Show 1 I from fridays Fri dayd daily feb 10 THE FUSION DEFENDED able speeches tn in favor of 0 the citizens ticket at the call of a number of the gentlemen who bad been instrumental in formation of the citizens ticket a large audience assembled in the federal court room last evening the hall was crowded there being standing room only f within the railing were governor west marshal dyer J L rawlans ns dr hamilton W V H dickson Dick soc J B R mcbride J F bradley all of the gentlemen named on the fusion ticket and many other prominent liberals some of whom were inside the railing last night at W H sells called the meeting beet to order and J B R Al BRIDE was elected chairman he made an address in which he referred to the existing political agitation and to the manner in which the proposition for w a fusion had come to be made it seemed to be made angood in good faith the speaker was present at a conference at which the ji reposition proposition waa was presented and a meeting of 40 or SO DO liberals hastily called together unanimously agreed to accept the proposal for a fusion four places on the ticket were ac cepter by the liberals and on saturday last the peoples convention adopted resolutions admitting that reprise representation was accorded to the minority party as a matter of right not as a favor he described the manner io in which the agreement for a fusion ticket was brought about and defended what had bad been done in an earnest and logical argument mr sells suggested that the election of a secretary was next in order and mr burnett was chosen JUDGE GOODWIN being called tor for eai there was some excellent talk at the meeting on the previous night that part which was stolen from tribune elito editorials rials was particularly good applause some of the gentlemen who were very noisy at that meeting in former times nave have said that he the speaker was an agitator and lived on tight fight and that he fie would not have peace if he could he hailed the proposal from the peoples party when it was first presented to him as the dawn of a better day some say it was a trick the speaker suspected that capital would be sought to be made out of it but the enemies of the liberals in congress had bad the idea that they ibey never would accept adv offer from the mormons cormons Mor mons and this hurt the liberal cause in ia can gress he urged that TUR THE OLD POLICY of war here would never bring the boom to this city which might and ought to be brought he said there wl was ano BO da danger eroff of statehood this yes ses but that that two years from noa no the there re wa was great danger of it it if the democrats should asa was likely elect a full majd majority rity in congress Cori gress he H asser asserted teO that religion had been saiyed that the matter mattero o fusion was so tilie put upon a Ou business siness basis and that tha me fusion n prop proposal osil had been earned carried by a fair fight at the tae chamber of commerce meeting he thought the meeting last night would result in a confirmation of what had been done denb buthe speak ing was at 0 one side bide add tile the quest ques tiou was jt t fully ally presented what it dit it is a trick 1 caa CA i THE tui afis RS LOSS LOSE by it nothing while they tey bate bae a L cnance t td gain much personally he was where te had bad always been on all 0 the old questions he intimated khat hat some of the opponents of the fusion among those who in the pas pis thad thud ref refused used to patton patron r ize iz the tribune on the ground that it was opposed to peace he told how difficult it had been to get four men to accept th the nominations to io the city council aad praised the qualities of those who had accepted the position he spoke of the advantage it would be to have such men in the city council when it came to bonding the city and making contracts for costly public improvements he made some HUMOROUS REMARKS in answer to the charge that liberals who favored the fusion were jack mormons Mor mons moRs 11 and stated Ws his belief that some of the prominent and noisy opponents of the fusion had bad slept with jack cormons mormons Mor mons for years and had slept alone too laughter he continued whatever we do I 1 be beg g of you dont doit have any split do to others as you would have them do to te you give them the credit forti for honesty which you ask bior yourselves and cease fighting before elec election ston da day y I 1 arrives meet the mormons cormons Mor mons fairly when they offer to meet you that way and dont have any split in your ranks we W are in a hole it if we were physically mired we would not object to having a mormon help us out he sketched the progress which had been made in the fight against the cormons mormons Mor mons mud and argued that to support the fusion would be to follow up the successes tue desses which had been gained GOVERNOR WEST responding to calls f from rom the i audience said he be was glad to be here fiem before so many of his fellow citizens to give his hearty heart eudorse meat of what has bees done meaning the acceptance of the fusion proposal op osal he ave then named a number of the prominent liberals present to whom he said gratitude was due f for or the vallant valiant fight they had so long made lor for the redemption emption rel of the territory and