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Show A GRAND RALLY Winds Up the People's Patty Campaign. FIXE DISPLAY 0P ELOQUENCE ApprtvfMca by an EnlhntluUc I indienre. ' . HON.JOHNT.CAINHTHCCHO.Ci: OF A FREE PEOPLE. -".., hhBlht, liUementor Illnrrneiil.. nent of a IVopV. nJsCinS mee,Uns of lhe v-- , .2? rC3ps-n brought to a brilliant consummation Ut night In lhe Salt Xto 11 Beautinny and Sj; nnged inJeed were lhe n colore aua emblems of liberty with-n with-n ths building. Painted upaa handsome streamers wens the following fol-lowing inscriptions: TorConyren, Hon, JoanT. Clne. The I eoijle Bli,uu lua, u,. -,e wWcl,c, Xo political ilivciT 'or o." nfmichUemCDt urxtn. nr t.. Upon h6 sUge Were Hon. John T. Calne, Chairman Rlcliards, somejof the members of ISo Territorial Terri-torial Central Committee, and a number of others who figure prom-Inently prom-Inently in the interest or the People. Peo-ple. In the rear of the stage and centrally cen-trally seated were the Peoples Drum Corps. On the right and left sides respectively were the' IN'orfleu and Tenth Ward bands, which dispensed patriotic and stirring music at intervals inter-vals during the'evenlngl Hon. F, S. Richards was tholrst speaker. Ho said: "Fellow CiUtens: On the eve of the great battle that will be waged at the polls tomorrow w e La vo int to dlscu-a th- .,ttb Involved In this campaign and to consider the merits of the respective candidates for Delegate Dele-gate to Co iigress. "ro before, in the hl-tory of ne American Ieople, has such an issue been presented as that which now confronts us. The conteit we are making is not only for political supremacy and the election of our candidate, butltisastruggleforour P?1iuCIr'Isle.nce- The candidate of the Liberal party has declared himself in favor cT the disfranchisement disfranchise-ment of all members of the People' party who belong to the Mormon Church and has pledged himself, if elected, to do all 1c his power to accomplish ac-complish that result, ThU nb,. the issue one of political life or death tomost members of ourparty. AIL other considerations are swallowed swal-lowed up in the momentous question ques-tion whether we shall continue to be free men and govern ourselves, or lose the elective franchise and become be-come political slaves. "Our candidate, the Hon. John T. Calne, has represented Clah in the national council during the pat eight years. He has performed his duty faithfully and well, lie has beea the friend of tho people and the advocate of human rights. His career has been marked by honesty and fidelity. All constituent have been treated alike by him, without regard to their creed or political faith. Every attempt to a'jrldge the rights and privileges of law-abidin; law-abidin; citizens has received hisun-relentlngaod hisun-relentlngaod determined opposition. Ho has never spoken, jx won! or written a line in 'uerogatunr "cf ' the rights ot any human being) hut has always maintained the grand principle prin-ciple of equality before the law. "The Liberal candidate, Mr. C. C. Goodwin, has ppent what he calls the best years of bis life In seeking to enclave an bonest,Industriousaud God-fearing people. At first he based his opposition upon the fact that fcome of the people had violated the law relating to polygamy, and he declared that whenever an ac knowledgment of the supremacy of the law was made by the church to which they belonged and an assurance given that it Mould be obeyed in tho future, his opposition would cease. Quite recently the declaration which had so often been demanded was made in the' most solemn and emphatic terms, but it teems to have increased rather rath-er than diminished Mr. Cioodwln'4 Iiatred for the Mormon people. He now openly advocates the wholesale disfranchisement of all Morniono, including those who have 'never violated the law and have sworn to live by its requirements. -He insists thatall Mormons should be deprived of the right to enter public lands. He says that Mormon eons are taught treason from, their mother's knee and that they are wora than the offspring of Mongolians. Will vou vote forjsuch a man? Voices, 'No, never!" 