| Show bably biah 1 0 weber cire at BOOM FOR C AND T patriotic soulful speecher 9 music and flags PLATFORM 1 I 0 1 of tile evening in full WINO sentiments speece lea by ilessa williams rich AM s a I 1 johnson barton and 1 en ifer in compliance with the d asire i a f the public and because of the ge D eral interest in the subject at time presents be low the proceedings in full of the democratic held in lester park pavilion on the evening of the instant we have succeeded in ing tile speeches from the note e 0 f mr daniel hamer the d SE digs wilf be foundoe foun dof unusual cintr est tite applause which was given to the speeches and which the lue eting with such en thusia sm was so gent iral and fre quent that no attempt is to mark it otherwise the proceedings and speeches are in full the callif the democracy of for a grand rally was a roding t ia ago crowd a s ambled at tile magnificently flag be decked and electric lighted pavilion and at 8 he best band in butali sett 0 greatheart of the multitude stirring ith star spangled banner I 1 at tile conclusion of the patsa 1 otlo air john 1 boyle esq nominated judge it K williams for chairman the nomination was seconded and carried amidst great the chairman appeared I 1 afore the assemblage he was gree I 1 by prolonged applause ile theis ded livere an address with ern phalla and punctuated by cheers ladies and gentlemen and weber county democrats I 1 sincerely thank you for the com nent of electing me to preside over this large and intelli nt assemblage we lovs met to cuss and ratify both the platform and of the great national democratic party chic i st louis june ath n national con volition and threw to the breeze its banner inscribed thereon its plea an a the name of its nominee T grover cleveland for its first and al ion 0 thurman for its second place the democratic platform as of old 0 means the greatest good great est number and recognizes as worth y meni beta of the party all law ablaing citizens ho subscribe to its prin aples support its nominees and adopt its usages without regard to past political affiliation or religious conviction thus its high regard for the pure requirements of ofir federal constitution with its prin caples laid broad and deep in the foundations of civil and religious liberty illow sublimely this contrasts with the doings insignificant few w ila ignoring both the principles aej policy of the national par ty and the enduring principles 0 f tile I 1 would tinder the false pretext and predence pretence pre tence ofin i loyalty exclude from this n party the great majori ty of the legal va of tho territory under the balfe and fraudulent plea of the of their religious convictions with united tile prin ates government and when the elements and part political history 0 I 1 1 this few are con tills monstrous eliam becomes all the more apparent in local politics it has beau the mere tail to the republican kite which party outnumbers out numbers it two or three to one and both together nura boring less than A fourth of tae legal voters of the y and both constituting t lie so call aj liberal party liberal however in nothing save in the conglomeration of its gnass As great 2 freak in as is the hybrid and in nature partaking par g exclusively of neither kind nor sex and anite as odious and as much of a man st rosity in the one as in I 1 lie other the congress of the united states in legislating against actual practical gamy has been careful not to invade that sacred birthright of every american citizen to enjoy whatever religious opinion he ma deem right or none at all in 0 ye r wards to warship god according to the dictates of his conscience or to refrain from any 1 or even to deny the ex istance werft of ad hence the original edmunds act dealing only with overt acts expressly provides that mere opinion shall not exclude from the richt to vote and still remains unchanged but this local pseudo democracy splitting split hing the acts of con gross rua the deliver anew of the natio I 1 ial democracy and spitting on the united states constitution as fumes in its lilliput capacity arid with the majestic autocracy of the of to determine who shall arshall not ate the ludicrousness and ridiculousness of this galuten pretentiousness ln the light of its elements and history pretending to be liberal but in principle and action ingot and have adt one plain comac ins that of opril to what they term n a pers onel I 1 they element bilitch ear constitutes an ve li frontier hence yo U behold in its P 0 t ical conclaves AS biall fellows w ell ovet the itea divine tile chamb member the saloon keep erthe dearn drinker the frequenter of the gambling hells the excluded and aprato the federal soldier iho patriotically and gallantly fought to sustain the union tile rebel who bravely to lit to destroy it and the shirk ni ho left his state and country to avoid taki ng any part civil political or military nth A t memorable struggle they the worshiper at the shrine of that old and exploded know nothing party whose wati h word wp put none bi ul native americana on guard and choso slogan was ilia exclusion of air roman catholic from all places of honor or profit 11 all these they have in harmor tiou coin against an 01 ily dl of t h te ale ito A 0 t hey be a ong to c r yma 1 ag 4 A h that devout moral and