| Show THE CENTRAL democratic COMMITTEE SNUBBED THE question propounded by the central democratic club to C C goodwin in reference to the utters latter position on the force billi bill exhibits a spicy phase of the present campaign in order that our readers may have the benefit of it we present the communication of the committee of the club embodying the abe interrogators interrogator 3 SALT utah oct 80 1890 rudge judge 0 C goodwin Oo odwin dear sir at a meeting of the central democratic club of salt lake county hold held on tuesday october 28 1890 the un der signed were appointed a committee to wait upon you and request ion YOU to indicate upon what re action ion you will take la R the event of your election upon the bill pending before the fifty first congress and popularly known mown as the force hill bill or properly the dodge bill As such committee representing said club and at their unanimous request we this letter to you preferring the re quest that you favor us with a replat reply b by y biest siest monday anday morning november 3 8 1990 e either the I 1 r through the press or by private letter as you may deem most fit we recognize the fact that you if elected w will ill have no vote in the house upon the measure indicated but we are also aware of that other tact fact that you representing a Soom a complex plex community will carry litif you on the influence and weight of that bons eons JIM ency for whatever position you may as sume ame before the committees of the house and d senate having the charge of said bill so a well an am of the individual members of the two houses bouses of congress respectfully requesting a reply by the tune mentioned we aredith are with proper regard your obedient servants A G J W JUDD J W jr W H committee monday november ad the wb ame contains the alleged reply of mr goodwin but it embodies no answer to the question propounded ln in place of meeting the issue fairly and squarely be says loftily I 1 11 1 I think for the sake of your club for the oa ake of the numbers of magnificent men who b while democratic in national politics are only americans in utah who have given me the endorsement of their good wishes and vouched couched for my shat you should withdraw your letter the rhe plain implication of this request to withdraw which has about it the air of injured innocence is that in the estimation of the liberal candidate for delegate to congress the parties who propounded the question have been guilty of a piece of obtrusive impertinence the attention of the pro of the conundrum is directed to the fact a ot that the first and second vice presidents of the club have joined in a political pilgrimage with the candidate and have stated in speeches that the slogan of the party is the interests of utah the transparent excuse for refusing to reply to a straightforward question is that if elected he be would have no time to devo devote teto to national questions this is the humbug he is afraid to give the answer he is too much of a demagogue to give a direct reply the most remarkable and hilariously ridiculous feature of mr goodwins alleged answer to the club is in the shape of a mournful appendage to his communication in the shape of a letter addressed to himself by allen alien Q G campbell it is a vulgar tirade of stale senseless anti mormon abuse there is not the sligh slightest tet reference in any part of it to the force bill its ite introduction to the club committee to is as ap propos as was the answer given a short time ago by an eccentric green grocer on first south street to a lady who asked have you any fresh celery no madam but I 1 have some very fine canned tomatoes 11 among the richest remarks made on this force bill interrogation were expressed by mr prank frank H D dyer y er in the liberal rally hold held at park city on saturday that gentleman who has accompanied mr goodwin in his pilgrimage is represented in the tribune troung thus in referring to the action of some malt bait lake democrats in regard to question questioning 1 judge goodwin on his attitude toward ehg the lodge bill the speaker said it was a mistake and he and other democrats disapproved of the action he said they atad no more right to p propound ro aund such a q query to judge goodwin man than the rep republicans would have to interrogate a democratic candidate for contress congress in in this territory as to whether he advocated a higher protective tariff a horizontal tariff or a tariff for revenue only the lodge im ill is not an issue in this campaign and he denounced any and all al attempts to drag it in as u unworthy of the american citizens who follow the liberal standard in this territory it will be observed that the members be ro of the central democratic club are practically informed that they have no right to ask political questions of his high mightiness the liberal candidate all they have to do is to walk up to the polls and vote as they are directed like so many serfs all they need to know as to the necessity for their th thumbs u abs to go up or down when directed is that the order comes from such magnificent mew men of their party as ten thousand dollar powers if they submit to this woeful humiliation then according to mr goodwins logic expressed through his paper they are not fit to exercise the suffrage and the ballot should be stricken ken from their alien hands we hardly think that the central democratic club is made up of men of that base class of metal mr goodwins position on the force bill has been declared through the columns of his paper the interrogators of the club need but bitt turn to its files to assure dwire themselves in relation to that fact he favors the measure what the he questioners wanted to know was what would be his position in relation to it providing he be were elected to congress a 8 calamity that bat is not at all likely to occur they asked him for bread and he gave them a snub |
