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Show DELEGATE CAIXE'S LETTER 01' AITELTAXCE. Salt Lake City. Utah, October ISth.ls.SO. Hon. J-ruidliii S. Kiclturdi, Chairman, Chair-man, and I'cople'a Tcniiriul Central UummiUec: Gentlemen. I am in receipt of your official announcement, that the nomination as Candidal? of the People's Party for Delegate from Utah to the Fifty second Congress had, by the unanimous voice or the delegates iu convention assembled, fallen to me. I thank you for the courtesus manner In .which the communication is maje and the kiud congratulations embodied therein. To be selected as the nominee ol my party for the fifth consecutive time, for so dignified an 1 responsible responsi-ble a jiositiou as representative of our grand aud growing Territory in the councils of tho nation, is an honor nut to be lightly i-stiruated nor received without some formal acknowledgment. Tno history of the People's Party or Utah is co-relative with the hl-toryorthe Territory Itself. It is an outgrowth of that love of freedom free-dom and heal self-irovcrunient which caused our people to seek homes amid mountain fastnesses where lilwrty Is suppjsed ever to dwell. Whatever may bo tin- judgment judg-ment of the present generation respecting re-specting the founders of Utah, the verdict of history, regarding their qualities as pioneers, as colonizers, as then vant couriers of clviliz tion iu the rar west, must be, that they had no equals In their time. Coming Com-ing as they did to a region i-o led ouly by savages, with so much of mankind as they found aud all of nature itself stubbornly arrayed against them, Hie nucleus or their present tolitlcal organization was formed meaning simply self-preservation, the first and fureimst in. stinct of ail animate nature. The times have chauged and wo havo clianrjiil with them, but the fundamental idea, the original principle, is the same as it wa. when, instead of the political strife, noisy declarations and showy parades now confronting us, we en-couutered en-couutered the forbidding elements, the unyielding soil aud the unwelcome unwel-come disposition cf the savage. The record of the People's Party I wheUier its members be regarded I as religionists, colonists, froutic-rmtn J or politicians sparkles all along the I liathway of the wild west and I through the gateway of advanced civilization. I u honoring the party and the illustrious names associated with it, we do but honor ourselves. our-selves. That it has had and may still have faults is not to 1-c denied and need not lie excused, since it is the work of man, aud mail is never perfect. It was, however, and is, the best thing In the way or political organization that could bu devised for our mutual benefit and protection, pro-tection, and its record of successes I and honors justifies us in rcvereing its rounders and in aunouuclug anew our allegiance to the principles princi-ples orrree givernment proclaimed ill the platformi or the People's Party. Wliatlithc issue confronting us today? Is it such a condition as is being waged on all sides or us to the east, the west, the north and the south? Ah, no! The taritl, the rights or States, the question or reciprocity, re-ciprocity, the, enforcement of Constitutional Con-stitutional amendments uone of these have we to deal with. What is now agitating our fair Territory iu a political way is the same question ques-tion that was Introduced by our opponents, op-ponents, when the so-called "Lib- J eral" Party was born the craving of tho minority to rule over the ' majority. One by one the sacred ' i i i ii i'iiwpwi Mirrra and guaranteed rights cf our people have been swept away, until st last but one political privilego Is left, the right of suffrage, the privilege of voting for a few cfllccrs to hold places of honor nud emolument In curTerrl.ory and Hie ristit of Hicim elected to hold such olllcts. Still pursuing Its reckless, revolutionary revo-lutionary aud un-American course, the "Liberal" I'arty would adl to IU pillar of Infamy, as its crowning caiatone the total disfranchisement or our party. To tbttt end It has brought aud is bringing all the meretricious arts which have so well subserved its purposes all along through its dark aud nefarious career. ca-reer. That tho outrageous scheme has been thwarted has been due not to them, their leaders, agents or lobbyists, lob-byists, their rvp resentatlon or tiieir good will, but to the sober second thought or statesmen and tho Utter judgment or men who sit in high places, those who are dliscd to do right when the right is made known to them. While denouncing as cctmics lo our American institutions aud as traitors tn their country