| Show republican MASS MEETING the movers in favor ot ol a republican organization had bad not reckoned without their host they knew what they would have to meet but they were a wit set of men who were equal to the oc onslow that confronted them and have dis displayed playe d courage determination and tact last monday afternoon when they learned that the meeting they had bad called for that evening to organize a young men mens Is republican club would be packed by a hostile mob they gracefully left the whole battlefield to the malcontents by postponing the purpose of the evening revolving ng to fight the impending battle at the great mass meeting where the full strength of both sides could show itself in a fair and final struggle before the front doors doom of the theatre were opened a few friends of the move to organize were admitted at the stage door A number of leaders of the opposition saw some of them entering at this do orand at once raised the hue and cry that the building was being privately packed and certain prominent liberal leaders demanded admission also this was at first refused but the protest from the applicants was so mo emphatic that they were admitted and the front doors were thrown open before the hour announced giving the posers op of the move THE SAME opportunity ltd its friends had of obtaining seats mats the and dress circles were quickly filled and soon own after the commencement men cement of the speaking the doors of the first circle were thrown open and it was soon packed A number of leaders of the opposition took seats mats upon the stage evidently thinking to be in readiness to make speeches on the stage were also a score or two prominent republicans who favored the object of the meeting promptly at 8 john M zane of the committee who had appointed th the e meeting called it 16 to order and 8 stated tate d that he had been instructed by the committee to nominate judge C W bennett for chairman he called for the affirmative vote and the re response was a full but orderly aye he then called for the negative when a prolonged and uproarious no was sounded bounded the noise made by the noea was so much greater than that made by the ayes that an unsuspicious person in the audience might have doubted the majority of the latter but from the stage it was easy to perceive that the negative voters were shouting no early and often to line with the voting policy they are pop popularly charged with favoring mr zane comprehended the situation and on which side the real majority had voted and composedly announced that mr bennett was elected at this the element raised a great reat tumult tumuli but they had bad no can di 11 late and contented themselves with merely making a noise of disapproval THE CHAIRMAN then stepped forward and spoke substantially ly as follows we have met to consider a matter of the gravest importance and it is an occasion when we should all exercise our judgment rather than indulge in vociferation or recrimination I 1 therefore bespeak for every speaker careful attention and as chairman orthis of this meeting I 1 pro propose to see to it that both sides have a fu full I 1 and fair hearing bearing I 1 need not recite the past matters in utah have been rapidly changing and conditi conditions uns have at length arrived under which in my opinion national party lines should hould be drawn in material things there have been great changes and we are all prophesying that they will continue at an increased ratio population to is increasing and our national resources are being developed ve loped new ideas are spreading mong among the people and it to is patent to all 11 that statehood cannot long be delayed let us look a little in advance and make wise preparation for the inevitable Is it not better to draw party lines now aud and educate the people so ao that when statehood comes comee they will be prepared to act intelligently on national questions quee tiona old animosities between the dominant church and the outsiders outsider have shave largely gone by and there la Is a strong tendency on the part of both classes to unite for the advance of their material inte interest resU if wei we do not organize the republican party now the Demo democrats craU will capture ai the material arthur pratt nominated H Q G me millan milian as secretary and only two voices were heard to say no W G van horn asked that the call be read and the request was complied with the chairman then explained that it was thought proper that two or three ten minute speeches should be made by gentlemen favoring the purpose of the meeting after afler which a hearing ing would be given to speakers from the other side B R B was the first speaker he said in sub stance I 1 regard the question before this meeting as the most momentous one the gentiles of uth utah have ever been called upon to decide it Is this shall we organize the republican party t or perpetuate the liberal party vine ane importance of the question is apt to impart a tinge of bitterness to the remarks of those who debate it for it is so easy to say the unfair thing and so hard to be honest towards opponents at such a time as this Is it better to continue the old fight or will you as republicans republican press on to now new victories on the old hues the republicans have won as nine