| Show BOOMING DEMOCRACY the liberals stump prove for samuel R wednesday evening was a wet time for the liberals both literally and figuratively at it had been announced that they were to have a rally at 8 that night in the courthouse when hon D evans J M zane and E B critchlow would stump provo for R N baskin the silver band played on alio bank corner in a rain at half past seven ard mamaed over to the courthouse where a handful of pea pie mostly court officials were assembled the band played a selection when as chairman of the meeting made a few opening remarks here are some of them the liberal party grew out of the fact eliat men alio claimed to be clothed with alie power of god assumed to dictate and control political affairs and all under the cloak of religion there were some holever hoy ever in the church who could not reconcile to such tyranny and biad the nerve to say to brinham young and his satellite we will do as we please and be responsible for our own acts to alie god alio made us all and hence alie liberal party sprang into existence the God beite movement was the first outward clafli A little band of heroic men such as gobba lawrence and others asserted their freedom and started a little newspaper in which they advocated the principle of liberty out of this email sheet grew a newspaper eliat has been trailed in the dust by liberals sometimes by cormons mormons all the time that paper known as the tribune a ripple of applause by EB critchlow the standard bearer of the liberal party and I 1 dont care who likes it an d who dont like it sometimes there are things in it I 1 cannot countenance while bihr times I 1 admire it well the liberals revolted from the church doctrine you do just as you are told and ask no questions and banded together and put up a delegate to congress the first vote polled by them was 69 and I 1 feel proud to say here tonight that I 1 was one of that 69 the highest vote ever cast by the liberal party was in the van zile campaign when it reached nearly it ix quite possible we will this time reach that amount the liberal party is an anti mormon party out and out we claim that the peoples party is a lurch party led guided and fed by church whether by revelation or no I 1 cannot say that is for those who are faithful to say alie seed sown by the liberal party in 1867 is coming forth in another form in this territory today to day which was not dreamed of at the time and I 1 am proud of it and that ia that there stands a little party of democrats Damoc rats in utah who if they only have the nerve to stand by their platform but I 1 honestly dont think that they will will prove an ansill ry to the liberal party and by this mccans va will wipe entirely out of existence the dominant church party in utah territory mr sutherland then introduced j M ZAHE As the son of that grand judge upon whose noble breast no one could point out a black spot this youthful political josling without feathers as some one in the audience aptly dubbed him made the bold assertion that utah was the only place in this fair land of ours where a person could find a people who were not free and for the first time in liis life he had the privilege of raising bis voice by the way it is not a very musical one in behalf of liberty I 1 and a free ballot the issue in utah was shall we or shall we not have a free government until we did have a frenc government here was no need of any one bothering as to what principles the I 1 government should administer if inore was a person who believed i spite or any reason eliat it was right fi r t ie church he should cast lis vote his berri to them nhat dd he come for had it not been for the liberal party it would not have been possible for mr thurmal to be a democratic candidate to con gress from utah he owes his very existence to the liberal party he did not say how where in mr thurmas Thurm ns life had he ever raised his voice against the union of church and state his followers have never been heard to protest against the rule of the church power in fact he believed that he and liis associates bad been commanded by the mormon authorities to do just what they had done does any one doubt was in congress tomorrow to morrow his voice would ever be raised to tell thereal situation in zion mr thurman had a chance in the legislature to renounce his allegiance to the mormon hierarchy but he did not do so we must judge his future by his past the present delegate john T caine is never heard in congress only in behalf of the church or its members and I 1 presume the saints will continue to vote for him the moss of the voters in this territory are controlled by an ecclesiastical organization tho ballot in utah never haa been free and it never will be until the voters themselves strike the blow A noan who goes to congress as a representative of the peoples party goes there diametrically opposed to the government of the united states as alie prophet says he goes there A wild ass all alone E B prefaced his remarks by stating that the growth of the liberal party had been the index of the true the territory and its people had made the principles of alie liberal party centre around one predominant fact viz opposition to alie peoples party you will find in every part of the the union utah active campaign work such as street corner exhibitions aid betting but here in this territory it is but one issue the liberal party against the mormon church if I 1 was to draw the horrid alie mormon church has painted the sorrowing the aching the widows te arthe murders of the aikins the robinsons and the thousand and one other persons whose bodies fill count less graves in these canyons and elie eliere atwould it would make you shudder but sheea are things ot the past this was consoling to the audience he then dubbed the now democratic move as the democracy professed to know all the secrets that attended its birth referred to judge dusen beary as that fat rosy robust man and asserted that sam thurman is between the devil and the deep sea the object of this sagebrush or mushroom democracy said this would be orator is to distract your attention from the real issue of the campaign in other worda to get us by the ears we are not working for obice we are working for principle U jn the attain anent of the principle we happen to secure the positions which by the way are persistently held from us all right it would be impossible for us to live here if the peopled party had their way and there would have been no railroads no loel improvements of any kind or anything clue we might have had an existence if we had kept our mouths shut david evan asked why should adv man be ashamed to be a liberal why should any man be ashamed to put his neighbor n harmony with the laws of alie beat government on the face of the earth Is there a law on the books to any that has beao passed for alt that has ever been sustained by the peoples party I 1 say no but on the contrary they have been resisted we we should be proud to support a man like K N baskin who has been the means of bringing to pass such wholesome laws As to sam thurman I 1 know him personally we were brought up together and studied at the same bar but never yet haa he ever made the least move towards the abolishment of polygamy the remainder of mr evans remarks was devoted to a biographical sketch of S II 11 thurmand Thurman 3 akes to the people chairman A G sutherland in closing alie meeting said those who did not feel like voting for baskin would do the liberal cause a favor by casting their votes for S R thurman the rally came to a termination by the silver band playing a selection |
