| Show ROBERTS ROASTS STORM Warm Reply to Little tEx Governor RiGHT OF THE TEE PEOPLE TO RESENT SLANDER t Thomas and His ills Crowd Appeal Appealed ed to Prejudice Salt lakes Postmaster Politician Held Beld Up Tip In Contempt By the ex Congressman in ia His ais Speech at Coalville Thomas Had a Curious I I Idea of Manliness Review of I Facts Pacts Concerning the Roberts Case People Defended D ended Special to Tho The Herald Coalville March 16 B H Roberts opened the Democratic campaign here tonight before a large audience e and his speech was received with every ev Y demon demonstration emon stratton of approval In the course of I II I his address he took a hard fall out of I Postmaster Thomas and held MId the lit little little littie tle tie up to contempt for hip hii hl criticism of the Roberts resolution adopted by b the Democrats Dem The meeting was called to t order by b Chairman J A Smith After Atter a song by the glee slee club and nd a few opening re to remarks marks the chairman introduced the speaker of the evening 1 Mr Roberts had been presented with a rose rore by a Republican lady which he said he appreciated after having been so long In a thicket of thorns He then entered upon the subject of finance discussing It in a forcible manner He showed how the Republican party had bad gone from bimetallism to the gold standard also how the Democracy had hadI stood solid for bimetallism as evi evidenced evIdenced evidenced I by the reply of oC W J 3 Bryan to the plan of Bourke Cockran He said sald I that If It silver were placed to the rear Democracy would triumph at the elec dee election election tion Lion He scored the present adminis administration administration on its policy of imperialism and advocated the expansion advocated in inthe Inthe inthe the constitution of territory wherein the people are governed by their own consent He then quoted from the Re Republican Republican publican organ from the speech of or Postmaster Thomas at Alpine Reply to Thomas Replying to Thomas Thomas on theRo the Roberts case Mr Roberta Robert ft I see ee that Thomas is IJ I represented by the Salt Lake TriBune as referring refe ring in his speech delivered on Thursday night at Alpine to what wh t Is commonly called the Roberts case He refers to it as forced into the cam cain campaign campaign by the Democrats and is then quoted as saying that the case was dead and burled buried and should remain so As a citizen continues the Tribunes report of his remarks who had made Utah his home and ex to live here in the future he protested against the attempt of the Democratic party to make Utah the storm center of the th Union He is represented as saying further that the congressman to be elected is not going to Washington to vote yote on the Roberts case I take It that it Is very kind of our to Impart this solid piece of information to the good people of our commonwealth The Democratic party continues the report of the speech has dragged irrelevant issues Into the campaign and attempted to array one element of the population against the other He protested against this attempt to run political campaigns on prejudice In full view vie of the manner In which the Tribune coterie of Salt Lake City and of which Arthur L Thomas is ad advocate advocate ocate rod nod cd leading member in view of the manner I 1 say in which that coterie ran its first firm campaign against the Democratic candidate for congress in 1898 and the means meana they the employed after the close of the election to defeat an expressed will of the people of ot a sovereign state when one speaks spooks of the appeals appeal to the bigotry and prejudices dices to the passions of the people of the United States to encompass their object in view of all this Thomas protest against running cam campaigns campaigns on prejudice appears to say the least a 3 little ridiculous but our dis little had evi evl dently a misapprehension of ot the clause of oC the Democratic platform which he hewan I was wan discussing It does not attempt to tomake 1 make the Roberto Roberta case cace an issue in inthis Inthis inthis this campaign There I Ii no attempt to permit the Democratic congressman we shall elect lect to agitate that question in congress There is I no appeal to prejudice in the resolution and no at attempt tempt to array one class of our population population population tion against another All AU these things are false creations of Arthur L Thomas overwrought mind Pacts Facts in the Case The plain facts facto are these The Democratic party In 1898 1693 nominated and the people of a man men manto manto mento to congress who possessed every eve qualification qualification qualification required by the constitution of ot the United States for that office After his triumphant election by the people of o this state a conspiracy was formed to defeat the will of the people as ex expressed expressed expressed pressed at the polls pons By misrepresentation tation and the vilest vile appeals to the and passions of religious fanatics of the east an agitation was set on foot resulting in defeating the will of the people The Democratic party when convened In convention denied the charges of wholesale law lawlessness lawlessness with which the people of the state were ware falsely charged It denied that the people of Utah had broken faith with the nation and d the action of congress as 39 be being beIng being ing unconstitutional m in refusing to ad administer administer minister the oath of office to a n man duly elected and presenting the same credentials as ag other members who were admitted to their seats Where Whore is the tte t a appeal appe J to t prejudice Where is the effort to t array aTaY dam class against class When the people x or Of f a state are slandered is it out of order to denounce the th Infamy When charges of ot wholesale lawlessness are made may they not be denied should I like to know what Arthur L Thomas standard of or manliness consists of Are the people of o Utah to be lost to every sense of honor that they can be slandered without resenting It Speak Speaking tag ing for myself I will not do it it and I Ishall Ishall Ishall shall be ashamed of any aU connection with the party when It be becomes becomes becomes comes either so ao weak or r so soco 1 that It cannot prevent the wrongs wr of ofa I I a people as well as contend for their I rights 8 |
