| Show PEOPLES PEOPLE IS PARTY RALLY ramay THE MONSTER MASS MEETING IN THE THEATRE A vast assembly filled the salt lake theatre last evening at the grand mass meeting of the peoples yar par party parly ty bield in the interest of to days election at the opening hour the assem NY which had not reached the proportions port yort lons ions it shortly afterwards assum ted was called to order bahon angus M cannon who nominated mayor ijames vames sharp as cha chairman irman inman mr shat sharp was unanimously elected hon lion A 25 M cannon was chosen vice chairman and H bri wells secretary the tile chairman introduced the first speaker of the evening llon lion JOHN T CAINE calne present delegate to congress and the peoples nominee for re elec clec tion to that office ile lle came forward amid applause appl appi auser ausey and proceeded to deliver an elaborate exhaustive and eloquent address setting forth the views and principles of the theve thele peoples oples Par tyas opposed to those of the so eral crai organization local self government was the main pillar of the platform upon which he be as the Peoples people candidate stood and a legislative commission with the utter abolishment of that sacred right was the only plank in the liberal Ll berall platform lie he proposed tonight to night to ana infamous amo proposition 11 t lon ion and exi pose rose 0 S its it unconstitutionality titus 11 1 1 ty its utter T r 1 ess to american institutions andt and the spirit espirit of anglo saxon ideas lie he traced the record of american history in vain for foe a precedent to justify the abolition of local self government a right guaranteed by the constitution and the genius of our institutions and after referring to events in english anglish history without finding howe how evera vera parallel of the kind turned to the dark ages of tyranny and despotism in search of it ages afes of crime ignorance and oppression of which civilization today to day was everywhere ashamed ile he asked if utah could be thus stricken down what safety there would be for other territories the tile edmunds law wa was referred to and its failure attributed to its proper source viz the unconstitutionality tiona lity of the measure itself and its partial administration whereby polygamists had been dis franchised at a blow while sexual sinners outside the ithe mormon comm community unity uniti were left untouched now more wore oppressive leg isolation was called for sor which showed that polygamy was not the real object of f assault of the liberals and their i sympathizers but the punishment of mormons cormons armons for a mere belief ile he proceeded to excoriate the I 1 liberal I 1 ring their hireling press t their air base actions and baser motives persistent falsifying and their efforts to provoke a conflict wherein they having nothing to lose might possibly gain and con eluded with a proposition that congressmen visit utah and see for themselves the results of mormon in dus judge then of the capability and deserts of the people to exercise ther the threat reat right of local seit self govern ment he closed amid loud applause by which also the delivery of his speech was attended at frequent intervals the sixteenth ward band rendered the red red eed white valte and blue and K R thurmay thurmas was next introduced and took the rostrum ile he said we had met to try the I 1 liberal party on the charge of conspiring to overthrow popular government mentin in utah the audience was the tife jury and their verdict at the election tomorrow to morrow would be he had no doubt guilty as charged in the indictment he compared the liberal party to the absolutists of charles the firsts time and the tories af f the revolution and said the scheme of a legislative le commission was in opposition to all that was known in american politics and would haye have tinged with shame the cheeks even of the tories of the revo kevo ution they sought to foist upon the people of utah a worse despotism than that which the colonists fought against on one e hundred years ago their object was revolution they wanted an excuse for oppression and spoliation and they asked for a scheme which they knew was unconstitutional hoping hopin thereby to provoke A conflict T the hg e I 1 liberals I 1 knew they were ivere tearing the constitution to pieces but etwas it was the making of the pup the building up at a their party and that was all they cared for he then adverted to the congress and supreme court of the nation and showed that while the they were to be respected their acos aces and decisions were vere not infallible nor was it treason to so declare he read in support of this position the views of charles sumner on judicial tribunals nalva also joshua R giddings on the fugitive slave jaw at it if this be treason make the most of it said giddings on the floor of congress yet if a mormon had said as much in utah it would have been heralded throughout the land as treason of the vist vilest kind the speaker dealt the legislative dive eive commission a parting blow and gave way for HOI WARREN W N busen DUSEN dusenberry berry BERKY this gentleman referred to the national election and its many issues and said that the issue in utah was right vs wrong truth vs error ile he had bad heard enough to convert him which way to vote tomorrow to morrow and he urged all who were qualified to go to the polls at the campaign two years ago it was the cry of the liberals tf if you vote for tor john T calne caine get a le legislative ig commission if for P T van van zile be politically saved pr presto eho elo change their thein cry now was get a commission anyhow their object was office and plunder it was said the commission scheme would settle the question of loly Foly polygamy polygamy gamy gamt if congress had used all ats ts t legitimate powers and failed to do it would the creature of congress be more powerful Non it was plunder the they Y were after and for this they were arrayed against the constitution like mil mii tons devils 44 fierce as ten furies terrible as hell thi their course however was a hog path that led into a squirrel trail trall and the squirrel trail up a tree 97 their only purpose was the passage of a bad law a purpose our candidate was going to prevent bad laws were the worst kind of tyranny van zile was a false prophet when he said a legislative commission would