| Show AND STill I THEY COME Hon Fred J Holton Joins the Republicans A SILVERTONGUED ORATOR the Real Leader and Backbone of the Democratic Party in Bore Elder CountyHIs Ueasons for Leaving That Party Plainly and Vigorously Staled Republicans Are Doing tho Work the Country Has to Do and Their Policies Have Brought 0 Prosperity BriGham City Utah Sept 2 1D02 Editor I Tiibune You will find herewith here-with an open letter of withdrawal from the Democratic party by Hon Fred J llolton the sllveitonrjucd orator of this county and the reasons plainly nnd manfully pictured why he Is compelled to leave that party He has been a leader In fact the real leader and backbone back-bone of the party in this county having been once elected on that ticket as County Treasurer and nominated for County Attorney two years ago upon the same ticket and has been n bulwark bul-wark of strength to them In campaign work He Is i an able lawyer an honest Gentleman and a useful addition to the I party of ogress In this county All doubting Democrats are Invited to read his able letter 1 am respectfully J S PERRY Secretary Republican Committee Mr Hol tons Good Reasons I have been a Democrat over since the division upon party lines In this State and have advocated Democratic principles I princi-ples but I can no longer In Justlco to myself follow the policies of my part Candor compels I me to say that iho Democratic party of today prescnlB no Issues that cnn appeal with convincing force to the Intelligent American citizen J hold It lo be true that nod citizenship in a Republic llko our demands careful study and prompt action upon pollllcal Iraues 1 as they arise In the arena of national na-tional life The duty of the day confronts con-fronts us and demands solution at our hands In the discharge of that duty the citizen should bo willing to lay aside past traditions and eon past party attllla Lions If according to his beat Judgment they stand In the pathway of hla country coun-try s progress No ono can deny thai great Issues have F arisen In American politics those Issues must be fairly met and solved they niv not to be dodged The war with Spain ushered In a now era In AmerIcan history his-tory Tho booming of Dowels guns In Manila harbor not only sounded the death knell of expiring tyranny hut presented a new chapter In our national life llonceforlh > wo live not for oursolves alone but for others The splrll and genius of American Utullons could no loiiKer he cooped up und bounded by I our own shores hut must expand and crossing the wide domain of waters bid barbarism cease and civilization come In The conclusion con-clusion of n war IKJUIIM l In Hie Inlorosts of hunianlti found us with Cuba and the Philippines upon our hands It I brought to us new duties and responsibilities thai WP could nol shako off To shrink from responslbllliy when high duty calls has never commended Itself to American citizenship cit-izenship and never will whatever difficulties diffi-culties threaten But one thing In hoimr remained for tho administration to do and thai was to accepl and dlsehnrRC the vast obligations that destiny presented TJo other course was open unless forsooth for-sooth the American peoiile made public confession of Incompctency stained the national honor and lowered the American Hag But hut was Impossible REPUBLICAN CAPACITY With commendable zeal and masterly alatesmanshlp the Republican administration adminis-tration bait Hhown Itself l toua to the occasion oc-casion and 1H result Is gratifying Cuba Is free the pledge Is fulfilled She breaths freely the air of national life under 0 Constitution of her own making And when In pursuance of President Rooscvells policy reciprocal trade shall ho established between the two counlrlea Mho will IMJ hound to us by lies of Kratl tude that cannot be broken As to the Philippines It IB unforlunato lhat HIP nail na-il VCH misled aa to our own true Intent concerning them should have precipitated a conflict with their deliverers Even I true American deplores the fact hut still our duty though difficult remains und must bo role That duty IH llrsl to Jut down rebellion and establish order See 5 ond to establish civil government In place of military Third by establishing free i schools and Industries raise the people to 1 proper appieelatlon and acceptance of our Institutions and the blessings of I freedom ajiJ solfEOernmcnl To the accomplishment of these duties we an fledged by national honor and