2o, never. You will not put the last vestige of human hu-man liberty upon" the altar of tyranny tyran-ny to be uevoured by the fires of bigotry and hate, even though the flame be kindled by the .immaculate Goodwin. "It was said by the Individual who nominated Mr Goodwin that be 'writes like an angel and reasons like la philosopher. As therci are supposed to be several kinds of angels. It might be Interesting to bnnw tn whirti iiarticularclass this modern Plato belongs. I will read a few of his angelic effusions and you may judge for yourselves whether they emanate, from an angel of light or an angel of darkness, dark-ness, from an angel of grace or a fallen angel. "The editor of lhe Salt Lake Tn'unc claimed that seme man said to him: -! rejoice wbea J see yosng Mormon hoodlums !rin LuliArd. gruui? draaV rnnala; with bad women aayui!n to break tne snaeLle Ihcy were bora iu.' "In an editorial Mr. Goodwin endorsed theje sentiments and gave us the following moral gem: i.1 Freedom u the first requisite or man hood, and if It can be iron wilhoptex-eeuei wilhoptex-eeuei o nrach tbo better. It It cx& nerer miad the cxreoe, win taa freedom. 11 u not yon who are refpoottblciwhen It comet to that; It is taote Uiafhave en-eUredTou." en-eUredTou." If a moreperniclousdoctrinethan this was ever penned by mortal man it has not been my fortune to seo it. Our youth arc not only told that debauchery is commendable but that the responsibility for wrong-do-iog does not rest with the wrongdoers. wrong-doers. Such teachings are worse than rapal Indulgences and only worthy the sons of perdition. The philosophical writings or the Liberal candidate are equally remarkable. re-markable. Here are a few specimens. speci-mens. In April, 1SS9, he wrott-: What will conference bring" Will there be anything proportd that will EiTe a silier lining to the eload that i noon Ihn nauent rople UXU3 ? If there was bat one man In the church brave enough and nnseldth enovgb and fmlned with lore enoagh for M people o tle In the Tabernacle and call a halt; to declare that no trne religion Imposed any obligation to ghl the tm lawa or a republic ai genue, last and glorious a oar own. tbs Tabernacle Taberna-cle would be thrilled as it has Direr been thrilled up to this time. The following October he said: "It is passing strange that some tobM within the organization, some American born and bred youth, does not sound a slogan to this people and call them Ut give np their delusions and come within lhe law" In October, 1890, after the Church in -general .conference had done What he had'so often urged it to do, with his usual consistency ho wrote tho following: "Why was It necessary for the Slormon conference to order shat polygamy cease? It itriaesooe at peculiar, to aay lhe least, that an organiiaUon before it will obey the law must lirin; the aubjeet ot that law np in a conference and take a Tote of tb peopI aa to whether or no ttey shall submit jo tho taw. ThU o nly proTcs. in the first place, that Wllford ttoalrnff , was not stating the facti wMB he dMitrrt sSBSassasasasastSM..-that sSBSassasasasastSM..-that there wil Wludo to dVii rt?rmol Anally ntm fni- .iZ"aleD-'T urtred nr. n which he Jeil? g Woodrufiv tn violated I by rti the Uw- i tto law will taS,S5 ,ieM?er tho statement of p m' therefore Imfrwasnottnie V!$eat w-I w-I lhe poUUcil vertae7tC0?sIlJuer Church superior .. nt of the United SUuT iA,!"3' of the Pn.misJtoobytIlt1Utlwi!V? ?nd win says that ..r,i ,j ,T. teaderaand dlsloyalto the government. govern-ment. Ho says that wo havl never drawn a breath of Ubrty. Here "" wJsti is father to the thought! and Jt u no fault of his that the statement Is infamously falsa. If it had been possible todeprneusol i S8 Wif as he"y this same angelic writer would have lauded the means by which Kwasacoom- false, It U malicious. Tliomanwho made it know, that there is a secret ballot here by which It Is im: !? ,or. a"" mortil man WXvoaHow of the People's pirly whose loyalty "."'JfetEOVcrnmentand lu In-sUtuUons In-sUtuUons is not excelled by any in !it la1,oniJ1wh. if need be, would give their uve8 t0 perpetiute the liberty " """s" ".'lembert of the People's partv nwy have deferred to their leaded InpoUtical mattersof Uils I shall not pretend to say, but if so, It was a voluntary deference and because they thought these leaders wiser than themselves, and they liave the satisfactiofl of knowing that their deference to the judgment of men whose II ves have been devoted to the cause of philanthropy and human freedom, instead of to a demago-ne who has prostituted the brilliant talents of manhood to the base Uieof trying to subvert the fundamental principles of fren Roveruinent. "The record of the Liberal parly is