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Show fflffiY Rf 'CONGRESS KND EMMIY ' ' rts judge to ' rmwm mwm Judge C C Goodwin Makes Ringing Keynote Key-note Speech for the American Campaign; Cam-paign; Touches Up Smoot Gathering; Big Ratification Meeting Tonight. Probable American State ticket: For Congress W. Mont. Ferry of Salt Lake. For Associate Justice of Supreme Court Thomas Maloney of Weber. thought wax that the untrammeled voice of Mich a people would be as the voice of God. But in our midst a power has been upraised up-raised which has for its purpose the undermining under-mining of that constitution which the fathers framed, and under the name of religion to plant upon our free soil precisely such- a despotism as those that have kept the men of Asia half-barbarians for four thousand years, and because of which the shores of that land have been strewed with the wrecks of a hundred nations, . which perished because be-cause they were not fit to live. From the cradle these merciless priests impress a superstitious fear upon their subjects sub-jects that implicit obedience to them is their first duty aud that tiu-ir chief by dinne right has absolute rule over their lives. It is to protest against the carrying of this assumption into politics that we are met today. It is in defense of what the fathers bequeathed be-queathed to us that we are here. It is that our children may have peace, and an even chance, if they are worthy, to win for themselves honors and fortunes and fair names. It is to stand an object lesson that when the children of Mormons may ask why, while every other religious belief in our country has full right of way, the Mormons here, and in every other region of the Re- fublie where they have held sway, are sthmaelites their hands against every man and every man's hands against them the truthful answer may be given, because they are an alien power: they ajact from their followers a' higher fealty for their temporal kingdom than' it given enr , Republic, and hence, every una of them is an enemy to the cardinal insistence on which our Government wes founded the absolute individual liberty, under the law, of every man. We are here to proclaim the inalienable rights of man; the imperial prerogatives that are woman's r to protest against the slavery of men, and the degradation of women to exalt the sovereignty of our Republic. When, two years ago. Reed Smoot came to this city. and. unlattered, uninspired, unsane-tified unsane-tified and unashamed, assumed the roll of a coarse political and priestly boss and named the men who should be nominated for State and county offices, counting upon his ecclesiastical ecclesi-astical authority to whip his subjects into voting for the men so named; for that crime he should have been declared no longer a citizen of the United States, for the felony was treason against the sacred principles on which our great Republic was created. And every man who, tiiroueh awe of that ecclesiastical power, obeyed him, by the act proved that he was not fit to be called a citizen of the United States. The nld parties sre in the field in Utah. They will fill the State with the old party cries during the next six weeks. I am not here to question their sincerity, but ynu and I, and all of us know that not one of them expects to see one candidate on their tickets elected through the indorsement indorse-ment of one or another of the fifteen men who rule this people. Against the shame of that we protest, and for the hake of our country, for the sake of the future peace and prosperity of our State, and that the individual liberty and manhood man-hood of our State may be restored: that the sanctity of the womanhood of our State may be preserved; we demand that the Mormon church, by whi-h we mean the high officers of that rhurch, shall get out of politics. poli-tics. And we pledge ourselves to maintain this contest until truth and right and liberty and eternal justice shall triumph. The American party Start mass convention, con-vention, to nominate candidates for Congress and- Associate Justice of the Supreme court, was called to order boltly after 2 o'clock this afternoon in -Jv2fSaIt Lake theater by State Chair-i. Chair-i. iJtn "Willard F. Snyder.' There was a large and enthusiastic, gathering present. pres-ent. A number of names are under discussion discus-sion for the ticket. Indications, how- " ever, .point to the nomination of V. Mont" Ferry of Salt Lake as the candidate candi-date for Congress, and Judge Thomas Maloney of Ogden as the candidate for Associate Justice. Who the Candidates Are. "Mr. Ferry is a popular and well-known well-known young lawyer and mining man, and is at present chairman of the . Finance committee of the City Council. He is a nephew of the late Col. W. M. Ferry of Park City, who was the Amci-ican Amci-ican nominee for Governor two years ago. Judge Maloney is one of the leading attorneys at the Ogden bar, and is at '.present referee in -bankruptcy for-the Federal court at that place. Ratification 'Tonight. The convention this afternoon will be followed by a mass meeting at the Salt Lake theater tonight, when the ticket named this afternoon will be ratified. Former Gov. George A. Black will preside, pre-side, and among the speakers will be W. Mont Ferry, David C. Dunbar and lYank J. annon. There will be music bv Held's band, the ladies' quartette, Mrs. Charles G. Plummer and the American Amer-ican drum corps. At this afternoon's convention Judge C. C. Goodwin was named as temporary chairman, and B. H. Jones of Brigham Citv as temporary secretary. Cpon taking the chair Judge Goodwin Good-win said in part: Judge Goodwin's Speech. I thank yon for this honor, my fellow-citiiens, fellow-citiiens, but I tell yon truly I did not want It. - I Was discharged cured, long ago, from any desire to take any active part in politic- t I am here today simply through a sause of duty. In the old daya when walled cities were beleaguered, and the young men sallied forth from the gates to engage- the enemy, the old men were wont to climo upon the walls and shout encouragement to their sons. Today I am the old man on the wall, to lift my voice in encouragement to those who from within the citadel of Liberty are going out to fight the hosts of retrogression and tyranny. i I do not believe that any of us are here v through an unworthy ambition, or through N "ay lust of office or sp'oils. , (jrwa are here to demand simply the old time f American square deal. ..... We are here, to protest against Utah being ' continued an alien State. We are here to demand that the covenants Bad in order to obtain Statehood for I'tah ahall be faithfully kept. There is no true liberty aave that which Is subject to righteous laws. We aro here fighting no faith, no creed, bo religion, but we are here to insist that every religion in Utah shall be subject to the righteous laws of this Republic and of eivilixation. A month ago the men of New England met to celebrate the tercentenary of the founding found-ing of. Plymouth church. That church waa founded on the belief in God and the absolute abso-lute individual liberty of man under the law. Next year at Jamestown. 'a., the Nation will gather to celebrate tha tercentenary of the settlement there of the first Virginia colonists. - Their creed was belief in God and the absolute ab-solute personal liberty and responsibility of ev-ery individual mad. The descendants of those men of the Puritans Pu-ritans of the North and the Cavaliers of the South, waged their conquest against the aavageries of men and the savageries of nature na-ture for 150 years, until five generations of them had lived and died. But all the time they held their birthright aacred-r-their belief in the aovereignty of God and the liberty of man. Then in the name of liberty and under its aegis they united and drove from their soil, which they had consecrated to freedom, the mighty power which clnimed the right to oppress them. Then they formed a constitution, whirh, while guaranteeing absolute freedom of worship, wor-ship, in the same moment forbade any union of church and State. At the same time every opportunity and every honor of the new land was thrown open i 'the humblest eitiiea. f Tne result has been a transformation here fd the raising up on our shores of a light 'H ch. as the Roentgen ray kills the gerras Tf"i!isease that burrnw in the human body, la shining to the world'a extremes, shining in and killing one germ of tyranny after another. an-other. . , . , It has penetrated China, even, aud the myriads there have been promised a constitution. consti-tution. , ' . When the fathers work was finished and thev contemplated what it would be to mankind,' man-kind,' their thought was that to preserve such a heritage, and to transmit it without with-out atain would be the chiefest anxiety of very American. So to preserve it inviolate, they placed In the people's hands the ballot, thru through it the individual opinions sad desires of tha people might ud expression; and their |
