Show TH BALLI last Nights Trenieu lOllS Eiitliusiasin IE MONSTER OVATION j011 Joliii T Caines Ringing Ring-ing Address IGHT BEFORE TJ BATTLE powerful Arguments by Representative Repre-sentative Men I I TiE PEOPLES PRINCIPLES I I Platform of the Libs Tottering The Shattered and Demolished Grand Assemblage An hour oefore the time advertised I for the lasS meeting of the Peoples to begin last evening the steps party begn of the road in the sidewalk and part te Salt Luke Theatre were front of the Slt Theate of citizens male crowded with patriotic citiensmale to to gain entrance and female eager About 7 oclock the Sixteenth the building ocoek budng Band attired in teenth Ward Brass played a round uniform their gorgeous un orm of American airs in front of the build r > thp doors were thrown UMfnH Ing and the vast concourse of people open opn until before surged into the empty seats unti halfpast 7 the auditorium the stage in balpat < = bort every nook and corner of the vast structure was packed to overflowing intelligent and well deported audience wel bv an intelgent of dience anxious to hear principles the Peoples Party enunciated by the speakers peples had been selected for the occasion Present in the east proscenium box was President Taylor and members of his family Preident in the front rows of seats famiv stage were Hon George Q upon stge Gen Cannon Hon Wilford Woodruff Burton A M Muser Esq County Clerk Cutler Judge Dusenberry Gen H B Cuter Hon S R Thurman Citv Attorney Richards Elias Morris Esq City Councilor Geo Stringfellow Supervisor Livingston Jos E Taylor Esq David James Esq and other lead and citizens Two representative ctzens immense ing flags appropriately draped the proscenium and the stage was set with gorgeous parlor scenery At the appointed time Angus M Cannon Esq called thp vast assembly o order and moved that Hon Jam snap s-nap Mayor of the city be elected chairman of the mass meeting The motion was stated and carried with a vociferous affirmative when his Honor the Mayor stepped forward and was greeted with great applause He briefly thanked the meeting for the honor con f rred By separate motions Angus M Cannon Can-non Esq was made ViceChairman and Heber M Wells Secretary and the gentlemen took their respective seats The chairman then arose and said Ladies and gentlemen I take great pleasure in introducing to you this evening the Hon John T Caine our present delegate to Congress and the Peoples standard bearer in the present ctection Then amid deafenmg applause ap-plause Mr Caine came to the front and prefaced his address with the remark that he had taken the liberty to write his argument and would proceed to read it from manuscript and that his rAflQflrl for doing would be apparent reason AVX so UUU1J3 DWU1U LJV p before he concluded He then proceeded pro-ceeded to deliver the following powerful power-ful argument which was listened to with breathless interest and interspersed with frequent and enthusiastic demonstrations demon-strations of approval Mr Ctiairman Ladies and Gentlemen J am highly gratified to meet so many of my fellow citizens this evening in this the capital city of our Territory I I shows that you are not indifferent to the issues of the hour Tomorrow the people of Utah will by their ballots decide who shall represent them a their Delegate in the Forty ninth Congress of the United States The Peoples Party of Utah in a convention con-vention made up of delegates representing I represent-ing every county in the Territory has I placed in nomination a candidate to I stand upon the same platform upon which he stood two years ago The principles of that platform you are familiar with there is therefore no need for me to enumerate them further I than to say that the chief pillar of the superstructure i the great principle of local selfgovernment The minority party has also met in convention and nominated a candidate and adopted a platform upon which he must stand hi this campaignor fall to the ground The platform has but one planka proposition to govern Utah in future by means of a Legislative Coin mission The people of the Territory nave been threatened with this buga ho for several years and in the last elejrate campaign they were told if they T1 did not vote for Judge Van Zile they would get a Legislative Commission I Sure But the people of Utah are not easily frightened by scare crows they disregarded the Liberal threat thev hd not vote for Judge Van Zile and I I they have not got the Legislative Com nnssion The Judge proved a failure asa I I as-a prophet The Legislative Commission I I scheme was Legslative Congress and i we have lost its champion Judge Van I Zile Disgusted doubtless at the bad U tc of the people i not electing him to Congress he gathered up his grip sack away and like the Arab he silently stole But another man has arisen a great man and a brave man no doubtwhose namo is Smith He stands upon the neplank platform A Legislative < ommission As this is the only political politi-cal which the Y issue minority party present 1 pre-sent for the consideration of the electors i propose to examine it tonight and show some reasons why the people of Utah should not vote for a candidate standing upon such an unconstitutional platform I after you have heard my argument you wish to be governed by a Commissionthen on tomorrow Legislative Commision Smith row give your votes to Captain If on the other hand you prefer to govern gov-ern yourself to make your own laws by means of a Legislature of your own will consign Smith and choosing you wi i Commission to the same his Legislative rommision bW VAiW OiLU AllO J V lOIi lA 6 fate JU that the great Democratic Convention Conven-tion at Chicago consigned his anti polygamy resolution As that dropped out of sight and was heard of no more so let Captain Smith and his platform drop out of sight obscured by the ballots bal-lots of a free people and be heard of nO more forever The Legislative Commission scheme of Utah proposes to make the Territory propose a provineeand provides for tile establishment establish-ment of a form of government not essentially es-sentially different form the proconsular rule which Imperial Rome inflicted upon the people who were so unfortunate a to become subject to her galling yoke I would be a monstrous proposition to assert that Congress has either the constitutional con-stitutional or moral power to deprive a large body of peaceable citizens of the United States of a right which the Unicd authors of government declared was inestimable to them and formidable tot to-t nt only 1 h There are such strong and high constitutional con-stitutional and legal objections to this class of legislation that to my mind its bare suggestion is fraught with dan From the establishment of our government ger there have been certain inherent in-herent powers in the people never ceded to the nation which have been exercised locally Of these reserved rights the thee right of local selfgovernment the local selgovernment lawmaking power has ever been and is today a most preeminent one and to the extent of these inherent privileges the citizens of a Territory do not essentially essen-tially differ from those of a State The mere difer that a man has crossed an imaginary line within our great repub lne and of selfadvancement lie in the cause seladvancement national does not and cannot destroy his progress rights of local pelfgovern ment On the 9th of September 1850 Con passed the Organic Act of the Ter gress passed of ritory of Utah By the whole tenor recognized the inher that act Congress ent power of the people to become their own legislators and their inalienable of rights to achieve the sovereignity statehood This law conveyed no new rights of life and liberty to the people right lfe acknowledgment merely made national g I ment of those powers already possessed and provided for the manner of their temporary exercise Any assertion to the contrary is an attempt at retrogression sion into the darkness of tyranny Our forefathers from the very dawn ot English Eng-lish history asserted and maintained with their blood and treasure the inborn privileges of the people and their effort to relegate government to its proper position as servant instead of master constantly a expanded with mans intellectual intel-lectual growth and love of liberty j until people one nation of English speaking made the truth eternally triumphant by thp sword of revolution The Legislative Commission scheme of which the so called Cassidy bi presented present-ed to the last session of