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Show AN OPEN AIK MEETING. Church and 8tnte Nust lie Separated On Account of Religious Animosity. The Salt Lake Democratic Club which was recently organized held an open air meeting at tho Wasatch corner Saturday night. The feature of the meeting was Thomas B. O'Brien's address, ad-dress, in which ho said he was out iu tho street to deal democratic doclrino instead of salvation or patent medicines. Tho necessity for democratic politics was evident, he said, or the community would be cursed with tho plague of religious animosity. Ho wanted to seo tho separation of church and state, but at present, he stated, we were cursed with a conglomerate conglom-erate theocracy, Catholicism, Methodism, Metho-dism, Presbyteriauism, Episcopalianism and Hebrewism, all arrayed against the poor Mormon for the selfish greed of office. At tho conclusion of his remarks, the following resolutions were adopted: Whereas, It is being industriously circulated circu-lated in eastern republican journals that there Is no democracy in Salt Lake, the occult purpose pur-pose of which is to imbue our democratic brothers in the eaHt with a scornful contempt tor the democracy of Utah for abandonment and betrayal of democratic principle 1 and, Whereas, We. the democratic. Gentiles of Salt Lake, desire to place ourselves on record as being in line with the democratic column in the nation, accepting lu totothe platform of the last democratic national convention ; therefore. there-fore. Resolved, That the Democracy of Salt Lake in mass assembled heartily endorse the report of the minority house committee on territories against the uu-Deinocratic Baskin or Cullum bill. Resolved, That it is a deprivation of native-born native-born citizens' rights and in violation of the constitution, which emphatically commands that "congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Resolved. That the time has come and fhe hour has struck to resist, by organization tho evident Intent of the national and state stealing steal-ing party from obtaining political coutrol of Utah, should tho republican party be successful success-ful In trampling upon our constitution by disfranchisement dis-franchisement of citizens who have committed com-mitted no overt act against the national laws, unless It be to worship Uo:l according to the dictate! of conscience. Resolved, That it is the sense of this mass meeting that neither Governor Thomas, ex-Governor ex-Governor West nor Judge Baskin represent the genuine democracy of Salt Lake, aud are only viewed an being the emissaries of au unscrupulous unscrup-ulous lobby and local republican ring, masquerading mas-querading under the name of Liberals. Resolved. That we hurl back the Infamous lie of a local Republican editor who has vile-tied vile-tied the Democrats lu congress as being jack-Mormons, jack-Mormons, and that our heartfelt admiration goes spontaneously forth for that stalwart and Infantile Democrat congressman, William Springer, who is the Democratic sentinel on the barrier of freedom, for equal and exact jifitice to all men of whatever stale or condition, condit-ion, religious or political. Resolved. That a copy of these resolutions bo RMit to Hon. William Springer, with a request to publish them. |