Show i L5l aieumrmuw brH N t 1U jT 2 i f ihfof f 1tOyS KHisses anliilause E s 1 j 11I VJ A LOVELY I lTiEEIN The Resolutions Loudly Voted Down WILLIAMS AND HIS TRUSTIES A Champion n who is IjTiomlnously Defeated but who Declines to Aoknowledtto theKesnlt ort or-t l Vote A paragraph in yesterdays Tribune to which the signatures had been discreetly dis-creetly suppressed by the editor lor obvious ob-vious reasons announced that there wouldbe a cold salad indignation meeting meet-ing at the Federal Court House at 8 oclock last evening During themorn ing the forms of General Maxwell and A M Johnson a delectable duet were seen busy stringing flags across the street and then transpired just who was at the bottom of the call It was this circumstance doubtless which conspired to confine so many of the representative Gentile lawyers politl ticians and business men to their homes which kept even Governor Murray in some safe retreatnndiscoverable which sent O J ilollister back out of sight and kept him inure when he was called for and which drew out the riffraff element which assembled at the CourtHouse Court-House towards 9 odo kin the evening Twelve ladies there re in the house no more not a business man of any prominence Was visible General Maxwell Max-well stumbled about and seemed be the high cockalorum of the occasion Major Nounan breathed hard in one corner General Agramonte slouched mysteriously under his sombrero Sam Gilson acted as aid to Maxwell Billy Clays sat on the interior of the railing so did Isadore Morris Deputy Hurd went into hysterics over Max wells utterances and this was the character of the gathering until a sort of halo broke through itand P L Williams C S Varian and one or two others walked up the aisle Somewhat near 9 oclock General Maxwell with a thunderous rap of his cane called the meeting to order and frankly acknowledged that he did so because he had been instrumental in bringing fhe meetincfabout There nad been intention to insult the flag he thought but he said there appeared to be some hitch somewhere in which nearly every one present seemed to agree with him He asked what the pleasure of the meeting might and Isadore Morris nominated P L Williams Wil-liams aschairman Mr Williams took the chair Mr Cook was nominated for secretary Some one nominated Mr J W Pjke but that centeman jumped to his feet and declined the nomination Mt Cooks nqme was urged Several gentleman asked Who is Mr COOK but he was voted in without with-out delay for inquiry and he turned out to be a young gentleman who sometimes some-times acts as assistant to Mr Adan Patterson he tool the Secretarys chair with an air gratified timidity E D Egan moved that a committee of five be appointed to draft resolutions The chairman looked hopelessly about him at the of strange fades what he might have done thera no knowing had not Prof Lincoln stepped up and offered a written suggestion he then named E D Egan Prof Benner Major Nounan Rev A B Peebles and Col Henry Page these gentlemen re tired and Mr Williams opened the ball by reciting the circumstances of a week ago and dwelling the deliberate insult in-sult to the flag which he said was at the same time an insult to every mans wife and children applause ne re ferred to the Marshals whim and the white washing process of a weak and a contemptible council yells an action coincided in by no one except the Deseret New wild yells and one other paper which had sought frame an apology for the actan apology insulting than the original offense yells and applause He had felt that the meeting was necessary all the week he said to show the nation that there was a minority here at least willing to uphold the Nations honor he went on for some time rurther in a similar vein it is unnecessary however to give details of his speech back files of the Tribune and the howls of Liberalism for the past decade furnished the sources of his inspiration Everyone knows the speech as well as Governor Murrays Get thar anecdote At the close of the speech some one moved form adjournment to the street as there were thousands outside anxious to hear An adjournment was accordingly taken and the speakers repaired re-paired to the Balcony the people thronging throng-ing in the street below Here the cries became general for Maxwell and that gentleman stepped forward He said he would make the best speecli ever heard yet because it would a short one A week ago he said in every park of the world including Panama ana China the flag respected and floated high Buthere alone in our rock bound cradle of freedom the flag had gone < up half mast He had seen the fUg wrapped around the bodies of the illustrious dead and he had seen the flag of our country trailed on the streets when one iof your prophetsbut he had not intended referring to tliiSjfc i and here he went into a juniblj of snorts hiccoughs and haltsr which it would be impossible to decipher He was roused by hearing i some groans in the crowd below ana 1 started to state that to the few scoundrels scound-rels before him ire would say Dare to take that flag down if you dare that I Is a flag which cost17aa breathes item it floated oer Baltimore and it 1 now belongs to Captain GreenmanJp fact which made the very souls oftils hearers thrill He had been f brwarncd by one of your papers that they would make it hot for him at this meeting meet-ing a deliberate falsehood ance wound up by saying that the flag jMid been maltreated here lor the last trpe There was then a pause until Mr Varian was seen in an expectant attitude atti-tude in the background and some one mentioned his name He carrie forward for-ward eagerly enough and said Every American citizen should respond l to sucha