one of proscription and tyrauny. It perpetrated one of the vilest outrages of modern times when it struck the ballot from the hand of woman. But thauk God it did not and could not destroy her influence for good, she cannot vote for herself, but she ran and will see tlitt her huband, father, sons and brothers use their ballots for the cause of freedom. "Tho same spirit that prompts men to seek the disfranchisement of their fellow men becauso of religious belief be-lief and church membership caused the early Christians to be torn lo pieces by wild beasts for the-amuse-ment of the Romau populace, ft afterwards introduced the horrors of thu Inquisition and broke Its victims ou the rack. Later on it kindled the fires of SraUhfltld and burned unbelievers at the stake. It Is resinnslble for the massacre of SU Bartholomew and for the host of martyrs that have preferred death to tyranny and dishonor. While condemning con-demning the inquisitor for torturing the body of hl3 victim, the modern psrtecutor rulhlealy puts his brother's conscience on the rack ami boasts of the refinement of his cruelty. "When we are accused of being aliens,! wonder what it takes in the estimation of a Liberal to constitute con-stitute a loyal citizen. It was our fathers w ho came to the new world threu centuries' ago and consecrated it to liberty. Unas our fathers who resisted the tyranny of Great liritain, and for the Ilrt time in the history of the world founded a grand government upon the sublime Idea that all men are created equal and entitled to be free. It was our fathers who, in the wr with Mexico, acquired the very territory ou which wo dwell. It was our fathers who made the memorable Journey through the wilderness and planted the stars aud stripes on Mexican soil, athousaud ml' -from civilization. It was our la'hers who braved the dangers of nil unheritable un-heritable desert and transformed it into au earthly paradise. It was our fathers who touudul this great commonwealtli and. made it the pride of thu republic; "The rights aal privileges of citizenship are ours by desert, as well as by inheritance, for we have violated no law. We have been taught from Infancy to love and cherish the institutions of our country coun-try and have devoted our lives to the maintenance of human rights. Wo honor tho memory of our patriot sires and strive to preserve inviolate their taered trust. Wo want freedom for ourselves, for our posterity aud mankind, and, by the help of God, u e will have it. (Tremendous (Tre-mendous applause, j Mr. Richards then slid he would Introduce a man whose name was a household word In U tali, a man who has ever been found defending right and working for the overthrow over-throw of wrong. That man was Hon. JohnT. Calne. This was an iuceutlveforanother burst r aiipUu.se.- and, amidst thunderous ciietrs, Mr. Calne took (lie floor and said: Mr. Chairman, ladles and gentlemen gentle-men Itaffrrda me pleasure to meet you as we are met tonight. The position to which you have nsml-natcd nsml-natcd me I did not crave. but it is one that I dare not refuse. The issue In this campaign is peculiar to our own Territory. It is net xudi a one as4s waged in etir slstvr &t.fcs ainf Ter ritories; It Is a departure from the common course of politics. It Isen-franchlsemeut Isen-franchlsemeut against disfranchisement. disfranchise-ment. The People's Party are thefrieude of freedom. I need not say that our opponents are not. Their duinga are on record: their efforts to rob their fellow-citizeii3 of political, civil and religious freedom is a matter of history. his-tory. The American idea of government govern-ment was a government of the people, peo-ple, by the peopleand forthcpeople. With this idea imbued In the hearts of our national legislators, the bill Introduced into Congress by Senator Stewart, of Vermont, at. the request of Judge It. N. liiskin, and entitled "A bill restricting, the rights W MormoaV' waidefcatcl. This proposed pro-posed measure was. to rob oil Mormons Mor-mons of tho right Qrfrancblse.lhe en teriog of publlclandSYJrttrholdBfllcc of public trust. It was so foreign to the principles of Americanism that it mot the fate it merited. The Liberals, disappointed in in their defrat, hastily dbpatclied Judge Baskln to- Washington, who J rafted another measure, which while not saspeclflc In Us title, meant the tame tiling, ut It subsequently met the same fate. Had either of the bills