Show MEET TO HONOR I GREAT DEMOCRAT i Jeffersons Followers in Utah Renew Their Allegiance to His Principles RESOLVED TO STAND FIRM BANQUET AT COMMERCIAL CLUB IS SUCCESS Democrats of or Utah were sufficiently numerous to carry rom everything In sight at the he Commercial club last night when of them gathered to honor Thomas Jefferson to reaffirm their adherence rence he of 01 government to the principles taught and to pledge themselves not to tobe tobe tobe be discouraged by reverses that have havo come in recent years but butto to continue the good fight Prominent members of the party parly from different parts of the state were present Democratic women w men in large number helped h to make the tim gathering more attractive Living up to their name n mc terrified un those present last night showed noth nothing nothIng i ing of terror Instead I st the speakers all breathed it spirit of determination and hope and their sentiments received hearty heart support from the listeners The gathering was informal and pleasant Dinner began early earl in the evening and tasted lasted until about 9 when the speaking began to last until about 1130 Music by b an or orchestra orchestra chestra and a good vocal solo olo by Will Bywater added adde to the pleasure of ot the affair Local Reference Made Although speakers In the main re Te referred to local conditions only in gen gon general eral terms there was one ono specific local reference by John dohn Dern Dem Incidental to hs to the toast toas William J Bryan Mr 11 Dern Dem showed by his sto story sloT ry T IS what happened last fall to one man who ho preached p his friends until the night before election and then suddenly went to work under cover coyer of 01 darkness for the tile Republicans Jeffersons life and character his work in helping to form the govern goern government government ment his bis l s marvelous marclous principles of oC gov government government constructive statesman statesmanship statesmanship statesmanship ship as 3 manifested when he was 1 details of nf his an vate t aa career e were brought br r right r out in the le addresses I Mrs II 11 J S Hayward president of the tile Womans Democratic club of Salt Lake under whose direction this the affair was Introduced L IV u Martineau state chairman as toastmaster Still Have Principles v Mr ir Martineau spoke briefly to say sa that the gathering was not to divide the Ule pie of victory v but was nevertheless nevertheless less l ss a refutation of the charge that hat there were not enough Democrats left heft to celebrate It may mily be our fortune to walk the lonely road of ot defeat in indefinitely indefinitely definitely he said Conditions are arc such In Utah that hat he would be a n rash prophet who attempted to predict what will happen in Utah politics But If Jt we weare are arc able to elect one public officer In Utah taah in il a hundred years ears we shall still have the ilie Imperishable principles of Democracy and In the words of the great Calhoun I 1 would rather be right than president The Tha Democratic par party party ty In Utah those that are left of ot It stands today as a monument of o political politiCal cal Integrity Our ranks have been decimated thinned by one cause causo or an another another another other on one pretext p or another but I Isee Isee Isee see signs In the east eWt when the name of ot Bryan Is mentioned that indicate the th time will not be long before the Democratic party locally as well as nationally will be lifted into power Let the word go o out from here tonight that we are arc Democrats Democrat and hold our political convictions as dear as our re religious convictions Let us put up a ticket at every important election and cast east our ballots for Democratic principles princIples ples pies even though thought we ive know they are cast for defeat though political ma machines machines machines chines may be b built up and political al work York may continue continuo to deprive deprie the peo people people pIe of or their just right to vote ote their convictions Articles of Faith Speaking or of the toast Thomas Jef Jet Jefferson ferson Democrat Stephen L Rich Richards Richards Richards ards of ot Salt Lake said Democracy was Jeffersons religion I wonder If he came to Utah toda today whether he would be allowed to td live lle his religion In Inthis Inthis Inthis this state stati Continuing his apprecIation tion of Jefferson d as the great gt at exponent of ot Democracy Mr Ir Richards said sail Jef Jefferson Jefferson Jefferson ferson never knew the meaning of de defeat d defeat feat or despair Despite the great op opposition opposItion opposition position against which he ile was forced to contend he succeeded In securing thet Ute adoption of the first ten amend amendments ments to the constitution that have proved so useful in guarding the rights of ot the people Referring to them as The articles i of faith of Democracy Mr Richards Richard read the lie first paragraphs par graphs of ot Jeffersons inaugural address that speech which was said to have had more effect on the minds of men than Demosthenes address on anI s the tho crowd or Burkes Durkes speech at the trial of War Var Warren ren ien Hastings In closing cl Mr tr Richards addressed himself elf to the young men inca of Ot the tile state In