Show b 9 There can be no safety In Utah without a state government and there can be no st state te government without concessions said Colonel Tom Toni Fitch In Ills his address In the constitutional convention of 1872 In advocacy of such government Then he continued I 1 stand here today to advocate the surrender of amy I am ani not here hele to attack po polygamy po- po from a theological moral or physical but from a political standpoint Certainly I 1 do not propose propose pro pro- pose to question the pure motives or the honesty of those who believe In It or 01 practice it All the advantages advantages advantages claimed for lor this system may maybe maybe maybe be actual but nevertheless the fact exists that polygamy Is an anomaly In this republic existing hitherto by bythe bythe bythe the of a people who now declare that It shall no longer ex ex- ex Colonel Fitch then dilated upon Chief Justice James B B. McKean characterizing the jurist as the most dangerous of all public function functionaries tion ries-a ries a Judge without a mis mis- sion lie made an attack upon other federal In the territory territory terri tern tory tony and then he said There can be no safety In Utah without a state government and there can be no state government without concessions Then he continued The mineral deposits of Utah have attracted here a large number of or active restless adventurous men and with them have come many who are unscrupulous many who are ale reckless the hereditary foes of Industry order and law This class finding the courts and federal officers officers officers cers arrayed against the Mormons have with pleased alacrity placed themselves on the side of courts and officers Elements ordinarily discordant blend together In the same seething cauldron The officers of justice find themselves allied to those men who differently surrounded would be their foes the bagnios and hells shout hosannas to the courts AU believe that license will be granted by the leaders In order to advance their sacred cause And the result is an Immense support from those friends of immorality immorality immorality im im- im- im morality and architects of disorder who care cale nothing for the cause cause but everything for the license Judge McKean Governor Woods and the Walker brothers and others others oth oth- ers ens are doubtless pursuing a purpose purpose purpose pur pur- pose which they believe in the main to be wise and Just but their following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing is of ofa a different class There Is a nucleus of reformers and a amass amass amass mass of ruffians a center of zealots and a circumference of or plunderers Every interest of industry is disastrously disastrously dis dis- dis affected by this unholy alliance every right of the citizen is threatened if not assailed by the existence of this combination Your local ocal magistrates are successfully defied your local laws are disregarded disregarded disregarded your municipal ordinances are trampled in the mire theft and murder walk through your our streets without detection drunkards howl how their orgies In the shadow of your jour altars the glare and tumult of or drinking saloons the glitter gUtter of gambling gambling gambling gam gam- bling hells and the painted flaunt of the bawd plYing plYing- her trade now vex the repose repose of streets which be be heard no sound to disturb their quiet save the busy hum of industry the clatter of trade and the musical tinkle of mountain streams It was this indictment which Colonel Fitch read against Salt Lake City that caused Judge Haydon Haydon Hay Hay- don to call the Californian down and to administer a most scathing criticism for the utterance The two addresses came at the close of the three day debate in the constitutional constitutional constitutional convention over the motion of Judge Haydon that the convention convention conven conven- I tion adjourn without date but which was defeated but one vote being recorded in favor of the motion motion motion mo mo- tion that one being Ju Judge ge Slay Hay dons The convention was brought to ai al close by the electing of George Q Cannon Thomas Fitch and Frank Frink Fuller as delegates to confer with and operate co-operate with Delegate Hooper Hoop Hoop- er in presenting to congress the petition petition pe pe- and claims for statehood mention of which has been made heretofore The constitution was ratified by the people by a majority of more th than n twenty-five twenty thousand there being berng but votes against It It As has been said when the matter was presented to congress it was referred to committees In each house and in each adverse re reports reports re- re ports were returned to the two houses I |