Congress was the embodiment proposes t abrogate the Organic Act of tie Territory abolish abol-ish the present government and give the control of property life and liberty in Utah to 1 Governor and a Board of fifteen fif-teen Commissioners to be appointed by the President of the United States The legislative acts of this commission when approved by the Governor and not forbidden for-bidden or annulled by congressional inhibition would become the laws of the Territory The whole people of Utah would be disfranchised their property their domestic institutions the entire machinery of their local government gov-ernment would be at the mercy of nine men eight of whom are nominally to be citizens of the Territory I is an extraordinary thing t propose the total disfranchiement of a whole people Itvs so utterly foreign to American Ameri-can institutions it isso entirely at variance vari-ance with AngloSaxon principles of government it is so antagonistic to the truths which the sages of the Revolution held to be selfevident it is so manifestly mani-festly without warrant in either the letter or the spirit of the Constitution of the United States that I am amazed that any man claiming to be an Amen can citizen that any man claiming to be a Democrat that any party claiming claim-ing to be Liberals could be found to advocate such a monstrous proposition Congress has the undoubted right to provide a form of government for the people of a Territory I is its bounden duty to do it But in so doing it must not violate a fundamental principle of English and American free government It has been asserted that the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that whatever the Constitution has not absolutely prohibited Congress from doing do-ing it has the right to do But this is not true The Supreme Court of the United States has not yet ventured npon of I quite so extreme an interpretation quie Constitutional power of Congress Thus far in the construction of chapter eighteen of the eighth section of Article First the Supreme Court has held that Congress must be restrained b 7 the spirit as well as the letter of the Constitution I Chief Justice Marshall in McCulloch vs Justce 4 Wheaton 421 said that the legislation of Congress must be con sistutt with the Icttrr and spirit of tlP Constitution Con-stitution The right to acquire territory necessarily neces-sarily implies the right to govern i snrir imples fact that the But it is an unquestionable tie Constitution did not specifically provide Consttuton da for the acquisition of territory I i 1 settled beyond dispute that the word1 territory ter-ritory used in thethird section of article I Four of the Constitution meant the I territory which had been or might b I ceded by the States The subject of the Northwest Territory which had been Northwet ceded to the confederation was under I consideration in the convention when Section III Article IV was first proposed II posed Mr Madison proposed additional powers to be vested in Congress To dispose of the unappropriated nf tVio TTnirorl Stn + nc na1 inafitiif lands or tne united states 10 in temporary governments for new States arising therein I arimg Carroll moved a proviso that nothing in this 1rovi shall be construed to affect the claim of the United States to vacant lands ceded to them by the treaty of peace I The Gpverneur Morris proposed Legislature shall have power to dispose I of and make all needful rules and regulations I regu-lations respecting the territory or other 1 property belonging to the United States I and nothing in this Constitution contained con-tained shall be so construed as to prejudice preju-dice any claims either of the United States or of any particular State partcular The provisos were necessary because of disputes and conflicting claims in regard re-gard to territorial rights which came ral riOht 1 terrt near wrecking the confederation Gov ernenr Morris was the draughtsman of i the Constitution after the resolutions embodying its various provisions had been adopted be the convention He changed slightly the language of his proposition and made it read as it now stands in our own Constitution namely The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States and nothing in this Constitution Con-stitution shall be so construed as to prejudice pre-judice any claims of the United States or of particular State n Goyerneur Morris declared at the time the Louisiana treaty and the provisions for carrying it into effect were heing discussed cussed in Congress that he had in his he his substi mind at the time proposed hi tute to Mr Madisons provision the ultimate ul-timate acquisition of the whole American Ameri-can continent by the UnitedStates but that he was careful to conceal from the convention his thoughts and did conyenton not make his language broader because he knew that the convention would not have agreed with him His lea was as he stated that all or any such acquisitions acquisi-tions should be governed as colonies or provinces shoul never incorporated in the Union It i well known that Governeur Morris was not in accord with the ruling sentiment of the convention lie had no faith in the capacity of the people for selfgovernment He believed in a strong centralized government Government Gov-ernment by the people he held to be an ignis fatuus a vain chimera He accepted ac-cepted the work of the convention not because he believed in the soundness of the principles on which it built nor because be-cause he believed the superstructure i would stand but because it was the best he could get He expressed his own sentiments as well as those of Hamil sentiment a a ton when he declared in his funeral oration over the corpse of his dead friend that he trusted moreover that I in the chances and changes of time we should be involved in some war which might strengthen our Union and nerve the executive Had he added and eecutve he enlarge the power of Congress would have unwittingly predicted what has come to pass I seems to be fashionable fash-ionable now to propose t do what Morris Mor-ris on another occasion declared it would some tine be necessary to dolto tle abridge the right of election in order to protect them the people against themselves Fortunately for the people peo-ple of this country and for the oppressed of all other lands the views of Morris I and Hamilton did not prevail in the constitutional convention u Shall Con i t gress accent ana enforce them against the letter and spirit of the Constitution I which they considered a makeshift for i the time being only 1 Shall Congress put in practice the doctrine which Mr I Morris did not dare to propose to the convention that terrritory acquired should be governed as colonies and provinces 1 Shall Congress go even tarther than Mr Morris would have gone and deprive the people of a Territory Terri-tory of that autonomy which in common com-mon with those of every other Territory tory has been accorded them The Supreme Court of the United States has uniformly held that the I State word H territory in Section 3 Article IV of the Constitution is merely descriptive descrip-tive of one kind of property and is equivalent to the term lands U S vs Gratiot 14 Pet 537 I has been asserted as-serted 1 Chief Justice Marshall held otherwise in the case of the American I Insurance Company vs Carter reported in 1 Peter 542 But this is not the the fact The Court simply decided that right to govern was the inevitable consequence con-sequence gover of the power to acquire territory It did not base that right upon Section 3 Article IV exclusively I found the authority therefor rather in the entire scope of the Constitution the right to acquire having been conceded con-ceded and acted upon and approved I The language of the Court was h Perhaps I Per-haps the power of governing a Territory Terri-tory belonging to the United States Ii which has not by becoming a State acquired the means of selfgovernment i may result necessarily from the fact that it is not within the jurisdiction of I any particular State and is within the power and jurisdiction of the United I States The right to govern may be the inevitable consequence of the right to acquire territory whichever may be the source from which the power is derived the possession of it is unquestionable I The Supreme Court in the Dred Scott i decision solemnly declared and no one has questioned the soundness of its declaration That citizens of the United States who migrate to a Territory Terri-tory belonging to the people of the United States cannot be ruled