become5 law, In our frontier settlements and counties men would h-ivelo- be Imported to All the offices, or anarchy and terror pre-vailamongthe pre-vailamongthe people by jacte of depredaUonbdngcommltted among them by a class of characters who for convenience and cover to their deeds cingiegate upon tbeorder In- Cache County, with Jts large population and immense re-S?rcA re-S?rcA there were not moro than HroTmidred voter outside of the iVonleVi rarty. Wh&' an outrage would to wW thatcounly over (otwbun-Jredraem It fia-J ten hadr.?JLi.lndujtrl0U-'. hut they WriaS01!"1 those who toemthlSr1 8bA WouW Pander .it , 'f fKfore they we to be lW?HSlin.",B ot anti-Mormon &0?. a? .'Mention of persecu: turn was disclaimed by tbeprolect- orsy cut tllo- tpirlt of persecuUon .7. WV"1 U grown tStllT day n had assumed such propor-tlonstbat propor-tlonstbat IttwoulJ iave -led lh?a .! hesV?nlnS- To illustrate ttia. the speaker read extracts from various reports of the Utah Com- n..rt n tr0W.'.D3 " sro th iof Uio report or tho persecuUon. If f.r?er"s. 'l .M had Uen fttrC?B4 thi,t lher8 frM spirit of disloyalty among the Mormon Mor-mon people, would tbelr nattlotlsm be awakened by Ulng reduced to political slavery? Such Invasion had been tried in Ireland for centuries cen-turies and It had failed signally, as ''"Jwayj would. TheMomion p:o-fthlie?U'Utrmtia" p:o-fthlie?U'Utrmtia" "me S?.ti!,.lV?t WI? "'reJ of them was that they shouM come within the law. They had done that, and what was their reward? Disfranchisement Disfran-chisement was. what the Literal candidate beslowfHl Upon UieniSonie or the Liberals had charged the speaker with having favored the removal of the Hies Into the San Juan County. He wished merely to say th- charge was false. A very ftrongeflort was made to move the Indians Into Utah, and he told the speaker that If the scheme was carried car-ried out the settlers would be reimbursed reim-bursed for the Ios9 which It would entail on them. It had also been charged that the bill for an nnnm. priatpn for-a public building, here had not been pressed by tbb speaker as it should havo been. The bill was before the committee In very good shape, aud the chances for an appropriation of $100,000 were excellent, ex-cellent, when a representative of an east side syndicate swooped down on the committee and represented that the Industrial Homo was lust the place for tho building. Tbtn a representative of a west side ryn-dlcate ryn-dlcate appeared oh thb fccehe and they got into a squabble, and the committee became-dlsconcerted, ac-uon ac-uon was ueiayeuvthe amount rs ported was reduced, and it was all due to these east and west side' boomers. Then It was charged that r, --- v(,wwijuu imruum for the benefit of the territory. That was false. It was claimed that he bad opposed thce disfranchisement disfran-chisement scliemes be pleaded guilty, guil-ty, aud with tho help of God he would always oppose them. Prolonged Pro-longed applause. The Issue of this campaign was the maintenance of their rights or their disfranchisement. disfranchise-ment. Itwasnotaqucstionbetneen himself and Judge Goodwin, It was a question of principle. He did not see who codld conscientiously vote for the Liberal candidate. Surely no Mormon could, liecause he championed their disfranchisement. If It were true that the rons of those who had practiced or sympathized with polygamy should be disfranchised disfran-chised lor that reason, then young Utah could not vote for him, because be-cause their parents or frlcuda had sympathized with polyiramv. 2Co Jew could vote for him because their ancestors were polygamlsls. Xo Christian could vote for him for the Captain of their salvation was born through polygamous lineage, which he never repudiated. So Democrat could vote for him because be-cause he was lu favor of the force bill. Xo Liberal who signed the remonstrance re-monstrance against dlsfrancbUo ment could vote for him without stultifying himself. Xo worklugman could vote for him, because, in the last campaign ho called the worklngmen traitors and scrubs. Xo atheist could vote for him, because be-cause he was opposed to liberty. Xo American could vote for him, because be-cause he was opposed to American institutions and was a traitor n't heart. A Voice-Hit him harder. Mr. Calne I can't hit a man harder than that, Xothing worse can 1 said of a man than that be is a traitor nt heart. Applausy.and la'ghier. J. W. rjummerbays