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Show IGREAT ENTHUSIASM f AT AMERICAN RALLY Meeting Is Held at Firo Station J No. 5, on Ninth South Street. ! ' SOME OP BEST SPEECHES OF CAMPAIGN ARE MADE j ; K.' W. Kelly, F. G. Corser, P. J. ' - Daly, H. S. MeCann and J. W. McKinney Heard. I Another enthusiastic rally wns held Saturday' oveniiifr under tho auspices of the American party in tho hall of fire Ktatton No. 5. on Ninth South- street. Owinto its hcinj? Saturday nijjht the attendance wns not as Inrce as it uu-I uu-I iloubtedlv would havo been on some other week day evenintr. but what it lacked in numbers was more than made up -in patriotism and enthusiasm. Thcro were five speakers, four of them candidates candi-dates for tho legislature, and nil did themselves, and the party of which they arc members, prond. A plcasincr feature fea-ture of the meetine was tho mandolin and puitar duet by Messrs. Pratt and Lancaster, two of tho firemen stationed at No. a. The first speaker of tho oveninjj was ; F. G. Corser, candidate for tho legisla ture. Mr. Corser took occasion to roast ihe.Deseret News for its attitude on the tax question, which he termed absolutely abso-lutely and entirely un-American. IIo said he has no fault to find with tho Jonfj list of carpet -bailors published recently re-cently by that paper, because their tactics tac-tics bhowod thorn to bo wholly lacking of ammunition with which to carry on a clean fight. Bollo London, ho said, pays, as much taxes as does Joseph P., Smith. I I. Ho scored the Republican pnrtv for its oit-exprcssed inrcntion, if its tickot won. to placo tho firo and polico departments depart-ments in the hands of a commission to be. appointed by tho governor, and ho statod as his belief ihnt all they wero attempting to do was to work a big oluit on tho people. His platform, he fiaid, was enunciated by Lincoln on the battlefield of Gettysburg, when ho told his men that it was then time for them to be determined to have a government 'of. the pcoplo, by the pecrplo and for the-people," and if he was elected ho would fight upon that platform in the legislature, lie attacked Reed Smoot in a bitter and sarcastic manner. Ho expressed himself as certain that the American party would win and that there would be thirteen members in tho next legislature legis-lature who would vote against tho reelection re-election of Smoot. E. W. Kelly HearcL Hi , w; Kelly, candidato for the legis- Jature, followed Mr. Corser. and he said m. part: "Tho constitution of tho United States and the Declaration of Jndfepcndonce were instruments given Bi us. tor the protection of 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.' and the American party stands squarely upon 1 the proposition that liberty of con- science, freedom of thought and action are God-civen. inherent rights, and no sect or church has any right to coerce or instruct her adherents how to vote or control its peonlo in temporal and H. political affairs. We are all aware that wli.cnever any cliurch, past or present, has attempted to interfere with the poht'cnl rights of others, trouble must inevitably result. Hr .tI this great liberty-loving country of ours you can not override the rights of her citizens and defy tho sentiments ' oi ro constitution without her true, loyal citizens arising in protest and do-mnu'Img do-mnu'Img 'hands off.' "J hold that the Monnon religion is i as sacred -as any other religion, and Mf: understand the American party aright, we are waging no fight against H, sny mnn's religion. Wc believe that i person has a right to worship m. God according to the dictates of his 77 conscience, and tho American party will' protect them in this right. We impugn no man's motives if be is sin-cere. sin-cere. We care not what he believes r so long as he keeps within the law and do'es not trample upon the rights of others and interfere with the free oxer-cise oxer-cise of American citizenship. Havo no P, misconception of tho American party. It will wrong no man. It stands for a square deal for nil the citizens of this , state equal rights to all: special privileges to none. Is it asking nny- 1 thing that is not richt when wc demand T th.at the leaders of the church come within the law? TT-" Ar?, th?y cnt'ei to exemption J were the laws not made for them as well as you and T? Does not tho con-HtUution con-HtUution of tho state, which was adopt-1 adopt-1 ed oy a lrpe majority of the Mormon l1 people, say there shall be no union of l church and state 7 Ts it asking anything that .is not right when we demand that j. they -obey the constitution of the state? f S1" thev not promise to do all this in f the--onabline act, beforo statehood was l granted? Have they kept their prom- isps. and pledges? Are not the Gentiles un liberty-loving Mormons right when they demand that ilie faith be kept iu- H' "Tlw American party is not fight- -ng the Mormon people it is fighting i 'or. thorn. Not to disfranchise them, but fo. enfranchise them, and make them tro American citizens; and I believe j a -largo majority of the Mormons want to -be Americans in truth. H, f'I belic-vo thousands of young Mor- K., nipns will servo notice upon their eu- 1 penor officers througli the ballot on November 3 that Utah must bo an ! 