as colonists I colo-nists dependent upon the will of the I general government and to be governed by any laws it may think proner to impose im-pose The principle upon which our governments rest and upon which alone they continue to exist is the union of States sovereign and independent indepen-dent within their own limits in their I internal and domestic concerns and bound together as one people by a general gen-eral government possessing certain enumerated and restricted powers delegated dele-gated to it by the people of the several States and exercising supreme author I ity witlnn the scope of the powers granted to i throughout the dominion of the United States A power therefore there-fore in the general government to obtain ob-tain and hold colonies and dependent Territories over which they might legislate leg-islate without restriction would be inconsistent I in-consistent with its own existence in its present form Dred Scott vs Sand ford 19 Howard 447 The purchase of the Louisiana territory terri-tory was our first acquisition of domain outside the limits fixed by the treaty of peace with Great Britain Mr Jefferson had grave doubts about the constitutionality constitution-ality of incorporating territory outside incororatig I the limits 1 precisely fixed by tIe treaty of 1783 He was in favor of a Consti tutional amendment The whole subject I sub-ject was elaborately discussed by Congress reached I gres and the determination r i that under the treatymaking power I and the grant of power h to make all laws which shall be necessary and the proper for carrying into execution foregoing powers and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government gov-ernment of the United State or any I department orofticer thereof territory could be constitutionally acquired by purchase or by conquest Therefore the right to acquire territory was consid end among the necessary incidental powers granted bv Chapter 18 Section 8 of the first Article of the Constitution Artce U S vs Tingley 5 Peter 15 TS v T Bevans 3 Wheat 388 Storys Const S 12561258 The right to acquire territory ter-ritory implies the right to govern but rtor impll the implication must be consistent with the spirit of the Constitution The very essence of the spirit of the Constitution esence is the right of local selfgovernment The Federalists in opposition to the while territory Democrats held that whie terrto Democrat might acquired it could not be incorporated in-corporated in the United States and cororated the inhabitants thereof must forever inhabitnt condition of colonists The be accordingly and governed accorclnglr that the of provided treatv l purchase > people of the Territory should be incorporated in-corporated into the Union of the United ito Tmon States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the Fcd I ral Constitution t the enjoyment of all the rights advantages and immunities immuni-ties of citizens of the United States and in the meantime thev should be maintained main-tained and protected in the free enjoyment enjoy-ment of their liberty property and religion U ligion which they professed Temporarily Louisiana was under a provisional government consisting of a governor secretary and legislative council This lasted one year when counci created the Territory of Or Congress leans and accorded the people the right to elect a legislative assembly The remainder I re-mainder of the Territory was given a government consisting of a governor secretary three judges and a council composed of the governor and the judges Their chief duties were to regulate re-gulate intercourse with the Indians there being very few white inhabitants and they exclusively In han traders and fur trappers It cannot be claimed that the establishment I lishment of a government for one year lihment for the Louisiana Territory is a precedent pre-cedent in favor of disfranchising the people of Utah who have for more than thirtythree years enjoyed the right of local selfgovernment Better by far assert arbitrary power That would at least be manly although unjust un-just There were but 0000 souls not Indians in the whole of the vast I Louisiana Territory when it was ceded to the United States They did not speak tlP our n language had never exercised lang and the right of local selfgovernment were accustomed to an entirely different civil polity and system of jurisprudence The original Mormon settlers in Utah were citizens of the United States Today To-day at least 70 per cent of the Mormons of Utah are native born citizens of the United States Grant as I do the power of Congress I t prescribe a government for territory acquired as being the enevitable consequence I con-sequence of the right to acquire it i still it does not follow that Congress can make any law it pleases for that purpose The design and object of laws is to ascertain what is just honorable and expedient Every American at least should agree with Montesquien that the legislative power should reside in the whole body of the people or their representatives The political liberty representtives mind of the citizen is a tranquility of arising from the opinion each person has of his safety In order to have this liberty it requisite the government lberty JJu 1 hoJ nnf man DC so constituted ana tnat one conSLHU1CU need not be afraid of another Thomas Jefferson declared that one of the inestimable in-estimable principles we secured by the wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes was lthe right of election by the people In prescribing a government gov-ernment for citizens of the United States citzens be guided by those great Congress principles which underlie the whole superstructure of American government gov-ernment no taxation without representation represen-tation tlie inherent and everlasting right of community government so far as community interests are concerned I the right of election by the people of their law makers The Supreme Court of the United States has declared thatThe Territory being a part of the United States the government gov-ernment and the citizen both enter it under the authority of the Constitution withtheir respective rights defined and marked out Dred Scott vs Sand ford 19 Howard 449 The Constitution Con-stitution has not vested in Congress exclusive legislation in all cases what It gives that soever over any Territory IiYe ower in the case of the District of power Columbia It may make all needful rules and regulations respecting the II territory or other property t t belonging i t the United State tat is respecting respect-ing the public lands and other property If could not have been intended to grant I such power to Congress respecting the any government of Territories The men who made the Constitution knew the meaning force and use of words As Mr Dallas says lthe Constitution in its words is plain and intelligible and it unsophis it is meant for the homebred ticated understanding of our fellowciti ticatec The framers of the Constitution knew that the cardinal fundamental rule of interpretation of written consti intrprettion and tutions is that powers definitely specifically granted cannot be delegated dele-gated Therefore when they gave all needful to make Congress power al rules and regulations t respecting the Northwest Territory for that alone was in ortbwet their mindsthey meant nothing more than such rules and regulations beneedful in and as might be nee preserving rt 4l ffi tlin voi T neon disposing o f the Sali lor the purposed raising revenue to fill an empty treas It is under this grant that Con ury makes rules and regulations for gress the of lands preserving the sale public publc Jresering and timber on the same their survey all the other minutiro of our public land laws That power cannot be delegated Congress must legislate on the subject of public lands so long as any remain The right to govern or prescribe government gov-ernment for the people residing in Territories Ter-ritories not yet States is derived solely riores as a consequent from the right to acquire Being derivative it quire territory comes restricted Mid circumscribed I come can be delegatedbut only in accordance accord-ance with the immutable principle upon which nCe the Constitution itself is founded the right of local selfgovernment I In the case of Scott vs Sanford 19 J Howard 437 the Supreme Court said h In all these as in respect to the Territories Terri-tories the words and make all needful rules and regulations are used in a restricted re-stricted sense Again in the same i case it was held that