to one the victories of the liberal party you may reply that you will continue the fight as liberals and that the democrats who have deserted you will come back I 1 have seen democrate derno Demo crato breakaway break away sway from the liberal 01 party and return three different times but jl I never saw them all go out before many of you have shown unwillingness to give a dollar to a liberal campaign fund and how bow can you conduct such a campaign without money and without the Demoe democrats rats statehood la Is inevitable three years ago we trembled lest our own national committee should put utah in as aa a state over our heads beads the speaker closed with a fine peroration in which he likened utah to a ship ready to be launched and recited Long longfellow fellows launching of the ship the chairman here observed that in order to render the discussion more pointed and intelligent the question would be presented in the form of resolutions which he be read as follows resolved that it is the sense of this mee ing that political parties in utah should be organized with reference to national questions and politics and to act in harmony with national parties par lioa that the ge general principles plea of the national republican party are best beat adapted to promote the welfare of utah and its people and that the material and political condition of our territory make it the duty of republicans to at once organize in harmony with the national republican party and invite all voters of whatever former party or political affiliations to 0 o join our party and assist in perfecting su such ch organization resolved that the chairman of this m meeting ee ling appoint a committee of seven to tg take ke steps to perfecta county republican organization for salt lake county and a committee of seven to take steps to perfect a territorial republican organization in conjunction with committees from other counties in the territory fred simons arose and aved the adoption of the resolutions judge blair stood up in the audience and moved their indefinite postponement the noisy element tumultuously demanded a vote on the question to indefinitely postpone but the chairman declared that the order of procedure handed him by the committee was wan law to him and tried to announce the next speaker hollister Holl leter from a front seat demanded to know what right the committee had to control a mass mam meeting in that manner C E allen alien asked if every democrat was going to be allowed to vote on the resolutions the chair replied that no gentleman not a republican would vote voices from the audience those of judge blair 0 J hollister E R clute and other liberal were heard making motions and suggestions and stirring up noise and confusion allen alien who was on the stage put some questions of a sarcastic nature and among them asked if the men admitted at the stage door who had never been republicans would be allowed to vote on the resolutions the chairman replied that the latter invited the support of every class of citizens and this answer was loudly cheered there were calls for allen alien but at length a degree of order was restored and the chairman announced as the next speaker MR MB JAMBS DEVINE who spoke in a moderate strain and expressed the hope that republicans present would act dispassionately and agree upon some basis of union that would prevent the democrats from capturing the new state of utah he said republicans were not there to assert that they would organize regardless gard less of the wish ot of the majority of the party but to consider the question and he denied that it was the purpose of a small email minority to rule the party he argued in favor ot of divis division lonon on national party lines holding that to be the course of wisdom and patriotism when mr devine closed the opposition shouted alien All alien enIll amid great confusion the chairman shouted gentlemen I 1 propose to run this mee meeting and refused to allow the proceedings to continue till order was restored he then announced that the meeting would be addressed by PROF C ae E of whose remarks the following Is a by synopsis gopsis for days past the absorbing question has been are you in it the interrogation is put to democrats by the republicans and cioe ta versa but members of the peoples party are anxiously asking sarcastically can we get in it I 1 have as much deference for the men at the head bead of 0 this movement as I 1 cao can have for any one that is mlis mistaken taken for mistaken they are if the measures proposed are adopted it means suicide when I 1 see men who have opposed me in every question of national interest to the party under which I 1 have fought so hard and long pursuing a course that means destruction to the principles I 1 have strongly advocated and contended for I 1 pay it is time to call a halt the question involved to is obscured by things that cannot be considered here tonight the organization of a republican club in and of itself is a legitimate undertaking A voice then why do you attempt to thwart it I 1 know for one that it to is not wisdom at this time to divide on national party lines history teaches me that a majority will not yield to a minority at the mention of the word majority some one in the gallery was heard to express callery himself