Show LASHING THE LEAGUE lib liberals era Is censured for not registering A streamer on the balcony of the federal court room announced that at 8 last evening there would be held in that apartment an open meeting of the loyal league shortly after that hour the writer entered the court room but less than half a dozen persons were in it returning turning Be to the street he waited to see wt fether the meeting would be held or not soon a brass band appeared on the balcony and played a tune even this did not attract as much as a group suddenly gen george E R maxwell well flapped up against the balcony railing and bawled out 6 A political meeting is about to be held in the ball of jus 3 ustice nic hie if you will come up hie you will hear something hie hid with reference to politics As he ceased speaking two or three urchins stepped from the sidewalk into the street aud and looked curiously up at the balcony these with the usual number of persons walking or riding by were his sole auditors THE BAND went into the court room and another tune was played by the time it was finished about forty persons had taken seats A wait oc cured during which a few more loiterers loiter ers came in 0 J hollister nominated fred H meyers AS CHAIRMAN the candidate was successful there being no opposition to te him he arose and declared that he be really know what the object of the meeting was wasand aasand and therefore state it he would ask mr hollister to make a speech mr hollister arose and explained that registration was progressing so slowly among Libe liberals liberakis rais that it was thought best to call this meeting and urge greater diligence he dwelt at some jen length ath on what lie he balled mid and claimed that the edmunds tucker law was a good one ile he closed with an exhortation to his hearers to register THE RECENTLY decapitated C S varian followed in a frantic attempt at a high flown speech he was neither truthful logical nor coherent the purport of what he said was an exhortation to the league to take the oath and register tu we will do our duty we shall within a few years be able to welcome these priests of utah to their political graves es 1 he attempted to sketch the political history of the territory but wah wab ridiculously inaccurate the mormons cormons came here and took possession of this territory after the people of the union had bad carved it out tor for a great state I 1 I 1 wa was a one of his bis ali absurd surd statements re he was oblivious to the fact that this was mexican territory until 1848 he closed by solemnly repeating the injunction register Ee gister register register J R was the next Ppe speaker aker discussion of the mormon question was waa so old that it sounded like old hundred 19 him but jae he was still willing to sing the old tune he made a wholesale and unscrupulous charge of an utter lack of patriotism on the part of the mot moil mony mon people and proceeded to recount the victories the liberals had bad gained they had bad secured half t the he i jurymen juryman jury men had stripped probate courts of general jurisdiction and as the speaker brazenly boasted we now new practically have possession and control of the district courts he cited a school district in which the liberals had elected a majority of the trustees stated that they had succeeded succeed edin in electing one member of the legislature last session and now had a chance to elect half a dozen if they did their duty he admitted that it was humiliating to take the oath but said it was nothing when you get used to it ile he urged liberals to swallow it and register there were calls tor for murray and baskin TEM EX responded in a speech which was short but loud it was simply an appeal and exhortation to liberals to gulp the oath and register coupled with a few weak arguments made in an attempt to show that there was noth nothing ing humiliating nor in the oath he was followed by K N X BASSIST who said 1 I am told that tb there ere are a good many liberals in the territory who have failed to register because the test oath was an insult to them any liberal who will take such a rosi position as this ought to be on nothing but the obligation to be historically tori cally accurate justifies even an allusion to the language ot of this speaker it was so shockingly shocking filthy the instant that baskin askin sat down the chairman as if fearful that if any more speeches were made public decency would be further outraged jumped up and without ceremony declared the meeting adjourned |