Show PEOPLES PARTY RALLY the closing meeting of the peopled pie Is party campaign was brought to a brilliant consummation november ad in the salt lake theatre beautifully and artistically arranged indeed were the national colors and emblems of liberty with in the building painted upon handsome liand some streamers were the following inscriptions ir for congress Cony rees hon john T caine the people nominated him the people will elect him re no political slavery for or us ann enfranchisement against disfranchisement 11 upon the stage were hon john T caine chairman richards some of the members of the territorial central committee and a number of others who figure prominently in the interest of the people in the rear of the stage and centrally seated were the peoples peopled drum corps on the right and left sides electively were the norden and tenth ward bands which dispensed patriotic and stirring music at intervals during the evening hon hont F 8 richards was the first speaker he said fellow citizens on the eve of the great battle that will be waged at the polls tomorrow we have met to discuss the is ue involved in this thin campaign and to consider the merits of the respective candidates for delegate to congress never bellore before in the history of the american people has such an issue been presented as that which now confronts us the contest we are making is not only for political supremacy and the election of our candidate but it is a struggle for our political existence the candidate of the liberal party has declared himself in favor of the disfranchisement of all members of the peopled party who belong to the mormon church and has baa pledged himself if elected to do all in his hib power to accomplish com that result this makes the issue one of political life or death to most members of our party all other considerations are swallowed up in the momentous question whether we shall continue to be free men and govern ourselves or lose the elective franchise and be come political slaves our candidate the hon john 17 caine has represented utah in the national council during the past eight years bebas he has performed bin duty faithfully and well he has been the friend of the people and the advocate of human rights his career has been marked by honesty and fidelity all constituents have been treated mike alike by him without regard to their creed or political faith every attempt to abridge the rights and privileges of law abiding citizens has received his unrelenting and determined opposition he has never spoken a word or written a line in derogation of the rights of any human being but has always maintained the grand principle of equality before the law jaw the liberal candidate mr C C goodwin Goodw ln has spent what he calls the best beat years of his life in seeking to enslave an honest industrious and god fearing people at first he based his opposition upon the fact that borne bome of the people had violated the law relating to polygamy and he declared that whenever an acknowledgment know of the supremacy of the law was made by the th church to which they belonged and an assurance given that it would be obeyed in the future his opposition would cease quite recently the declaration which had so often been demanded was made in the most solemn and emphatic terms but it seems to have increased rather than diminished mr goodwins wins hatred for the mormon people he now openly ad advocates the wholesale disfranchisement of all mormons cormons Mor mons including those who have never violated the law and have sworn to live by its requirements he insists that all mormons cormons t hould be deprived of the right to enter public lands he says that mormon sons are taught treason from their mothers knee and that they are worse than the oTa offspring pring of mongolians Mongo lians will you vote for such a man voices no ne never verlI PJ no never dever you will not put the last vestige of human buman liberty upon the altar of tyranny to be devoured by the fires of bigotry and hate even though the flame be kindled by the immaculate goodwin it was said by the individual who nominated mr goodwin that he writes like an angel and reasons like a philosopher As there are supposed to be several kinds of angels it might be interesting to know to which particular class this modern plato belongs I 1 will read a few of his angelic ef fusions and you may judge for yourselves whether they emanate from an angel of light or an angel of darkness from an angel of grace or a baillen angel the editor of the salt lake tribune claimed that seme acme mah mab said to him 1 I 1 rejoice when I 1 see young mormon hoodlums playing billiards getting drunk running L with bad women omen any anything ining to break the shackles they were born in in ID an editorial edit editorial prial mr goodwin good win endorsed these thee sentiments and gave us the following moral gem freedom is the first requisite of manhood and if it can be won without excesses so BO much the better it it cant never mind the excesses lwin t the freedom it is not you who are responsible when it comes to that it is those that have enslaved you if it a more pernicious doctori doctrine tie than this was ever penned by mortal man it has not been my burtu fortune ne to see it owe our youth are not only told that