in a clear and distinct voice in the following pun pungent vt and suggestive language I 1 you ou talk of majority mr allen alien you only got there by one vote and that was stolen deafening applause followed this statement with cries of hit him again agaid for a moment mr allen alien was speech lew lees but recovering himself he continued the republican party is ie not prepared to contend with an opposition of majority it might be safe to trust the party in the hands of the young republicans of salt lake and ogden but as to the territory we will be in the minority for many years to come another statement I 1 want to make is ia that if this movement is successful it means early and certin certain statehood for utah do we want statehood cries of not no from the rulland rule and ruin gang no we do not said mr allen alien and with this remark he took his seat amid cries for dickson the chairman announced that the next speaker would be JOHN M ZANE who proceeded to deliver a logical and powerful audress address full 0 fire ends and splendid bem len points he said when the democrats organized not a word was said openly but we republicans go atit at it hammer and tongs it has been asked here tonight if any bargains have been made any man who says there has lies we do not meet the question with laar bargains gains but we meet it like men A local paper has baa said it would be a crime to organize the republican party here now that was waa said of its founders but they are revered as prophets today so if you crucify us today we will be the prophets of tomorrow it has been said if we organize we shall have to receive some who have never been republicans I 1 answer that when the grand national republican party was first organized it took in all that would come to it whigs free sollers sellers liberty men and every shade of political belief it 1 is asked shall we divide the liberal party on national lines tumultuous cries of nol no noll no from the audience interrupted the speaker who contin are all green its divided alrea already dyl we are hereto here to make the situation the democrats have left us organized a party and we cant even try to organize a republican club without being overpowered by a howling mob I 1 see mr clute before me who was formerly a republican if he be had bad been hired by the democrats at 10 a day he could not do better work for them great laughter and confusion the democrats are gone and the republicans must move and for one I 1 am ready to welcome all the cormons mormons Mor mons who will join us none of the gentlemen of the opposition are better liberals Libera loll than I 1 was but I 1 am a cLi liberal berall no longer great a applause and tumult the hatred of the past must be burled buried under the fiz flag it is our duty to unite and try to advance republican principles amid applause for mr zanes sentiments noisy disapproval of them and loud cries for w H the chair announced that gentleman of whose remarks the following to is a synopsis this to is a time when a man who has the best interests of his bis country at heart cannot afford to stand aloof aej be indifferent we should be willing walling to ascribe to one another toe the credit of sincerity the question at issue is one that for importance is without precedence in utah never before have the liberals Liberal sl of this territory been confronted by such a crisis the measure is so far reaching in its ite nature as to be beyond limit and the step once taken can never be retraced hasty and ill considered conclusions like unto this are the extremity I 1 of recklessness and foll folly it is asserted that the 9 liberal liberal perty party has been destroyed I 1 deny it the whole thing is a democratic trick the democrats are exceedingly cee anxious for a republican organization many of them have come to me personally and said dickson you had better be up and doing as we are cutting the ground from under your feet 1 l years ago a boint organization was effected in this city by republicans end and democrats against an institution that was a menace to our government to disband ourselves now is premature and unsafe A few months ago there was RD an proclamation issued by the church that no more plural marriages were to be I 1 believe that the mormons cormons Mor mons are sincere in the abolishment or of polygamy but we ahou should id let rood good enough alone and allow it to fructify and bear fruit I 1 tell you why la Is there any one in the peoples peopled party within or without the priesthood any one who has any authority to speak who has given any assurance that there is any intention of the cormons mormons Mor mons nall to join either of the great parties I 1 am of the conviction that the leaders of the church are playing an astute game in conjunction with the Demo democratic crati e party and that they the cormons mormons Mor mons nall are only anxious to secure statehood for utah which will be inevitable if thief tah course is prosecuted to a finish I 1 believe further that there is a league of some kind with the church authorities zane and others on the platform ill the he statement to is not true there has baa been no understanding 1 1 I believe the cormons mormons Mor mons will keep faith with both parties for a time I 1 mean until utah becomes a state they will |
