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Show THE POPULIST CONVENTION. of public works by which the unemployed may be providi-- with lucrative work. Eighth. We deplore the present immoral condition of our city as relates to drunkenness, prostitution and gambling, and pledge a rigid enforcement of all laws relating thereto Ninth. We are op;osed to the letting of public works by contract, which has been one of the main supports to party corruption. Tenth, We are opposed to that class of public economy obtained at the expense of laborers wages Eleventh We favor the maintenance of the water works by general taxation and the prompt extension of the water mains to all citizens desiring same on payment of the costs of such extension. Twelfth. We favor the abolition of the poll tax; the merchants license, which constitutes an indirect tax upon the people in proportion to what they consume; and the EVENING SESSION. peddlers license, which many a After read.ng the minutes of the afternoon man with small capital fromprevents earning an honsession, the committee on permanent organ- est living. To the support of these principles we corization sported that they had selected Hon. invite all good citizens to unite with us. dially lor permanent chairNat Ward H. W. Lawrence, man and A E. Beveridge for permanent secJames Thompson, retary, and the order of business as outlined Bsnjamin Haddock. Miss Florence M. Smith, below. Warren Foster, On taking the chair, Mr. Fi'.z Gerald made Committee. a most elling speech, which was punctuated It was decided that an informal ballot be with applause at the close of each sentence. The committee on platform and resolutions taken for mayor, which showed that Mr, II. made the following report, which was adopt- W. Lawrence was the overwhelming choice of the convention. He was then nominated ed without a dissenting voice: unanimously. PLATFORM. For the remaining officers the following the of Salt Lake We, Peoples party City, in convention asembled, reaffirm the doc- nominations were made: trine promulgated by the National platform City Recorder A. E. Beveridge. adopted at St Louis, July 24! 1896, which City Attorney J. M. Bowman. may be summarized as lollows: Auditor hliss Florence M. Smith. MONEY. Treasurer Alexander Rogers f Police Justice John S. Garrison. That all money be national in its character; that it shall be issued by the general govThe convention then proceeded to confirm ernment instead ol by the banks, and shall be a full legal tender for all debts, public and the nominees for city councilmen already private; the free coinage of silver and gold at made in the various precincts as follows: the ratio of 16 to 1 ; an increase in the issue to meet the demands of business; opposition First Precinct George Kinghom, W. A. Hughes. W. F. Gray. to the sale of bonds; opposes demonetization of any money by private contract; that the Second Precinct F. F. Griffiths, James Thompson, L. S. Whitehead. government shall use its own option as to the Third Precinct Adolph Hauerbach, P. M. kind of money in which it shall pay its obliW. Reese. E. Aldrich, gations; a graduated income tax, and postal Fourth Precinct P. Erskine, Alfred James savings banks. L Brice, L H. Gray. PUBLIC UTILITIES. Filth Precinct T. J. Hawley, L. K. Ritter, That railroads should be owned and conChas. Vinson. trolled by the government; and that the telThe cottage was adopted as the party egraphs and telephones should be a part of emblem. the postal system. LAND. The city committee was continued till the Opposes private monopoly of land; dis- election, and were empowered to fill any and claims against alien ownership of land; con- all vacancies that may occur upon the ticket. demns the Union Pacific land steals, and convention The then adjourned. favors the granting of public land to bona fide settlers only. The city convention held last Saturday afternoon and evening was the most harmonious and successful meeting of the kind ever held in this or any other city by any political party. Mr. S. H. B. Smith, chairman of the city committee, called the meeting to order and nominated Warren Foster for temporary chairman. A. E. Beveridge was chosen secretary. The committee on credentials made a report, which was followed by the appointing of the committees on permanent organization and order of business, and on platform and resolutions. The convention then adjourned till 7:30 p. m. Fitz-Geral- d I DIRECT LEGISLATION. Favors the proposition of giving to the people power to initiate new laws by petition, and the submission of all laws passed to the people for their approval, before such laws take effect; also the election of president, vice president and United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. OTHER ISSUES. A reduction of salaries; public work for the unemployed; opposes governmeni by injunction, and demands a free ballot and a fair count LOCAL ISSUES. In line with our National platform, we adopt the following: First. We are opposed to any and all further grants of public franchises to private individuals or corporations, and favor the reclaiming of those already granted, by right of eminent domain, as speedily as possible, at actual value. We believe that if the street cars, electric lights, gas, water and telephones were owned and operated by the public, as is the case with many advanced cities in the East, that the entire revenues of the city would be provided lor, while the people would get a much better service at a greatly reduced cost. By this means the homes of the people would be almost if not entirely free from taxation. Second. We favor the exemption from taxation and execution a home for every family to the value of $1,500. Third. We are opposed to the present ownsystem of taxing improvements, while for held speculaers of vacant lots which are tive purposes only are made to pay only a nominal tax. We demand that taxes on these vacant lots be raised to the point that the owners will be compelled to occupy and improve them. Fourth. We condemn in the most unqualified terms the police court of this city for inflicting additional pnnishmeut when