Show prohibition convention inq stirring resolutions Resolution are sAre adopted the can gang and the official organ roasted to a dull brown nephi morris speaks the silt lake papers all agree that the mass convention of republican republic in prohibitionists was a hummer every one of the paper sav av that it was a representative gathering and while ahil the herald srbui c e ad nt dt r tun tin tain are all against the sentiment expressed they all accord the convention members sincerity of purpose here is the herald account of the opening proceedings the convention was vas called for 7 50 30 but it was 8 before goo geo M cannon announced the officers of the assembly L morr s the chairman briefly thanked the connection conen conNen tion for foi selecting him an aa chairman ren rei G W mccreary McCre cry of ogden chaplain praed that the members of the legislature might hear their cry and god direct their footsteps the invocation mas as followed by a quartette of lady singers from provo who rendered you can hear the glad refrain for prohibition A S riser of jt salt lake men 11 kl that the appoint a corn com cittee of eleven on resolutions and thal thai the committee retire at once chairman morris named the following committee A S riser silt S alt lake J JP P keeler utah john V bluth weber T J R hendrickson cache caenen J W pears BOY box elder W B lowry San sanpete pete W R Thomp wn mallard wm Z terry summit jame A anderon morgin morgan jesse 11 smith davis Davi davisa sJ J C jensen wasatch when mr morris completed this list other counties were anere heard from who desired representation oi 01 the committee and the following names were added from the body of the house G M jones sevier wilford daa da iron john at mckeller tooele thoele alfred W rich thomas A cook garfield heer H e LeQ leonard nArd emery J A iverson carbon mr sheffield wayne G M beebo beebe piute diute wilford robertson beaver L H wren san sam juar juan R S collett uintah john M davis davig the represent representative atie from uintah county was named but declined and mr collett was su subi sated bt st ted kaht L MORRIS lehi al Morris was the chief speaker and he made one of the most bril biant speecher echea echem of his career while the committee was preparing the report he addressed the convention his hia motive in standing before them needed no particular explanation hew as there in the interest of prohibition hibi bibi tion and for the good of the party emd ad the good of the people he had ino no joalice ace in his heart toward the i party leaders Je adera he had some pity for thero and he thought they needed it lie he bad nothing to gain in a business way by advocating prohibition directly at an rate he had on the other hand timime acme reasons to believe abat if prohibition did not pass he be had bad the opportunity of several good elin tracts in his line of business but ke W would rather remain in moderate all f circum and have ave 11 e them the anju T b re ie were three parties gt eting I 1 ng ing the suf frages of the people in the county list f fill it the american part through its orators arid and its official pres made such onslaught upon the mormon people of vituperation and slander anti and vilified them in a shameful manner that it groused in me a to come out and oppose that p pirty airty and eill call all brothers of liberty and all the mormon people to unite and break down that party of intolerance pro and religious warfare after mr air morris had bad stated that he be had a right as a citizen and a m member e m ber of 1 I 1 religious bouet to stand for self defense lie he slid 1 I went to the republican pirt ind told them of my desires and when hen I 1 told them that I 1 was to come N out in the open thea the raised their hands in horror tearing fearing that it would disrupt their party thy said do it atul bihy il wo 3 t 1 01 gh jour our eions get us the notes lotes but dont commit yourself in writing dont do it in public I 1 laid aid no try tion is the honest one I 1 shall only ask the democrats of salt lake county to vote the county and judicial ticket arid and note etc otc their own national and state ticket as they d great f fears cars were entertained that this would defeat the state ticket the Am african AmT ican rican press had slid said the party would wrest the power from the lecherous adulterous and thieving priesthood and I 1 was prepared to take thorn them at their word and fight them on that issue in salt lake county after pointing to the victory aich which was achieved in salt lake county by the republicans mr morias said if there has been any promise or pledge of sport p ort to the saloon aloon in forests in salt lake county and the tate state s of utah I 1 am and my are avowed and unalterable enemies to it from now and henceforth mark me I 1 do not say there have been pledges made I 1 leane leae you to judge from the circumstances with which ou are familiar and from some facts which may be given eiven iou this evening As members of the republican party you ought to know that the ehle fest obstacle in the way of the passage of a prohibition bill was the leaders of the republican party they deny denv that there has been a bargain those gentlemen deny having in any way exercised perci sed or interfered in this matter or in any way exercise influence over