1 American state in deed as well as in name; This question must bo settled I nndsctt'cd right. The state divided acra:ast itself can not stand. Tho yoke o?( ..i"5tly dominance must be thrown1 oil. The bonds must be broken, and Utah must stand forth free, disen-thntlk'd-and glorious. With the coming 1 nnA triumph of tho American party in , this county it will havo a new birth of energy and life, and, above all, it i I will swell with patriotic prido at the 1 exemplification of the' majesty of 1 (j American manhood." i After two selections by tho Drum I I Corps qunrlotte, II. S. McCann was ! Hi introduced, and he made a short but ' li , stjrringi speech, calling -all the lovers' FfflBiht or 'American liberty to answer the call F fm of ul7 on November 3 and cast their ! m votes for tho American candidates, who ! . :S would give to the city and county as " rlcflii an administration as has yet boon I hai. , Address of P. J. Daly. j ' -6istant City Attorney P. J. Duly i 'us thofourlh speakor. lie deliverc'd ' 1 ( 1 on "eloquent. 'address, baying, among i t !)(; other things': ' "It ahonld bo the aim-of eyory party I to present, to the peoplo tho reasons why you should cast your votes for its candidates, and ns reasonable, prudent men and women wo should oxamino the platforms, tho record and pnst history of each, so that wo mnj- tho hotter judge which of them wo shall support. sup-port. "The 'Utah' Republican party, and it, by tho way, has a spocial brand of Republicanism unliko tho Maino or California types, urges you to support tho G. 0. P., with tho iiroviso, however, how-ever, that vour individuality must bo surrendered", and you cannot express your local preferences. It is, vote for ino and Tatt or ronounco your national Republican principles and bocomo ,a hated American. A voto for 'mo' is of grcntor importance to the federal bunch than tho election of Mr. Taft. And therein lies ono diffcrouco botwoon the Utah brand of Republican and his political prototype iu other states. "Another reason is that it is tho pnrtv Hint will bring peaco to Utah: tho party that will give Utah fame. Well, if you take tho records of Apostle-Son'ntor Apostle-Son'ntor Smoot. his ladyliko collongue, tho junior senator: Elder llowoll. Fussy Jimmy, the fodernl bunch, and last, but not IcaBt, tho Inter-Mormon Republican, Republi-can, T think you must disagroo with tho first proposition, that that party will bring peaco to Utah, unless it means that tho intelligent people of this stato disgusted and heartsick by the performances of such Republicans, will, by their votes in November, forever for-ever embalm for posterity tho whole sycophantic, worthless crowd, and thus brine peaco to Utah. "1" venture iho ncssrtion that history his-tory will record tho trials of Smoot and Roberts as tho most shameful,, baro-faced. baro-faced. disgusting performances in the aunnls of congressional experience, and it is not to tho credit of tho dominant national party that Smoot was victorious, victori-ous, and thus has Utah become not famous, but infamous. The Democratic Party. "I believe tho Democratic party in Utah, or what is left of it. after tho numerous drafts on its cold storage vote during tho years since tho organization organiza-tion of the American party, is steadfast, tried and tmo. and tho piteous nppoal made by tho hierarchy to defeat the Amoricnn party's sheriff, county and district attorneys onlj- emphasizes tho iniquity and infamv of their position. Tho honest, Inw-abi'dinc citizen cares not. upon purely porsonnl grounds, who is elected sheriff or county or district attornoy. But Joseph F. and the polygamic polyg-amic cult, nnd somo othors, foar that the sheriff, tho county and district attorneys at-torneys will do their duty as they aro required to do under their oaths', and for that reason they must bo defeatod. 