the words I territory J and property were correlative terms The territory referred to was that of the not that which the northwest only and tat whic te new sovereignty might afterward itself acquire 19 Howard 615 The term territory as here used i merely terrtory of one kind of property and descriptive equivalent to the word lands United 1 States vs Gratiot 14 Peters 537 Again the Supreme Court said that I The United States under the present Constitution cannot acquire territory Consttuton governed at I to be held as a colony to be its will and pleasure But it may acquire ac-quire Territoy which at the time has the population that fits it to become not po fts I a Stateand may govern it as a Territory i until it has a population which in the judgment of Congress entitles it to be admitted as a State of the Union Dur admittd time it remains a Territory ing tme i within legislate over it Congress may leglft of its constitutional powers thescopo scope ofit relation to citizens of the United in establish a territorial States and may establih State and the form of this local government government must bo regulated by the discretion of Congress but with powers discreton itself which not fjcccedina thoie whch Congress authorized to exer by the Constitution i uuthoricd e Cnstitutio1 the United States in respect else ocer io citizens their riaht ofperton or rujhteoj rapec 19 HowuroT 395 property This anomalo claim of absolute over the Territories in Congress te power entertained by seriously entrtnincd any was never character thai bodv until that strange brilliant tat unscrupulous genius brimit merest mockery Thadeus Stevens in the meret mockcr makeshift for Con pointed it out as a makehift a tender consciences on with I gres men it this subject of violating the oaths they had taken to support sup-port the Constitution of the United States So far as Mr Stevens was concerned con-cerned he held that the States in rebellion rebel-lion against the United States had voluntarily vol-untarily placed themselves outside the Constitution and had no more right to claim the protection of its guarantees than the kingdom of Dahomey had But some of his iollowers were either more hypocritical or more conscientious than he was They wanted a peg to hang their proposed legislation on He pointed to section III Article IV and said inv language I dare not repeat Hang your consciences andyour legislation lation on that They did so In the language of Judge Black the legislation was passed and Congress inaugurated the reign of the thief and the kidnapper kidnap-per by an acknowledged usurpation Shall Congress let loose upon the people of Utah these evils by legislation hung upon Mr Stevens peg l I do not believe that it vail I have too much respect for its members to believe that they are hypocrites or that they would thus violate their oaths There are yet statesmen enough left in the nation to defeat any such infamy Judge Pashal in his annotated edition of the Constitution says p 240 I And now that the agitating question of slavery slav-ery i out of the way the author would venture to suggest that the country will settle down upon the principle that organized or-ganized territory carries along the idea of power and jurisdiction and that Congress I Con-gress has the right to organize governments govern-ments there making rules which shall not be inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States and exercising all the power over the inhabitants no more no less which may be exercised exer-cised over the States not exclusive legislation as in the District and forts and arsenals but all the legislation which may be necessary and proper to guarantee the principles of republican government and to insure the erection and admission of new States with those principles The failure has been in observing ob-serving that an organized territorial government gov-ernment is for all purposes of municipal legislation a State and has been so recognized recog-nized in many ways And the supervision of Congress over such legislation is no greater than the national supervision orcr unconstitutional legislation by the State l1he only difference is in the mode of re lfercnc vision and redress Fellowcitizens have sought in vain for a precedent in the history of the United States to justify this proposed legislation There i none I have heard gentleman quote the District of Columbia which one time had a territorial tonal form of government which was subsequently abolished by Congress asa as-a case in point I deny that there is any 1 point of analogy in the cases By the terms the Constitution Congress is given authority to exercise exclusive legislative legislat-ive powers in such district not exceeding ten miles square etc This power is specifically given to Congress by the Constitution and to delegate it to any other body would be an act of doubtful constitutionality At the same time even with this exclusive legislative power I doubt the right of Congress to deprive the people of the District of Columbia of the elective franchise I ito i-to say the least unjust and unAmer ican icanFindinc no precedent in our own country for such attempted legislation as that we are considering I have I searched tor it elsewhere Let me cite I you to one case in the history of Great Britain where such a proceeding I was proposed and why it was rejected In May 1839 Great Britain was menaced men-aced by serious troubles in India and in fact war broke out in the Afghan nation At the same time both Jamaica and Canada were in a state threatening insurrection Indeed the troubles in I Jamaica had been the immediate cause of the resignation of the ministry of Lord Melbourne they having been defeated de-feated on a measure of colonial policy The English which they had proposed Parliament had in its bill for the aboli Ii I tion of slavery in the West Indies a system of apprenticeship by means of I which it was hoped that the slaves I would be prepared for that fullness of I freedom which it was designed to bestow I i upon them A measure afterwards adopted by Parliament with reference to this Parlament system and another apprenticeship regulaton ot the prisons of the Island of Jamaica had given such offense to the colonial assembly of that island that the members passed a resolution tmt their legislative rights had been violated and that they would abstain from all exercise of their legislative legis-lative functions except such a legs Jatve be necessary Uto preserve inviolate the faith of the island with the public creditor cre-ditor until by the rescinding of the solutions etc of which they complained com-plained they should be left to the free exercise of their inherent rights a British Brit-ish subjects H This resolution was subject what the members of the British Parliament viewed a an insult ing protest in which they drew an offensive comparison between the state of crime in their island and that which I existed in Great Britain They taunted and I the Parliament with the murders Parlament incendiarism which terrified Ireland i ht jinrl Inv with the murders of Burke nign aim and uay Hare wiui in Scotland t10 with the I law of divorce and crim con trials in j England and a poorlaw which has taken millions from the necessities ol the destitute to add to the luxuries of I the wealthy The Governor of the Island displeased I dissolved the with such a proceeding Assembly but that which succeeded readopted re-adopted the resolutions of predecessor I predeces-sor The ministers in England aroused I by this recalcitrant spirit on the part of the colonists brought a bill into Parliament the coxatitu ment uto suspend existing costiuI limited number I tion of the Island for a lmtd of years and to provide that during that interval its legislative function should not be exercised by a Governor II a council and a house of assembly bul should reside in the Governor and council coun-cil alone You will see that the proposition embodied em-bodied in this bill wasnot near so harsh and farreaching < those proposed in the bills introduced by Senator Culloin i and Representative Cassidy at the lat 1 session of Congress in that the suspension II suspen-sion of the Constitution was to be for a limitednumber of years while the bilk i brought before Congress contained no i rouglt Congess I limit but contemplated apermanent deprivation I de-privation i In the British Parliament it was felt that the emergency was too great the I remedy proposed in this bill was too severe and unprecedented to be adopted without the greatest