asked if this meeting would say to them what the meeting last night had bad said ile he thought not he thought this meeting would say that what had been done showed as judge good win had remarked THE DAWN of a brighter day he said that as soon after his bis arrival in the territory as he learned the situation here he had bad joined in the light the minority had bad been waxing waging and expressed the belief that victory was be to be won hedfelt he dwelt upon the necessity of taking a course that would give confidence to capital and attract settlers few New population rather than laws of congress would work the desired sired change in utah he stated that the arguments used last night related to old times in utah and did not apply to ta present conditions in answer to the assertions which had been made ti to the effect that the fusion proposal was a MORMON TRICK THICK he be said he had bad been informed before coming to utah that he was coming to a land of revelation but lie he expect revelations from both parties here laughter and yet he asked tet how do gentlemen know ft ti is atrick when you meet the to foe upon the battlefield and have stricken from his bis hands bands his bis weapons and he be throws up his bis hands in token of surrender would it be reasonable to tell him that his reposed surrender was not made E n i good faith he spoke at some length upon the question of improvements prove ments and the sharing of res responsibility pon lity in making them and claimed that what the peoples party now offered to concede was what the vallant valiant men of the liberal barq had bad been fighting for for years biars he called attention to the resolutions OF ADF THE PEOPLES PARTY which confessed that the pl places es on the municipal ticket given to tal tip liberals were given as a matter of right and not asa as a favor the objections against accepting the citizens ticket were all brawn f from rom the old condition of things here which existed many years ago bitt bat does not exist now he referred to the civil war and the surrender of the south which he said was accepted by the north as an act of good faith and was followed by the sweeping from the statute books of all laws indicating doubt as to the sincerity of the surrinder surrender he asked what the gentlemen of the previous evening would demand of the mor mons 11 aud and what must mast result it if every conciliatory effort b by the latter is to be met at the threshold by the declaration 1 I J dont believe you he dwelt upon the changed condition in utah now at as compared with many years ago for the purpose of ansay show showing ag that old tights fights should be laid aside he made some I 1 I 1 TELLING POINTS in reply to some of the speakers of wednesday evening and showed that even if the pro proposal os al for a f fusion were a trick it would woul T not cost the liberals anything lie he referred to the movement for statehood showing bowing that without advancing vancil agit it the liberals could accept the f fusion asto n 0 osal and cited the organization 9 the chamber of commerce and the union in it of mor mons and gentiles as indicating that progress is being made in the direction in which the liberals have been working that institution was he said organized on business principles without regard to religion or politics and as soon as it was waa shown chown t that hat its members were working hob honestly estly on a nonpartisan non partisan platform mormons cormons Mor mons joined it from this he drew an argument that old conditions are being done away he urged that ANY CITY INTHE IN THE COUNTRY would be like salt lake if there should be a political fight over every minor question and called attention to the fact that the in men who last evening p predicted redic ted that in two years there would be a liberal majority in this city had not joined in of Commer cenor united in any effort to enhance the material welfare of utah t the 0 speaker peake showed that if the proposal 1 osal to for r a r representation e ia resen tation of the minority th should 1 I d be rejected slick action would wont df furnish rih a strong arg argument ament in favor of the assertion that the liberal party sought howerin po utah for purposes of p plunder ander and would not accept of a degree of power unless 00 it was great enough to enable them to accomplish com that object the governors speech was an able effort and was applauded ipp lauded at frequent 3 I 1 intervals s W R I 1 DICKSON when the governor bruor had finished there were calls for bennett Ben uett and dickson the latter reap responded bat ed and 8 said a d that it seemed to him that the times m e s requited the manifestation of a spirit of forbearance and moderation he thought thatA that those hose who favored a straight gentile ticket m must 1 if they would properly study the past confess that were was much justification tor for those who favored chef the fusion it might be said that it would have been better to have been less hasty the arrangement for the tug but be asked every member loei ober of the Ll liberal Oeral perty to act calmly and it if a mistake bad been made not to make a greater one by pursuing the course that was advocated last eveni evening ng what would we say of the mor mons were they now alter after all that has been done to put