trial by jury is demanded. Fifth. We denounce the barbarous and inhuman treatment of American workmen in being condemned under our vagrant laws to prison and the chain gang for no other offense than being forced to tramp over the has been country seeking honest labor, which denied them through unjust legislation; and demand that it is the duty of our government to guarantee labor at remunerative wages to every subject of which it claims allegiance. Sixth. We condemn the police department and the county prosecutor lor their discrimination against the vagrants, while to allow and wink go free men of at they are guilty. who . estate equally high Seventh. We believe that every man is by nature and justice entitled to an opportunity to earn a living; therefore we favor a system so-call- POLITICS IN SMITH FIELD. GEORGE M. PULLMAN DEAD. The following letter was received at this George M. Pullman is dead. He died office Tuesday morning with a request that very suddenly lost Monday of heart disease. it be published. The communication is signed He has been a great man; possibly some and we publish it upon request of the writer. good may be put down to his credit, though We are not responsible either for the facts or we shall not attempt to name it. He started conclusions contained therein: out in life to make a name and fame for himself. He did so; but, like most other men, Oct. 17, 1897. Smithfield, Utah, Editor Living Lhium : his greed got the better of him and he lapsed On Ociober 10 our Bishop made the an- into a money-gettewhich consumed all the nouncement that on Tuesday evening followfiner sensibilities of the man. For years he ing (October 12; a meeting would lie held for the purpose of nominating a Citizens has been a unfeeling brute who Ticket consisting of good Litter Day Saints. could erjoy (or think that he was enjoying) Therefore on the above said Tuesday even- the millions he did not need, right in the ing said meeting convened in the Tabernacle, very presence of the multitude. His starving about 200 and the there r, hard-hezrte- men; being present Bishop, having elected himself as chairman of the meetihg, commenced his official duty by calling upon all Democrats to raise their hands, but very few bands responded. He then desired to see the hands of the other national party, but the Republicans were not disposed to present their hands except in rare instances. The Bishop now having secured his expressions, presented the house with a speech which is in substance as follows: "I want you to vote for good Latter Day Saints to fill the offices; vote for men who will uphold the hands of Gods prophets and apostles; men that will not talk against his servants (i. e., the leaders of the Mormon church); vote for men that will work for the building up of the Kingdom (i. e., that will work for the Mormon church). Never mind whether he be a Democrat or a Republican just so he is a good Latter Day Saint and is in for the building up of Zion; men that will live their religion. Elect a marshall that will attend his meetings (i. e., his priesthood meetings) and The Bishop partake of the sacraments. then related an incident of meeting a man who told him that he the said man was a Democratic Republican. "That is just what I am, said the Bishop; which may mean that he could be either or neither for Zion's sake. The Bishop thought that men elected to office should work without pay, like himself. This latter statement produced significant looks upon the faces of his hearers, and there seemed to be a longing for a little time to breathe. This seemed to furnish some occasion for thought on the word of wisdom, as the presiding cfficer suggested that they ought to elect Latter Day Saints who did not use tobacco and who abstained from all intoxicating drinks. However, these latter qualifications seemed to knock out the prospects for the good Latter Day Saints, for one man who secured the floor declared that not enough Latter Day Saints could be found in Smithfield to fill the offices if their non-us- e of tobacco and liquor were to be the ground of qualification. The Bishop now recognizing the moral state of his flock, replied that he agreed with the speaker in all that he had said. Thereupon the meeting adjourned for the ticket. reflection. introHon. Henry W. Lawrence needs no J. L. Pedersen. duction. Everybody knows him and everyTHAT HAT FAC LORY. body knows and no one will dare deny Did vou know that Salt Lake City contains that of all the men now up for mayor he full fledged hat factory where you can get a is by far the best one.. anything in that line you may want made to Mr. A. E. Beveridge, candidate for city order? Well, such is the case. The Salt recorder, is well known here, having been! Lake Hat Factory, of which Fred Taylor is connected with the bicycle trade very ex- proprietor, is located at No. 24 East First South Street, in basement. They manufacture tensively. He is a gentleman of honor and soft, stiff and silk hats for gentlemen, and thoroughly competent. silk, felt and walking hats for ladies. They J. M. Bowman, candidate for city attor- will re block and repair old hats in the most ney, is an equal in every way to any of satisfactory manner. This is the only instihis opponents, and superior in many re- tution of the kind between St. Louis and San Francisco. Give them a call and you spects. He is a lawyer of ability and of will not be long in making up your mind good report. that this is the place to go when you want Miss Florence M. Smith, the candidate your head rigged out. for auditor, is a well educated young lady, THE PEOPLES CHURCH. fully competent to discharge every duty deDi. Ravlin spoke to a large audience at volving upon a city auditor. She is a Unity Hall last Sunday evening on the teacher of music and art. Mr. Alexander Rogers, candidate for Organized Crusade of Orthodoxy Against Free Thought. He held his audience spelltreasurer, is too well known to need any bound for over an hour and made some tellintroduction here. He is a wholesale tobacco ing hits. The Doctor is an advanced thinker dealer. A better man could not be found and' is doing a good