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Show ! KEPi'iium toxvKvnox last NHJHT. i KLKtTlOS OK UKI.KUA TKS TO K K P II !' S K S T Tiilr. '1 Klirt!-TOIl Klirt!-TOIl V. l'lui lor in pud itr.ulut ton.. The ItepuMVvi convention, called 10 elect delegate-: to the na'.ional con -. vctitioii uf the party, ui- f la-t nieiit in the city ha'l, ai;d Was largely at lend. d; delegate:, b jih- pre -ent fnun cveiy county in tb j 1 1 n itvi y. i A t..'hip-j;ary ur-ani. ai-.m was c!-j leeted by electing li-m. F. 1. Kii-hirJ.-chuirnian anl -I ohn N ieli'ilsou secretary. secre-tary. A committee on credentials was then appaiut.J, c ii.-i-titi',' of S. A. Mann, I rem ISalr Ltke; A. K. Tliur-ber, Tliur-ber, from L't :iu I C. C. Uieh, IV. m Rich ce'iiii!;; -iOv..dcd to ex;im-1 ine the cicdeutials of the delegates j claiming seat4-. While tliiH engaged , Mr. George K. 'hitney, of .Salt. Lake, was e tiled on for a speech, who polite-1 ly indicated thai he preferred bearing from the chair. His pivpo-ai being numerously ccejn led, the ebair Mr. lliehard) poke. 11c had no dipjith)ii in .-lain!; iVom the oeciMon, but Ins rcuuil;.- would be brief. It was unexpected to him to be called ou to jireside; an 1 it had struck him as somewhat .-ingular, when he was elected to liil the chair at a political meeting like the one as-em-bled, that thoueh a native of one ol tho eastern Slates, and from the range of the Green Mountains, and (bough now some lifty years of age, he had I never had the privilege iu this ureal : Republic ol' casting a vote for auylPres-' ideut of the United States. In his youth he had (raveled much indifferent indiffer-ent States, in the Canadas and in Kurope, Ku-rope, aud for over twenty years he had resided in Utah where such a privilege it being n Territory was denied to citizens. But he hoped that before long Amerieau citizens in Utah would,' in this respect, be placed on an equality equal-ity with the citizens of the States. lie had not taken a prominent part in political po-litical matters for the reasons given; but in the organization of tho Republican Repub-lican party in Utah he found himself engaged with others. And though one of the planks of that party had apparently appar-ently been aimed at Utah, still he considered con-sidered the time had conic wheu earnest earn-est nicu should take hold of the matter mat-ter and endeavor to bring about an amicable solution of the difficulties in the work of the great Hcpnbliean party. The speaker continued his remarks re-marks iu a sensibly practical manner touching the objeots of the oonvention.' J udgc Wright, of Box Flder, was called on, and in a brief but pertinent speech intimated that he had dabbled in politics some fifty years ago, but had got thrown out-of gear by the contest between Jjincohi aud Douglas; and hinted that in consequence of the long cessation of active interest in political matters a committee of examination might bo in order. Mr. Whitney was again called on, and met the request for a speech, lie had always been a Republican, and ho expected to remain connected with the party while it lasted if it continued to sustain the principles by which it- had been hitherto governed, lie eulogized those principles, and did not see why tbe Republican party which held them should not be organized in Utah. When he looked around through the Territory he saw a people industrious, intelligent and enterprising, a peepli; who soon after settling this region had foreseen the completion of an inter-oceanic inter-oceanic railroad aud had pointed out to congrc.-is, by memorial, as early as In31 , the gicat results which would iuliow the execution of such a vast work. The speaker read from the journals of the legislature a portion of tho memorial memo-rial to congress, on the 2ith of February, Febru-ary, 1S51, urging the building of au overland railroad, and pointing out that it would aid iu the development of tho mineral resources of Caliiornia and the mountain ranges of this region, and brintr, the trajlia and travel of the great east over tho American continent. He said he lb It a pride iu locating himself among a people who had thus early foreseen the glorious future we have entered upon. The J'topub-lican J'topub-lican paity when it came inLo power had built that railroad, and for this cause we have reason to be grateful to that party; and he felt convinced that tho .Republicans would consider it a duty to bestow upon the people who had aided so much in opening up this region the rights which had been so long withheld from them aud so patiently pa-tiently waited for. The couimitttce on credentials then reported a hundred and one delegates entitled to teats in the convention, by the certificates of election which they had examined. Joseph W. Young, Ilenry B. Brady, EUas Smith, Theodore Mc-Kean Mc-Kean and John T. Caine were appointed ap-pointed a committee on permanent organization or-ganization and order of business; and George E. Whitney, Loriu Farr, Geo. 0. Pitkin1-, A. V. Hockwood and Geo. Peacock, a committee Gn resolutions resolu-tions aud platform. While these committees were en-i gageu, non. u-corge a. omi'U was called on for a speech. Mr. Smith said that on tho 10th ol January, ISM, he commenced the settlement set-tlement of Iron county, some 260 miles south of this city. It was then a county in the provisional State of Dcscret. But soon after Utah received a Territorial organization; moco then our governors, judges, secretaries, marshals, have been appointed by the general liOvenimL-m:. Tuu political politi-cal issues which before that limo hid stirred the nation, were now things of the past. Joseph Smith in an address to the countiy had urged them to abolish slavery; ho foresaw the calamities and distress that would result from it, and he urged upon ihee:uatryitsaboliuon. llad they done so then, what rivers of blood, what mildons of treasure would have been saved! It is done, however, and tho day is past when human flesh can be aild at iuctioji like cattle, for j which the speaker thanked Heaven! ! Territories have had their grievances; ! States have had their grievances, and tho-c who have had control . of affairs had their faults. There is no party peilcet; and no human novern-, novern-, merit that iie had over road oi but had its faults and faiiit-gs. The speaker here traced the character ol' some of the appointees sent here as officers of government, and among the best governors gov-ernors we have had were James lJuane Dory and Charles Durkce, both sent by President Lincoln, a I'rCiid-.'at who1 possessed as near absolute power as ' any man in a republic can po.-se.-.j it. And thau'jh fanatics havo repeaiediy' en feavor-jd to have prescriptive mca-! sures pas-ed through congress, directed . against the people ot L tab, and which ; the Keputiicn party by us ret ma-. jori:y could ea.-ily Lae j i:se 1, thoy hed invariably fijied exet-p: in mi:' instance. in-stance. e:il .ta: Pri.-id.s Liu-; oin n-iu-ei t" svn 0 t-: n' became iv-v by d-:'r-it -'.vi h;d. since remained a dtitui W; ; oq the statute book. He lbilowed show-! ing that while iho acts of individual j officers had been often oppressive and j unjust, all their inimical impositions, I when carried up to the heads of departments de-partments had been overruled. No ioubt the supreme court would vindicate vindi-cate itself in the same direction, thus -bowing that the leading Republicans of the nation, when called upon to decide de-cide on matters of" principle, were no re-pectors of persons; and lie IWt to honor them for it. The brief spaco at our command this morning prevent us doiug anything any-thing like justice lo the Bpeaker'u remarks, re-marks, wlih-li in a clear straightforward straightfor-ward manner met candidly numerou.-ol'Ki'lioiis numerou.-ol'Ki'lioiis rair-ed against (he Repub-! Repub-! lican party. At the uta-e of Mr. Smith's speech, the committee on permanent organi-i zation reported as follows: For President Franklin J). Richards, Rich-ards, of Weber county; for vicc-l'res-, idents, (ieu. C. C. Rich, of Kich 1 eountj; Gen. Kraslus Snow, of Washington Wash-ington eounly; Hon. Geo. A. Smith, ol' Iron county; Hon. A. K. Thurbcr, i of Utah county; lion. J. C. Wright, ofltox Elder county; for Secretaries, 1 John Nicholson, Win. G. Gallagher, ol'Sall Lake county, aud L. John Nut-tall, Nut-tall, of Utah 'county; for Sergeant alarms, al-arms, Jnlm I). T. McAllister. ' The report was adopted and the organization or-ganization accepted. . The committee on resolutions and platform, through its chairman, Mr. ' Whitney, then reported (lie following, which was read : Yhnra.t we recognize as fundamental fundamen-tal political axioms, that all power is .derived from the people, and lhat all . officers arc chosen and the machinery :of government is adapted lo carry out the will and policy of the governed; and, ifAmvjf, the only mode of ox-pressing ox-pressing the popular will and impressing impress-ing it upon the administration of public pub-lic a (lairs is by tho organization of political parties, pledged to the maintenance main-tenance of well delined principles; and, wfwas, the time has now ooiue in tho history of this Territory when it is proper that parlies should be organized, organ-ized, to the end that the principles which they maintain may bo, understood under-stood and fell, .their influence extended, extend-ed, snd the- blessings of popular intelligence, intel-ligence, virtue, freedom find equal rights increased aud scoured : Now, therefore, Kksolved, that wo, tho delegates of the people elcotcd for that purpose, do hereby organize ihc Republican I'arty ol' tho Territory of Utah;, and we declare the following to bo i he principles of the party. J'irst -The Republican party of the UnitcdStatcs had its origin in the necessities ne-cessities of the nation, and was the embodiment of a demand for the purification puri-fication of the government from the corruptions necessarily growing out of human slavery. True to this mission, it has, under tho guidance of an all-wise all-wise I'rovidencc, devised and executed measures by which a more perfect union has been formed, equal juslicc for all made possible, and the blessings of liberty, have become a universal fact. Its vigor iu the conduct of the rebellion was followed by wise legislation, legisla-tion, perpetuating by constitutional guarantees the truths established by the wa: rendering the debt of the nation na-tion unquestionable and declaring in-' in-' violablc the right of suffrage. The j wisdom of its recun-truvtion measures .Will tliino in history, in fitting com-pauion-hip with the moderation and j clemency bhowuto its vanquished foes, i Exalted in iLs conceptions and ends, its errors have heeu those incident to all huniau agencies. No party in history his-tory lias souraud a record, and no parly iu the United Sut s can point to such achievements iu the past as pledges for ils future. Sect )(( The public policy of the present administration has, with few exceptions, been iu keeping with the, high