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Show DEMOCRATIC MASS COS VS-TIOS. VS-TIOS. Initial Organisation of Ihc Party In luh. Poraant to a published call the Democrats of Utah assembled in mass meeting at the city hall last nicht for the purpose of orcaniztn? the Democratic Demo-cratic party of Utah. The large hall was crowded to its utmost capacity and . the audience wis decidedly enthusiastic On motion of Mr. Faust, Hadley D. Johnson, Esq., was elected president of the meeting. Mr. Jobnson on taking tak-ing the chair delivered an intensely Democratic inaugural. He urged the propriety of organizing the party in this Territory, saying that he was gUd that the Republicans had organized, and that he considered the existence of two great parties a necessity in a republican re-publican government the outs to watch the ins. He scored the Republican Repub-lican party in good humored but severe language, and read a telegram to the eastern press with reference to the call , for a Democratic convention, every statement of which he pronounced false with the exception of that as to the number of the signers of the call. In speaking of the corruption of the Republican Re-publican party he indulged in tome very plain language, saying that he despised de-spised the modern polite terms used to soften the names of crime, and chose to call a defaulter or an embezzler of the people's money a thief. He closed with an anecdote illustrative of the propensity of Republican officials to appropriate funds intrusted to their care to their own use. On motion, Dr. W. (J. Waldron and L. S. Hills, E q., were elected vice-presidents, vice-presidents, and Wm. ('. Campbell, secretary. On motion of Mr. Miner, the chair appointed a committee on platform and resolutions, as follows : A. .Miner, K. M. Barnum, S. M. liiair, Jo Gordon, Gor-don, H. AY. Nuckols, Henry Wagcner and Joseph Stevens. W hen ihe committee com-mittee bad retired, colonel T. P. Akers, Id response to repeated and enthusiastic enthusias-tic calls, took the floor. He said that under the circumstances circum-stances he would consider his ailing health a sufficient excuse for declining the invitation to speak; but as this was tho first Democraiic mass convention conven-tion ever held in the Territory for organizing or-ganizing the grand old party of the past, he could not but say a few words. The other parties were but of yesterday ; this had a line of Presidents running from ISi'l to 1S01. He traced the various , parties which had opposed the Democracy, Demo-cracy, and said they had alternately passed away. Its last antagonist, and the one with which it now struggles for supremacy, is tho Republican party. That party elected its president in 1SC0, owing to a sad breach in the country, lu 1SG4 it again elected the same man on issues growing out of the war. Then it disfranchised the white men of the soulh and enfranchised their former slaves; and having thus loaded the dice, rattled them in the (ace of this great and intelligent country. coun-try. But if the signs are not deceptive it is drawing to its end. Its leaders are leaving it, and (he rank and lile are deserting it like rats deserting a sinking .ship. The Democratic parly had seen the end of all former parties opposed to it, and it would sec the cud of this. The platform recently adopted by I he Republican Re-publican party of Utah endorsed in warm language the reconstruction policy of congress. He had thought that at this late day no man could be fwund with "cheek" enough to endorse that reconstruction policy. lie drew a picture of the state of society in Tennessee, the oldest reconstructed Slate, and that in Kentucky, which had never been reconstructed, far from flattering to tho former. He contrasted con-trasted the history of tho Democratic and Republican parlies, glancing at the wonderful growth of the United Slates during the time the Democrats had power, and asked if there had ever been any great measure inaugurated inaugur-ated by the Democratic parly which had not resulted in good for tho nation; na-tion; and what great measures had been carried into effect in opposition to them that did not a fleet the country disastrously. lie followed in some glowing periods on the triumphant record re-cord of the party which he represented; characterized tlic Republican party as a sectional party, and unable to poll a single vute in the South prior to the war; and claimed it was responsible for the war, at the beginning of which morals began lo relax and went down during the contlict. Even religion be came corrupt, and brothers were tiaus formed to demons, whiie thousands of lives were sacrificed to appease the sectional sec-tional hatred of the radicals. In oon elusion ho believed that the signs ol the times indicate that the Democrats would be successful at the next Presidential Presi-dential election, through (he divisions in the Republican parly, just ;is that party were successful in 1660, through divisions in the Democratic party, in that event there would bo Domocrar.e federal officials in this Territory, and he desired that there should be a Democratic