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Show puis ume Iffilljlll iJjjjjnsiastic Mass Convention Iplleld at Dewey Opera-House jMI in Park City. LLCOFMT TICKET S IS PLACED IN FIELD Kirsioii Carrying Americans p Salt Lake ; A. J. Weber Bp Jos. Lip inn an Speak. K lo Tlv Tribune. H;K flTY. Utali. Oct. S. Amor-Hp Amor-Hp of Summit county this evening 4HtW .i full county ticket when ;it Ecftor mass meeting hold in Ilia Hr opera house the ticket was nom-Kc. nom-Kc. It was a rousing mooting, the .Korlum being packed Avith people, JkitIicii the ticket was announced name was greeted with hearty ap- iijKspccial train from Salt Lake City iMight a big crowd of enthusiastic jgftw ! jjjfclnce on Amoricau Ticket for Sena- j )nmC tor Prom Summit County. Photo by Johuson. j 7fcfricaus. The special arrived at -7:30 Jlhvas met at the Kio Grande station JlKcommitteo ajid the Park City band 2,icscorted io the Dewey opera house, opera house was hundsoinoly tGiratcd. Old Glory being used ovcry-iilfe; ovcry-iilfe; and under tlio folds of I he star-3)s3rauncr, star-3)s3rauncr, the most beautiful ilay, iu Jjvorld, there was nominated a tick-?Rat. tick-?Rat. will sweep Summit county on !(ljtnir'l dav of next month. 2Ee meeting was called to order at rMlock bv II. C. Townsend, chairman' fc10 American committee of Summit Jitmiy, wlio, in a brief address, au-yjtwcod au-yjtwcod the ob.iect of the meeting. yl&W' thero was a song bv a quartette 'T?ark Citv. This was followed by ;frjPection from the Park City band. iiJffcp.r musical selection was tho 'iJm: Without a Stain. " Hitng by Mrs. ino Homer of Salt Lake, aceom-sm aceom-sm bv Miss Mulvey. ifcfen Chairman Townsend called upon jsjlpilC audience to name a chairman B.f.5Klenry Welch was chosen.-LfzfMi chosen.-LfzfMi Salt Lake quartette rendered a eJAflantl then Judge A. X Weber of iftaKako Citv. American candidate for attorney from, tho Third .judi-nivdislrii.a, .judi-nivdislrii.a, was introduced. Judgo ;jigr was given a morf than cordial tjytion. He spoke as follows: Judgo Wober's Address. dR Chairman, ladles and gentlemen -rysWrt you that it Is a pleasure for mo s: into the faces of this Parle City t!fece am lat3,e-q and eonllomen. 'tfiMfK? coie here. I remember the last nBtn&t I wau here. It was last montlt IjgWbor day. On that day I stood bc- L''Bi uoonday sun ami have been '31W t0 manicure- my complexion ever 'J&wJi?1 ,ias 1101 yet regained Its llly-I llly-I ' alruor-. I have been Introduced "jm; candidate for district ntlorncy in ajBaldet composed of Salt Tako, Sum-35rnu Sum-35rnu Toofclc counties. 3fjlton years In politics I have had an Mv?n record of uninterrupted defeat, 5m FlnEf from the spirit which Is mavtl-jVM mavtl-jVM .1 Sllui"li county, and from tho V i Iwl1 nls audience, that record will bo AufW- 10 Ptecca on election dav. it rtjfcmL ,f o'11' Judicial ticket will be W&WP: 'ot only will our judicial ticket iK-, K-'Bt v but wo v, Jl1 carry Salt Lake i'SaE,5' a Jarso majority, and if you iftSUtfW? a Kood ticket tonight, and I fttSglMVu will, there Is not any reason titi?Wr? .nold not carry Summit county, itf yg-'oelleve you will. &tyM$ t0 01)0 thins further, and ''i0rmk.7iv for myself I wiy for the other K&fTv? ul,on "io judicial tlclcot: If iPjmt&W 1 shiH perform my duty as iKKiiu1 by 1,lw t0 the very best of Jf&fW iyC 1 wni' t,eal aU m(i" Inipar- tZJdtfmi. i.nav" no friends to reward, no tlf&Mthl P'mJh. d If elected I .shall jJiK a8L,c;d Slvea me the power to ,rfy5BTrJ.VhIch lB 'JGht. I enld that I PjHm ?rT? ln' duties with Impartiality. flliK'fn ithcr Prosecute a trust, a food jnBeJvTi I" slancf!- that raises the price tMtil! Ps lhat we eat and that wo . i.f ProHecute a poor man who frn J . oi hrond because ho needs it. ETPjI lean . "Hinv reasons why the Jij Sunh?ar' Hll0l,,cl oreanlze In Stim-rfi Stim-rfi 7n., 1 not golns to dlscusa 'iS?? I i nr ; ou and I know that llm 'are Seal co"aty have noL had jt1 j . Attack Ko Olmrch. T' elrCcantl aU,:ic,'c church, and have for 'Iltri.-ro with the lulludoiiH 'to w2J.iHne" w concodu to all the yK 'S to 1 1 .c ",a-t wo are not r tirit.ni! i our!1ives. .AtfS Milieu arJ few and simple. We ft. Continued on PaKC Two. , I' AMERICANS NAME TICKET IN SUMMIT Conlinucfl from Pago One. nay that the solemn pledges maoe to tho nation by Utah oujjht not to havo bocn broken; that no church should Interfere In stato affairs; that the; leaders and prlents and preachers of tho Mormon church and or all churches? should attend to their rellGlous duties, and that while acting as shepherds of the people, and preaching their religion, they should not engage In political strife and controversy; that, religion should not be Intermingled with politics nor politics with religion, and that there ought to be a complete, absolute, ab-solute, and distinct separation of church and state, for the good of tho church and tho preservation of the state. In any other