was the next speaker. He expected not only hat the People's Party would give one hundred per cent of their votes for lion. JohnT. Calne, but that fifty per cent of Uie"Liberals"wouId give nini their votes, too. The speaker illustrated his forcible speech with several witty and appropriate anecdotes. anec-dotes. The "Liberals," although they are no hogs, certainly have hoggish ways in several respects, and it Is certalu that many respectable respect-able 'LIberala' are getting JUred of the rule that allows nolwdy to assert his manhoil. Think ol the gall of the maif who after telling you that he will disfranchise you comes aud asks you lor your votes. Had ha his way. we would have no place but in Siberia. What might we expect under these circumstances? circumstan-ces? Tho speaker predicted the downfall of the "Liberal" jurty, because be-cause the doctrine of disfranchisement disfranchise-ment is too bitter a pill for many honest men to take. He was loudly applauded. J. IL Paul said the People's Party were contending for the same rights as the people of colouial times, such as taxation without representation and the struggle for religious freedom. He quoted from the Goodwin platform, and In strong language denied (he imputation that a "Mormon" boy was. taught treason nt bis mother's knee, and that, being thus Imbued with uu-American uu-American ideas, he Is, of necessity, an alien and ought to be disfranchised. disfran-chised. This statement, afllrmeJ aud reaflirmed time and time again in Mr. Goodwin's paper, calls for special mention by any representative representa-tive of the younger men of Utah that may happen to occupy thb josltlon. This is no time or place to dodge this Issue. There is no necessity ne-cessity for saying that there was no plausibility in seeking to disfranchise dis-franchise polygamists and in accomplishing ac-complishing that end. Rut when the proposition is made as It is by the Liberal candidate that tlu Mormon boy is taught treason at Ills mother's knee, and should, therefore, there-fore, be disfranchised as an alien, as a punishment for what his mother taught him, then I say it becomes young Utah lo speak out. And, though it were too much to assume that every time that statement has appeared. In .Mr.l Goodwin's paper he himself wrote it, yet as it appeared ap-peared with his sanction, ns he has reaflirmed as hla platfiirm all these Jiuotatious against him, therefore, n diejrcince.of this great audl-6ucc audl-6ucc in tlfls 'public place Fdcsire to voice the sentiments and knowledge of the young men of Utah on that charge of disloyalty made against them by the Liberal candidate, and I call young Utah to witness that I speak truly when I say that the writer of thoseCTinfaniocs charges, whoever he is; is a liar neiore uou and man.' (Tremendous applause and cheeri. And eviry young man In Utah will go to the full length of the power of words in saying that any and oil such charges are simply false. F. J. Cannon was introduced'as a .representative of young Utah and said that he was glad that tho Delegate has "carried the war into Africa,"' "Vejneed no longerdefend ourselves against charges of dls loyalty;' it. had Tieen demonstrated that the opposite1 party is the one that has traitorous designs against the people. S. A. Kenner, Esq., was introduced intro-duced as the "pious, inimitable and unapproachable Kenner,' and such he proved himself-to'be. Of the Lodge election Dill, he said that measure was commonly known as the "Force BUI," having for its object the disfranchisement of thousands of democrats.lt la not dead by any means; It la liable to be called upandpassedat any time. Much depends upon the temper of the people throughout tbe country, as shown by their voting tomorrow. If ou arc in favor of the measure voteforC C Goodwin, Its special champion in Utah, -who In addition endorses everytconspleuous feature of the republican party, and Is hlm-geir&ne hlm-geir&ne of the rankest and most objectionable ob-jectionable of republicans, fellow citizens, do pot endorse tbe Lodge Infamy' Do 'not endorse the inla-cellaueoua inla-cellaueoua villainies of tho Liberal party! " net encpung9.Ulera!-t ism In Utah or elsewhere 1 And therefore, do not vote for C. C. Goodwin. He closed by paying a glorious tribute to John T. Calne, and asking all men Who had the right to vote for the man who was, Is, and will bo Utah's delegate for two years to come,at least. |