legislators and the i patriot denies also having done anything of the kind I 1 ask ou to think who are the men today who did it surely the brewers do ita in the nane of the republican party and the I 1 protest with all the vigor of my manhood against federal office holders dabbling ind mixing mixine in local polities politics mr morris then quoted L lincoln again who spurned to make a deal he was in the illinois legislature because he discovered something bad in the bill proposed by the other side aide 1 I dont dent know what kind of men you thought you were sending bending ta 9 the legislature said gall mr morn 11 from your county but we thought thought we wa wre that kind of men and I 1 belleu believe lor fok the chott part we have such men if thoy they wert only tin given their absolute liberty they w were ere sent to represent the people of utah not the republican party and their duty is not service to the party but service to the state A SPEAKEASY SPEAK EASY KITCHEN mr morris then described what is 13 known as a speakeasy speak easy kitchen in the state of maine and other prohibition states there a man will go up some back alley and by iome borne hanger banger on be shown a house he will enter the house and go downstairs and he hill ail see an old sofa he will lift the top of it and there will be booze on ice he will help himself he will never see anyone but when he goes away he will leave hilf half a dollar on the table 1 I dont suppose aou ou would establish i deal there said mr morris no two parties met I 1 firmly belice be licie and I 1 will not attempt to prove it nevertheless I 1 do balice bi lieve there IMS has been cind and there is in rutih a political easy kitchen I 1 the deal has been denied Jori tied by three member of the foiw who practically admitted the obligation anen they voted against the cannon bill the party orsin organ his extolled as ab noble citizens and lobal dicang licani those three and held gnem up as examples of members of the re rc pub licin and the thirty nine men who voted for the bill were ruled out of the party by bv tl tle te e official organ what an insult to those thirty nine respectable gentlemen who had a perfect right to vote note for prohibition if they wished ind and their cies NN wished it of them I 1 arid and the one man in the senate who stood and fought for prohibition he was read out of the party and his clean and respectable spec table reputation be smeared by the official organ of the party I 1 protest against the usurpation of such means and authority by the organ of the party in defaming the names of representatives in the legislature because at ait in keeping with your instructions and with the convictions of their own heart and conscience the few n who have assumed to direct the party and determine its attitude upon these questions are arc dome doing these things and in the name of the republican party dirty I 1 protest against it TOLD TO GET INTO LINE mr air morris admitted their splendid se rices in the past but power corrupts almost adv man he said the chairman spoke of the intermountain inter mountain campaign in the interest ot P prohibition he said he thought it was for prohibition but ho he was wa told he was mistaken 1 I know that paper was guarded and bonco he continued 1 I will admit that there was opportunity to jump either way and the paper jumped in the direction thit we did not expect it to jump there was a sudden stop to this campaign I 1 have it from personal advice and I 1 can prove it if necessary that as the campaign ad danced and the paper used to speak of one prominent county official in this county visited every saloonkeeper that is i doing business and told the saloonkeeper ei in everl ever instance if you dont want tant prohibition get in line with the republican party I 1 dont say there was a bargain I 1 dont say there was a deal adeal I 1 dont lay ay there was a mutual understanding on both sides but the evidence seems to indicate tint that there is a in the fence somewhere mr me morna r ria called attention to the fact that a former state senator and democrat sat behind a state senator while the prohibition bill was being discussed he said mid this former state senator is is recognized as the leader of the liquor tones forces and he coached that republican state senator until the bill was put ti to sleep and the republican paper took no nn yet he continued he brands us as democrats because we believe in prohibition af the party was bigger than its lead er eri era i he said and bigger than its organ and the party had a right to speak of those isuel and define the attitude of the party on them we protest against the usurpation of the party by which the policy of the official organ orean is determined we si the state committee recognized and authorized the party paper to represent it but it never in our opinion authorized it to fight prohibition you legislators say that A the people of utah dont want prohibition if they did could they get it without your changing fronta no then you do pot not wish to consider the wishes of the people of utah and the vast majority of the republican party I 1 protest against the u usurpation of the party by self ip pointed leaders who speak for the party when thy thay have not been authorized protect against the pirty party organ tilting stand upon these momentous issues when it hii hai not been authorized protest protect against federal office holders jiin mixing in local fra eilo of the rights and decency of party we stand for statewide state wide prohibition and we shall haie hac it as god lives REV FRANCIS BURGETT BUR G ETT SHORT S HO P T rev F B short the poster pastor of the first methodist church was one of the speakers ind and among other things he said the one paramount interi int crist A that brings ug together my fellow countrymen is not dead even in utah it is not even walking at night in its steep sleep our interest floes does not require the darkness of the night in naich to walk the bright daylight is our time to move around but it can be truly sold said of many of our opponents that they hane hae riot not had many nights of sleep during the past few weeks ecks no the prohibition of the liquor traffic in utah is ib not dead and furthermore ther more it will not die nor down until the last are ridden of their blight and shame and damnation we therefore meet tonight with this as our motto when the last saloon is closed in utah we will stop the fight we may lose some battles indeed the prohibition army had a temporary defeat some dais ago but dont lose cou courage raze my brothers and sisters dont lose courage the mills of the pods gods grind slowly but they ever grind we seek not our own good alone and they that thus go forth toiling are arc sure to win for th ir cause is right the liquor traffic in utah is upon its dying bed and its friends are already kelpin keepin watch but woe unto the physicians ns that keep it alive did the whisk interests buy a printing press for fora a paper in this elt cit chist or did them the pay for any part of 1 ita 9 to say such is quite an easy thing but is it true do you think that men can become so vile and so perjure them selesT I 1 most assuredly do not relieve believe the charge and further if any man in this house knows that such a deal was made he owes A t to those among us that purn such actions to come forward with hii proof more afore than that any man that knows that such a deal vas made is parti criminisi cri minis in to d it il unless he does come forth and prove the charge in spying thee things to you vou tonight my countrymen I 1 have nave but one purpose give ellry evi ry man a square deal finally I 1 share with iab you my friends an undying hatred for the saloon it is the ore polluting spawning nine life wrecking soul destroy ing iniquity which we have to fight but fight we must and win we shall we hate the saloon but not its keeper we would help him if we could we hate the saloon but not its patron we would deliver hun him from the temptation which surrounds him if we could by emptying the last cask breaking the last bottle closing and barring the last door mr saloonkeeper if we could have our way there would be no more blighted lives wrecked homes father less and hungry children lonely and I 1 brogen hearted widows no more there would be no more drunkards funerals and ruined lives you would stop your unspeakable and unnamable business and like other men vou would engage in legitimate and loft lofty y methods of trade in conclusion mr short said that what was needed in the legislature was men if he were here two wo years hence he said he would go into every ward meeting hou seand hold meetings at every cross crosb roads where he was permitted to do so and plead for mon men 0 and he declared if the representatives enta tives at washington do not keep their hands off of his busin business cs it will be the sorriest thing they ever did two of them are or on the lit lop lap of the last latrace race they will mil eier eer run if they insist on interfering with the do de mands of the pi ople of this state MRS E E SHEPARD TALKS 1 I want to sy s y that the Inter moun tain republican has me by saying say me that I 1 arn am not orthodox she exclaimed but lot let me tell you I 1 believe that as a promotion of an influence I 1 nay have for the protection of mi honie and my loved ones onea for twenty years the W C T U haq ha been bee n struggling in utah against the 1 liquor I quor curse the organization his has in n its membership the best women of evera denomination my vice dent is a mormon and one of the best workers for the cause in the state we have stood shoulder to shoulder day by day and week by week acar 3 car after lear fighting against the liquor liquor traffic last bear ear the anti saloon saloon league made a start and the W C T U rallied to its support t we joined in the work and became a part of the movement but every t mp erace ce person in utah knows that loca I 1 option 0 can never be of perm ii t et ei t benefit to a community local option on only serves tu to keep the question a I 1 lne ine issue A community may go dry this year and be wet again the next I 1 tell you the women of this state are not for local option they want not only the anti saloon but they want the anti brewery the anti distillery distiller the anti everything for selling or making liquor B bi closing the saloon we are able to cripple the liquor business busin esq by bv prohibiting the making of liamor we kill the business 1 I said that prohibition under the most lax la enforcement is 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