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Show Editor Register: In the Reg jSTER of July 14th you announced that a (nil report of the proceedings of tht Liberal Convention held in this city on Saturday July 11, would be published in your next issue but looking through the paper and not finding it there, I suppose you have not received it from the Secretary. However be that as it may, I think that as the Register was foundad on the principle of being a peoples paper that therefore thepeople should through it be informed of what is going on ia our own county especially. espec-ially. And as I was present at that convention most of the time I can although I took no notes, give you a very fair synopsis of the proceedings The convention met in the Methodist Metho-dist church at 10 o'cloek a. m. July 11 and after organizing with Win. Zabriskie as chairman and a Mr Clark from Dover as Secretary j,iro-ceeded j,iro-ceeded to transact the business for which it was called,namely:to select candidates for the various offices, to be voted for at the coming August election, but in view of the eome-what eome-what changed aspect of the political affairs in the territory it was af er considerabe talk decided to formud late the views of the members in relation re-lation theret o,so that whDever woul-be woul-be selected to carry the liberal ban ners would know what the party expected ex-pected of them, and the people at arge would kno what the party was working for. Of course I can not give you a copy of the Preamble and Resolutions Resolu-tions adopted by the Liberal convention con-vention of Salt Lake county, but shall here remark, that while the wording of the two documents are not the- same I fail to see any difference differ-ence in the sentiments expressed, excepting the two last resolutions and protest in the Salt Lake platfojm , , - hlch were not in the San Pete. V V- 1 After the convention got through," T ' ' making resorutionsjNoininaliohsW ' came in order, and resulted as fol lows: for Member of Legislative Council, Rev. G. W, Jartln, Janti. For Jembpr of Legislative House, Judge Jacob Johnson, Spring City. Superintendent of District Schools, Rev. Murphy, Aft. Pleasant. Selectmen, E. W. Fox,Afa,nti; N. S. Nielsen, Mt. Peasant. Respectfully Yours, CORKISTONDENT. better than mere theorists and holicay suMiers as to present conditions Resolved. That the Liberal party has no animosities to gratify; no revenges to accomplish; but that it loves the ptinci-ples ptinci-ples of Anieiican liberty and revere their institutions; that its hatreds are duected alone against the methods :t:d madness which would subvert tli Government, Gov-ernment, overwhelm the family and degrade de-grade the man, kesolvtci.'XivAt the men and women who educated under and believe in the free principles of free government are nut prepared to say to the people of theUnit ed States, that at this time the Territory Terri-tory should become a slate. When the people hare shall have become emand pated; shall have renounced all d ependence epen-dence in secular matters upon a hiearchy wl.en they evidence by their own honest endeavor in a boua fide struggle for freedom, free-dom, that the spirit which leavens the in slitutions of the country prevails indeed with them; whcn( in fact, there shall be no question that proper conditions exist when that time comes and not until then are we willing that Utah shall beanie be-anie a free and sovereign state; because every interest of Utah noth.Motmou and Gentile, forbids the admission of this Territory to Statehood undi-r present conditions, inasmuch as it would destroy values, demoralize business, and stretch around a polygamous theocr.isy the protection pro-tection of State lines. Resolved. That we stamp upon the attempt at-tempt to divide gentiles 011 party lines as but another attempt of the Mjiihoii lead-ors lead-ors to accomplish by stealth and fraud, and with the help of Gentile allies, what they have so often failed to attain unaided and we deplore the blindness which has led a few lormer friends astray. ResoXved, That we recognize in the large and intelligent organized army ot laboring men in this city and Comity one of the greatest factors 111 our growth and prosperity; aud we believe in the employment em-ployment of our fellow citizens in the construction of all public works. We believe that eight hums is a fair limit for a days labor on all public buildings and a oiks. That the mechanic's lien law should be so amended as to protect the laborer as well as the contractor, and that the exemption law should be so amended am-ended as to exempt from execution or attachment thtee months earnings of the laboring man who is the head ot a family, fami-ly, We ask a Change in the time ot hold iag elections in this Territory, so that all county and Territorial elean.n tuny fait the saute daC'i.vV.-'j-W4v,i. Rt-sovea, the political dictation of employeis, or the discharge ol employees em-ployees on account of their political, opinions op-inions should be bv statue declared a miademeauor.ponishaot? oy fine and. imprisonment im-prisonment We protest against the refusal of the Government ol the United States to withdraw from silver the lestrictious placed upon it eighteen years ago, and which have ever since worked a might y hardship upon all industries, especially those ol mining aud agncultuie; and we tnank Congress lor the protection it has diawu around lead. C. S Varian J. K. Mokris, C, V. L00FUOUKOW, C. C. Goodwin, .. Robert iViullhall E. U. Hoge, H. P, Johnson. Committee. The American citizens of Salt Lake county, in Liberal convention assembl-ed.heieby assembl-ed.heieby otesent to their fe low citizens their platform of piinciples. Whereas, For lortv vears the institutions institu-tions of the free Government of the United Uni-ted States have been menaced in his por tion ul American territorv by a theoc jacv so despotic m its exercise of power as to supirss all freedom of thought or action in the individual' and Whereas, During all o' said time the people acknowledging its authority have been directed and edcuatedgm lines ol thought tending to induce the conviction ;hat the Government of iheUnitedStates was a league with death a id a covenant coven-ant with hell and an enemy to them and ;heir iiistulious; and Whereas, In the past the subordination of temporal government to ecclesiastical ecclesiasti-cal power in the Territory of Utah has made life unendurable, and the pursuit of liberty and happiness impossible foi all true Americans, within its sovereignty; sovereign-ty; aud Whereas The Liberal party borne on the necessities of the hour and made pus bible by the union ot brave and true men and women, by its strong and steady opposition op-position for these many years past to the insolent demands ot an arrogant and alien priesthood has touched the pulse and quickened the conscience of the great people of these United States; '"whereas, The politics,! conditions ol one hundred and fifty thousand people produced by years of mental slaveiyaud superstition in the natural ordar ot tilings cannot possibly be changed m a day, and . . . , . Whereas, All revolutionsjiidgmg Irom the lessons ol history, come from within and not from without; and Whereas, the political power of the Mormu" Ghuich in the Territory of Utah as exeicised in the past and as 11 now exists in the present is a menace to liee institutions too dangerous lobe sufleied now theielore be it. Resoh'fd. By tne Liberal party of Salt i Lake county in convention assembled, I that we announce to our lellow citizens ol tiie United States tnat tne.e ! ciuestion of a national political cliaiacler which, at the present time, can setye to tlisliact the attention ol lliem and oui-J oui-J selves from the single one wnicli beie conlronts us. . Reso'vtd kTht the efforts oi a lew de-siifiiuiif de-siifiiuiif place-huuters.c?upled with Liose ! ol tiie aeii. ol the M01 mon tlieocracy. ' to place the American citizens oi tins Teiritory inafaUe light beluie the coun try, do and of riUt sliould receive our condemnation. Theie is nothing in the past nor present l.fe of the Motmon Church which indicates to us that it has taken its pnestlv Hand from the throat of the citizen For yeais we have t een I ' tightins for the supiemacv ol a pr.nciple j and the veteran experience ul many con- f . rticts enables us, as we believe to judge V- , |