calas had been made on him the speaker The apology for the Jnsult to tlje flag itself should awake shame in every American heart It Sonly S-only because thelaws of the Republic are being enforced here that Utah is in mourning cheers here is little to be done on this occasion except to resolve against and to deprecate the acts of last week We ought to show that there is a small minority here respectsthelaw and which will y bring Utahinto line with the rest of the nation Heclosed amid inspiriting inspirit-ing yells Thercwas a noticeable shortness of material now and Ajtr monte was brought forward hew received with a brilliant series of yells and cat calls which told in eloquent terms how thoroughly he had fastened himself around the affections of his hearers hear-ers Fellow citizens he began and some of you who ara not fellow citizens he had come here as a listener list-ener he said but he did not explain why he had thrown aside that character charac-ter he would say to his friends and those whom he did not care three straws about that he had bled for the flair and was willing to do so a good deal mbre he acknowledged that he bad agood deal of cussedness in his nature na-ture and that it was now a good deal aroused Utah he said was the last spot God Almighty ever made and here he planted the tew traitors left on earth Yells applause and groans 1 And how about this man whims this Marshal Phillips Was hea citizen of the United States Cries of No Yes No No Yes Yes Did merely taking out papers make a citizen of a man1 A voice Yes Agraraonte You are a liar Yells and groans Aman must be a citizen at heart no papers can makn him so And who is this Phillips When the police of Salt Lake City with masks on their faces threw filth on M and Mrs Stenhonse Mrs Stenhouse tore the mask off one of their faces and Wm G Phillips stood disclosed Agramonte here paused for applause but she dastardly lie he uttered seemeU to have shocked even the most tumultuous of his hearers arid his statement was received in silence Dont you think in afrenzied mannerthat it is yourselves who were to blame last Saturday because those Sags remained so long at half mast Dont yon think you made fools of yourselves by asking traitors to plfase ptit that flag up instead going and pMtfag itu yourselves You areyour seles to1 blame you had 55000000 people at your backs and you hesitated to haul the flag up I dont want to say any more but for Gods sake call on me when the time comes He closed amid a torrent of yelN applause hisses and groans Mr bluster was pext wanted bu the above had proved too mnch even for him and Mr Williams who seemed to be quivering with shame orgratification it washard to tell whichcalled out the nextbe8t man in Colonel Kaighn Ma KAIQUK referred to the attempt to apologize for the desecration The halfmasting hesaid was not the whim of a Salt Lake policeman but a determ ination of the fonl rulers of this fair Territory Ter-ritory yells The only sensible thing he said was to pay a tribute to the coolness cool-ness of General McCook and to ask what might have happened had some other inan commanded at the fort cheers He had met Genl PE Connor on the sheets since the outrage lIe said and bad asked him what he would have done had he been commandant The reply wall that that flag wo ld have gone to the mast head orhe would have poured h shot into the streets of Salt Lake a few feeble cheers He rldi c lied the idea of M9rmon loyalty so often preachedIn that house applying ap-plying som Billingsgateepithet to Uje Tat ernace whi hno one understood and said that whom the Gods would destroy they first made mad TheMormons were surely prettv mad when they did the half masting He said it was not the first time the flag had been dishonored in this city but it would be the last Tho gentlemen of the committee here made their appearance and Professor Bonner read their report It is as follows fol-lows RESOLUTIONS Whereat The flag of the United States was placed at halfmast on the church and public buildings of Salt Lake City on July 4th and kept thereby there-by threats anduirms by the Mormons of this city and tins action was afterwards deliberately supported by the City Council forIpal action FirstThis desecration was a deliberate de-liberate expression of Mormon contempt and defiance of the law which that flag represents J Second That the existence of disloyal Mormonism menacing free institutions as it does is a standing insult to the flag of our country thirdThat this insult to the flag and the nation is in keeping with the sentiments senti-ments of representative Mormons as shown by their words and actions for the last thirt years f E D EGAN I E BEJNEK AB PEE LES r JAS H NouxAN HrmY PAGE Here occ red the most remarkable event of the night the Chairman said ° All in favor or adopting these recolu tions as the sense of thi meeting vim say ayeTa heavy aye was the result re-sult contrary no said the Chairman Chair-man a Idftd prolonged and thunderous no aJbve to greet himso strong that anf other Chairman must have announced the noes have it and the resolutions > > are defeated there was a stIr did a flutter of conclusion in the balcony but no announcement was madeaf any character the noes continued con-tinued loud triumphant and tumult nous and to get rid of tncm the Chairman Chair-man called out the motion for adjournment adjourn-ment which was carried and the throng iMUrtsed f There are now three queries uppermost upper-most what good has all the tumult I cauiep will the earth revolve any less regurlurly on account of those resolutions resolu-tions 7 and will Mr Williams acknowledge ledge I l-edge what everybody knows that the Negathes assuredly von the motion |