| Show VOCES VOICES FOR ROBERTS Utah County Democrat Democrats Hold a aM M Mass ss Meeting i at c PUO h I Its II Ia lIsa Rep nero ni UI rat ArbI I Prominent Ua Utah Democrats to number of two hundred and fifty inc at lat last night Ind and protested against lie ho arbitrary acton ot of In refusing to permit Hon Ifon B I 1 H Rob Roberts erts to take Inke hIl his seat hall caled called the nicotine 0 or order order der and ond the object for tor which I i hind hod In his opinion Utah hAd been ben outraged by b the refusal f to permit 19 it to toI t I be lorn In mind the he dute duties tor fo which 1 he hd had been elected I It was tas the duty not only of the th Democratic party but ot of the State to ault assIst Mr Ir In Ii Inthe the ure contest l before tore him The next speaker was John S Sa Der Dera a wel selI known citizen ot of who endorsed the remarks ot of Mayor Mayo lal hail and declared haL thal Roberta hat ha been taken advantage oh of that the fight that woe was being made him wa unjust and and that hat tho thomen th men and women omen who Mr Rob Rob iris not tail to demonstrate their disapproval of It I lion Uon W lii 1 speaker ot of the th lower of oC the last LegIslature said that tf it Roberts WIS was Cly guilty ot of 1 c misdemeanor he should hould nt not b be lowe to lake Jako his seat but like k other of Ut Utah l he to express hi his ent ens disapproval of oC such ucb summary actions I It WO was apparent that Robert Wn was the he victIm or of prejudice and In injustice justice and ther there belna being n no one who a right to his lea seat should b bc permitted to take lake It I MI MR VIEWS I lon hIon S R II Thurman wal was listened to te with lh rpt sept attention He Je said Is himer bigger grander and high higher tr er then than U I Ii H before tor this aU audience Thank hack oo God that beneath the theStal Stal Stare and StrIpes es the there Is no that the king cnn can do no wrong on before that able charne tensed a as the grandest protest against oppression ever heard upon I that grund ground we havea a right to reman drab and to protest against wrong and nd that right shall never noer be denied us UI Continuing Attorney Thurma Thurman ex cx the fear far that n a protest rolet might not avail anything that the die was wasI cat cast but he wanted to go on record I against this dangerous precedent which made nde applied anti and intended only for Mormon I State Senator Smoot declared that Ro Roberts wa was Ih the peer er ot of nn any man In Congress and abler than them he had been by the people of Utah and should to rep ree recent nt them U s Addresses were also made by John Il D Slither 11 lay Taylor Talor Captain E EA EA A County Attorney Jacob Evans Evan and nd 1 I J 3 ts tl of LU L LD U D Crandall I II T Reynolds George U n Matson Ernest Irnest Doer Buyer Miss 15 Myrte Myrtle Hall Halland and others r spoke tho sro samo lne line Aler which the following offered b by Sir Ir Thurman earlier In the evening were overwhelmIngly adopted there being but two negative votes otes Whereas J It Is our desire u as citi tens of the UnIte United and of the State Rate of Utah to uphold ane ad maintain the he integrity honor rightful functions privileges and authorIty of both the and State governments In or order der that the blessings of free r govern government ment may be perpetuated ad and pro pre served and Whereas I It is II I a constitutional right of citizens of a state Blatt to b be represented irs In the Congress of f the United State States by of f their own selection havIng te the qUil nual prescribed d b by the Constitution of f the United States and Whereas The State of Utah Is a soy erl reign State and ns as su such h I is entitled to representatIon In the House or of ot of the tho United States In order hat the rights of the State and the ople eople thereof ml ma b be preserved Id and and the he lIon Hon n 11 1 II Roberts roe wal duly elected at the lie last lut Congress anal lonal electon election as 08 the sole representative or If the people or of Utah 1 L the Congress of f the United States tel and has hns the tho Qui prescribed ond required by he national ConstitutIon tar for the 10 0 whIch he wa ras elected by the people Whereas Ws His election was dul duly cor filed to In the manner provided b by law and md his name placed on the rol roil ot of of the loule House of at ivee and by al nit just and ProPer In such luch eases both under he rule rules and enactments of the House and md of the Constitution ho hovas Wil vas entitled to be sworn In as a mom memo ber and to take his lAt sent In te the house of f and Whereas Tie The House or of thu ives nt at the beginning of oC the Present sel Cuba Ion of Congress toI on the Ih da lay of t the thc present month by arbitrary unjust And unconstitutional methods method to permit said B I H our ur representatIve A as aforesaid to be worn In as 01 I a member or to take his eat as such 1 as representative from his State Ind and Whereas There was S no candIdate laming or contesting hI his rl right h and nd he act of said laid House ouse In refusing to admIt Odin him I as 1 a member thereof under he circumstances was I arbitrary un sin Ind arid and ant antas 1 as 1 a menace to te the perpetuIty of the UnIon itself and Wheres Under the rules of the louse Houle previsions of the Constitution and nd precedents aforesaid th the people or Utah hind no reason to expect that thattie the tie House of would deny ray 1 a representation In Congress nt t leat least until le legal al objection to the ot of their representative ere Judicially ascertained and doter deter determined mined and Whereas As AI American citizens as of the State of Utah we beeve be belee lee eve I it tl to be te not only our privilege but butLer our Ler patrIotic duty to solemnly and ear nelty estly protest at this tM the earliest cable moment against thIs Ue Ye and unprecedented Innovation up upon on the rights t of the people of this S State ta te core fore OF TIE TIlE CONSTITUTION CONSTITUTION TION I Resolved That the action of the ouse ot of Representatives or of the lie United I lates Congress In refusing to permit IC lIon U H Ii RobertI Roberts our duly el elect t cd I to take hi hits seat tn In Inlet that let body II as a representative from thi thIs tall late wa was arbitrary and without au an sanity or of law and In violation of the of the United States I which provIdes that States may be presented In by Us yes duly elected by the people thereof I such luch action ot of the tho House ot of In proceeding ns as I it did to deprIve this state of representation I judicial inquiry Into the tho meris of the tho queston question Is In the tho extreme and a 8 serious menace to the tho rIghts of every State In Inthe Inthe the Union and dangerous to thI the Iber hiber ties of the DOOle In n n a tree government like that of the tho United State States there is II IIno no iso pineS for tor the eXercise ot of arbitrary power but t ovens department ot of the tue government I is controlled by law and should and must strictly and Conform thereto In order to tD per the tho ends endl an and objections for which such uch government Wi was independent ot of law lawand lawand and without regard mard to the queston question whether or not lion Hon Ii I II nobel l lor iS iSor or hal has been guilty Euy of some crime been against the lie State Slate of Utah or the United States as American and cl 18 Zen of Utah Ulah we e do most earnestly earnesty and solemnly protest ar against the revolution nr as methods adopted by the ot of b by which M ha was pro pre vented from rosa hil his leat seat thus thul do de the people or of this State of rep p In Congress without Int first having investigation established his gui guilt by judicial |