deliberation The I House of Commons therefore gave the matter the most patient consideration I The Island was allowed to appear by counsel against the jlrill and for many hours an elaborate defense of the conduct con-duct of the Jamaica Assembly was listened to which thou Assembly to change the intention of the minister convinced Sir Robert Peel and his party that the ministers measure was both unjustifiable un-justifiable and impolitic Peel afterwards I pointed out that the bill was neither ruqreinprtlessthan one for the establish mentof completedespotism one I which would establish the most unqualified un-qualified unchecked unmitigated power j that was ever yet applied to the government i govern-ment of any community in place or i I that liberal system which had prevailed t for upwards of one hundred and fifty I I I i years Peel himself was a great stickle for t the of Parliament His language te power Parlament Hi lnnfage I on this occasion was not therefore t prompted by any doubt as to the power of Parliament to pass such a measure i nor by any sympathy for what he called the foolish and unjustifiable conduct of the Jamaica Assembly but by alova t of liberty and by an instinctive hatred of oppression lberty which he felt would b sure to follow the passage of the bill of t the ministers He asked the Commons I t this pertinent question whether they had ever treated with so much sever a I conquered colony amid the first heat of animosity after the contest I i The spirited manner in which the I conservative party under the leadership t i I 1nder conseryatye of Peel met this measure of the ministers r i minis-ters was the cause of its failure and i i Lord Melbourne and his colleagues resigned J J f signed Compare the reasons fellow citizens i t which the government of Great Britain had proposing the suspension of the 11 I tf I existing Constitution of the Island of I Jamaica for a limited number of years r 1 I with those which the Congress of the tl t United States would have for the absolute Act of Utah I lute repeal of the Organic Uta Territory and the disfranchisement of all her citizens and the transfer of all I council or the power of legislation to a counci commission of fifteen appointed by the te CODmission tfteen 1 President The Assembly of Jamaica offended by the acts of the parent government gov-ernment petulantly resented them bypassing by-passing a resolution that their legislative legisla-tive rights had been violated and that they would abstain from all exerciseof their functions exrept such tf legislative lepilatiye functons J as be necessary to preserve the might necesary public credit until they should b left to unti the free exercise their inherent right as British subjects In effect he told Britih subject the Government of Great Britain Unless you rescind your meddling legislation islation respecting our colony which we consider an infringement of our rights as freeborn Englishmen shall not attempt to act as legislators except atempt to maintain the public credit of our t colony And after saying this in the the nntct which they drew upproceed eel to pro show the parent government how if 4 r I I badly the affairs of the Empire were in I Great Britain itself to which members 1 t i Parliament as legislators might direct I Parlament leglators l them I their attention instead of giving I t selves concern over the affairs of th e f distant Island of Jamaica which were in i l ditant I so much better condition 4 f Had Utah thrown out any such def jf ance against the Federal Government as t t Jamaica in this instance did to the i Government t1is Great Britain there I Goverment would be far more tangible reasons than l now exist for the introduction of such a discussing t t scheme as that we are now but of no such insolence or rebellion L British sub accused can she be Brtih I jects not citizens mark ou1d jectnot viewed as a thus in what they 3 defence of their rights as free born men administer a rebuke to the home government gov-ernment and though their action was viewed as foolish and unjustifiable Sir Robert Peel in the true spirit of yet liberty and the highest statesmanship dIfl said that looking at all the papers f1e IJiJIJJ fore the House he could not say thjit jIJj t r there was any vindication for bringil g Jtfj forward the great power of Parliament lj geat over every dependency of the Britisv Crown > And after tracing the history he warned the House J of the colony wared te Hone passed iv were that if that measure rassed sympathy for the people of Jamaica > IThit would be excited throughout the other West Indian possessions of the Crown n j a sympathy which every thinking e 1J1 mind will perceive as most likely to bee be-e oked wi the breasts of the citizens of fflfl all the Territories and of all who are fl unpopular and in the minority in their Jj I nation by the enactment into law fI own enacment of this Legislative Commission proposition Jf fi proposi-tion For if the people of Utah after living upwards of thirtythree years un lving to have that der an Organic Act are act repealed fn and are to be ruthlessly stripped of their most precious liberties for the sole reason that they are united and will not prove traitors to themselves them-selves and their own heritage of liberty 4 next Strip one whose turn will come Strp Territory of its Organic Act and a precedent t cedent is established and whenever the t caprice establshed anger a majority in Con ijj j shall demand it another may be gress shal the same way and in this manner the entire system of Territorial tle as it how exists may be government abolished and the whole of the Terri abolshed tories be governed by legislative councils coun-cils appointed by the President j or by other lorm of government ment upon which the majority may decide I 160000 citizens of Utah can thus be deprived of their rights as freemen what is to hinder the one million and a quarter of people who reside in the different Territories of the United States from being treated Stte similarly It may be intended to only k I Smiarl use this awful power for the present occasion oc-casion and then forever let it sleep j caion but do not let us deceive ourselves 5 be deceived This precedent or once O established and occasions in the future will not be wanting f lure for its repeated exercise tre induced to enter slain If Congress could be etr lain the Legislative Commission outage and enact it into law it could never divest its action of the appearance of persecution for by such an act would whom it might those not orfly punish wIm think guilty but those also whose only sin consisted of living within the confines con-fines of the same Territory with the accused fnes cused The question would undoubtedly undoubt-edly be asked Was it any worse for the Mormon Church to urge its mem J bers to follow its counsels and preserve ber is folow preere unity and thus maintain control of the f Territory than it would be for Congress to exercise an unheard of power to trample upon the rights of the people and setup a form of governmentwhich in a milder form the British statesman Sir Robert Peel styled Un complete the most unqualified unchecked despotismthe unqualfed dmpotimthe checked unmitigated power ever yet applied to the government of any community I com-munity 1 I The treatment which Great Britain teatmelt I t has of late years extended to her discontented contented colonial subjects has been I prompted by that sense of justice which underlies and form the basis of all wise and true statesmanship The government I govern-ment has turned around and addressed correction and eradication itself to the erdicaton I I of its own wrong acts and with the happiest i results The policy thus pursued I piest by government is in reality only a J development of the principle laid down t by the English statesman Pitt half a century before and cordially agreed toby to-by his great rival Fox that the only 1 methqa of retaining distant colonies trith advantage is to enable them to govern themselves Fellow Citizens Will not the Corn ijress of the United States profit bv this jxample Can you suppose for one T moment that ths treatment which Utah lias received under what is known as f 4 S lit l-it 0 I 0 the Edmunds law has been without wrong A more indefensible law ort one more hateful to the Constitution of t our country and the spirit of liberty i I t never disgraced the statute books of the nation Yet because the people of Utah by their prudent conduct and union have not permitted it to work the havoc that was intended