state these statements would ho platitudinous; hero they aro the statements of vital and Important political politi-cal l6sucs; hero such statements arc considered con-sidered dangerous political heresies by tho powers that at onco control the dominant church and dlctato evory policy of tho stato. If wo say that there should bo a separation sepa-ration of church and stato. and ask to put that demand Into a political platform, the Mormon leaders sav wo are attacking attack-ing them and their religion; If wo say that there should he no church Influence In politics, they say the charge is made by the enemies of the church; If a progressive pro-gressive Mormon Republican asks his party to say It Is unwise to elect apostles to the United States senate, he Is called an apostate; and when a Democrat offers a similar resolution In a Democratic convention con-vention ho Is met with the reply that ho Is making an attack upon tho church. Something Wrong in Utah. The fact that In this presidential year at least 25.000 earnest voters will cast thoir ballots for tho American state ticket, is of Itself sufficient to prove that there Is something wrong in Utah thai conditions hero aro abnormal. It was those conditions that mado tho American party a political necessity. While It oeomed to spring Into cxlstonco in 1004, full fledged, llko Minerva from tho head of Jove. It really was of slow growth and the Inevltablo result of political evolution. evolu-tion. The testimony brought out at the bmoot hearing furnished tho immcdlato and proximate cause for Us organization, but the sentiment against the pernicious political activity of tho Mormon hierarchy lias been growing In strength and volume ever since an apostle of the dominant church said that there were too many of his pcoplo In one party, and when he benignly and effectively advised tho people to divide about equally between tho two parties, with a number remaining neutral, neu-tral, to be always tho accessible, pliant, and convenient Instruments In the hands of the church leaders. "When at the tnrcshold of statehood tho "whisper" issued from the historic prlest-nood prlest-nood meeting commanding tho defeat of Thatcher and Roberts because they thought themsehes freo to do as they pleased In politics, there was Inaugurated the despotic rulo of tho church in Utah political affairs, that has continued without with-out Interruption and with more or less denial de-nial of church Influence, more or loss hypocrisy and more or less perfidy to this day. Why Smoot Was Ohosen. Apostlo Smoot, who has been called tho principal asset of the Republican party, was sent to tho senate of the United States by church Republicans, not because of his mastery of science of statesmanship, statesman-ship, not for any of tho reasons that usually usu-ally prompt and guide tho people In their choice for senator; not because he had a master mind llko Joseph 1. Rawlins or was a brilliant orator like Frank J. Cannon Can-non but for tho sole and only reason that he was an apostle of the dominant church, and as such he had been able to obtain the consent and the implied ynt nevertheless neverthe-less effective Indorsement of his apostolic i quorum. When he obtained that consent and that indorsement his triumphant election was assured The results of his election wcro foreseen by all bitterness and hatred, strife and contention and a practical union of church and state. TCnowlng the Inevltablo, thf. church leaders forced him upon the people of Utah and the nation. Again, he Is the practically unanimous choice of his party for election to the United States senate; again, the men who control their church organization, propose to send him to the senate to represent the Mormon hierarchy; again, they propose to defy public opinion and trample on political po-litical decency. Ueft to the peoplo of Utah free and untrammeled, without churcluinlluonce to shape their course of conduct and dictate their choice, Senator Smoot's chances of re-election would be as unsubstantial as "the baseless fabric of a dream." As to American Party. When the American party was organized organ-ized its members were recruited from the Republican purty. At first consternation prevailed In the camp of the church Republican Re-publican party because of the enormous loss of votes, butu"A Daniel came to Judgment" Judg-ment" a prophet arose in Israel and his prophecy was in substance, that for every Republican who declared his Independence by going into tho American party, two Mormon Democrats would be transferred arid transplanted bodily Into the Smoot party. The low tariff, states rights Democrat was In the twinkling of an eye to be transformed trans-formed Into tho high tariff and Imperialistic Imperialis-tic Republican: the fervid believer in tho doctrines of Jefferson of ono day was the next day to be the strenuous advocate of Hamiltonlan