religious 03 g animation aniza tion that worship god man fast in the faithee son and holy spirit drinking saloons mb I 1 ling ie el Is lewd ito arp breaking and other airm and has given to the tile beef and cheapest of all the territorial bovein merits and who at to imp education and Int ellig nee stands ith a aas per cent of its population over twenty years of age than twenty one a f the states that cannot read and write who are among the foremost of the states as to sabbath can befit a cent of its population in it 1 4 of worship than the most advanced states contrary as are these facts to the common 1 leka 1 1 11 p charges of ignorance y 1 returns and official re port of the united states superintend ent of public all being the statistics of tile federal gov ern ment attest them and abey can be wn in tile wit american almanac of official wit it Is easy for men to prate of their superior as did the pharisee of old of ilia sulk bior religion anti as di I 1 that small conclave vi aleh met in tile ra house in tills City recently arid abbed itself the territorial dom ocra tic convention professedly rl P r es enting only eight of the twenty ZI counties find a still smaller fraction of the legal voters of this third of 1 lie counties count les they it ere self cons ti tute dand uit houta constituency of respectable numbers at their back in thin city of thousands of voters scarcely a single dozen they were isit hout a sufficient membership to furnish even the very apart nam ber of delegates awarded to tile count if an over li elming of tibb living the oung gonera tion vilio have offender offen det no statute of the united stat n t are legal voters under both fe d or I 1 abid territorial laws and who are to the manor na live born or naturalized and the do of those who braved the hardships dangers and disasters of settling a barren evaste hundreds and hundreds of miles fr in even tile frontier settlements of civilization after an age of deprivation ia bar and to I 1 ith all its large prove ments anti vast eions m should refuse to allow this in significant and adventurous few to dictate their political BID ans or govera property civil kigns what upright honest liberal minded ruin who reveres the of god or the just bene of our divinely inspired constitution daro say dayd or be surprised at our I 1 A more especially can not tame submission political and be expected froin those like mys elf have been lifelong life long democrats and who gave to the government all their aid and loyalty in the perilous times of the rebellion and constituted a part of that spartan band known as war democrats and who zave to the nation a Il ancock a all A seymour a tilden a cleveland ani a 11 fellow Democrats there aro but t wo great national political parties t lie democratic rid tile and the one the other of these great political partie swill control 0 10 political destinies of the a n for the next four 3 ears at least t seem time has arrived lion tile legal voters of this Territory should ignore part side finues abandon parasite para pite political parties and place in lin e wi th the one at the other of these na dional parties subscribe to its plea adopt its usages and support its nominees As an old be biad fill the dead of the pa fit and accepting as a finally the arbi tra anent of arms and looking onit to tile living questions of the presenta presen tL wag nize with undoubting faith that dem socratic I 1 e a will carry the people of this le u b highest bation an greatest prosperity and make it one of the moat powerful and corn berchil military and ma wealthy I 1 0 powers ol 01 the civilized world 11 instead of disfranchisement arid a substituting for the peoples elective legislative another utah as this pretended domes and its delegat in the st c convention desired this niti dional standing on the broad principles plex of the constitution and inspired by the evangel of tile nineteenth century resolved that a just and liberal policy hould be pursued ia reference to the territories that the right of self gave M ment lit in berent in the and tion paran teed under the coni titu and if we prove faithful to our pledges of the past and present t his NY ill prove aio harbinger of focal 6 late ana self government to utah no in after which part y should elect the next president a rover cleveland the democratic nominee to himself has given to this republic one of the ablest most business like u I 1 rl pure crapio allen G thurman the nominee for vice preal dent has been for thirty years one of the ablest statesmen and safest of political leaders who has left his impress an law of the und bethe ing the champion and author of that great and statute known as the thurmand railroad funding law no has been with us in ilia legislative career tile chinese land and silver qu est ions having acquitted himself w ith high honor in the discharge dia charge of all his oell cial duties whether ai judge gover nor representative or ilia 4 ith and k congresses the alce for the next four years will be of but little less con s e 0 the people than the d ent fol after march ath 1889 the two cartiea will be on a tie or even balance in the united states senate abd the vice president will hold the casting vote on the most important political measures hence with a majority of democrats an fn the house