Show OGDEN HilES SHOWS REAL PARTY ISSUE In Dispassionate Address Tells Wherefore of Americanism Two addresses yere male at the Arner American call party part rally at UJ Unit Unity hull hall s. s Saturday ni night ht that carefully with and out heat or OJ rancor why tho the American party exists in Utah anti and wh why hy it will ivil continue continuo to to exist until exist until obedience to tb the law aw of ot the tho land and the ob b observance servance of th the tho pie pledges of statehood have hae become i a ren real reni fact tact in Id Utah Judge e Ogden lilies nn and Attorney W. W 11 II Brent Brent- el I were vero tho the speakers Cn fn the course of or their remarks they exposed the true truo inwardness of tho the political situation in city cud and state and presented strong arguments ar nr for tho the retention in iii p power of tho the American city administration Mrs Corinne 11 ir Hammer s soprano Miss Edna Dwer contralto J. J It I. Summers tenor anti and A. A L. L r baritone as a quartet r rendered several beautiful numbers and Mi Miss s Marjorie Mulvey e performed at Dt tho the piano to the enjoyment ent of her auditors Judge c Jules said saul in in part flue Tho American party part opposes cs the Mor Mormon or ormon mon lion priesthood rl c in ill its capacity only of oft ofa a t secular body hOlh In that aspect we wo know it as nit an ng agency for fraudulent business busi husi- ness methods tho the proponent of pernicious cious social doctrines and a a. clear clearing bou house o for foul polities politics These ho bo trou f strong words worda indeed and in using them I do flo pot lOt for forgot ot the lO IUSO counsel of l that words are arc things n that whoever hoc uses 1185 them in tho the discussion of public questions lions ou ought ht to ho bo held heM to a strict accountability and that levity le of speech is unpardonable Corrupts in Politics Too If Ic this priesthood is thus corrupt ip iu hm business you OU nUi may he sure ure that in in so far faras fars as s it has tho power it will be a corrupting corrupting corrupt corrupt- in ing in in our social and political life Its lIi history tory and record since the admission sion suon of Utah into tho union just justify if tho the statement that it is as corrupt in politics poli poli- ti tics s as in in business On the admission of Utah into lute tho thu union they the made the tile to the tho world that they would surrender the tha political power which Tt they heiY had theretofore exercised iu in n Utah and anu would thereafter refrain from in interference in in- co in the political concerns of tho thio people and yet ret we yc find theta them elevating In ing or at least pel pet milling nutting the elevation of one ODO of their apostolic quorum to the tho United Unite S States Stales senate as a reward for 01 or his subservience to time the prIesthood priesthood priest prIest- t- t hood und and destroying another apostle ec ecclesiastically t cc- I anti and politically for fOl sub non For asserting principles pIn prin I in Iii the most candid and respectful manner he lie was declared out of harm harmony n I with hl his quorum was unfrocked and tind degraded de ule- graded from front his office and escaped x x- only only- l bv IJ the humiliating Un declaration n that he ho w was in error In Iii as asserting ns- ns principles which h h ho ha believed to tobe tobe tobe be true After th they had hal thus thins destroyed a antI and 1111 humiliated him and antI after alter 10 ue haul had closed h hula his C eyes CS In death some of or his hula al alleged at- at brethren In this spurious ministry of Christ f. f amp ramo to 0 his blur bier to mutter and anh their rancor and reproaches over tr his hits unresisting dust t. t One Party Brave Bravo Enough Since the tho meeting of or tim reconvened Democratic convention of oC no Democratic Demo Demo- erotic cratic ocr Republican on In Utah lies has had hall th tim tho courage to tell the truth concernIng thin tho Interferences of or ito tho priesthood In the government o of or tho hue state and Its various municipalities There is hut bul ono one patty part In Utah which hop hopes s for or nothing and f ears nothing from Crom the Mormon priesthood and that Is tho the Am American party part If It these priests he be not In politics as the they hey aver 1 let t thorn them take th their lr apostle out of tho the United States State senate for or so long as ho jun has their permission permission permission per per- mission to remain there thero the candidacy of nr any allY other man for or the senate cn te would bo ho as futile as ns tho ho Popes Pope's hull huH against tho the comet Thoro Is no state convention of or tny ny party part except tho the American an party which has haa the courage to adopt the principle of or the Harrington re resolution for the thc simple situ sim pie reason teason that tha t thc they are all nil corrupted or to be corrupted by bv favors from thIs corrupt priesthood What Viat They Dont Don't Do If I this priesthood does docs not countenance counte nance new pol polygamy am let them excommunicate those thole who arc are known of or all men mento mento to have havo taken new polygamist spouses since thin the so called Woodruff manifesto Let Lct them refrain from preaching their new and everlasting