debauchery is but that the responsibility for croul do ing does not rest with the wrong doers such teachings are worse than pa papal pal indulgences and only worthy the sons of perdition the philosophical writings of the liberal candidate are equally remarkable here are a few specimens lu in april 1889 he wrote what will conference bring f will there be anything proposed I 1 that a t wi will I 1 give a silver lining to t the e cloud that la is upon this patient people tolaf toda it if anere was but one man in the church brave enough and unselfish enough and im m med with love enough for bid bia people to rise in the tabernacle and calla call a halt hall to declare that no true religion rel imposed any obligation to fight the juet liffon saws 1 8 of a republic as gentle lost just and glorious as our own the tabernacle would be thrilled as it has never been thrilled up to this time the following october he said it is is passing strange that some youth W within the organization some american born and bred youth does not sound a slogan to this people and call them to give up their delusions and come within the law in october 1890 after the church in general conference had done what he had so often urged it to do with his usual consistency he wrote the following why was it necessary for the mormon conference to order that polygamy cease 1 it strikes one as peculiar to say the least that an organization before it ali will obey the law must brini bring the subject ot of that law up HP in a conference and tax e a vote of the people as to whether or not they shall submit to atie law this only proves in the first place that wilford woodruff was not stating the he facts when he deelaree dee lared that there were no more polygamous marriages being celebrated and that the fact of the conference presuming to pas 4 upon the laws of the united states as to whether they sl at submit to the edmunds law or not is conclusive evidence that the mormon people consider the temporal and political government of the mormon church the superior of the government of the united states I 1 for consists con icy profound reasoning and irresistible logic these productions must be regarded as sparkling it I 1 I 1 D g gems observe the agag I 1 logic C because the mormons cormons finally conclude to do what their opponents have so persistently urged upon them for years an I 1 endorse a mani festo issued by president woodruff in which he denies that the law has been violated by recent plural marriages and declares that hereafter the law will be obeyed therefore bre the statement of president wood ruff was not true and they consider the political government of the church superior to that of the united states in other words because you deny the charie charge and promise to to obey the law therefore y you ou prove that the charge estrue is true ind and that you will ill defy the law such is the reasoning of this liberal socrates let us rejoice that we have no such philosophers in the peoples peopled party there is one quality which mr goodwin good win possesses in ili a remarkable degres the sublime cheek that enables him to ask an elector for his vote and in the stame same breath tells him that if elected he will do his utmost to see that that voter is never permitted bocast to cast another ballot to is simply appalling I 1 would give considerable to know what kind of a nerve tonic he takes while claiming for himself the perfection of patriotism mr goodwin says that we are slaves to our leaders and disloyal to the government he says that we have never drawn a breath of liberty here the wish is father to the thought and it is 18 no fault of his that the statement is infamously false if it had bad been possible to deprive us of life as well as liberty this same angelic writer would have lauded the means by which it was accomplished 1 shed but the charge to is not only F false ase it is malicious the man who made it knows that there is a secret ballot here by which it la IS impossible for any mortal man to know how another votes unless the voter tells him how utterly preposterous then is this false charge mr goodwin good win also knows that there are thousands of members of the peoples peopled party whose loyalty to this great government and its ito institutions I 1 is not excelled by any in the land and who if need be would give their lives to perpetuate the sacred principles of civil and religious liberty lib eity members of the people peoples s party may have deferred to their leaders in political matters of this I 1 shall not pretend to say but if so it was a voluntary deference and because they thought those leaders wiser than themselves and they have the satisfaction of knowing that their deference was given to the judgment of men whose lives have been devoted to the cause of philanthropy and human freedom instead of to a demagogue who has prostituted prostitutes the brilliant talents of manhood to the base use of trying to subvert the fundamental principles of free government ern ment meint the record of the liberal party is is one of proscription and tyranny it perpetrated one of the vi vilest lest outrages of modern times when it struck the ballot from the hand of woman but thank god it did not and could not destroy her influence for good slie she cau cannot ot vote