Show GREAT RAllY AT SANDt Magnificent Republican Success I Suc-cess Was Scored 1 1I I FITCH THE CHIEF SPEAKER I I Ho Dealt With tho Philippine Question Ques-tion Showing Our Duties and Obligations Obli-gations Under the Treaty of Peace and tho Impelling Obligation of tho Law Upon the Prcsident to Do Precisely Pre-cisely What He Has Done Republican Repub-lican LoveFeast at Cedar City I Other Stato Meetings I fTRlDUNK SPECIAL1 Sandy Oct 31Tho Republican rally held at this place tonight was a magnificent mag-nificent success Preceding tho addresses ad-dresses at tho ward mcellnghousc which warm crowded to Its full capacity with an cnthuslaotlc audience a torch I light procession was given participated In by about 300 voters Fireworks were I used In profusion and anvils and shotguns shot-guns made the air ring 1 W W Wilson was chairman the I meeting Alex Stuart candidate for the Legislature addressed the audience 1 briefly on the Issues of the campaign The Hon Thomas Fitch was the other speaker and held his audience Intent for more than tinhour by his eloquence and logic Mr Fitch said In part MR FITCHS POINTS In reply to tho Democratic argument against time action of President McKIn loys administration with respect to time Philippines let mo array the simple fuels I On tho 5th day of February ISM tho Mnlno was destroyed ACtor two months of patient Investigation a naval board of Inquiry found thut tho origin of tho oxplOHlon wins external by a submarine mine On the auh of April Congress by a unanimous vote of Democrats and Republicans Re-publicans declared a state of war to ex ist between tho United States and Spain Sjmln had ten warships and 1800 troop at Munlla Our ocean commerce on tho Iaelllc and our California Oregon and Washington seaports were liable to assault as-sault Our Pacific squadron under time command of Commotloro George Dewey wan thon lying 1 nt Hon konJ nbout 700 miles from Manila Immediately after tho declaration of war by Congress on tho 23th of April President McKinley cabled to Commofloro Dewey to proceed to Manila Ma-nila and capture or destroy tho Spanish Hoot Five duyw afterward on May 1st the Spanish fleet was sent to tho bottom Next day the naval station and tho forts at CavUo Wore captured Manila was un OCr our guns md Its surrender could bo obtained at any time but the 1SWO Span ish soldiers could hiivo retired beyond the reach of time guns of tho llcot and We had no land force sufficient to police and govern gov-ern tho city and resist land attack so Dewey prudently awaited further orders As soon as word was received at Washington Wash-ington from Dewey a force was made ready and on tho 2Uth of Juno Gon Mor rllt with 1BCOO men arrived at Manila Two weeks afterward Spain sued for peace and on August 12th a pence protocol proto-col was arrange the third article of which read as follows Article III Tho United Stales will occupy and hold tho city bay and harbor of Manila pending tho conclusion of a trdaty of peace which shall determine the control disposition and government of tho Philippines A few days later tho oily surrendered OUR OBLIGATIONS Upon Us surrender wo Incurred certain International obligations namely to preserve pre-serve order and to protect llfo and property proper-ty for when In Inq course of war ono nation captures a city Jl J Is bound to protect pro-tect tho llve3 and property of noncom batanlH It must necessarily do this bv tho strong hand I l for Inter i w arma silent 1 leges and In doing It the commahdor of the conquering army may continue In power existing rulers and courts OP Hub stltulo others of his own creation he may deem Expedient I > This responslblllly and this duly we could not undor the Jaw of natlqns shore with anybody We could not go Into partnership with AgulnrUdo and his Tu gals even had we desired to do so Jf wo i I remained In tho Philippine it all wa could only do wo as time supreme power for while several parties may untO as allies In war sovereignty In peace Is onoT ultimate I ulti-mate atom Incapable of division jo t While we were thus In occupation Iho treaty of Paris was negotiated In IICKO I tinting It we had to take Into consideration considera-tion the rights of tho people of tho Island I antI our own rights duties nml Interests Vo had ns an unforeseen urn Unavoidable Incident of war driven out the only gay ernment In oxlBteacc In time Philippine I What course ought wo 10 have taken Wo might have restored them to tho despotic I Spanish authority under which they hud I suffered for foir hundred years nnd against which they had of into