born and might be at inn beaten but it would never be republican Republic ajo beaten not by votes at this juncture a ertest car came along and while it was pass passing I 1 ng through the crowd the speaker said this thia seems to be a case of metaphysical against applied science that car la is like the republican party it bothers us for a while but soon disappear and goes the way of its predecessors referring to the local situation he said we took our case to the supreme court of the party the national convention and won it will the dissenters now cease their folly and join us against the common enemy in co elusion he said that mr Ci cleveland rieveland on the expiration of his term revived the ab but commendable custom of the outgoing and iti incoming coming president riding to the white house together geth it all be repeated on the next march and by the same men applause HADLEY D JOHNSON spoke on the subject of state rights bights we are assembled bled here to ratify the nomination of grover cleveland and adlai stevenson I 1 was not an man but when over six hundred delegates favored him that settled the case came with me as it do does e a with all good democrats and I 1 came here to ratify with a big B R colonel lett and I 1 fought for statehood in nebraska and we are here tonight to advocate statehood fur for utah we as sovereigns ought to have the privilege of electing our own officers some of my friends chided we me when I 1 favored statehood instead of home rulf grover cleveland was cheated out yes cheated out for he be received a quarter of a million more votes than my grandfathers hat IJ I laughter the end of the liberal party has bae come 1 I tell you 1 I he said there won wont it be a tuscarora kid in the territory in four years you will find 0 W powers making good democratic speeches four years hence iche if he won wont it you hilll find him in the republican party jf If have aim we organized a democratic party twenty years ago but some of the weak kneed feared that if we would allow the mormons cormons in they would be forced into polygamy laughter I 1 have been here twenty years and they forced me great merriment i since the president of ane mormon church said there should not be any polygamy three these men are not afraid of being forced in there is no force bill to do it with now the speaker closed with marked tokens of approval from the crowd 0 M spoke on american homes for foreign citizens he said that countrymen his had fought nobly to sustain the american revolution they fought in the revolutionary war and had bad the courage to sign the declaration of I 1 Ind ride epen pent dence we want to become your equals not your superiors behave we have edme come here not because we had to toj but for the love jove of liberty must most of my people have the same views as I 1 have politically they are democrats applause lause we have telegrams from the vast east that ten of our newspapers new apers will support grover cleveland applause these were republican four years ao ago the reason of this thib la is that the emigration appointed by Harrison made a report that reflected reflect fd td against the scandinavian nadian people they will see harrison Harri aon before they will come to his bia support applause Aft erthree cheers for democracy clevelan d and stevenson the meeting adjourned |