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Show NEW PARTY MOVEMENT TO OPPOSE DOMINATION OF CHURCH IN POLITICS; BACKED BY MEN OF WEALTH I COMMITTEE IS HOT YET NAMED. I : Chairman Street has not yet announced the names of the organlea- tlon committee of the proposed new party. The list of names submitted to him from which to choose this committee Is as follows: Ogden Hlles; Frank J. Cannon, Fred J. Klesel, J. C. Leary. J. D. Wood. W. P. Noble, E. W. Wilson, P. L. Williams, E. A. Wall. George R. Hancock. John Dern. H. J. Dlnlnny, Ezra Thompson, W. F. Snyder, M. H. Walker, W. H. Dickson, Rudolph Alft, H. O. McMillan, William Nelson, Samuel Mc- . Dowell. E. B. Crltchlow, George I Nye, Henry C. Hill. C. E. Allen, J. W. Cahoon, J. E. Darmer, H. P. Henderson, E. F. Colborn. John A. Street. David Keith and Frank Knox, who are now on the finance committee . of the Republican party, will withdraw from that body. With a finance committee representing represent-ing $10,000,000 in combined capital of its members, ' a movement waa started Wednesday night for the formation of a' new party In Utah, whose objects and aims shall be "to oppose to the utmost ut-most the domination of church influence influ-ence In political affairs." ; . The meeting was attended by about 100 men of ail shades of political belief, be-lief, and-those in attendance, by rising vote, pledged their "lives, liberty and sacred honor" and property to sup- j port the movement.' Resolutions setting forth a declaration declara-tion of principles were unanimously adopted. Tribune's Support Pledged. Manager Joseph Ldppman of the Salt Lake Tribune pledged the earnest support sup-port of that paper to the movement. . ... Those pledged to the movement are left free to exercise their political preferences pref-erences In regard: . to the national tickets. The meeting, which was held In Auer- bach's hall, was presided over by Judge John A. Street. J. E. Darmer was made secretary. The following resolutions were presented pre-sented by Col. William Nelson, chair man of a committee appointed for the purpose at a conference held" last Monday: Mon-day: Declaration of Principles. Whereas, An experience of fourteen years since the first material sign of the abatement of troubled conditions here . was sn In the promulgation of the Woodruff manifesto, has shown that the promises made were crafty and insincere; in-sincere; that the sought-for division of the people on party lines was not , carried out in rood faith; that both farty organisations have been dem-nated dem-nated and used for the double purpose of maintaining an ecclesiastical control which had no regard for either, and of preventing remonstrance or opposition by those who favor the free exercise of . Individual Judgment and preference in ' political affairs; and. Whereas, Repeated experiences, emphasised empha-sised by events just passed, have fully proved 'that this ecclesiastical dominance dom-inance Is all-powerful and persistent, and that it cannot be shaken off so long as those who oppose It are divided into hostile camps; but, on the contrary, con-trary, since such division of the friends and supporters of American institutions, institu-tions, their voices are stifled and the hands are strengthened of the crafty manipulators of the church power and Its application to political affairs; therefore, be It resolved: 1. That we will no longer play into the hands of the church leaders by a division divi-sion which simply panders to their desires de-sires and purposes. 2. That we will repel with every means at our command the Intrusion of ecclesi- -atticism into politics or the affairs of, state. 8. That we refuse to merge Utah affairs In any national party action, since the division thus created paralyzes every effort to Americanize the State. 4. That so far as affairs here are concerned, con-cerned, any division on party lines Is a sham and a farce, every pledge of the - ecclesiastical power to refrain from . direction In the political affairs of the people having been shamelessly vlo- , - fated; every pretense of letting politics alone a shameful and shallow mockery. 6. That we will never cease to demand . the complete freedom In political affairs, af-fairs, untouched by any taint of apostolic apos-tolic control; that we demand the pom- filete separation of church and state, n fact as well as In name, and that we will repel to the utmost all efforts to perpetuate the ecclesiastical control of public affairs in Utah. 8. That the public schools are the especial espe-cial pride or the American people; we resent the grasping domination of the ecclesiastical power therein, and pledge ourselves to shake it off at the earliest possible moment. Church control ot the schools must go. We disclaim most emphatically and poel- I (Continued on Page 8.) luJll Si i-iL LJ .J" 'DPJHG 'OUT A.IiCilSI (Continued from ' Pure t) - tively may desire or purpose to attack any church or to aattail any one's religious re-ligious Hntlmtntt or church afrilla-tions; afrilla-tions; - our purpose la aa vet forth 'fcarein, and no other. Appealing to all fair-minded cttlsena of Ltah to sustain, ua In this, our righteous right-eous purpose, definitely, surely and forever to separata church and state, and asking; In this the support of every . lover of American Institutions, we declare de-clare the occasion for this to be timely, time-ly, and the provocation repeated and . extreme.1 Come with us, and let ua ' redeem the State. ' ' , . ' ! Minority Export Offered. A minority of the same committee offered of-fered & report that a voting- league be formed to pick out candidate from the regular . party ticket and recommend . their support. The majority favored the formation of a new party and) the nomination nomi-nation of a ticket along the lines indicated! indi-cated! in the declaration of. principles. The latter, course found unanimous favor fa-vor in the meeting, and the resolutions as presented were adopted. In the course of the discussion' David Keith was asked if Senator Thomas K earns would indorse, the movement. MV. Keith answered : "Yes. Tom and I are together ia this as in other things." , Committees Are Named. The following committees were named: Executive H. 3. Dinlnny, P. J. Daly, George L. Nye, WlUaxd F. Snyder and Judge John A. Btreet. Finance W. Mont Ferry, J. D. Wood, W. P. Noble, H. O. McMillan audi David Da-vid Keith. , - - . . Chairman Street was authorized to name an organization committee to be composed of five Democrats and five Republicans. , An understanding was reached that a general mass meeting would be called at an early date for the purpose of forwarding for-warding the movement. . Those in Attendance.' Among- those who attended the meeting meet-ing were: W. Mont Ferry, H. J. Dinlnny, Din-lnny, J. D. Wood, W. P. Noble. II. O. McMillan, David Keith, Joseph Lipp-mtn, Lipp-mtn, Charles E. Bel!, E. B. Crltchlow, Dan Dunne, Isaac Haselgrove, A. Hv Kelly, 8. P. Armstrong. W. B. Allen, Wlllard F. Snyder, Rudolph Alff, George R:' Hancock, Capt. James Black, B. B. Heywood, James Kennelly, J. R. Morris, Mor-ris, John A. Street. J. J. Stewart, A. R. Carter, Capt. Miner, J. W. Cahoon, George I Nye, J. E. Darmer, Judge Samuel McDowell, Frank A. Swenson, A. C. Reese, E. W. Kelly, William Nelson, Nel-son, Dr. Henry La Motte, C E. Offenbach, Offen-bach, G. R. 'Cleaveland. Henry F. Heath, J. J. 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