revolted i only to bo sold out by the lender of their revolution We might have given them up to the selfproclaimed dictator Agulnaldo whosui avowed purpose was to rule eight million peoplo with ho help of llfty thousand thou-sand bandit Tagnls who constituted ills protorlan guard and to giVe to loot and rapine tilt towns and cities that resisted hU rule I MIGHT HAVE DO EWe E-We might have permitted Spain to sell time Islantlw to European powers who would gladly havo piild us enough money I for them to discharge any war indemnity that we might hjivc exacted and who having bought them would have had the right to shut In our faces the doors not I only of the commerce of time Philippine but of tho adjacent AsIatIc continent 1 Wo txok u 1 broader and Justor view of our dutlcu to limo Filipinos to the world and to ouisolvcs Uo t < akl Wo will keep thcso I I new possessions that the fortunes of war thM iho decrees of destiny that tho man ditto of the Coil of nations have ndilod to our domain Under the language of tho treaty by l which we acquired them It Is provided that the civil rights and political politi-cal status of the native Inhabitants ot tho territories hercbv ceded to time United Stoics shall be determined by Congress Tho Democrats arc drtylnir that If wo keep the iHlanrts we must cvc to nil Unit pidjilfc civilized halfclvlJlzed unil aav LJcolltho rights that you and I I possjpsjr as citizens of the United States hOrn Is no warrant for any such ailsumpllon nic treaty or ncaco locH not give u uuu mu Constitution of tho United Stntqs does not I give It The Constitution was mfide by tho Slates for the Slides nnd without un not of Congress clots not extend beyond tIme Stales That principleJB settled H I was Upclnrcd by all the early Democratic Presidents by Jefferson by Madlpqn by l Monroe bio Jackson by i Van Buron and by Polk Limo UrsL contention to iho con liary was made by Cnlh6un Ih 1817 when In order to cxlend slavery Inlo the territory ter-ritory oblalncd from Merfcn ho declared that The Constitution follows the flag and slavery folUnvs the Conatltutlpn Tho American people voted ihit doctrine down when thaI elected Abraham Lincoln They shot It to death upon tha battle llolda of tho Civil war and It cannot now IIP rcsurrncLctl and galvanized Into llf < > by Mr Bryan THE PENDING PROBLEM rime method of governing the Philippine Philip-pine Is time pending political problnm ot the hour and Jt Ilia problem lint must bo sovlJd either by Dcmocrq or HCIIllIJ melhod lit to I liianu mCfhulls 11 13rnl11R II To wlOm will Ivc lIw phlllpnlnCN gie UP hi clvo them 1117 To I Aculnuluo and hIs fifty thousand cutthroats l To the 30000 l propertyowning and pcncelovlm peoplo of Manila who dn hot wish to bo given up to tIme lender mercies of Agulnsildn blind To Spain tliul sho may o alh pick un the whip of tyranny thin our soldiers nllll Xnllois Htntck from her cruol syraHii To a Bvndlcato of European nu lions who will govern uecordlnj ipuroiicnn melb oils and TIJ080 object will bo not to nil olvlltenilQii and nromote proRnerliy vance and happiness In tine Philippines but toIl to-Il the coffer of their merchants and nnd OClccH for Iho younger sons of theIr noblcII1 Xo we will not Rlv thorn up Wo will keel them and a Republican GohKres win dotcrmlnl an It HAS a constitutional ami treatyconferred right to determine I nun Iho civil ana political rlix its pf the imllwi 1 iiVhnbllaiitH The most oflho Chinese thcro are not nallvi Juhnbllanta and In tltcm It will say Stay where you are OT return to China Wo extend lo you the provlBlons of our present Chlntmn xclu Mon act To tho savaijes It will say at It Hays now to the Apachos and Iho Nova joc anti Ibo Utes and tim Sioux The lands that you occupy wo will mtke lair reservations There you may enjoy your own customs and your own rwrulutlons and Hvo your own lives subject only to i lie nuporvlalon and control oC agents up j POinted by lie United Slates To the I J cmlclvllzcd natives It will say Cultl Valo Voir land pursue your simple mules conlhuio your local governments U6 freer and moro prospcroim and happier hap-pier than you havo ever been Wo will only Intorforo with you If and wherever I nccpssary lo project personal and property proper-ty rights AntI to Ihrt civilized Alalay c6o and mixed raccu and Americans who I win iiqclc Into thOtio lalindu by tens of thousands It will any You nhnll hMO I nil tho rlghyj Including thai of local self i I government that wo wlvo to LImo people of the nthr Territories1 And what about I Statehood Oh well you can wait for thai Arizona and Now