Show a Invited by the committee or of the Peoples People's party to participate In a called to meet on June 30 20 1887 for the purpose of 01 formulating formu- formu lating a constitution upon which it was was' hoped to have congress gr grant nt statehood to Utah Chairman Rosborough Ros- Ros borough of the Democratic committee commit commit- tee in Utah pointed out that the domInant party part in the territory was the Democratic party declaring decar- decar ing that the Mormon lormon or Peoples People's party and the Democrats were vere one lIe Ire then continued that they are one and the same in their membership member member- ship so that Independent political action by an individual can never occur except with apostasy from the cr creed edThe ed The theory continues Chairman Rosborough upon which our r republican re- re I publican institutions are based is I II that all poll political power is derived II I from the people On the contrary I the leaders of your party claim and te teach ch and theIr followers concede that all rightful political power is derived from God and is delegated to his chosen ministers who have havea a divine commission tp to rule over the people wh whose se first duty Is to obey counsel that Is Is submit to die die- tation in temporal as well as spiritual spiritual spir- spir concerns and they further hold and teach as a political maxim as Yell ha as a dogma of a creed that this divine commission entitles them to the present right to and the nEar future possession of universal sovereignty soy soy- to be founded upon the ruins of all secular man made gov- gov Such assumptions are utterly repugnant to American institutions in- in but at the same time these pretensions gauge the patriotism patriot patriot- ism of these leaders and denote the and other qualifications of their followers for citizenship I and statehood The assumption or of political I power under ecclesiastical control has been the chief cause of the trouble In which your party has been Involved wherever in contact with state governments in former times as In the states of f ohio lIs and Illinois and with fedEral authority in Utah ut h. h Not satisfied with taking equal chances under the law with other religious sects your party adopted and has always pursued the policy in these states and later in Utah of gathering fathering their followers together In compact bodies organized to l nt t as a unEt in an for th fh J securing and holding political c can can- n- n A convincing truth of this fact is Is' Is that a branch ot of your fEth which early repudiated these ambItious ambitious ambI- ambI purposes is scattered In many states in the enjoymEnt ot of peace If clothed with the powers of a sovereign state an organization which has defied the laws Jaws of states and waged a contest with the government gov- gov of the United States in opposition op- op J position to its laws a ws and In this regard re- re gard of decisions of the court with the limited powers of t J territory cannot be trusted to I forego the use of those largely Increased Increased In- In I creased powers in the same direction tion and in such manner and spirit as must necessarily lead to collision cot cot- with the federal government In hi the very nature of things thIs be inevitable and Instead of settling the vexed Utah question tI finally na 11 and pe peaceably the admisSion admission sion of the territory as as' a state would enlarge and embitter the cont contest st and render more destructive and deplorable the mode of final settlement The hasty and irregular mode you have adoptEd without any enabling En en- abling act without consideration or discussion without the formalIty formalIty formal formal- Ity or of elections of delegates where elective franchise is restricted and qualified and without any popular demand is objectionable and would tend to defeat tile the purpose of the movement even It if more serious objection oh- oh did not exist After more than thirty years vearl of If ab of delegated Ie v anil judicial powers by the the congress in 1882 and again in revoked some Iome of these POWE powers and vested them In fede federal al agency ag with th the express declaration In each of 01 th these se acts that such Buch revoked r w ers ers' would be withheld until th tel ter- by fair and appropriate legIslation leg leg- eg should provide for the propel prope exercise of these powers Five years have hae elapsed and Utah has made no provision to meet thE fair offer but on the contrary has 1 continued to the present time a facetious and unremitting contest with the federal authorities S Can it it with any reason be EXpected EX cx- that congress will acknowledge edge defeat and retire from thi the the- contest and anel vest in such hands handi the tho Im Increase of power demanded demanded de- de In view of the history and conditions con con- ot of Utah In its its- political relations re- re lations to the federal government and the spirit of opposition to Its laws if there was a reason for foran an enabling act according to the usage in any Instance thEa territory presents pre pre- the mOst conspicuous case for I such |