of depre equal in the senate ii hother democratic policy is to preva il depends on the success of these nominees in the november election but with sueh a ticket and inch a history and with such a propos ed policy defeat seems almost ble and certainly deiy after a burst of deafening applause the chairman announced that noal nations for secret try were in order E 11 anderson was named pd ly elected to the po onion and was immediately called to read the platform of the national democratic party the reading of tills document evoked the warmest enthusiasm thusia sm the band caught renderos ren derod a soul stirring air mg aanne r then presented arid read the foll owing resolutions mr tauner in erini his reso lations lut ions said fellow citizens history telli us that god created man the dust of the earth and thatA out as soon as man was able as handle anything be began to bew himself gods of wood and stone history tells us also atiat the united states created Coo grese find true to the human haid during the early his tory of tao government congress be ian t create find the re wa aho territorial system of to day bean the sein blan ofas the gods do to I 1 i the creator of the U universe In iverse the republican party ba ving I 1 I 1 of the government Z r of a century had been 1 unable to untie r stand to situation and the trying position with re to the territories but the democratic party at bention a t S t I 1 before the close of their aa orp seems to have got tho idea and this 1 one odthe reasons why we are hero tonight and I 1 a afier as an expression of the sense of this meeting i upon that pub eject the following resolutions i and P e r haps mr chairman I 1 may as 1 u read them myself Rep olred 1 that we indorse the platform and resolutions adopted by the democratic national convention at st louls oil the ath dinst 2 that as well an her sister so called bas arrived at till groewa statehood anti fit by virtud of the second article of the tion anti nine of the treaty of hidalgo as the attached anti signed by the oi the goi eru ments anti tied not only to pelf government but also admission into t lo 10 union S that we arraign the republican congresses and party for A oaths and a breach of falth in refusing utah for tho last arter of a century vl 4 t ally form of colonial gov is incongruous with tho political aap tem of the I 1 tates and equall 0 pen to 0 ap pp res J p anu ex frand is this i true under a policy which imports officials having no interest in common with the people but to whom ilia and emoluments constitute ilia bucell five to acceptance of officio no inetter as Intelli genco or rectitude tudo of tile intentional of tile appointing power I 1 10 amade man men mado tile state band the states made congress it h d t doit that angress can create a state Is is fallacious as that men may make gods or that the creaturo may create his creator bodied politic become states by meastor re astor of their organization and self sufficiency to exer cise the functions and bear the bur dons of self government and Cong resit may of right admit them or not ac cordingly as the nation have pledged its faith todo boorn ta of betit has no authority to hold and govern arbitrarily a territory able to govern itself after this there were land and repeated calls for C C Richard sIll 1 1 in response ilon 0 C Itle bards addressed the assembled democracy of weber taking for his text the man of destiny every period of richards speech was tile signal for tremendous trem edous applause it is afe iafe i to say that a mae comprehensive description of Clev elands character life and successes has not been heard in any ratification meeting on the continent benoie mr richards bad laded the vast audience was ia 1 worked up to fever heat and sat down the burst of applause terr ifie 0 C ECH mr chairman friends and debt low citizens the national democratic con bention which met in st bouis a week ago was one of the most im meetings ever held in this country it was important because it was composed of abe AM eat and leaders af the national democratic par ty the greatest political party on earth it wu important import ani because that consention beld within its power the destiny of this great ro 0 public it was important because that convention placed id nom ina tion as its standard bearer ane of the greatest political leaders of men that has lived since the da of the immortal Jeffiers ou ant to the people of this nation be adopted one of the greatest 11 and soundest political platforms that has ever been adopted in this country thal convention did its ok and i d id it well it did we 11 I 1 ting grover cleve land for president of these united states grover cleveland A is a great man he ls true abil otia 1 t as a c ile is able ands he ia honest he has not been excelled as of talis great republic find ai a democrat my fellow citizens be is the grandest of them all they did well in in that man to be the standard bearer of this great party ris oli tibal career has been a very brie but marvellously one and it has brilliant display of american statesmanship that it is in this or any other country G rover cleveland waa born in of now jersey atal is now fifty one years he was ad to the bar as many young men are at the age of twenty two his sa as a pr at the bar was so marked yet |