Dem-ocratic church in which to receive them when they oamo. Tho committee on preamble and resolutions then returned and reported as follows : To the President ami mr.mUrs of the Convention. Gentlemen: Your committee to whom was referred the drafting and presentation of resolutions, report the following preamble and resolutions which arc respectfully submitted for your consideration: l'REAMULF. Whereas, the history of the present , administration abundamiy proves that ! a change in the management of national affairs is absolutely and imperatively demanded; and the controling thought of sincere men everywhere is towards some honest process for the purification purifica-tion of the prescntcondition of national politics, and a redemption from a party rule which seeks to oover up and conceal con-ceal its corruptions, from the debasing influence of self-aggrandisement and official unfaithfulness, and from the machinations of centralized and self-perpetuated self-perpetuated power: and ItTicrmy, to insure reform in the distrobution of patronage; to favor the : selection of honest men for otbees to obtain free and full investigation of the 1 j conduct of the people's servants; to arrest the centralization of government I into a party despotism; to oppose .(despotism, bribery and gift-taking in -high as well as in low efhcial position, 'to reform the system of taxation so that its burdens shall be equitably dis-jtributed; dis-jtributed; to revive protracted com- mcree and restore to American citizens i their former large share in the pro lit-j lit-j of ocean navigation; to complete the system of universal su3rae by aboii-h-; inc'the long term of residence now rc-Mimred rc-Mimred for naturalization and rivjne in-; in-; teiiigent white immicrant the same I advant.ice- extended to the i)ia.-s ol colore 1 population fre.-h from an ig-' ig-' ;norant condition of slavery; to repeal . ail iawi which permit the federal gov eminent or its armed acents to interfere inter-fere with elections; to remove all political poli-tical disabilities, and by remembering only the virtues and heroism of the iate war, to encourage a generous for-getiulness for-getiulness of the harrowiDg memories it produced; and to continue the government gov-ernment upon the broad and liberal basis on which it was originally founded, foun-ded, is the high mis-ion of the Democratic Demo-cratic party, and, Mfurreas, the dissatisfaction and dis-. sension dow existing throughout the ! radical party in power, fuLy assures! Democrats that they should nowhere j reinforce it by inaction nor ouast' amili- j ation, and that whoever counts upon I an entire passive policy on the part oi the great Democratic party in the coming com-ing national contest, or upon a coalition coali-tion which involves an abdication of its distinctive organization, is not euided by the history of the past, nor by the indications of the future; therefore, there-fore, Jiesolved. That in our opinion it is eminently wise to maintain the organi zation of the Democratic party in all the States and Territories of the Union, placing its control in the hands of honest men, who have at heart the good of the whole people, and condemning con-demning all rings and cliques who may attempt to use party organizations for the furtherance of private ends. tifsotvea, 2nd. lhatwedeem it proper pro-per at this time to organize the Demo cratic party in Utah that we may thereby encourage that party throughout through-out the States, which has been and still is earnestly struggling to maintain the union of States as originally established establish-ed against dangerous encroachments on the rightd of the people by organized centralization of power. Kesohed, 3cd. That wo declare the following as the embodiment of our political faith: 1st. The constitution inviolable. 2nd. Faithful administration of the laws. 3rd. Official integrity, competency and strict accountability. 4th. Local self-government the foundation of American freedom, ever to be asserted and maintained. 5th. Encroachments of federal power on the rights of the people, and the tendencies thereof to centralization to be promptly checked. lith. Strict maintenance of the pub-1 lie faith and credit. Tib. Specie, the basis of the circulatory circula-tory medium. 8th. Tariff, for revenue purposes only. yrh. No entangling foreign alliances. 10th. Reassertion, in its length and breadth, of the Monroe doctrine, lllh. Universal amnesty. 