Mexico havo waited for tiny yeans You may wait na long or longer without loss of freedom or diminution of prsperlty TUB FIRST STEP But tho first step In the solution of Limo J Philippine problem mum bo the suppres i l I nlon of Acuhialdot rebellion nun the complete com-plete establishment of tho authority of I tho Unltod States Until that shall bo done nothing can be done for Amid arms laws are silent Shamo unto those who lo gain office whether a PreBl ld lrnoy u Governorship or a County Clerkship would favor a policy that encourageS Agulnaldo to continue hIM guerrilla war They aro Kiillty of treason morally and some of them and I am not sure that Mr Bryan Is not ono of thorn 1 havo brought themselves 1 within l tho provlslonri of section f31 l of Iho United t Staten Itovlgcd Statutes which provides that Kvary person who Incites seta OH foot usplstK or oncounipos any rebellion I or Insurrection I ignlnst the nuthorlly ot Iho Unitod Stales or Iho laws I thereof or gives aid and comfort thereto shall bo punished by Imprisonment of not more 1 than Ion years of by limo of not mora I Dint flOlCO or by both of such punish 1 mends ado ahall mqrcovcr ho Incapable oc holding any office under the United I States COMPARISONS I Whoihor wo compare principles or com para mon limo Republican pnrty cun appeal ap-peal with conllilcnuc to tho voters Iso words of mine can odd anything IQ your knowledge I ot Gov Volhi or your eMU I ijmtti of his hfjrvlccH lie Is I no smooili cVnsIvc truckling politician Tnko him i I for all In nil 119 is I a man lie Is I the friend of the laborer and tho friend of the 1 I people without being tho assailant of Wealth Ho reiognlres as does every sensible man that the I very best Interests cf labor arc advancer when capllnl has confidenco that It will receive protection from thooo who make anti Interpret nnd administer the lava Utah hits prospered under l the first uilmlnlutrullon of Gay Wells npd wo ahull prosper under hla second sec-ond administration Congressman There will be no betterequipped gressman from uny Stale In this Union Is I bright I than George Suthcrlnnd Ho i ho la learned IW Is Industrious Ho knows thc needs of the people 01 Utah and ho I will never subordinate their interests to I those of any nolltlcnl party even his own I I Ho ought lo be elected by n good mnjorl ty and I bcllovo that ho will be INTEGRITY OF TUB BENCH I T should bo less than fair If I failed to word for a gentleman who Is barred wxya by usage from saying anything for himself him-self Tho exterior doconcls of the profession a oandldale for a fession ot law pronlbli Judicial position from making pollllcnl speeches If It were not for the unwritten unwrit-ten law In this respect we might hear from Judge Barton something worth hearing There Is no more courageous nor conscientious Judge on tho Supremo ber of any Stale In this Union than Chief Justice Bartch and in learning ability I I and Industry ho baa few superiors When 1m enters the courtroom he leaves behind him frIcnd3pR and cnmlllcs either personal per-sonal or political Public opinion may beat against the doors of hIs courtroom but It never crosses Its threshold Ho dodOes do-dOes tho law UB ho finds It no mailer who mny be hurt or helped by till decision deci-sion Yet In private Ufa no man Is moro genial and kindly sympathetic Ho Is a good husband a good father a good I clllzon who lives unoateniatlouslv upon iho meager salary of his office Tho peo plrt pt Utah will make a mistake 1C they fnJ to retain hIs services upon tho Su premo bench l In days long gone It was my Illfortune to hracllcn law before uoino missionary Judges They were not dishonest as that I word Is generally Interpreted thai Is they would not take money for their decisions cisions but lucy were guilty nevertheless l oJ lho worst and moat dangerous hind atC at-C I for they were Influenced In lh6Jr rulings by public opinion Now the moment a Judge falla to how lo the line tho moment he looks l to Bee where the I chips aro going to fall the moment he stops to nsk tho question whether his de clalon will bo popular with tho people or I not that momnnt his usefulness gone i and his court becomes a deadfall for ihb I litigant who IB on the unpopular side A fr cnc tyny voter wno casts u vnjiu Vl u against Judge because of some decision I by lhntiJudg0 strikes a blow at tho very foumlnllin of our Government for ho makes an assault upon the Independence ort ho Judiciary < 1 wllhpiu fcarlcc and Independent Judges who cannot Lo used by public opinion our liberties would indeed In-deed bo endanRcrd S |