Show I UTAH STANDS FOR F R FREE SILVER I State Democracy Holds aRousing 7 a-Rousing Convention Conven-tion I L fflATCHER IS ELECTED Chosen Delegate With Power < to Select His Alternate Alter-nate I A 1 DELEGATION A STRONG ONE I 4 Platform Short and Right to the i Purpose in View I I i Demands the Free and Unlimited I Coinage of Silver and Gold at the Lawful Ratio or 13 to 1The De laration o f the Reconvened l Convention of 1S > Reanirmed Colonel Ellis Temporary Chairman Chair-man and Dzri id Evans Permanent Chnirmnn Jlsilie Ringing Speeches Speech-es The Ladies Given Recognition on the Delegation and All Elect cII Will Go to Chicago and Work For the Success of Democracy and the White Metal A Convention J Where Equivocation Was an TJn itioYFii Quantity DELEGATES TO CHICAGO 1 Hon Moses Thatcher of Cache Hon Joiiejtli L Rawlins of Salt Lake lion Orlando WY Powers of Salt Luke Hon Samuel It Thurman of Utah lion David Einnx of Weber lIon It C Chambers of Summit ALTERNATES f uri Mattie Husrlic Cannon of Salt Luke I r Hon W H ICing of Salt Lake Mrs Ellen IJ Ferguson Salt 1 Luke nirs Emily S Richards of Salt Lake Mrs Jcbsie Knight of Provo As predicted in The Herald would be the case Hon Moses Thatcher received an endorsement at the hands of the democratic party in convention assembled t S sembled yesterday such as no man in any of the United States received Amid the greatest enthusiasm he vas elected a delegate to the National Democratic convention by acclamation 1 acclama-tion and given the privilege of choosing 35 his own alternate in the event his health will not permit of his attending attend-ing himself The mention of his name was sufficient suf-ficient to set the convention wild with enthusiasm It was several minutes after af-ter the chairman of the Beaver county delegation mentioned his name ere the I members present could be restrained in order to allow business to proceedS proceed-S and after the chairman thought he had the delegates under control the applause ap-plause broke out afresh and again did the Democracy cheer the great leader There was a good attendance at the convention and all the members were enthusiastic It was a silver meeting from the ground up and was so thoroughly thor-oughly Democratic that in the language of Dr Faust It did ones old heart rood to witness the spectacle hear the Jingins speeches and note the evident 1 itention on the part of all to united unite-d redeem Utah There was not a clash in the meeting Harmony reigned supreme and when the final hour came and adjournment t wail taken there was not a man or < oman there but went away satisfied The delegation selected to go to the convention is an exceptionally strong one Moses Thatcher Judge Powers David Evans Judge S R Thurman Hon Joseph L Rawlins and Hon R C Chambers are all pioneer workers in the cause of silver and are men of ability abil-ity i Their presence will be felt at the national meeting and the gold men t from the east will realize when they have finished their work the Utah delegation not the gold men that the west has as brainy a class as the east can boast of and that the delegation from this new born commonwealth did its part in achieving the great result The proceedings of the convention are herewith appended CONVENTION OPENS It was 1145 when Chairman Powers of the state central committee called t the convention to order When quiet had been secured he said When this convention shall have closed my duties as chairman of your state committee com-mittee will have ceased During the S past year I have endeavored to serve you faithfully and have had no friends to reward nor enemies to punish but did all my work in the interests of the party Applause I should be guilty of ingratitude if I did net thank you for the honor you have shown me and the support you have given me I will call upon Bishop lja mni < ond of San Juan to offer prayer When the invocation was finished Secretary McDaniel read the call for the convention after which Judge Powers announced that by unanimous choice of the members of the state central cen-tral committee at a meeting where the attendance was much larger than was usual nearly every member of the committee being present he was instructed in-structed to pretent the name of Colonel A C Ellis of this city as temporary chairman Tins announcement was received re-ceived with cheers For vicechair scan Mrs SI It Richard AtWebe S Q 23 t i I S for temporary secretary M F Murray Mur-ray of Sanpete for sergeantatarms William Murray of Cache The chair then appointed Mrs Dr Ellen B Ferguson of Salt Lake and Joseph M Cohn of Salt Lake city a committee to escort the temporary chairman to the platform Colonel Ellis was greeted with cheers as he took his seat When the applause ap-plause had finished he addressed the convention as ifollows It is a high honor for any man to be selected as the first chairman of the first Democratic state convention of this young and glorious state of Utah Applause This state which posseses valleys