| Show I THAT lER AT LOGAN I CONDITIONS CONFRONTING THE NIINS CONRONTG T PEOPLE AT THIS TIME TD Disclaims Being an Office Seeker Does Not Think the Action of the Legislature Was the Voice of Democracy De-mocracy Hon Warren Fosters I Address Logan Feb 19A meeting at which Hons Moses Thatcher and Warren Foster werfe the principal speakers i was held in the opera house on Wednesday Wed-nesday evening A band from Mill vie rendered musical selections before be-fore the meeting began and in the intervals in-tervals between the addresses There i were on the stage quite a number of I prominent local politicians mostly of the Democratic and Populist faiths HON MOSES THATCHER Mr Thatcher was the first speaker j I and by way of introduction said that I j he desired to say a few words on the I I conditions confronting the people of I i Utah at the present times and his own attitude in regard thereto He disclaimed I dis-claimed all title to the accusation of being an office seeker and proclaimed I I that he had no bitter feelings towards I his rival or his rivals adherents in the I late senatorial contest There was no I truth whatever in the report that he I I i was about to leave the Democratic I I party and affiliate with the Populists i I He said he knew very little about the I tenets of the Populist party but in so j I far as those tenets inculcated love for I the people equality liberty and special i favors to none lie was a populist I fal sn not at variance with the I Democratic pirty but did not regard I the action of the legislature as the I voice of the Democracy and he ex I I I pected to stay with the Democratic party I 1 I In the constitutional convention the I speaker said he cast his vote for woman 1 wom-an suffrage B H Roberts in the convention I i con-vention argued that the women would I vote as their husbands voted but the action of Mattie HughesCannon in the legislature proved that Mr Roberts I Rob-erts was wrong Mr Thatcher said he had been accused ac-cused of dishonesty of purpose but the I accusation was untrue He also had I been censured for not abiding by the judgment of 1 members of his quorum I quo-rum but he had simply acted as his conscience directed and could not do I I otherwise Twentyfive times had he at the command of his file leaders fe lealers gone abroad to teach and preach and the spirit of God had been with him and had guided him Many of his hearers he said had cast their votes both in their quorums and among the people for a separation of politics and religion relig-ion and the declaration that they would be separated was what enabled us to gain statehood He like others had joined the party of his choice and as American citizens they had a right to do so without interference from any man or party of men The rights of free American citizens we were Just beginning be-ginning to enjoy and could not afford Ito I-to lose that inestimable privilege The speaker then referred to the I times when prosecutions for polygamy were common and how the rich men evaded the law by going abroad while I the poor had to stay at home and takes the take-s c The remark of Sen fat Jfd ator Edmunds that he didnt care how I many wives a man had but the j church must keep its hands off the j i throat of the government was also re I ferred t < I Mr Thatcher urged the people to be I loyal to their ante statehood pledges that churcn and state should be separated I sepa-rated and concluded by calling upon Hon Warden Foster I HON WARREN FOSTER Mr Foster made a very interesting j I speech and among other things said I that he was of the opinion that there were many Populists in the audience j but they were Populists without knowing i know-Ing I He spoke In favor of government j I govern-ment ownership of railroads and telegraph tele-graph lines and other cardinal doctrines doc-trines of the Populist party I Both speakers were attentively listened lis-tened to and heartily applauded |