follow thir thin election of lion john T caine and having proved his mistake he had bad folded his tent like tile the arab and silently stolen away as would woula captain smith after tuesdays Tuesday selection election E B WELLS felt a degree of pride in representing the women of utah they had as much at stake as the ille men for the blows dealt against oue ode were against both and against tile tiie home of which she was the guardian the ballot in the hands of the women of utah was a bulwark for justice and equity she urged her sisters to vote for lion hon john T caine she honored the men mea who gave the women of utah the ballot and as emphatically repudiated the men who would now take it away iron F s referred to th executive legislative and alid judicial departments of government and anci contrasted the political condition of utah with the neighboring 11 states as to self government right to vote at presidential elections etc while the states elected their gover nor sUtah had hers hema imported she had a legislature elected by her people but trammeled and paralyzed b by y the aso abao lu telveto power ower of the executive supplemented plem clementes enter entes ted by special legislation from congress and now they wished to abolish the legislature even such as it was As to tho the judiciary like the executive as to its higher branches it was sent from abroad and not elected by the people and now all these were proposed to be swept away and PI plunder plu piu ULder lder oppress oppression lon ion and spoliation follow was it lor tor this our fathers a little over one hundred years ago shed their blood A large percentage of people were merethe we rethe tie descendants of those nuble sires we were not strangers and aliens we had rights and by the help of god we would maintain them what a compliment to our good sense for the liberal party to ask for our votes and promise in return a legislative commission proposing for us to forge the chains with which they would bind usi the ink which signed the law laic that dis franchised twelve thousand american citizens in utah extinguished one of the brightest and purest lights that ever burned at the altar of civil liberty and would remain a blot upon the nations history it iwas plunder not poly polygamy amy I 1 that moved them to obtain such flegas legislation what could we do to help ourselves poll our votes for the candidate of the peoples party every ballot of which was a p protest cotest against similar acts oppression lie Ile expected to live to see such wrongs righted and oppression lone done away forever we accused of disloyalty because we resisted iniquitous and oppressive legislation and the youth of utah were censured for not striking hands with those who sought the slavery of their fathers but we youth of this people were not disloyal and never could be so long as they saw upon their coun arys liag flag emblazoned blazoned em upon its stars ta and s stamped its stripes that gnand grand declaration ot ol their fathers fathers fat gers that lt all men are equal mrs na M 1 I HORNE felt that she had a right to speak against a legislative commission as see she was one of taase close who came here in ox teams and conquered this desert the mormons cormons Mor mons were the producers and a few consumers wanted to take away all their rights she protested vigorously vigor busly against sending her sisters to prison for refusing to answer inden inde cent questions and she knew ot of no law that authorized them to pry into her domestic relations how would these judges and lawyers like their wives and daughters brought into court to testify against them and how about the things they mie mig liht testify ayol of she had hard been disfranchised franchised dis her 1 self but had sons aid daughters who would vote for the of the peoples party hos hon GEORGE Q CANNON t wal was loudly called for and responded before constitutions were written cre laws and principles written on the hearts of h human uma n beings magna charta and the constitution are only the expressions of principles as old as eternity weare we are decender dec ended from the free races of the caran we know what the principles of liberty are we wc know when we are oppressed if we weh had never heard of charta or the constitution it is an ati imperative duty on the part of all not franchised disfranchised dis to use their voting voting privilege to uphold hon john T cagne came the present embodiment of the principles of the peoples party we believe in liberty for all men and by the help of god we hyill va I 1 I 1 maintain maintain it bt I 1 palsied be the arm and accursed be the tongue that would attempt to i rob bb a free people of their r rights ats I 1 efforts effort s have been made to strangle ra t I 1 liberty lb in utah on this stage st tiki erty to tonight 1 night I he are men iuen who once be held heid d federal 1 deri dera positions but were ousted from office because they were friends to ao the people of utah and even those sent here from aaroa abroad d must oppose and antagonize this peo e 0 of they hey too would be treated simla simia pl rie ele irly r ly we have been wronged and oppressed an ana I 1 it is our bounden duty to band to together ether as freemen and present an im impregnable pregnable phalanx to maintain our rl rights ts the breaker speaker proceeded to name naime over some 0 of the acts of the liberal ring whereby they had sought to stifle freedom and popular government in utah and closed by an appeal to jo all hii to stand farm arm and vote solid against the evils sought to be inflicted upon them and thus thui cherish the holy trust which is our he heritage the was loudly applauded and had the true ringland ring and aud fervor of patriotism our report does docs it but scant justice the secretary of the meeting read the following resolution which was unanimously passed by the assembly resolved that the representatives of the peoples party III in mass meeting assembled reaffirm re affirm the tile principles R of the 1 re peoples oples platform piat plat form torm adopted two years ako aro agnand and ratify the nomination of lion hon john T caine calne for delegate from this territory to the forty ninth congress of the united states I 1 the meeting then adjourned st sine ne die Ti mimmi rants in charge chare of elder I 1 C A i ek arrived last night all well |