'Utah wants representatives in congress, con-gress, in tho state, in the county and in the city who will represent, not tho dominant church, but tho whole pcoplo of Utah, irrespective of creed, rnco or Color. "Tho American party asks 3'our franchise for its candidates, nnd should give good reason for so doing. Why should there bo an Americnn party? Why docs it exist? What aro its principles? prin-ciples? What its purpososJ "Perhaps a brief history may servo to answer the questions asked. "A few men, actuated by patriotic motives, and resenting the iniquitous perfidy of the church in its political I promises and performance in 1904. or-I or-I ganized tho Americnn party. That party 1 opposes the domination of any church in ; the affairs of state. It opposes the cn-, cn-, slavemcnt of the elector by any prom- i ise of futuro reward. It opposes tho interference in-terference of high ecclesiastics in politics. poli-tics. It is not opposed to any church, or anj' religion, hut it resents tho methods employed by somo churches. Opposed to Lawlessness. "It is opposed to lawlessness of ev-er3 ev-er3 kind, even though claimed to bo practiced under the sanction of divino law. It stands for the puritj of the American home. Tt stands for the highest high-est type oi American citizenship, and it asks of tho dominant church of Utah I onl' that which Americanism demands from all other churches, absolute free-I free-I dom in matters political, and only that which true and loj-al Americans are at all times willing to give. "It asks for your votes beeauso it ! brl'eves thnt under the honest Ameri- ! ran administration of affairs thcro will j bo tho continued confidence, restored by the first American victory in this city. It oxtonds tho hand of wolcome to alj good citizens who como to mako thoir homes with us. It will continue to mako of Salt Lako City whnt it has started to do, tho grcatost metropolis of tho intormouutain rogion. It will maintain main-tain 4ts public Bchool system on tho highest possiblo piano of efficiency, and extend it throughout tho Btate. It will uphold the law in all thingn. It will givo to tnia oity, county, district and stato an honest, fearless nnd oconomic administration. If you olect tho wholo American ticket in thin city, county, district and Btate, it will placo Utah whero oho proporly bolonga, a respected respect-ed member of tho sisterhood of Americnn Ameri-cnn states, nnd instead of being a thing of repronch, a stato notorious lor itn iniquity, in-iquity, notorious for its constant war-faro war-faro with modern civilization, for its infamy, for its union of church and stato, its deification of criminals, its porpotuation of libertinism, ito degradation degrada-tion of women, you will mako of Utah, in truth nnd fnct, one of tho glorious states of this union, nnd in tho futuro, when Utnh shall havo boon rodcomed, when paeans of joy shall bo sung, no voico shall sound in praiso of your action ac-tion Jonder than tho emancipated women wom-en of Mormondom. "Elect tho Amoricnn ticket and thcro will camo to Utah a restoration of coufidenco, tho respect of our follow Amoricans, an epoch of decency and morality, and, as tho Good Book snys, 'the penco of God which passcth all human hu-man understanding.' " J. W. McKImiey Talks. The last speakor of tho evening wns J. W. McKinney. Ho said, among other things: "According to the standard of tho Dcscrct News, tho more taxes a man pays tho bettor ho is qualified for public pub-lic office. Of courso, cvory intelligent citizen undorstnndu that 'in order to vote or hold offico no property qualification qualifi-cation is noccssnry (excopt in elections levying a special tax or creating Indebtedness), Indebt-edness), nnd tho enndidato for offico need not own anything or pay any taxes. 'According to such a standard Eock-erellcr Eock-erellcr would bo the best qualified man for president of the United States, beeauso be-eauso ho is tho richest, and, if ho turns in his property honest ty, ho ought to pay moro taxos thnn any other person in the United States. "On tho other hand, a man liko Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln, who was born and roared in poverty, would be tho least qualifiod for public position. "Such a rule would destroy government govern-ment 'of the people, by the pcoplo and for tho pcoplo' and would ostablish a government of tho rich, by the rich and J for tho rich: in othor worls it vrmOd overthrow democracy, nnd plutocracy would rule supreme. The poor man, not having tho right to vote or hold offico, would be at tho complete mercy of tho rich, and humnn liborty would perish per-ish from tho earth. " When a man is spokon of for public position, the question of whether ho is rich or poor should not be considered nl all. The question should be, is he fitted fit-ted by reason of his character nnd ability abil-ity to dischargo tho duties of the offico of-fico with honor and fidelity? The American party candidates are thus qualified and I heartily and sincerely urgo their election." |