political economy: the Democrat Demo-crat who firmly believed that all things good and blessed were typified bv the patient pa-tient and plodding mule was to change his opinion and become convinced that all the beauty and symmetry In tho world and all the beatltudeB were represented by the ponderous and majestic elephant. What wonderful transformation! What lightning light-ning change! What bewildering legerdemain! legerde-main! So boldly was the claim made by the Republican chalrmun and prophet that Judge Powers, the Democratic leader of the state nad candidate for congress, exclaimed ex-claimed in amazement; "Upon what meat hath this our Caesar fed that he hath grown so great?" and that leader said In the Salt Lake theater that If the Republican Repub-lican chairman carried out his threat the charges made against Utah would be proved. Mr. Spry's prophecy was literally fulfilled. ful-filled. The apotheosis of tho church Dem-. ocrat became complete when ho voted for Cutler for Governor and Howell for Congress. Con-gress. In "what other Btato, with a James H. Moyle leading the Democratic ticket, could Democrats have been either cajoled or Intimidated Into voting for a Cutler for Governor? In what other state could a Howell havo beaten a Powers for congress. con-gress. Church Influence Controls. Since 3904 "church Influence" lias been becoming more and more of a controlling power In Utah politics. At the recent Oc- ' tober conference the mouthpieces of the church threw aside their masks and cpi?n-ly cpi?n-ly demanded the election of the Republican Republi-can church candidates. First they declared that to attack any church leader Is to attack the church Itself; It-self; that to accuse a Mormon leader of wrongdoing Is to accuse the church of wrongdoing. Following this pronunclamento came the remarkable outburst of President Joseph F. Snilth, who whih1 Invoking the blessings bless-ings of God, pronounced a political benediction bene-diction and delivered a Republican har-rangue. har-rangue. I read his language as reported in the Deseret News of yesterday: '.'Thank God. my heavenly father, that this State of Utah Is, and has been, represented rep-resented In tho halls of congress by honest men, men after God's own heart, men who love their pcoplo and who are Just and impartial im-partial and truo to tho Interests of all the citizens of our state. I thank God that we arc blessed with the privilege of representing rep-resenting ouraclves rather than being misrepresented mis-represented by our enemies in the halls of congress; and In the name of common senso I deplore the thought that any T.at-tor-Day Saint should regret that good and truo men have been chosen not by the church, but by their own political parties par-ties to represent the State of Utah In tho halls of Congress. Thank God for It. That Is my sentiment, and I hope that I shall not see the day soon when we will have tho misfortune again of being either misrepresented mis-represented or of falling tn be properly represented In the halls of Congress. Is Declaration of War. It Is an impudent declaration of -war against Americans, against Democrats, against liberal and progressive Mormons of all parties. It Is a pledge that the Mormon Mor-mon hierarchy propose to return Apostlo Smoot to tho senate; It is a brazen boast that Prttaldant Smith . will continue through IiIh priestly powor to prevent all tho blessings which statehood should mean for the people of Utah. Americans will accept the issue, They will reply to tho challenge In tho legislature legisla-ture of the state with thirteen antl-Smoot votes from Salt Lake county and ono from Summit, and If Mr, Smoot Is returned to tho senate, tho testimony In what is known as tho Smoot case, will be brought down to date. We agree with tho Democrats Demo-crats and Insurgent Republicans In saying say-ing that Apostle Smoot should not be returned re-turned to th Senate, and we go farther and say that If elected ho should be expelled ex-pelled because when thcro he roprcscnts tho Mormon hierarchy only, and not tho people. The mission of the American parly is both patriotic and glorious. That mission Is to make Utah froe; to remove from politics pol-itics the baneful lnlluenco of tho Mormon priesthood; to transform our state constitution consti-tution from a beautiful theory Into a living potential roalltv; to banish strife and bitterness, bit-terness, and to glvo to tho people of Utah lasting peace and permanent prosperity. In his address, Judo Wcbor made tho announcement that on tomorrow (Friday) tho American party would be organized in Weber county and that a full legislative and county ticket would bo put; in tho field there. It would bo dono in the snmo way aa this, ono in Summit county, by a mass meetiiifr. Tho announcement was rcecivcTl with great cheering and applause, and was assiir-anco assiir-anco to all that tho