by I the Irlenla t of our lllzillon and I regret sincerely L cerely lhal my paily by methods of obstruction t ob-struction vituperation and abuse 01 the soldiers o the Republic have made that duty more arduous and retarded by their influence tho progress of American arms I cannot defend such a policy nor will I longer follow those who Indulge In It Atf fio ihe pla llml our policy In time Philippines Philip-pines IH a cosily one when did such a F plea move American from their duly In all the years of our national I life All I thai Is worthy o perpetuation In our In BtltuUonK the freedom and liberty thai hi time crowning point of our civilization was 11 not costly Yet for all that was it not above all price Did Washington a Valley Forge count the suffering and struggles o hla patriot noldlors too great a prlco i to pay for his countrys llcalK of Independence and separate national life Did Lincoln swerve from his high duty f In prcsorvIxiR these United States from dissolution and his country from tho horrOr hor-rOr of slacry during the dreadful days o the Civil war bcciiuue forsooth tho cost was too great9 Tho com of pre serving a nation Ideals and perpcluullng its high principles Is always costly but history la alrewn with the wrecks of ni llons who failed In this great duly and arc now no more I am fully persuaded that no cost however great will swerve the American Xallon from its duly onco lhat l duly IH fully understood and compre ncnucu AS TO TRUSTS Thon an to the question or corporation anti trusts i cannot logically be made a party Issue If It IB time Republican party has the boiler record for It cannot bo gainsaid that thus party has passed the only national bill against tin trusts and 1 conducled time only proaccullons against them under national law Hut President Roosevelt has sounded the keynote5 of acton ac-ton on this Important question The corporation cor-poration lu an artlllclal body solely created creat-ed by operation of law hence It must he amenable to the law and answerable to Its creator and sovereign So long as Ha oporallonu arc Inimical lo the public welfare wel-fare Its acton must ho restrained by the sovereign arm of thu law But clearly Ihc power to do Ihla effectually must bo > wielded by the national and not the State Government State laws In relation to coryorallons and 1 trunts are of course varloiiB and conflicting What Is wanted Is a national I law framed upon the hell principles of consirucilvo statesmanship harmonious In Its naluro and uniform In I its operations operating equally In all r thin Slates and restraining all acts In t Jurlouti to the public policy Exactly an time national law of bankruptcy makvtt uniform nil procedure In bankruptcj In all the Slates and enforces Its decrees In t the Federal courts Denunciation and senseless abuse of corporation and trusts IK worst ihan I UHulepB remedial moUMirCH are alone use ful practical legislation In reriulred und lo It tho Republican party stnnda pledged The difficulties In the way may be i threat bul nol too great for solilion surely > no citizen la willing to admit that Industrial ism hUE outgrown alnleamanshlp and thai tho slnlesman of today IB powerless to legislate country In welfare all matters pertaining to his AS TO TARIFF Aa to the tariff It seems to me after careful consideration ami review of bust niwj comllilnnH Ilsl comltlnl throughout the country It would Indicate a wJw and conHervatlvi counrr jw Icy In relation to Iho larlff question hNhcL ny Democratic frlcudn admit slhnli thl pollc of prolocllon to be good or hal this much must lw conceded that under It vaai Industries havo leen developed and foatcivd and becomu a teIJrd c clmu mlKhty 11 I 1ndu llucnco In our economic life Thcso great I Industries have n rIght lo expect thai J r upon the tariff question there shall be no ullcal departure but only careful ad iitment If I the tariff IK to bo modified its friends and not UK enomles must lo the ork of modification Surely no ben I ciii cancomo to America H lolling mIllions If by i unwise nuvldllnp we proclpllato In uslrlal I punic and collapHe All l I devohip mOlt along IndiiHtrlal llm3 demands acted act-ed conditions and a aloaily conservative volley AVo mmd I or fall logolhur Our I society IB wonderfully complex htmL time l > omni of InloroMl unites us all m the sym alhetlo nerve mil ten all parts of Iho hu 1111 body No good can como to one laea of our olLlziis by the Injury and downfall of another