covenant co from tho the pulpit Let them theft e expunge pungo the al alleged al- al r revelation which enjoins polygamy am upon their people from their Doctrine an and Covenants and finally let them refrain from unlawful unla-ful cohabitation us as the they promised to do and in short obey tho the statutes of the country But I have havo said raid that free ft-co reo and ant minded fair men do not ant differ about the obligation and duty of or keeping ones one's word and faith with all allmen men A nina man who ho Insists on that Is surely surely sure ure ly not assuming to be he better than his neighbor Terms of Amnesty It Is If an historical fact act which no man unarm can enn have haxo tho the hardihood 1 to deny denv th that lt President Harrison and after him President Preal- Preal dent Cleveland 1 granted R p pinion pardon and amnesty am anu nest nesty to this priesthood for past offenses on OTt thin the c express condition that tho they should thereafter refrain from violations of ot tho thin law Jaw in iii respect of polygamy m and yet cl I the tho chief priest declare bolero before a committee of or United States Stales senators that whilst he ho had accepted pardon on those conditions hf Ire had not mint done a as ho he hud had promised but hat had continued to violate the conditions on which he lie had petitioned d for received and accepted pardon and moreover r. r that ho did not intend to observe oh- oh serve sere those conditions but Intended as ashue ho hue c expressed It It to take his chances a against alnet the tile law and continue to violate tho the terms on which ho lie had accepted pardon This caso case Is typical of or the tho entire cn- cn Uro tire priesthood od and In their breaches breathes of or falth faith they lucy have havo be been n Indorsed and end sustained fillS sus by by- bythe the tho membership of the tho Mormon lormon church In repeated repealed conferences assembled assembled assem assem- bled I repeat that thin the dishonor an and perfidy per nor tidy of or all a matter mattel about which mInded fair j men cannot differ Against all this the tho American part party enters Its Us emphatic protest and will continue con con- to lo do eo ro o unless good gol faith shall have hae become becom a a. reproach umon among men and unless honor shall shah have v departed from the land Consider m my friends for one morn moment ent this thA low tone and bad moral stimulus which P such perfidIous principles must Import Into lilt the polity of or tho ho church and the tho tho grading du-grading tendencies I and the lie debasing Influences they must have havo on omi the minds and characters rs o of your our children I Much New Polygamy Und Under r cover eo of or this the conception that thoy they must tako take their chances chance against tho the law our current history shows an Q cr over Increasing recrudescence of POI polygamy may amy In Utah It III Is however but the cowards coward's chance the they take since any n public prosecutor or judge who vho should 1 become active aCU In the enforcement of the laws could not nol hold hoM his office after th tin the next neat election When they offer offer- sums of ot money for proof that any ease o of polygamy am amy baa nan ball been ben sanctioned by the tho church since tho the Woodruff manifesto they are aro wagering and advertising ln merely that their priesthood has by successful chicane chi eaSe cane covered up the proofs proof of or their law law- It is but a shallow pret pretense nl and will w d those only who wish to tobe tobe be 1 deceived It cannot connot be denied that In lit Inthe the last fifty years year there thoro have been bren thousands of ot pol marriages so sol sol- and anid consummated In Utah and anti yet t tin Im public prosecutors have o not b been en able u t. prove pro more mOro than live iWo or six Ix cases of ot polygamy committed within the tho period ot of th thug iho st statute of or limitations Under such euch conditions to wager us that we wo cannot e ca Cases caMS s of or po polygamy amy sanctioned by 11 the Iho hurch c Is It to Insult our Intelligence and arid to mock nt at public Justice but when they thus bus lau laugh h ut at tho the futility of or tho the laws law th they provo prove nothing moro more nor less Ihan that aL they the constitute an odious and furtIve c conspiracy 3 against honor de decency decene do- do cene and civilization But BUl our opponents tell us that our n assertion assertion as as- l of American principles situ awl and the doctrines of or tho the American platform is hi Incompatible with the tho of or peace In Utah That to may bo be admitted Harmony Jarmon peace and concord my ray friends Bra are conditions i which all reasonable peo- peo Pc pie desire nut Hut better it lo Iii for an nn in individual In- In dl a community or a nation to I have havo war and discord with honor than I peace and ancI concord without honor and I without Integrity y The Copperhead Brand Wo s have o here in Utah some Mme of or tho the same kind lelnd of or people who cry out for or peace who wish to compromise with po and a A. polygamous oll oligarchy 3 as the tho copperheads would have ha compromised with slavery and a slave oligarchy when every y sensible man an woman here lucre Knows th there re can cami bo ho no permanent compromise