a straight mormon ticket in the field on the eve of election would we not denounce them as traitors what then will be said of the liberals of utah it if the agreement which has been made is violated by bk putting a straight gentile ticket in t the e held field he showed how disgraceful such a course would be he admitted as an individual that the fusion was a mistake on the part of the liberals but thought it would be a much greater mistake to now run a straight liberal ticket he showed that such a course would not secure revenge for any wrong which had been dont done but that those who took it would only be punishing the 1 friends hurting harting their enemy while a serious split in the ranks of the 16 party would be accomplished la in answer to the charge that the fusion fasion proposal was a trick to further the statehood movement he said that there was no danger admission this session while the mormon lobby woula would have a much stronger argument in favor of statehood should the her the re peoples oples party have made be rejected the te latter course would be taken ren advant advantage oge of to further the statehood movement and it would work no disadvantage to the liberal cause for the future it if the fuston fusion ticket should be accepted in closing he asked that granting the fusion had bad been beed a mistake mistake would it not be a much reater greater one to split the ranks of the diberal liberal party several names were shouted and C V W next addressed volt t the e meo meeting ilag W tte le said it was wag quite veil known that he was opposed to the fusion ticket and he would now state his bis reasons he had heard beard talk of a split sud and was glad to hear it for 1 gentiles I atiles did not vote unanimously at the le dictation of a priest prest he feared no dIv division islon among gentiles when the time came for flaw action he was opposed to mu bamps and hated men who WIT will not stand staad by their party he would lose bis right hand before he would take a crumb from the mormon table he respected the wen men who had accepted the fusion proposition but thought they had made a mistake he favored a straight gentile ticket and invited the f fusionists to join in supporting it he felt a priA principle ciple was at stake as sacred as that which the barons had bad contended for with king john and asked what kind of a proposition it would be to give one party three and the other nine of a jury 4 and ad said that was equal to the f fusion ire pro position he did not believe thalmor mon members of the city council would vote with wit h the gentile members he believed the Gentiles would pull together in the coming election but I 1 knew new they would not on t the e fusion ticket if the mormons cormons Mor mons ha bad d been honest in the attempt to do just jus tice t to the gentiles Gen the latter would hays haye had eight or nine of the city officers conceded to them c s VARIAN next spoke he thought that all who had an opinion should express it in the remarks the previous night and in some of those made at the present meeting he thought he be saw evidences of feeling though the fact might be disclaimed he deplored this and felt that tile mormon question required the exercise of the broadest statesmanship he believed that there was wag a great moral glazier grinding all creeds to powder and that in ill time the mormon creed must go down under it he referred to the accepted the f fusion as hanest and faithful I 1 and to call them aames and abuse them even it they have made a mistake was not the way americans conduct politics or society A some ot of the men who were abused last night did not deserve it lie he thought the fusion was right but even if it was not he be would not desert the men who were engaged anit in it he said the liberals had bad not been lighting fighting the mormon people but a principle they had the fortress and laid the train it the should show the white flag and offer to surrender what would be thought of the commander oom mander who would say we ham be demanded your surrender as a right and wont accept ionly at the point of the bayonet he did not think tile the fusion ticket was a NEWS ticket as judge bennett had charged it laid no dobli gallons on the liberals should they accept it he explained what a showing the I 1 a cormons mormons Mor mons could make should d it oe be refused it was a great step for the mormon people to take to let any gentile into the city council re he thought it a very unkind thing to slap in the face publicly as ws was done the previous night tue tile men who have honestly accepted th the e fusion and said that it is a principle of politics of universal recognition that when a man has gone into a political convention and been beaten in a fair copt contest he should submit he remembered a certain mem member berof of ana a national conven convention upa who made a brave fight for his candidate and left the convention covered with honor but he went to his office fend began to fight the candidate chosen by bv the convention ven tion the result is that he has lost the respect of his fellow citizens and his own self respect the meeting last night was american it was a libera liberat lit meeting but excluded a large portion of the party and 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