class AVe rout I ono titlOiL another The prosperity of one line o f Industry helps suattiln time roC r-oC all oiher linen H the farmer would thrive the mill must also bo open and mining and the busy hum o Industry Ground from time workshops If thu Na lon I feel that the policy of the pnst hits largely brought the prosperity of the roaent and 1 cnnnol bo a prophet of ca amlly when the sunshine of prosperity laddcns iho laud wIth HH brlghine1 whcn Limo Job hunts the laborer and not the laborer the Job when Ihe 1 basket of ho artisan Is I full and his children bask In allunt plenty when our factories are busy nlghl and day and the products of our lntluatry are wlnnlni theIr wai In I very market In tho civilized world For the life of me 1 cannot act the part of thin prophet of ovll under these glorious ondlllons But rather us an American ItJzon I can but ujolco In the Industrial anti economic development of mj commit try And for me and mine this I text corns good Let well enough alone THE SILVER ISSUE As to the silver Issue the American people have spoken and their verdict Is recorded In practical legislation limo voice of nature has reiterated their vor diet from frozen Alaska to southern Af rIca the discovery and development of time gold mines has brought the golden stream Into time marts of commerce nature tare has sohcd the bhlllc of the land rds The present state of the financial vorld shows that the supply of the prccl elms metals and their free circulation un dcr probjvoious trade condlilona proves hit time supply of the currency Is ample iliuil sufildcnl for the growing wants of Ivlllzatlon No the sliver question Is end let no man bo so Indecent ui to un over the corpse SATISFACTORY TO ALL Thus UIKMI all the great living Issues o the day thai press upon us for solution ho attitude of the Republican party Is progressive nnd statesmanlike and ihey propose a bolutlon of Ihn problems In olvcd In full accord with lie cherished deals of national life and tho best wcl fore of the people The attitude of the democratic party seems to he simply one or obstrucllon with Issues wih no living and a do nothing policy The times demand con lrlcl lye statesmanship of the highest order Wo have become a srcat world lowcr In arms In statesmanship in In cnllon In Indusirlal development and Ivlllzatlon we him become a polent factor fac-tor In the worldu progress Our light can no longer be hid The Barlholdl l statue ILL the entrance of New York harbor fitly yplllos the genlous of our Nation LIberty LIb-erty Enllghienlng time AVorld The In uence and power of the Republic must eventually burst all scographl hues and ermealc the whole earth rib ijrincllhe5 lhtIrincple timst Invoked at the inception of our Gov riuncnt must ever domlnato and bo tin Irocilng force old conirolllng spirit of our Btalesmanshl The hand of destiny olnts us onward let us nut look back nor fear to follow whe ro she loads Lot la preach tho gospel of contentment and hope and opportunity and not bt the loomy prophets of despair ami doubt our faces must turn 10 the rising and not the soiling sun AVIlh Webster 1 saul sa-ul our duties be enlarged to the circle oC our felicities lei us not ho pigmies In 11 cauic that calls for men In taking political leave of my former assocIate I denlro still to retain their friendship If I not esteem They have honor < ll me In the past and I appreciate gratefully theIr support But I know they wi allow mo the liberty of my personal onvlctlons as freely as 1 accord to tinin antI to all mon the amc privilege 1 cannot can-not consistently remain with my par when J am not In harmony with Its poll cle Nor can J surrender to them nn ersonal convIctioriB of political duty J must go where I belong I am a Repuu hlcnmm from henceforth bccniiKc I believe ho policy of that party to be heat for my ountrya welfare and In harmonloiiB rend with the march of civilization Those who know mo best will not mls nlerprcl my motives nor misconstrue hem they will at least l allow timid In l iny vhole past I luivn Irnys had the moral ourfigo o my convictions and dared to lalntaln them 1 ask no political oref Dre rmaut 1 am no candidate for office cither do I expect loward of any man But In the future as In the past I hal Imply claim and use the right of every mcncan citizen by exercising what lit tie Influence and ability 1 may possess In he dlrecllon ol good governmcnl her h-er Its sphere Is city county State or na lonal FRED J IIOLTON |
