Show THE LIBERALS THEY THEY THINGS OWN WAY we ought to be particular who we receive lulo our tho democrats of utah county met at 10 on saturday morning last in the district court house and were called to order by D evans the leading signer of tho call there was present a pretty large representation of the party probably one hundred W D ebberts put in nomination D evans for chairman mr evans said ho would rather not serve and nominated T baesley Bo esley W creer nominated jas dunn mr evans however received thac largest number of votes and took the chair henry A noon was then nominated and elected as secretary and T fowler as sergeant at aills the published call was then read mr baesley moved that a commit too of five be appointed by the chair as committee on resolutions and plat form W H dusenburry Dusen borry moved to strike out and platform tho motion prevailed and the chair thereupon declared the original motion adopted although the question was not put to the house the chair appointed as said committee T beesley H H Hend oreon W N dusenburry Dusen borry julius hannberg and jas dunn decess was then taken for fifteen it was fully three quarters of an hoar before tho session was resumed when however business was resumed the sergeant at arms was instructed ted to wait on the committee who were still out and ascertain when they would be ready to report that officer shortly returned and announced that the committee would be ready to report in about three minutes A speech was called for from the chair but the chair was evidently in no good humor to speechify and declined abter a little more anxious waiting the committee returned and everybody seemed at once to be preparing himself for business and mr beesley presented the following majority MAJORI Tr REPORT resolved that pending present issues in utah true democrats cannot consistently affiliate with those who are and hereafter intend to remain members of the peoples party resolved that under tho peculiar condition of affairs existing in this territory wo are opposed to the admission of utah into the union as a state at the present time resolved that all who will subscribe to the principles cf the foregoing resolutions and tha principles as enunciated in national democratic platforms are cordially invited to participate THOMAS BEESLEY hi IL HENDERSON JULIUS mr korrell moved that this report bo received A 0 smoot jr said such a mo aion was out of order it had already been received the meeting then called for the reading of tho MINORITY resolved thai pending present issues in utah such persons as oppose tho execution of existing laws against polygamy and other national laws as affirmed by the courts not being 1 democrats nor friends of free secular government are not entitled to i participate in any of the meetings of tho democrats of utah and that we adhere and subscribe to the issues oi the national democratic platform W N DOSI JAMES DUNN W H brown moved that the minority report be adopted an explanation was called for as to the object of the minority on the committee in submitting the first proposition judge dusenberry explained that the minority report accorded in its j conditions with those set forth in the call made by the territorial central t committee the chair waa of the opinion that the reports of the committee should be received before being considered and asked if there was their being received there being no response ho declared that the reports of both committees might be considered as received john S boyar airoso and said the majority report was undemocratic and the minority report was not altogether acceptable we come here as american citizens as members of the great democratic party to organize on tho true principles of democracy but these reports would have us abridge the liberties of tho citizen let us act on a broader panno let us not drag into our platform any peculiar views of a religious character what has polygamy or any other church doctrine to do with our political organization or association if it Is proper to drag in these questions why not go further and say that ab sons who violate the excise laws arc not true democrats nor friends of free secular government and are not entitled to participate in any of tho meetings of democrats if wo are to pass resolutions forbidding tho presencio pre senco of one class of offenders letus go further and exclude other of fenders speaker was opposed to the adoption of such a fanatical head rule judge had been waiting to hear someone some one arise and in advocacy of the majority report bat no QUO had yet speak in its bavor it is proposed lo 10 organize in this county as democrats we cannot afford to injure the grand old political party by any such condition as the majority of the committee would impose the minority report respects and recognizes the terms contained in the call of the territorial central committee and while the minority have incorporated in their report does in pursuance of thai fact the speaker believed that nowhere else in the union would the democratic party exact such conditions if member of the peoples party are to be excluded aiom participation in this convent on why not exclude members also of what is styled the liberal party the local party organized in opposition to the peoples party Is there a man here