that exceed the valleys of the Nile In richness that is a walled treasury of the gods as it has been said a state just admitted to the duties and responsibilities of the youngest daughter of the republic one now being be-ing ushered in upon its glorious career I say to be elected chairman of the first Democratic convention of this state is an honor for which I desire to return to this convention my grateful acknowledgement Loud applause I feel when I look in the faces o If this audience that I am almost a stranger here I came among you but a short time ago and cast my lot among you I have brought here my household goods and gods and here I expect to serve that party which I have served all my life to the best of my ability to the end Loud applause Feeling that this is one broad country that standing in Democratic convention anywhere within the confines of this Union I have a right to be there looking look-ing into the faces of this large audience audi-ence and knowing that the very atmosphere I at-mosphere is permeated by the senti fS 1 Z t rl f iJ I f I jS 1 frQ i 0 0 J 0 Q L j i RAWXrXS READS THE RESOLUT1OXS ments of Democracy I know that I am in the bosom of friends Applause The object of this campaign is not i new A great national struggle is upon usa campaign pregnant with j greater consequences to the prosperity I I and happiness of the people of the i I United States than any upon which this party has ever entered Our purpose I pur-pose is to select delegates to a national na-tional convention to represent = this new state and to reflect the sentiments of this people We should selectmen i j select-men skilled in the public councils of i I the country men who are learned men = i who are earnest able eloquent and brave men and women who will not be i influenced by the aggressive characterIstics I character-Istics great ability and unquestioned I courage of such men as they will meet there from other states in the Union and who wi11 differ from them upon these questions that are nearest to i the hearts of this people I know ladies and gentlemen that you will select such men I know something of the men and women in Utah in the Democratic party and you are not likely to go amiss in observing these requirements and qualities in your representatives This convention is somewhat unique to me in one respect I see dotted through this audience women ladies the wives and daughters of our fellow citizens here participating in these deliberations de-liberations Since the adoption of that measure in the constitutional convention conven-tion of the state of Utah it is the fixed policy of this state that the Democratic Demo-cratic women of Utah shall participate with that same degree of enthusiasm and earnestness in our deliberations as the men in the past have done and will in tire future Applause Ap-plause I have this to say that the Democratic party welcomes the ladies to its ranks It is said that the hand that rocked the cradle rules the world and that the safety of the commonwealth common-wealth lies with the mothers of the I land Applause If I could I would stroll through the gardens of rhetoric and culling its choicest flowers I I would throw them in the laps of the I Democratic women of Utah Applause I Ap-plause If I could I would let fall from my lips the most precious jewels I of speech I would speak to them in emeralds in diamonds in rubies and in sapphires I would do anything I could to bestow upcn them that high appreciation I appre-ciation which I entertain and with whichI welcome them to the deliberations delibera-tions of this body Applause Our platform I have no doubt will be simple in character simple in its sentiments We will inscribe upon it equality for all and special privileges to none Applause No union of church and state Applause loud and j continued The right of every man and woman to worship God according 1 tQ the dictate of conscience Loud i applause These principles are as old I as the Democratic party and as old as the republic itself We would declare for a sound currency and when we say that we nand I know I reflect re-flect your sentiments by a sound currency cur-rency gold and silver the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver 1 sil-ver without reference to the action of any other nation upon earth Loud applause and cheers The Democratic party has been rescued or well nigh 1 rescued from those neophytes of the party unheard of a dozen years ago who have been in the control of its destinies in the few years lately gone by It is now getting back under the Influences of the Nestors of the party and the young and growing generation i into whose bosoms have been instilled j the principles of the timehonored leaders of the party and when the masses of this great Democratic j I Demo-cratic party shall have an opportunity r op-portunity as in my judgment they soon will have of expressing their sentiments and predilections in Continued on 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