American party intended in-tended to make a hot campaign. Tho County Ticket. When ho concluded llicro was a song by tho quartette which was followed by tho nomination and ratification of tho lickct. Those gentlemen had been appointed a committee to present tho ticket, which the mass meeting ratified. Tho committee consisted of Henry Hughes, Henry Spraguo, John Lndding-ham, Lndding-ham, Henry Welch and W. W. Jtftcr. Tho ticket follows: Por Senator Fifth Senatorial District William D. Sutton. For Representative David Baxter. For Clerk Gcorgo W. Quinn. For Recorder Edward D. Lo Comptc. For Troasurcr Julia Berlin. For Assessor W. IL Miller. For Attorney IT. S. TownBond. For Sheriff J. W. Birkcnshaw. For Superintendent of Schools James Kerns. For Commissioners F. W. Hait, long term; C. Mair, short tnrm. When tho reading of the ticket had been completed and tho chair put tho question, ''Shall tho names of tho candidates can-didates upon tho ticket which I havo .iuBt read be tho American ticket for Summit county and tho American Senatorial Sen-atorial ticket for tho Fifth Senatorial district?" the ticket was ratified by unanimous voto amidst great enthusiasm. enthusi-asm. The American flag unfurled was adopted as the emblem, and notice was given that fifty signatures will bo ncc-ossary ncc-ossary to a petition to enable tho ticket tick-et lo be placed upon the official ballot. These signatures will be secured by Mr. Townsend tomorrow. The "Star Spangled Banner" was then rendered "by several Park City and Salt Lake singers, after which Joseph Lippman of Salt Lako City was introduce. Mr. Lippman was given a royal reception, Joseph Lippman 's Address. Mr. Lippman. in his address, paid a tribute to the people of Park City for the reception accorded, and congratulated congrat-ulated them upoxi tho auspicious launching launch-ing of the American ticket, Jlo then alluded to the school system of Summit county and to the" high school of Park C'ily, which he said was one of the best in the state, and assured ihose present that if the commissioners to be nominated that night were elected the high school would remain in Park City. He alluded to tho Mormon pcoplo pco-plo as a people, and paid them a high tribute. He declared that he had nothing noth-ing to say against them, but the battle was waged against the church leaders and tho system they advocated and maintained. Mr. Lippman also paid high tribute to two men, Thomas Kcarns and David Keith, whose fortunes for-tunes have come from tho hills around Park City, and who in their ownership of The Salt Lake Tribune have enabled that paper to make a mngnificent fight for Americanism in Utah. The American Party; ire then alluded to tho causes which had brought about the American party. 7lo cited tho fact that in 1S90 the Mormon leaders pleaded with tho Gentiles Gen-tiles for their aid in securing amnesty on their promise lo abandon polygamy, unlawful cohabitation and interjfereuce in the political affairs of the state. Ho then read tho famous manifesto of President Woodruff abolishing polygamy as a tenet of tho church. He cited the escheating of tho church property in 18S7 and now in 1891 tho famous escheat case was instituted. Ho cited the testimony of the leaders in this case and proved them liars from their own testimony and showed how for years they had lied to the pcoplo. Ho said that statehood had boon obtained under promises and covencnts mado by loaders; that tho promises mndo had been broken and set aside by those leaders and that on account of these broken promises tho American party had resulted. Smith's Testimony. Ho cited tho testimony of Joseph V., Smith beforo tho senate committee on privileges and elections, when Joseph Jo-seph F. admitted that ho was a lawbreaker law-breaker and a law-deficr. Ho declared de-clared that the book of tho Doctrino and Covenants since 1004 contained no dato line, in order to fraudulently omit the manifesto abolishing polygamy. Ilo declared that Apostlo TlcKay in his address in tho tabernacle at tho recent conference played upon the prejudices preju-dices of tho people when he donouueed The Salt Lako Tribune. Neither Tho Tribuuc nor tho American party made war on women, but they did wage war against tho church lenders and the lawbreakers. law-breakers. He declared thai Joseph F. Smith was still teaching polygani-, indirectly, if not directly. Ho then read from Iho benedictiou of Joseph F. Smith in tho recent conference confer-ence regarding tho liquor question, and then road from the records of Salt Lako City facts and figures which showed that the church leaders had boon cn-gagod cn-gagod in tho saloon and brewing business. busi-ness. Ho declared that tho Z. C. 71. I. drug storo and tho Smoot drug storo sold threo times as much liquor as any .other half dozen drug stores in tho state. When fr. Lippman concluded ho was cheered again and again. |