prestige of the Republican party, j The public credit has been restored by j a careful collection and faithful appli-i cation of the revenues; the national debt has been diminished and the rate of interest reduced; taxation has been lightened; many of the obnoxious features of the revenue laws have been abolished; the free list lias been ox-tended; ox-tended; the Tlcjoredalions of lawless bauds in the South have been repressed" re-pressed" a generous system of bounties boun-ties and pennons has been established in favor of those who were disabled in the service ol the country; every endeavor en-deavor has been made to render the life and property of the frontiersman more secure by a policy of fairness and kindness kind-ness towards the Indians; reforms in the civil service hayc been projected in order to promote its efficiency and heighten the standard of public virtue: a wise regard for the development of the country Jias encouraged, by liberal grants, the establishment of great highways high-ways across tho continent, and has devoted de-voted tho balance of the public domain do-main to lho cause of popular education; a firm and dignified foreign policy has maintained tho respect of foreign nations na-tions and procured the ratification of important treaties. Third For the future wc pledge the party to a continuance of the measures mea-sures of .the past, with such modification modifica-tion as experience and the exigencies ofthc public service may suggest. Wo regard of prime importance such a financial fi-nancial conrse as shall bring the national na-tional currency to a par with gold; such an adjustment of the customs as shall place its burdens upon the super-tluitiesof super-tluitiesof the rich and pass over the ' necessaries of the poor; a curtailment of the power of soulless monopolies; ' such an adjustment of the relations of labor and capital that every industrious industri-ous and honest man may hope to receive re-ceive the. due reward of his toils; and such a disposition of tho proceeds of thc sales of the public lands, that by their means the foundations of the future fu-ture greatness of the nation may be deeply laid in popular intelligence and private virtue. fourth While we deprecate the course pursued by many of the federal officials of this Territory, as inimical to the intere-.ts of the people, and violative of those ireat principles of equal rights and civil and religions liberty which have ever beeu the boast of the Republican parly, we indulge the conlilent hope that the administration, administra-tion, imbued with, "and the chosen reprcterttaovo uf, ih )se great principles, prin-ciples, will in tbe future accord to the people of Utah their rights and pre- serve -iu'-uoi the iui-jrei-is of the Terri-i Terri-i tory 5giic.s the enchiachments and : irritating oppressions .-o long and pa 1 lionrly bjr:n; by them. I j Fifth We hold it inconsistent with the icnda-emal principles of our sys-! sys-! tern oi -v -iime m, that any portion ! of the p.-p!e should be deprived of a : voice iu iho scli'dion of tho.-c who are to (x..culc their law; and that the I reiiitor.al .-y.tcm was established to , prepare the people for and a-sist them j in maintaining .-elf-govern meat, and jnot to r.-b th.-m of it. While it may , be c-jni'-Ti.ied that ju-iiee to the larger 'Star.es has hitherto denied us an ad-! ad-! mL-.-iciu into the Union on terms of per-fiet per-fiet equality ith them, no principle ol i justice can be cited tor depriving us of the n.lii ufidaiinisteringouroWD local -iiairs Ly arats tlecu--i Iromamone! Tii ;:!.-.... We hold it to be the boun I-u d'av of the Republican party to pis.-i Je thit the people of the Territories Territo-ries --lul! have icatored to them these nafinnaU'ihts, and thus at once lift the Lrdy pioneers from their present vas-alage to the dignity and rights of American eiuns. iSrthYox the purpose of com pleting this organization, there shall be j selected by their convention a central committee, to cousUt of thirteen persons, per-sons, seven to bo chosen from the Territory Ter-ritory at large, and two from each judicial judi-cial district. This committee will attend at-tend to the organization of the party in I every county, and will put itself incom-imunication incom-imunication with the National Republican Repub-lican party of the United States. Andj we cordially invite all persons in sym-j pathy with the principles of this glort-' ous party, to co-operate with us in spreading . a knowledge ot its vital truths to every town, hamlet aud camp of the Territory. -' . , ,' j Tho phi i form aud resolutions wore1 unanimou"!y adopted by acclamation. Tlic next order of business was the, election of delegates to the National Republican oonvention, to bo held in Philadelphia, when the following gen-tlemcmen gen-tlemcmen weretrepectively uominated and elected. For delegates Frank Fuller and Thomas Fitch; for alternates Geo. A. Stnilh and Wm. Jennings. The convention then proceeded to elect a central committee of seven from the Territory at large and two from each judicial di.-triet, when the following follow-ing gtmllruit'ti were chosen: Territory-at-large John T. Caine, S. A. Mann, Daniel II. Wells, Thomas Pitch, Klias Smith, Then, V, Tracy, Wm, Jennings. First judicial district Joseph W. Vmmg, Jessie N. Smith. Second judicial district Warren N. DHsenberry, George Peacock. Third judicial district C. C. Kich, R D. Riohards. After the transaction of a little further fur-ther business the convention adjourned nine |