that does not know that the liberal party has been chaek by jowl with the leaders have for years run the republican Be publican groove the principles of the democratic party are such that they will not permit of our inaugurating an inquisition wo cannot be self constituted jesuits that is not democracy wo have right to attack a mails faith and make it the test of political oolitic al franchi men who entertain and would enforce such doctrine are not democrate Demo crata vm creer called upon the chairman of the committee who brought in the majority report to say something and state the reasons if they have any why tho majority of the committee ask the convention to adopt this undemocratic doctrine mr beesley the chairman referred to said wo wanted to start out right to be cautious while trying to organize a now party here we want to be snowed under and we thought wo ought to be particular who we received into our organization mr roberts wanted to know what he meant by the term snowed tinder J G kenney asked if judge dusenberry wanted to bring in the whole peoples party into the democratic party judge dusenberry we sent out any high priests of the democratic party to drum up recruits no all of the peoples party are not joining tho democratic ranks a number of thorn have joined the Be publican party mr narrell wanted to know if judge dusenberry proposed to renounce his allegiance to the peoples party budge dusenberry informed mr norrell that ho was not a new comei to democracy he was an older democrat than his interrogator had voted for stephen A douglas before he and some other professing democrats knew what the term democracy implied he would remind the gentleman that inquisitions belong to anti democracy A 0 smoot jr thought the resola don proposed by the majority of the committee was something remarkable if thomas jeffersons aches ore not disturbed over the enunciation of a doctrine of this kind an earthquake would certainly fail to disturb them wo meet to organize under a national party but there are some here who would keep out of the party men who are just us true just s conscientious just as honest and just as honorable aa ever they dare be have the gentlemen remembered that representative on the floor of congress is a democrat T that he is a member of the national central committee of the party and that it has been through his intercession and instrumentality that utah will be represented by two votes at the next national democratic convention mr baine was elected by the peoples party and is as representative in the national democratic committee you would cast him out As members of the peoples party we have always acted on true democratic principles the people party is a local organization as also is its opponent the liberal parly will I 1 give up my allegiance to the peoples party never my association with it is proof of my love for true democracy its principles are those of democracy I 1 propose to keep on contending for and defending choso glorious principles I 1 am to the whole of the report of the majority of tho committee excepting tho last two or three lines because it is not democratic I 1 am opposed also to the first cause in the minority report that too is undemocratic and at the proper time will favor a proposition to strike it but 1 came hero with an honest and loyal purpose to aid in maintaining bur party principles and interests I 1 came without malice toward any man and still hope that all will act upon the questions arising before them intelligently and in a spirit of magnanimity and justice israel evans wanted to know if it was tho intention to obliterate the two local parties and to unite under one political banner air answered that tho present movement might some day result in the existence only of the two national parties in our midst be hoped that the time might come when there would be no occasion for contending local political factions the peoples party however would continue to exist as long as the liberal party made its existence an absolute feces sity W D ebberts said he would vote with tho peoples party as long as other democrats voted with the liberal party it was no bodye business what his religion was he propose to favor any snowing under either only so far as efforts wore made to deprive american citizens of their constitutional right to as they liked then ho wanted all such efforts completely snowed under mccreer Mr Creer wanted to ask those dem who had hitherto voted with the liberals if they were ready to divorce themselves from their former political associations and act in the future as consistent democrats D evans the chairman then stopped down to make a speech tali ing upon T baesley to occupy the chair he paid ho be democrat who favora dabe enforce ment of laws alfor d 5 vhf this territory As s citizen and a democrat he was ready to yield his moral support in aid of that enforcement are you mr creer willing to do t he same mr creer yes sir mr evans then sir I 1 am trilling to forswear allegiance to the liberal party I 1 shall do it not in the way politics have been run m ry in years past for every man in the peoples party while affecting respect for the laws has resisted them is not that true nearly the whole assembly cried no well mr evans went on to say I 1 have lived in this territory