the state of Utah the tho young men of ot whom I am due bile have havo more to hope for have more to live for In the good old faith of Thomas s Jefferson than from any man or set of men and I say to the young men of or orthis this state let bet us live Hye those principles said Mr Richards Continued on Page 2 t GREAT DEMOCRAT Continued from Pane Page 1 IrS J 3 D Roundy of Salt Lake gave a n carefully prepared paper on Home Life Lite Of t Jefferson Jeffere n that was w ds listened to attentively and gave an int In InterestIng Insight Into the personal pers mal character ant an and intimate e doings d lops of or the great Democrat Mr U Introduced S 3 R fl Thur Thurman Thurman Thurman man of fr Provo v after r exhibiting th first t Democratic Domoci UC badge ever evet made In lit t h hIt It b 10 ti Will Wit Snoot Smoot of Salt ait Lake Lak and ami was wn worn by b him when Mr Thur ThUrman mari man was wat t the Democratic b tw candidate for tor forcOni congress cOni n es in 1888 l BS Where He Went Went Vent Wrong Mr rr Thurman gave a delightfully hu Ins humorous talk th t contained c much historical his historical data as well He Ho said he ob oh observed served the Hie first struggle of ot embryonic Democracy to break br the th shackles of ot en environment environment environment and Insist upon American politics In Utah at a Peoples party convention In 1882 when wh n Kenper one of the delegates asked tho the question How long Is this roaring farce faree to be kept up From that time on Scip and I were warm political friends and partisans until I went wrong a few tew years ago by re remaining remaining remaining in the Democratic party said Mr Thurman As in the movement for tor the first territorial t Democratic convention Mr Ir Thurman mentioned Judge Dusen Dusenberry Dusenberry Dusenberry berry Dr Pile Pike PI e W H King Owen Smoot John B Milner Joseph 1 L L Raw Rawlins Rawlins lins line Ben S A Kenner Had Hadley Icy ley D Johnson H HJ J Faust and scores s of others equally valiant all ant in the tho cause of Democracy some of whom I will not mention for the further reason that they would not thank me today for Cor mentioning the tact fact that they had ever e r been Democrats Mr Thurman confessed that he was the candidate for congress chosen choen cho en at atthe tho the convention that In Salt Lake Oct 5 6 1888 and Oland had the distinction of receiving less votes otes than any party in the territory that had ever placed placeda a ticket in the field Better Days Corning Coming In closing he said We have come up through great gr t tribulations s Thero will wUl bo ho an end of Demo dark and night even Vel now the day cIa Is beginning to dawn Tho The next ne t cam campaign campaign campaign will be fought on the Issues of tariff reform curtailment of the tho power and privileges of the tho trusts and the Inviolability of oC the sovereign rights of the states Upon these Issues cumbered with matters of doubtful Im Importance Importance Importance every eveh true Democrat can stand and when such has been the tho case casein caseIn casein in these United States since sinca Thomas Jefferson wai W J elected president nt of the United there has never been any question as to what the tho result would be Whatever ver may mai be our conclusion as asto asto asto to what course wo we shall pursue puru In 11 our local politics polities let us keep alive alivo the tho spirit of ot Jeffersonian Democracy and In 1903 1908 let tho the voice olce of Utah be heard In the I national Democratic convention in the I nomination of William Jennigs Bryant the greatest American citizen today I among the ranks of ot the people Jerrold R It Letcher Letelier called unexpectedly unexpectedly unexpectedly edly on account of the absence of R W Sloan to respond to If It Jefferson Came to Utah began by saying It If Jefferson camo came to Utah of course he would be Mr Letcher continued by saying he believed that If Jefferson should come the spirit of the gathering present would make him feel teel at home and that Jefferson would counsel the Utah Democracy to be b of good cheer and good spirit because the principles are Just as good now as when they were enunciated by Jeffer Jefter Jefferson son Old Style Expansion Speaking to Jefferson the Expansionist Expansionist Frank K of ot Logan compared Jeffersons idea of expansion e with what the Republicans today call calle expansion e Expansion Is healthy or organic orga ganic ganc ga C growth imperialism Is a fatal tu orous enlargement ho he said Jef Jet Jeffersonian fers expansion marches forward under the flag and hand In irs hand with the tho constitution imperialism despises the constitution and desecrates the flag fla Speaking of ot Jeffersons method of acquiring the Louisiana purchase p territory ter territory territory Mr said From the standpoint of or the present incumbent of the tho presidential chair the method adopted by Jefferson to solve the tha th perplexing problem was and andla andis la is no doubt wholly inexcusable and en entirely Ur ly Indefensible for why should the nation accomplish by honorable diplo diplomacy dIplomacy diplomacy macy what it might do however re remote remote remote mote tha th chance by force torce and coer coercion coercIon cion don Why buy the property of your neighbor and pay for it when