they are threatened now with still harsher legislation and j to hear the talk in some quarters upon the subject one might imagine the Edmunds law to be the most beneficent i bene-ficent of schemes and the people of Utah to be most senseless and defiant because they did not accept it as such The principal reason now urged for this additional legislation is that the Edmunds law failed in its object Failed in its object What could have been expected from it 1 Can that be called a failure which by an ingeniously in-geniously framed test oath without I trial or conviction or any other process > k own to the laws excludes 12000 citizens from the polls 0 The cry has been we must strike down polygamy With one blow 12000 have been struck and struck so dextrously under this law that no man or woman however guilty of sexual crimes outside of the marriage relation has been touched I I What nexw Not satisfied with this radical an l sweeping measure Congress I has been asked to follow this up by legislation legis-lation the like of which can only be found in those persecuting edicts which disgraced Home and which in modern nations like France and England liberal men blush for and were never content null they had been wiped out It is something more than polygamy would now The measure proposed strike down the liberties of the non i polygamous people of the Territory What frenzy is this 1 Is it the Mormon religion that is the object sought to be destroyed I It must be that or ehe why am I and the tens of thousands of non polygamous citizens s of Utah to be stripped of our rights of citizenship The only truthful accusation that can be made against us is that of our belief j and is it for this that we are to be punished J It is true that by the enactment of such measures as these now proposed great suffering can be inflicted upon the people of Utah but they who t suppose that by such means either the 4 1 I faith of those now in that church or the growth of the church will be checked or J I destroyed deceive themselves They never did and while human nature remains re-mains as itis they never will accomplish such results All history attests the inefficiency of such measures in accomplishing ac-complishing such ends No amount of sophistry can make these acts appear other than acts of persecution They will be viewed as such not only by the people of Utah but Iy thinking men therworld over Mr ChairmanThe whole idea of unconstitutional i I un-constitutional legislation is repugnant J But when unconstitutionality is linked 1 with vicious tyranny as in the case of the Legislative Commission scheme 4 ct proposition the dislike is intensified 1 The people of the Territory of Utah I have enjoyed the right of local selfgov ernment for more than a third of a century cen-tury There is no evidence that they have abused this right They have conducted I con-ducted their Territorial government tluru g that time without incurring one C J dollrr of bonded indebtedness and taxadon has been light and equitably Impbsed The ratio of illiteracy is less p thrn that of any other Territory and ft Th be > w that of many States Congress tu J hss rarely had occasion to revise the i 14 legislation enacted by their Territorial 1 Vt Lssembly r m Whatthen is the object of this pro I posed extraordinary legislation by Con I i qress The pretext is to eradicate the alleged evil polygamy The exercise of i4 v unconstitutional and tyrannical power I cannot be justified by the claim that it Owi is necessary to effect the moral rcforma tion of any community Another 9 1 1j i di y V reasonsometimes given why the people 1 U V of Utah should be disfranchised is because w I be-cause the Mormons dominate the Ter Vritoryl True but they are more than SSper cent of the entire population of bj the Territory Thomas Jefferson declared de-clared that absolute cquiescence in I 1j the decisions of the me ity is the vital 4 principle of republics from which there I < 4 A is no appeal but to force the vital principle prin-ciple and immediate parent of despotism u despot-ism cs ismThe Mormons not only constitute 1 tiJ more than 83 per cent of population 1 qf Utah but they constituteninetenths of the agricultural and pastoral portion in of the community with the exception in I ofmining and smelting they control la I almost every public enterprise in the ec Territory They reclaimed the desert X and made it bloom like a garden They < QS made the country habitable Perhaps ih j ifis not claiming too much to assert 1d Chat they alone could have accomplished accom-plished this truly wonderful work g t Their organization and community co V ltiOi operation I verily believe alone made UC I it possible tb t The object of this proposed legislation must be public plunder political spoils cl 1 The concentration of power in a few fat t persons not accountable to the people r for their acts would inevitably result ill in the most direful evils That unscrupulous I ex unscru-pulous men might attain power and ex cb crcise it arbitrarily and corruptly under I the proposed legislation is undeniable pi l The temptations would be great Religious w fi Al Re-ligious animosity local prejudices and j er personal feeling to say nothing of love p nd b and for gain wouldton ti j of power greed 1 spire to warp mens judgments and I bias their conduct It would place in I JJ W the hands of the Governor and a major il ity of the Commission the entire ma fa I cfiinery of the Territorial government j They could and doubtless would deprive 1lt I de-prive the Mormon people of all voice in their municipal county and Territorial 1 DI Io Terri-torial affairs They would parcel out f 0 the entire patronage of the TerritorY wI in Nearly one thousand local offices would be at their disposal to reward the ring an of men who are behind this scheme and w I who hope and expect should it become ad I law to receive these places for themselves Vt 23 AlA them-selves and their friends The imposition vL A mt imposi-tion and collection of taxes and the disbursement 4 1ll r m t dis-bursement of all moneys would be under ad 2 t tfeeir control These facts answer the question What is the inciting motive flu an I J to this proposed legislation 1 1tt rThe Territory would be indeed a rich f 716 9 teB i > rizc for spoliators But little general n 4 sympathy is felt for the Mormon people o1 i i Alien rulers would be subjectjto no local illJ fi f P restraints and before the corruption of rwl vlismfc public opinion or the remedial I A 1 pbwer of Congress could be applied he Yl r I vast and irreparable injury might be J I Jne HE 41f there were no questions of Consti 111 iutionnl law involved in this proposed legislation Congress should be restrained JJal Js os 37 these considerations 1JiJ strained by e ilsidera from o u enacting so impolitic and vicious a f ioe measure IN fo Chairman there is l oe Mr Chairan no present need of any additional adverse legisla J1 C iioiiConcGming Utah Every year the ery goes up for more law against the Mormons In answer t the insatiate call cumulative enactments arc made t w1uch aro no sooner passed than they are declared insufficient and more stringent measures are demanded Some of the men who are sent to Utah under oath to uphold the Jaw unite in nullifying nullify-ing and making ridiculous its provisions And all the time they shield themselves under a general accusation against the Mormons Even the most salutary statute would thus fail of good results Why does not Congress by direct investigation in-vestigation learn the true state of thecae the-cae What benefit can result from striking down at one blow a whole commonwealth com-monwealth innocent and accused alike Is that a proper reward for those who are not even accused of having hav-ing violated any law This Legislative Commission scheme means simply to give all the offices in the Territory and the control of the entire en-tire machinery of local government with all the vast and vital interests subject thereto to men who represent an infinitesimal in-finitesimal part of the people of Utah I say infinitesimal part deliberately The men who are making the outcry against Mormon domination in Utah are a very small but exceeding active and malignant portion of the community commun-ity They are a ring organized for plunder plun-der Their sole object is to rob the Mormon people of their liberties i not their property They are mendacious 1 malignant unscrupulous unconscionable unconscion-able They control a mercenary newspaper news-paper and one of their number acts as the agent of the Associated