all my life and my experience tells me that the peoples party have maintained an attitude of defiance to the laws the newspapers representing mormon sentiment have we know even as late as a year and a half ago abused the officers of the government who tried to enforce the laws Is not that true no came from every part of the house when T was a mormon and undertook to do as my judgment politically urged me J was cited to answer before the church authorities was not this an attempt to enslave met you all know that if a few years ago my name had been si gnedas it was the other dayto a democratic call it would have been and held up to ridicule seeing that the government has enacted a law making polygamy a crime and has refused utah statehood cormons mormons commence calling themselves democrats what for simply for the purpose of furthering the objects they have in view 1 I would not repel any man who is honest from coming into the democratic party but ido object to any man coming in for the purpose of furthering the objects of a church you cannot deny that the terms mormon and peoples party are synonymous even the president of the stake on the public stand two months ago gave you the definition of a qualified member of the peoples party he said that a man in order to be c worthy and acceptable mem ber must be a latter day saint must be a tithe payer and of an otherwise exceptionable character loud laugh tor he cay that every man who is a member of the church is necessarily a member of the peoples party no no from every part of the house mr john peters arose here and addressing mr evans said now I 1 know several persons ohp are members of the church and yet are not members of the peoples party mr evans name one mr peters there is one I 1 now call to mind you are acquainted w him A K thornton it american fork evans oh yes he is a republican in politics but not a member of the church peters oh yes he is evans proceeded now the other night the priesthood held a secret meeting it is surmised to forestall this democratic convention movement judge dusenberry I 1 deny the assertion evans I 1 there before the meeting began and you say it was a prayer meeting judge D no sir there was no such meeting it was a gathering of a few democrats and dave evans the speaker was invited to stay mr dunn I 1 was there but if it had been a prayer meeting I 1 have stayed a moment evans evidently caught in a fresh attempt to mislead his half score followers quickly changed the current of debate and said gentlemen how long will it be before the name of peoples party will be changed to that of party not long for the aim and object of the mor mons is statehood the liberal party was a necessity at one time it was a necessity to start it to flight the monster evil and eradicate the church mf luence which thank healea is being done A member of the peoples party cannot be a true democrat he will cast his vote for maintaining the social evil that exists in this terri tory evans went on to say I dont believe thoro is one of you liberal mor mons as you call yourselves but what believe in polygamy you say you are liberal cormons mormons Mor mons bit not one of you believe polygamy is an ottense under the law men be entrusted with the enforcement of the law and are they worthy to be considered democrats Js ier necessary for a man to renounce his faith in order to be a democrat evans no sir 1 dont think any religious test should be applied in politics it looks however he a design everybody of the mormon persuasion coming into the party just now I 1 shall always maintain that democracy should be democracy to the any church influence and I 1 propose to eland 01 fau on that platform mr J E hall expressed express sd himself as boin very much surprised at remarks from gentlemen who claimed to be democrats was surprised thai being democrats they should wish for the adoption of such sentiments he could not afford to belong to a party that would deny him the rights of american citizenship wanted to see democrats more united and liberal hon S E Thun nan after repeated calls arose ho woul dask Is atthe meaning of the language in that report that I 1 must abandon the mormon church before I canoom the democratic party ty f mr Beesle yr no sia tharman continuing then you dont agree with the chairman of the the mormon church and tha peoples Par Lare one aaa tho same favora iuliis speech which would of the poo ples exclude me becan soI an a mormon I 1 would ask was the all made py Domos rats ap deport and reading it mr thurmal said 1 find that the minority on that committee have adopted tho enact language of the call made bya the territorial central committee iwho called this county convention did so in pursuance of that call the conditions stated in the call are accepted by the minority on this committee and by them to be recommended to be adopted by this convention ven tion they ask us to vote for thorn and now that wo show a will 1 dingness to do so these same men who made the call say no we are now opposed to those conditions they did not think a certain class of democrats would come to this convention but they are here and we ask you to vote that resolution drawn up in pursuance of the terms contained in the published call of the territorial central committee and if you dont vote we shall |