12lh. Disposition of the public lands to actual settlers and for educational purposes only. 13th. A government of the people, by the people and for the people. A. Miner, chairman, E. M. Rarnu.m, S. M. Blair, Jos. Stephens. The report and platform, were unanimously unani-mously adopted. General Bar-um hplnrr cillnH nnnn made a stirrint sech. in which he ridiculed the idea that the Democratic party was dead. He refcrad to the fact that in the recent elections in New Hampshire and Connecticut ihe Democrats Dem-ocrats were defeated by a majority ol less than 2,000 votes, in the face of all the power that the ad uinistratton could bring to bear to carry tho election in those Stales. He said that except for the office holders and a corrupt use of federal patronage in those States, they would both have gone Democratic, and predicted they would do so next fall, lie reviewed in detail the reconstruction reconstruc-tion policy of the administration io the Southern States, and in detail criticized the conduct of the oarpet-bag officials who for five ycais had ruled those States. He referred to the impeachment impeach-ment auddeposal from office of Gov. Ilolden, of North Uarolinajtbe impoverishment impover-ishment of South Caiolina through the enormous thefts of Gov. Scott and his ignorant and obsequicus legislature; to the flight of Gov. liullock from Georgia, to escape the penetentiary; the indictment by a U. S. grand jury I of Gov. Davis, of Texas, fur the crime ! of falsifying election; returns; tho trial of Gov. Clayton, of Arkansas, by the U. S. senate for the same crime as that comuiitlted by Davis; . and the generally corrupt conduct of Gov. Warmouth , of Louisiana ; and asked if reconstruction as effected by these men was a thing to boast of, as was done in the platform of the Utah Republicans, He strongly advocated the necessity of a thorough organization organiza-tion of the party, and spoke of the attempts at-tempts mado by the Republicans to scducoj Democrats from their faith by false issues foreign to party politics, concluding with a glowing apostrophe to Democracy, and prophecying the success of the Democratic national ticket in November. Major Blair being loudly called for, intimated that the dilapidated condition condi-tion of his rheumatic limbs was something some-thing liko the condition of tho Republican Repub-lican party. He saw by the papers that the radicals had commenced teaching through their "school inarms" a slander on the Democrats, which he couldn't stand. It was something like this: "Second class, stand up. Who is God?-' "Don'tknow, ma'am!" "Who killed Jesus Christ I" "The A d Democrats, ma'am." (Laughter (Laugh-ter ) This he couldn't stand, and so he was present. Mr. Minor being called for told his ittle anecdote also, to show that the Democrats would go "the whole hog or nothing," and pitched the old Whig party right into the middle of Africa. The convention had adopted a platform which was pure Democratic principles, the true basis of democratic republican government. He criticized the manner in which elections were carried car-ried by the Republican party, contend cd that tho policy of the present administration ad-ministration was to break down every State govenment, and to control every department; and referred in pointed language to tho course of congress in endeavoring to control the free action of the supreme court of the United States a tribunal which should be sacredly free from political influence. influ-ence. Democracy may have been trampled in the dust, but it would again shine in its native purity like the sun in its splendor. Col. Akera moved that the convention conven-tion proceed to the election of a central Democratic committee of five for the Territory, Motion seconded and carried. car-ried. The following gentlemen were then nominated and elected: H. D. Johnson, John-son, E. M. Barnum, Levi E. Rit-r, William Bringhurst, of Springviile, and Jo Gordon. The chairman suggested that the number be increased, oo that a majority I might be present at any meeting that j miicht be called in this city. General Barnum said that in a few' weeks August Belmont, chairman of the National Democratic convention, ! would iisue a call for a national con-' vcotion, when this central committee would have to make a call for a delegated dele-gated convention to elect three delegates dele-gates to the National convention, and that a Democraiic deiecated convention couid permanently organize the party in the Territory. He moved that this convention request the Democrats in every county io the Territory of Utah to organize the party in their respective respec-tive counties and prepare for a call for a Iclei-atcd convention. Carried. Col. Akers moved that the conven-; conven-; tion tender their thanks to mayor Wells and the city council, for the use of the hail ia which tho eoaventioa i was held. Carried. Votes of thanks were also tenet-red to the pr.pers that had published the call ibr the Democratic Demo-cratic convention, and to the custodian S of the hall, for their counesies. ; A motion, by Mr. S. Hudson, to re-: re-: quest the Democrats in each precinct it premize speedily, was adopted. I Judge Lcveil made an orthodox 1 Democratic speech, in trhich he spoke '. ofJeferson as aiike the founder of t te i ; Democratic party and of religious tree-1 'dom. and suid that the latter was a 1 cardinal principle of ihe former, and oniy secure in its protection. He t warmiy advocati-d ihe doctrine of .-Quatter sovereignty, and contended ; ihat the people of the Territories, like j those of the Mates should have the right to elect officials who were to rule over them. lie contended that local envernment was the etsenee of freedom. free-dom. After a vote of thanks to the chairman, chair-man, the convention adjourned tine die. |