| Show THATCHER AND grand democratic addresses to the llie reid wow of ct utah sings xing C s efort effort find nun thatchers pisa P lea for the fulfillment Fulfill mett of pledges utah made to the ration nation when then statehood was wa granted the great diver meeting fiield in salt lake city under the auspices of ortho the womans comans club last wednesday was a decided success he the says congress man elect W II 11 king and ilon moses thatcher were the speakers it at a meeting of the woman s central democratic club held at the ninth nard annex latt lad night it was the first time in two years that yr air thatcher has bag spoken to a political ga gathering therium and great interest therefore attended his appearance that be holds a warm place in the hearts of the people needed no further evidence than the magnificent L bation which greeted him in ili his hia speech ech which was simply a flow of eloc eloquence luence he be made no DO direct allusion to his difficulty with the church ile he appealed patriotically to the manhood and womanhood af utah to stand by the covenants under which statehood was ee cured pestles pe g pr onute ranks of demur bitic women women has come the first note of the campaign of 1900 in utah the slogan was t bounded at the tha meeting of the comans womans central democratic club of f salt lake county held last evening in the annex to lo the ninth ward nvard meeting house this aaion is the successor of the bryan club and came into being shortly after the election at the meeting held last evening IV H king congressman c elect and moses thatcher were the speakers interest attached in particular parti sular to the latter it had been two years ince he had bad before made a political speech in that period had culminated his differences with his church he had also been stricken with illness so BO severe that his life was ivas der despaired paired of for a time even vet he displays some traces of his hia malady in his weakened voice mr thatcher Tb atcher in the brief remarks lie he made dealt almot entirely with the duty of utah to preserve the pi amiee it made to the nation when admitted to statehood judge king in his addre spoke of democracy in the abstract ile he traced the growth of the idea from the remotest agee agee finding it implanted in the breast of man as a desire for liberty and progress mrs ellen B D fergusoh Fergus oo the ewel president aident of the club made a brief opening pening talk after which she introduced trod judge king to the audience judge fudge king hid had experienced difficulty in finding the hall in which the meeting waa lidd held through iiii misdirection direction ire he utilized his extended search for hn destination happily in beginning his hia speech as stia tive of the difficulty of as a truth which he said wao wae always precious preciou prec ioui 3 in proportion to the degree of difficulty experienced in finding it the truth in politics he averred can be found only in democracy which lias has since the dawn of liberty judge king g was disposed to regard existing I 1 conditions with the greatest anxiety peace hath bath its victories as ag well as war he be rd od in dis masing the condition of tile llie united states nations are overthrown in times of peace by internal cau causes sett they sometimes co commit anit r suicide by neglect and by permitting strong men to arrogate to themselves power and wealth making serf i of 0 the poor such a c condition oll lie argued bad ha always dalway proved fatal to a count rys welfare and always would be destructive he depicted the republican party in this country as standing for tile the aggrandizement of the rich and as aa standing as the oppressors of the people ile he referred to the last election as illustrative of the power of concentrated wealth by tile the might of gold gok said he the pen peoples ples franchise was a wrested from them thein gad and the presidency awarded to mr mckinley still I 1 do not believe the people really wanted him but rather our gallant commander who thou though 0 h temporarily defeated is not subdued ed one school of philosophy he cecon continued teaches thit all power de ascends from above with these philosophers the order is the kin the parliament the people tile the democracy reverses this order putting the p people first and the king kina last democracy is not new nor are ideas it is combating in this state new judge king added they are as old as the ages democracy i is 8 the universal spirit of lil liberty lerty and freedom and progress that exists in the human h heart e art it is the idea upon xi aich alone human buma 0 governments can with stability be founded reform and the of silver are merely incidental to democracy they are the necessary outgrowth of the main idea of liberty and advancement between the robber barons of the tha medieval period and the tariff P tw drw a parallel arallen aral lel te 9 stated diat in re suit they agreed only in method did they vary then as now in democracy tile the people found the only ekpo expo exponent berit of liberty the sols sole savior of their precious rights democracy is the magdalene that sits site at tile the cross weeping for Crucil crucified led mankind he continued and democracy will roll away the stone and bid mankind arise and enjoy tile the liberty liberti god designed for it moses mosea thatcher was very warmly received indeed the fervor of his greeting touched him deeply and he acknowledged it in affecting language ile he referred in beginning to his vote for woman suffrage in the constitutional convention then he be branched oft off on to a discussion of the many admirable qualities possessed by woman he eulogized the sex as possessing greater courage than m man an and as capable of truer heroism upon occasion the right to be be free he regarded as the greatest gift ever bestowed upon mankind and he be charged the women of utah to defend their right to be free and to teach heir sons and daughters to do so ile he said that after much toil and long weary waiting itah had been admitted to the union we promised the democracy that granted us the boon to be to it what it had been to us he continued will we keep that pledge will we be the guardian guardi aa of liberty here we have accepted a portion of the responsibility of this government and we must be true let us remember that there is no line of division here we are all free we have dec declared lareo ourselves free both by our state constitution and otherwise sir mr thatcher said that outside of their tariff and silver beliefs there was wag little difference among the democrats and republicans of utah we must keep our covenants he said in conclusion and then we will maintain the liberty that has come to us as a sacred gift THATCHERS q the herald said lion iron moses thatcher had bad to wait for several moments before he be cluid could proceed the audience cheered as he be came forward and when tile the applause app lauie subsided lie he opened by thanking the people fur for their appreciative reception lie ile said eaid among other things here in utah we have a duty to perform too we have fought for years i for r stat statehood bood at last last the party parly came forward and we extended our hand that we aou would id be gneib the union as all other states state we ve will keep that pledge peedu ge will we like the people of other states state fiand up for political and religious C liberty applause the barney battle is is now being bein fought as in tibe the early dawn of liberty it is tor yon and me to so live anil and to to ro le teach ach our children to guard the liberty won As we have accepted the principles upon which our has been founded we by it 1 whenever anyone any setles to in trench upon the r right ol 01 worship said baid the speak ar it v ais an attempt to chain tille con science the d between the dei re publican parties in not so 0 great silver and t taj A insignificant copi compared pared tg ill any attempt to infringe e libere ties of the individual were patriots in both I 1 parti ila all should stand to geahr let us keep keel our covenants covenant coven coye nant anth in closing mr thai said he was neither a politic or any other kind of a prophet b would venture tile prediction credic t at when over nver any influx 0 o ar from rom what louice was 1 put I ard r to defeat the gral grard d pa for for which democracy y to I 1 plo would ba riffi ri would conquer in abe t d miss misi alice conrad favored the gathering with an excellent recitation after which the meeting was adjourned to meet again ou on january jannary 20 in the second ward tard when mr thatcher be the principal speaker ep eaker |