Press Their daily business is to vilify slander misrepresent mis-represent and lie about the Mormon people at home and abroad The very fact that these miscreants are suffered to live in our midst and ply unpunished I their nefarious trade is the highest i proof of Mormon forbearance and pru I deuce Day after day week after week year in and year out these men I have sought with devilish ingenuity to provoke conflict by which they might I profit having everything to gain and nothing to lose We have been afflicted by a Governor Gover-nor who is a mere creature and tool of the men who inspire the wanton attacks at-tacks upon the character of a whole people and malign men and women the latchets of whose shoes they are not worthy to unloose For personal ends to gratify an inordinate craving for notoriety in the hope of reaping a political pol-itical reward probably to repay in some measure pecuniary services rendered i him this man has traversed the country coun-try posing everywhere as the great rosinr W moral champion of ant or101 isl IIis messages to the Legislative Assem lis bly have been filled with deliberate misstatements mis-statements and misrepresentations He has filled columns in Eastern newspapers and pages magazines with libels on the Mormon people and their church This man has unscrupulously used his official position to foment excitement ex-citement to stir up strife to embarrass the administration of justice and to insult in-sult and vilifVthe people he was sent to govern Ana to such men as this the minority party of Utahthrough a Legislative Commission would commit i the destinies of our Territory There is not today and there never has been a decent selfrespecting man of properly in Utah who has complained of any act of oppression and injustice plained I justice on the part of the Mormon rulers 01 The men who control and ruers manage the great railroads which run I into Utah the men who own and 1 manage the great mines and smelters of Utah are not asking for protection against the Mormons They know that we arc unfriendly to none and just to all who come among us to help develop the material resources of the Tcrritorv j Edmunds would Even Senator Edmund who exert to the utmost every constitutional power against polygamy does not approve ap-prove the Legislative Commission I the scheme In an article published in the New York Independent upon the proposition propo-sition to place Utah in the hands of a I sitiol commission he says I believe it to be entirely unconstitutional if the commis entrely uuconstttonal lawmaking power i It is revolutionary and deprives de-prives the innocent as well as the guilty of all voice in public affairs I is quite I clear to my mind that the suppression of polygamy will be just as far off with the government of the Territory in the hands of a commission as it is now if I not further for it will solidify and intensify in-tensify a class > feeling of the Mormons and tend to draw to the support of the hierarchy tnd and polygamists the whole I body of the Mormon people i And why I ask in all soberness should not the enactment of such legislation legis-lation solidify and itensify class feeling feel-ing of the Mormons 1 I do not believe that the Mormon people are fanatics But there is no surer way of making fanatics than to visit unmerited punishment pun-ishment upon even the guilty to av nothing of the innocent las not all human experience proved the truth of the apothegm The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church 1 How will inflicting punishment on those who do infctng practice polygamy affect those who do 1 LeglatycGomiission is intended to men ana women wno ao not punish law against polygamy Why I Because other men and women are accused ac-cused of having violated it Such a mode of procedure would be worthy the dark ages Fellow citizens In conclusion permit me to say that I have endeavored to show you that the right of local self government is one of the inalienable I rights of man The just powers of government I gov-ernment are derived from the consent I of the governed The constitution is I founded upon this great principle I i the corner stone of our political superstructure I super-structure That the Constitution does not grant I Congress the right to legislate as it may i please for the Territories Its right to I provide for the government of territory I i obtained by purchase or conquest is derived solely from the treatymaking I power Whatever power it exercises I must be in accordance with the spirit of the Constitution A law which deprived I 160000 people of the right of local self government would be violativc of the I spirit of the Constitution and subversive subver-sive of the fundamental principle of free institutions That the Mormon people arc thereat I the-reat majority of the inhabitants of Utah Territory The have by their i I labor their skill timir thrift reclaimed the desert places and made them garden lands They are intelligent moral just liberal loyal and have shown themselves them-selves capable of selfgovernment That in the language of Senator EdI I munds The suppression of polygamv will be just as far off with the government I I govern-ment of the Territory in the hands of a I commission as i now i i not further f That there i nothing in the history of the Mormons that justifies the bad opinion opin-ion which has prevailed concerning them We are charitable enough to believe be-lieve that it has been largely due to the difficulty of disproving the misrepresentations misrepresen-tations made and the calumnies circulated circu-lated concerning us by unscrupulous opponents That there is no reason why any man who desires to know the truth to b just to be fair to be honest should be ignorant of the facts The evidence is abundant and overwhelming Instead of asking Congress to pass legislation providing for the government govern-ment of the Territory by a system unknown un-known to the genius and Constitution of our country ask Congressmen to come to Utah or send a committee of their numberlet them investigate hear for themselves and see how thei Mormons have written the story of their material growth in indelible characters char-acters upon what was the desert valley of the Great Salt Lakenow a land of plenty possessed by a people intelli gent peaceable industrious thrifty Godfearing and Godserving Applause loud and longcontinued threatened to make Mr Caine rise and bow his acknowledgments a second time but it finally subsided or was drowned by the strains of the Seventh Ward band after which the chair announced an-nounced as the next speaker HON S 1 THVRMAN prosecuting attorney of Utah county who was received with a violent clap pint of hands He said the people had assembled tonight to try their political opponents on a charge of conspiracy against good government in the Territory Terri-tory of Utah You feilowcitzcns are I the jurors when the sun sets tomorrow I you wi have rendered your verdict and I that verdict will be guilty as charged I in the indictment I He referred to theo I I the-o enforced against the weak in past ages of which the pages of history I tory were full the absolutist striving for the supremacy the despots of the earth fighting for the divine right of kings today we find the same stamp of corruptiohlsts rearng their heads in unblushing effrontery and shaking their gory locks under the name of the I Liberal party of Utah The speaker proceeded to weave a solid argument on constitutional law and in unstinted terms denounced the Legislative Com mission scheme as tyrannical and subversive sub-versive of thE rights of trueborn Americans Amer-icans The Liberal party wished he said to establish a worse form of government gov-ernment in Utah than that against which our forefathers fought We have a right to raise our voices against such villainous measures and we will persist I in that right till the crack doom He I did not believe the Liberal party considered con-sidered the Commission scheme consti tutional They have never in all their public speaking for the past four years stated how or why the scheme would benefit the people of this Territory They care nothing for constitutional constitu-tional nothing tonal legislation they care for the people except to plunder them of their property and political rights and just here the gentleman was reminded of an old l story Two boys went to a ijeighbors house and bought a pup i it was a bull pup They took the pup home and began to train him in the way he should go so that when he grew up he