work. He will speak again Sunday evening at the same piace. Go in the city in any party. hear him. He thinks of permanently locating Mr. John S. Garrison, the nominee for here. We hope he will do so. police justice, while not a lawyer, is a man hard sense; a man of good, GOING TO KLONDIKE. knows right from who man of veracity; a A. P. Sorenson, proprietor of the I. X. L wrong; a man that nature did her full share Second Hand Store, 48 East Second South for in the way of fitness for the position. Street, Salt Lake City, will go soon, and he He is a man that understands human is now selling out over $30 000 worth of the finest carpets, stoves and housenature and a firm believer in justice; a man hold furniture,A rare goods. opportunity for conferwho, when elected, will not trample under ence visitors to furnish up their home at foot that sacred, blood-bougright of their own prices. All mail orders given be a tried by jury of his prompt attention. every man to peers, nor will the city jail be filled with THE FISH WAS TOO BIG. men undergoing punishment for exercising E. P. Newell, president of the city council, that right, as is now the disgraceful fact. was arrested a few evenings ago for drunkenAs a whole, the ticket is far superior in ness and for using boisterous language cn every respect to any ticket now in the the street. The city attorney and Judge field, and if the people will only vote for Wenger turned him loose yesterday on the what they want instead of for what they grounds that he was bigger fish than they were looking for. do not want, the entire ticket will be elected. d, ht NOTES. POPULIST hEADQUARTERS. The Populists have opened up headquar- d, conscience became seared as with an iron until he could do this. He, without any compunction of conscience, could take the proceeds of a poor mans labor which he did not need ; while the man who produced it would go hungry and cold. Lie absorbed his millions, but he leaves it all. He has gone to a bar of justice, probably, where he will be only too glad to arbitrate, but possibly will not have a chance. There was no one living whom the people could spare better than he. We may as well be frank about it. No one cares that he is dead. History will record the fact that he was wealthy, and leave t that. He left nothing behind him worthy of emulation. He will not live in the heaits of the people', for he never has. He has possibly robbed as many people as any other man living, with one lone exception John D. Rockefeller. The great Ruler of the universe did a good thing when He called for him, and we indulge the fond hope that He may continue His work along that line. If He has any use for the rest of the big thieves we hope He will call for them, for we it-a- havent; but "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth eer gave, Await alike the inevitable hour The paths of glory lead but to the grave. JUDGE WENGER MUM. For two or three days last week our door was kept in a constant state of vibration by friends of Judge Wenger calling in to explain why the Judge did this, that and the other; why he sent one man to jail ten days for sleeping in a box car, and the other eighty days for the same offence; ihe only difference being that the latter called for a jury trial. Finally we offered to give Judge Wenger all the space he might want to use in these columns, free of charge, to deny the charges or to explain them if he had any explanations to make. We were assured by his friend that he would avail himself of the opportunity offered, and we have now waited till the last moment but no such communication has appeared. This fact alone ought to convince the readers that the charges are true. But while waiting for the Judges reply we have-takeoccasion to look up the docket and we-dnot wonder that he did not use the space offered. The charges are true if his docket tells the truth. The Judge is making some speeches now and he condescends to notice the charges in a pretended light vein by referring to the He tramps.as Fosters stripe of people. o also mentions the case where he sent a man up for fifty days for "roaming the streets at a late hour. He claims that this fellow once ruined a girl and gives that as his reason for making the sentence so long. This may be true or it may not; but the question is, what has it to do with the case? He was not being tried for adultery, was he? If he is guilty of the charge, possibly he should be in the penitentiary instead of in jail. We dont know. We fail io understand how even a police justice can try a man on one charge and conyict him on another. We fail to see the connection between roaming the streets and adultery. The facts are that the Judge has no excuses or explanations that he can make and he is content to let it go. - REDEMPTION MONEY. Populists are opposed to redemption money of all kinds. The right sort of money needs no redeemer. It is the lost only that need redemption or redeemers. We are authorized by a leading Populist to challenge any redemption money crank on earth to debate the question during the present or any other campaign. FREE THINKERS NOTICE. A meeting of the Free Lance Society will the Commercial Block, Sunday morning, October 24. at 11 oclock. All free thinkers invited. James P. Erskine, Secretary. W E would rather any day in the week be a live Warren Foster than a dead George M. Pullman. be held in The New Time (best magazine published) As a presiding officer Col. Fitz Gerald is a ters in the vacant room on the southeast corner of West First South and West Tem- and Living Issues both one year for $1.75. great success. Mrs. W. S. Pierce was placed in nomina- ple Streets. Call often. The city committee Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to meets there Saturday evening. tion for city auditor, but she declined in favor God. Benjamin Franklin. of Miss Florence Smith. Mrs, Pierce was If you like this kind of a paper, this is Money is either the creation of law, else the secretary of the Populist State convention the kind of a paper you will like. Only one is dollar a it Block. not. Which is it? Office, 78 year. two years ago. Hooper |