herself but she can and will see that her husband father flodsand flon sand brothers use their ballots for the cause of freedom the same spirit that prompts men to seek the disfranchisement of their fellow men because of religious belief and church membership caused the early christians to be torn to pieces by wild beasts for the amusement of the roman populace f it t afterwards introduced the horrors of the inquisition and broke its victims on the rack later on it kindled the fires of Smith fifeld and burned unbelievers believers un at the stake it is responsible for the massacre of st bartholomew and for the host of martyrs that have preferred death to ty tyranny raddy and dishonor while condemning den ining the inquisitor for torturing the body of his victim the modern persecutor ruthlessly puts his brothers conscience on the rack and boasts of the refinement of his cruelty when we are accused of being aliens I 1 wonder what it takes in the estimation of a liberal to constitute a loyal citizen it was our fathers who came to the new world three centuries ago and consecrated Ittoli it to liberty berty it was our fathers who resisted the tyranny of great britain addlor and for the first time in the history of the world founded a grand government upon the sublime idea that all men are created equal and entitled to be free it was our eur fathers who in the wr war with wilh mexico acquired the very territory on which we dwell it was our fathers who made the memorable journey through the wilderness and planted the stars stare and stripes on ola mexican soil a thousand miles from civilization it was our tat fathers hers who braved the dangers of an desert and transformed it into an earthly paradise it was our fathers who founded this great commonwealth commonweAl tIt and made it the pride of the republic the rights and privileges of citizenship are ours by desert as aa well as by inheritance for we have violated no law we have been beela taught from infancy to love and cherish the institutions of our country and have devoted our lives to the maintenance of human rights we honor the memory of our patriot sires and strive to preserve inviolate their sacred trust we want freedom for ourselves for our posterity for mankind and by the help of god dod we will have it tremendous applause I 1 fellow elti citizens zent in this country the voters are the sovereigns and the ballots are their seeP scepters let aiji t us go to the polls early tomorrow morning and wield our scepters for the cause of freedom and right jy by voting for john T caine scaine TC aine mr richards then said he be would introduce a man whose name was a household word in utah a man who has ever been found defending right and working for the overthrow of wrong that man was 1 hon 1013 job n T cai de this was an incentive for another burst of applause and amidst thunderous cheers mr caine took the floor and said mr chairman ladies and gentlemen it affords me pleasure to meet you as we are met tonight the position to which you have jenai bated me I 1 did not noi crave but it is one that I 1 dare not refuse the issue in this campaign is peculiar to our own territory it is not such a one as is waged in our sister states and territories ri it is a departure from the common course of politics it is enfranchisement against disfranchisement the peoples party are the friends of freedom I 1 need not say bay that our opponents are not their doings are on record their efforts to rob their fellow citizens of political civil and religious freedom is a matter of history the american idea of government was a government of the people by the people and for the people with this idea imbued in the hearts heartis of our national legislators the bill introduced into congress by senator stewart of vermont at the request of judge B R N baskin and entitled A bill restricting the rights of mormons cormons Mor mons was defeated this Thi spro proposed measure was to rob all mor mons of the right of franchise franchi sethe the entering of public lands or to hold office of public trust it was so foreign to the principles of americanism that it met the fate it nie merited the liberals disappointed JIM in in their defeat hastily dispatched judge baskin to washington who drafted another deac measure ure which while not so specific in its title meant the same thing but it subsequently met the same fate had either of the bills become law in our frontier fron lier settlements ments and counties men would have to bo bt be imported to fill the offices or anarchy and terror prevail among the people by acts of depredation being committed among them by a class of characters who for convenience and cover to their deeds congregate upon the borders in cache county with its large population and immense resources sour cm there were not noi more than two hundred voters outside of the peopled party what an outrage it would be to turn that county over to two hundred men it had bad been conceded that the mormons cormons were honest and industrious but they had refused to yield to those who had slandered anil would plunder them therefore they were to be franchised disfranchised dis for their Jis disloyalty loyalty at the beginning of anti mormon legislation all intention of persecution becu was disclaimed by the projectors but the |