nllwhotetk to disfranchise any class of American Ameri-can citizens, innocent or crime, I honor the nanus and blend my acknowledgments ac-knowledgments with those ot our people to thosecilizensof L'tali who, lrresjvtive of party affiliations and regardless of the Jetty whip, joined In tiie patriotic purjiose which consigned con-signed to difeat the infamous disfranchisement dis-franchisement pnject. Tho formal announcements of tho two local parties are already art of i our lUblic literature. Vou, gentle-, men, are familiar enough with oue and re doubtless fully cognizant of the other. Hoth should be read and considered by all the people of our Territory, whether voters or not. In u hat stnki ng com rast to the dismal drollery.ttho flippancy mid mendacity menda-city of the "Liberal" declarations are the manly, intellectual, honest and pitriotic enunciations which make up the People's platform! One (alters with us in a dubious sense, fearful lest the shadow of a past and Uie Mil-tance "f a present life betray It; the other is the outgrow out-grow th of a disposition to be guided and guarded by the ttemal right, "with malice toward none and with charity for all." Jt contains iu every line a precept to our iioople and our race, the rorceof which is fell iu the acknowledgment of the law's supremacy, su-premacy, the very culmination of a sincere aud candid lUrjuse lQ the partof ncomtirjuity, wherein loyalty loyal-ty for thepriu:iph-s of our government govern-ment and love for all mankind is aud over has been a governing characteristic. char-acteristic. I need not dwell upon the two declaration) of principles; each speaks in and for itself. , The "Libera!" Party stretches lock to the past, and in almost wailing tones pronounces once more the vindictive platitudes worn threadbare by usage for well-nigh a generation. It dots not, ami ap-larvntly ap-larvntly cannot, comprehend the meaning of tho word jirogress, or else it is blind to the fact that the People's Party has advanced lo j-ond itand is workingandactitigin the living present. One lingers upon the past with all that has been entomlied, the other realizes the present and builds tor the future. As Iietw-een the two, which should the citizen devoted to advancement aud a higher iiurpoH.', tile man of business, of affairs and or progress choose? I in ed not ausn er. Where the "Liberal" Party has oUalncd control in the Territory, its record lias been honey -combed with fraud. di"hoaey or extravagance amounting almost to crime; in some instances all three of Uiese. Thanks to an cfilcieut aud fearless ' judge in our midst, some, but not ail, of its treasonable and felonious purposes have been cxtnscd and thwarted. As '-eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," we must guanl our rights and tee to it that no man by fraud or chicanery defeats the will of the Jt-oplu as expressed by tho ballot. While w e thus watch, w e may hope lllAt till if.lA- is lint f IP ilisfntif ,rlu.,t our elections will be clean as the snow which crests the everlasting hills iu whose shadows we lir; that the administration of public affairs shall be as free as the tyire air which rushes down our mountain moun-tain gorges. With that condition reached and those circuuutaiices established, tho People's Party will not bo found a complainant nor In the slightest degree afraid, whatever tho result or any political contest may be. In accepting the high aud responsible respon-sible trust again impie-ed uu me, I do so, gentlemen, with a full realization real-ization or the fact that there are a great mauy others in our ranks well qualified and available furthcofltce. 1 have not sought it. and had the Judgment of your convention been otherwise, I would have luen pleased to place myself once more in that post of lienor a private citizen. citi-zen. Itat since my Party calls, I obey. A needed duty should not l asked fur nordeclined. Iu again taking tak-ing up the work you have outlined for me, you will pleae accept for yourselves, for the convention which nominated me, and ror our voters one and all, most sincere cx-preionsof cx-preionsof my profound regard and thanks for this renewed expression ofconfi.eiii-e. The eoplc of Utah may rest assured that it 1 am elected as their representative in Congress. I shall do the test that in mo lies to advance their interest and that of tho Territory which we so much love. Now, fellow citizens, let us turn to the labors before us, each and all moving onwanl with a fixed determination de-termination to do his jiart iu achieving achiev-ing for our fair Territory n destiny rounded out by the prosperity of ail and the exclusion uf none. Very Resjwtfully, Jons T. Caine. |