com corn promise nor lasting peace until American Ameri Amen can cant law and American politics shall r reign hm in Utah unchallenged and undo undo- filed flied by Tho conflict between polygamy coil secular lm and the great moral forces which pr preside over human progress anti and which mould our civilization I Is as Irrepressible as was it-as tho the conflict In other days between slavery slavery slav slav- ery cry and freedom City's Great Growth Salt Lake Jakc City Is ht h by the votes voles of or Its tree free men and find women an un American town Since It has 1133 Iii lien cn en made mado so It ha has ad advanced nil nil- In wealth anti and population to at un unprecedented d degree e I rc It hn has taker eJi a agnat great gnat stride forward In all those mental and amid moral rind and material tImings things s which add 1111 f to the comfort and amid which adorn and em emit- bellish hellish civilized life lICe Shall ShaH It be still said III that nn an American t tots towi wn has taken a step backward Material good ond must follow and Is Indeed compall- compall ble hio only anI with the lie pre predominance of or those thoo I 1 mental I moral and spiritual principles which recognIze free freo roe men women a as he hue hl highest het beings of which we 0 can any positive c knowledge For Kor If man inert shall shah become or Ot remain a n slave lothe to lo the superstitious or em hid vIces a of his hula an ancestors ancestors in- in If JC ho lie shall surrender hi his hi- temporal tern tem and life to lo the keeping o of thOA Whom Interest It h is to dominate and amid depress It pres him hint he lie mu must t penalize that tha that hl high h courage that noble Imagination Ion which shall shail enable him blurt t to lii direct his lila mcc to wider moral Intellectual Intellect ual 1131 alII and material horizons to higher hopes hope ani and to better destinies Administration Justified rho Tho American party In lt Its administration tion of or the lie government JO of Salt Lal Lake o City has hiss justified Its high principles and amid professions pro pro- It has its af affairs af- af fairs airs without taint tn In t of corruption It may not have havo expended over every overy dollar In itt the tho most most exactly judicious manner but 1 It hits has done it with integrity ity anti amI an m eye ln lo to lo tIme the public good TIme The c certain facts which provo proto It are arc set forth In Inthe Inthe Inthe the admirable speech of Mayor l Bransfor Bransford Brans- Brans ford for and no man can successfully assail the lie rectitude of or his Intentions nor Impeach Impeach impeach Im Im- im- im peach his truth arid and honor as ns a t man m my friends we C d defy ry those who vilify thus the American party part and who Im Impugn iou iou- n th time tho rl righteousness J of or of Its motives e and who slander and deride Jt Its an candidates candi l- l dates and you ou may be bo sure that th tIme the perpetual memorials of I its ta acim achievements for the time good of or tho people of oC Utah Ulah ant antof and andor of or Salt SaU I alc in ta moral In intellectual am amIn and amid andIn In Iii material d development will remain and amid bo ho a 3 heritage to your our children's childrens children lon lone attN allot the these e c ephemeral tra s shall have moldered in for forgotten graves and when hen their names stud and their works and their memories and their thell epitaphs shall shah have vanished utterly The Opposition on Consider row the political aggregations ag n- na- na which aro ate no now d to the American party part Fiust there thero In Is a 3 Ito Ito- rl pl party so 50 called Is H In power post at the tue sufferance of the tIme priesthood priesthood priest priest- hood hoo second a Democratic tic party part which whid has been corrupted in in time the past and amid hopes to be lie bribed n again aln h by the hue same ManiC malign power third theme Is a Citizens' Citizens party part which stands for or nothing and amid was in intended intended In- In tended for or nothing but n as a ligament to bind tho hue corrupt Republican and Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic entitle Siamese twins in an effort to defeat de tie- feat cut th the American party Under r such tuch conditions what man or woman of or sense Is there among Rmon you OU who will III hesItate h lo to vote tote the American t ticket Yo Your Youir II I pIa plain In duty dulY to lo yourselves selves to your our children to your our to town ton n to your our country and amid to lo civilIzation civilization civil civil- Is Is on election ria day to rally ally an tho the flag once more and amid for that nothing is 11 more mou-c certain ln than that you ou shall in countless s ways receive i tho hit reward ward o or of duty duly well performed and when In itt years earll to conic come tho the tiun lIuo meaning and amid th till hii full ful till measure fruitage of or your sacrifices your ou I struggles and ani your yoni victories shall ho bo truly trill told lold It must be lie said that under such mch detraction and against much reactionary pow power r. r without alloy of selfishness sel sel- lI you yott Ou wrought ht manfully and amid ef effectually ef- ef for or the time progress pro re R of or your our raco and tho highest public good On Smith |