would not depart from his teachings but the boys wanted a victim and could find none till finally the old man the father of the two boysagreed to get down on all fours and imitate the actions of a dog The pup got a good hold on the under side of the old man when he shrieked U Take him off boys t Take him off But the boys only yelled Sick him pupV The old man continued to shriek to have the dog taken off and the boy persisted in saying Sick him pupf till finally the boys said Dad we know hes giving you hell but its the making of the pup The speaker said the Liberals know they are giving thc Constitution hell but its the making of the pup There was but one plank in the Liberal platform and that was in favor of a Legislative lative Commission God forbid it stould latvc ever be too late for an American citizen to lift up his voice against such an arbitrary perversion of the rights of man He denied the right of Congress s to enact such a law They can never nac you nor me a slave as long as we I stand on American soil or under the American fag He had great respect 1 for tho Supreme Court but said he even they are fallible He then read I extracts from arguments on the subject 1 II delivered in Congress by Senator Stunner I Stun-ner whose name ant sentiments would be remembered he said when this i little Liberal party of Vtah is i forgotten I I by the American people A proper i view would impel any patiotic man to I rather let the institutions of a people I stand rather than make a breach in the 1 Constitution I II02f WAr N K liCSESBKRUY Probate Judge of Utah County was the next speaker and he too was greeted I with demonstrations of welcome The i isue in O TTtah he said was one of truth I versus error of right versus wrong an issue that will last when our eyes and at have ceased to see and hear He had heard enough taught t convert I him to vote for John T Caine What the people need is to wake up Salt Lake County should poll more than a onethird vote It is the duty of every citizen to deposit that little silent messenger of the will ef the sovereign people the ballot The I Liberal party paid two years ago that if I the people would vote for P T Van Zile i they would be saved from this poison ota ot-a legislative commission I you elect John T Caine you will have to take the fatal hemlock which will kill even vestige ves-tige of American rights He believed our youth should attend political gatherings gath-erings and hear arguments for the right and wrong and learn the logic of the wrong as well The Territorial Legislative legsla tive Assembly is censured by the Liberal Lib-eral platform because it failed to pass laws against polygamy The Judge then showed the nonsense of this cry in the light of the facts that the Government Govern-ment had taken the subject out of the hands of the Legislature AH the sophistry in the world could not hide the object of the Liberals in Peeking the legislation they tskpluuder They arc arrayed against the Constitution and the people like Miltons devil Fierce as ten furies terrible as hell Hon John T Caine will save us from that bad law and we are going to send him back to do it MRS ESIMKLtXB B warns was introduced amid the patting oi feminine hands as well as many good broad manly ones and said she appeared in behalf of the women of Utah and though she felt somewhat lI timid she could riot restrain a small tmid an occasion degree of pride upon such l prde I The women of Utah have voted for i fourteen years and they have opinions and sentiments to be made known the I same as men They had as much at I stake as men The blows of those who wish us ill are aimed at our homes and I woman i the guardian of the home people considered She was aware that many sidered it improper for women to peai political issnesi hut It was growing upon to be the custom of the time for ladies to discuss important sujccts m pubic hands of the The ballot in tiie places means atrength the women of Utah mean strengtfo Every woman entitled Peoples party Ever for Hon to vote should caas her aHot T Came Has he not proven him John Caie self worthy of our suffrage Has he sufrage which he filled local office to not been appointed every with honor and has has he not evinced great ability in the halls in warding I of Congress and succeeded of off legislation inimical to the people this Territory 1 Will he not be a true Ierrton think he I in the future as in the past will The lady honored those men who conferred the ballot upon the of Utah and she repudiated women the actions of those who pudiated sought to take it actons away again Our chil dren have inhaled the breath of freedom free-dom from their very birth and they cannot bear to be deprived of their rights any more than the New England Puritans Herfirm opinion was tha some day there would be as many descendants j cendants of New England in the Rocky cendant Mountains as there were in the States HON FRANKLIN S RICHARDS was next FRANKLI IIClAPDS introduced and received a warm welcome wel-come at the hands of the people present pres-ent He made a weighty legal argument against the outrage of a Legislative the Commission and now and again patriotism which it was evident he felt broke forth in flights of oratory which moved the audience to exclamations of enthusiasm He compared the government govern-ment of surrounding States with that of Utah showing how they were allowed to choose their officials from the chief justice down to the lowest office of their municipalities How is it in Utah Here it teems we have so many blessings they must take some of i them away Referring to the legislative power here he said that we had a legislature legis-lature only in name The moment that body passed a law which did not meet the approval of the executive he could brush it away with the veto power Congress also has taken the power to itself of legislating specially for this Territory legislative arm of Utah he said was already paralyzed A legislative commission would sever the I I disabled member entirely The judiciary judi-ciary was composed of men sent here from abroad We had no voice in their selection we must take them as they come The speaker then drew a striking strik-ing contrast between the conditions here and elsewhere the United States He asked i there was anyone within the sound of his voice who was unsophisticated I un-sophisticated enough to believe that it was on account of polygamy they desired the hostile legislation Their object was plunder they would like to fill the offices here with men who have I j no interests in common with the people i i i He said 70 per cent of the population were native born citizens of this i c I I public and the other 30 per cent were j I people who have come here by their i i own election having signalled out this i i I country as the grandest and best in the I I I word He denied that the people here I j i were aliens and said they had rights I I which with the help of God they would i i maintain They ask us to forge the I I very fetters with which they would i I bind us Further ho denounced the I EdmuiuLs law as a blot on the nations I history j MRS 31 ISABELLA lOP E i made one of the best points of the even I I ing She protested against a legislative I commission and referred to the hardships hard-ships the people had endured She objected t I ob-jected to having women taken into I court and forced to disclose the secrets of the family circle How would the I judges and the rest of these officers sent to us like to have their wives brought I into court to testify against them Though she added I guess they could tell enough if they wanted to I HON GEOIGKQ CANNON I Was the last speaker We was greeted with a perfect tornado of applause and made a neat impromptu speech of which quite a synopsis was taken and will be Published hereafter a want of j I space only rendering it impossible this morning I I The Secretary read the following resolution I reso-lution Resolved that the representatives representa-tives of the Peoples in I tves party in mass meetingassembled reaftirm the principles I princi-ples of the Peoples platform adopted I two years ago and ratify the nomination I nomina-tion of Hon John T Came for delegate I from this territory to the Fortyninth I Congress of the United States t The aye which went forth when the question was put to vote might have been heard in Ogden I The chairman then announced that i the meeting would adjourn till today to-day to meet at the polls and the peo i pie dispersed to the inspiriting strains of music by the Sixteenth Ward band |