you can Just as well welt hit him with a big stick and take It away Then besides what profit Is there in expanding Into a con contiguous contiguous contiguous area where the climate and all facilities facUlties are Vie natural heritage of ot a ayoung ayoung ayoung young and growing nation when the tile nation can by expending untold wealth and sacrificing tho the lives of Its citizens travel thousands of miles mUes from home Into the tho tropical zone and annex an alien people in order to be known for tor forsooth forsooth sooth as a world power that like the monarchies of the old world the na nation nation I tion might have states and colonies subjects u Jet Indeed hu eed 1 our chief executive might be In fact fac even cv n If not so named president of the United States of ot America and emperor of the Philippines PhU pines For Fer myself I 1 prefer the Jefferson JeffersonIan Ian Inn method By dignified statesman statesmanship statesmanship ship and skillful diplomacy without forming Conning any entangling alliances with foreign powers without either bluff or bluster bullets or bloodshed an em empire empire I pire In area ar with inexhaustible er re ra resources I sources and almost limitless possibilities ties was quietly and unostentatiously added to the public domain by the tact tactful tactful I ful tul genius of one man then then pres president president presIdent I ident of the United States tates Thomas Jefferson And yet yot President Jefferson in his I annual message me dated Oct 17 11 1803 1 dIe dis disposes poses of or his great triumph In lii three e esh short sh rt paragraphs with no Intrusive reference to himself demonstrating I what an fellow ho he was wasand wasand wasand and what a change has been wrought In presidential ethics In the course of ota a hundred years Encroachment on States C S Varian at of Salt Lake Lako spoke on The Proper Relation of the Nation to the tho State Stat giving a learned and thoughtful address Mr Varian took the position that It Is better to make the general government weaker and the state government stronger than to reverse that condition and concentrate power In the general government The purpose and effect of tf the first ten amendments to the constitution were explained and shown when properly construed and applied to assure a sure the sovereignty of the state and to form torm a sheath ot of steel against aggressions on tho the people The early carly operation of or i these amendments was referred to and an I contrasted with the tha present attitude at I I amounting practically to Ignoring as assumed assumed assumed I by Republican R officers toward I them There Thero seems today to be bea a gen general general genera eral era breaking down of the line between i state and nd national sovereignty said Mr Varian and now the line can scarcely be seen Now sinister Influences Influences influences are arc operating In the minds of the people for purposes other than those of or I government and solemn constitutional provisions are being violated In ad addition addition addition 1 to national offenses of or this na nature nature nature ture Mr Varian cited the action of ot Governor John C Cutler In appointing two wo 0 members of or the state land board who vho had been rejected by the enate senate as being a violation of the constitution of the state which wInch provides that ap shall be bo made by and with AVith the consent of the senate Why a Democratic Party was w s the sub subject subject jeet of ot Thomas N No Taylor of Provo On first thought there seems to be no spec special special ial lal reason retSon why there should be a s Demo Democratic Democratic cratic party in Utah said Mr Taylor but on second thought we find that the themen themen men risen and women of Utah need salvation as much as anyone else I have been b n hearing so much of what the Republican party has been doing for us that some sometimes sometImes sometimes times I wander whether my prayers are directed to the th right course When I get a blU of goods goo now now and see how the price of oC everything has been raised I feel fel fe l lIlke like Ilke thanking the party of do things for not doing more to us Sudden Change After paying a tribute to tD Mr Bryan whom he knew in Bryans younger days In Nebraska John Dern Bern told a s story of last falls election to show what became of oC some members of the Democratic party Mr Dern DOris said he went to his mine at Eureka a few days daS after the election and heard the story from the young su superintendent superintendent superintendent of the mine a Republican I never nOVer thought a thing like one we had bad hero here could happen in any country said the tho superintendent We had a Democrat working in la the mine He preached Dem Democracy Democracy at every opportunity every day He used to say to the other men that the American party parly and Republican party row in Salt Lake was only a Republican fight tight and that the Republicans should be allowed to settle it themselves The night before election we caught that man go going goIng going ing from door to door saying Brother It Is is the will wUI of the Lord that we vote the Republican ticket Good night That Is what happened in one hamlet of this state and no doubt It happened in inmany Inmany Inmany many others said Mr |