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Show REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE I8SUES harmonizing and reconciling any difference or grievances entertained by AN ADDRE88. them", and if possible securing their aid support and that of the Tribune The executive committee of the Re- and for the Republican ticket and for the publican state committee has issued Republican party. This movement for an address to the Republican voters of harmony was made, not because the this state on the present political con- committee believed favors or special ditions here existing. The address consideration should be shown any or person, but because as states the situation as it exists, which candidate representatives of the Republican parof necessity places certain people in ty of Utah, the committee believed a very bad light before the public, but that it would fall short of its duty if the committee has been exceedingly it failed to make every effort to reconcile and harmonize all members of the moderate in its expressions and gives party. utterance to nothing but, absolute facts. J J considerato commends Truth the it That conference took place at Salt tion of every voter in the state, and Lake City on the evening of September and enlarged Republican majority. To all of our overtures and suggestions the owners and managers of the Tribune turned deaf ears. The committee did not then know, but has since learned, that while we were thus meeting with them, their friends, with their knowledge and approval, were engsending out Invitations to a aged-in meeting which was subsequently held, which had for its object the reorganand ization of a party to the defeat which of Is, the purpose regular Republican ticket. anti-Republica- J n, J This committee feels that It has fully discharged its duty, and exhausted every honorable effort required of it In the Interest of party harmony, and having offered to concede everyinthing possible, and more than any dedividual Republican has a right to mand, we call on all Republicans in Utah to rally to the support of the national and state ticket, and to make sure of the election of the foremost American of his time, the fearless soldier, the progressive statesman, the clear brained, honest, courageous Theodore Roosevelt and his worthy and honored colleague and running mate, Senator Charles W. Fairbanks. In the name of our party we demand a no less loyal support of the ticket named by the Republican state convention of Utah, and in support of such demand we submit that the Republican nominees are all clean, honest, capable men of splendid character and undoubted Republicanism. They were regularly nominated in the convention of the party, and their selection was brought about by the untrammelled judgment of as fine a body of patriotic Americans as were ever assembled in a political convention in the state of Utah, or in any other state. asks that they all read it, ponder it 6, 1904, and the overtures for harand make up their minds regarding mony were declined. Mr. Lippman asit, and the things therein stated as serted that church influence' domitheir sense of Justice and fairness nated the convention that nominated the Republican state ticket On being shall dictate. The address follows: requested to state a case of such influTo the Republicans of Utah: the instances cited were prompt In view of the fact that the Salt ence, and effectually proved to be unwarLake Tribune, its owners and man- ly The committee offered to ranted. agers have abandoned the Republican make any honorable and reasonable party by repudiating its state ticket concession possible, and labored long and thus endangering the national and earnestly to induce the Tribune to ticket in Utah, the executive commit- support the Republican ticket, but tee of the Republican party desires to without avail. The committee in subsubmit the following statement for stance stated that it had not the deyour earnest consideration. nor would it at all, aid or discourThe regular Republican state con- sire, the cause of anyone who aspired vention was held in Salt Lake City, age office to of United States Senator, the Utah, on the 25th day of August, 1904, or to any office, and that it had but and the following ticket was regularly one purpose and duty, and that was to nominated: the whole Republican ticket, both For Governor John C. Cutler of elect national and state. That this comSalt Lake. mittee had no favorites to reward and For Secretary of State Charles S. no enemies to punish; that party sucTingey of Juab. an impartial discharge of the cess ForJustice of Supreme Court Dan- trust and to the committee ny committed iel N. Straup of Salt Lake. of the state as their For Treasurer James Christiansen the Republicansin conducting the camrepresentatives of Sevier. JC J were exclusive of the objects paign, A. of For Auditor J. Edwards the committee. Complaint was also We ask your especial disapproval of made that the senior senator was not For Superintendent of' Schools A. consulted in the appointment and or the course pursued by those alleged Box-elde- r. C. Nelson of Sanpete. For Attorney General M. A. Breeden of Weber. For Presidential Electors E. W. , Wade of Weber, H. P. Myton of Salt Lake, James A. Miner of Salt Lake. For Congress Joseph Howell of Cache. & While there were several sharp contests, nevertheless the four hundred and sixty delegates, the chosen representatives of the Republican party of the state, who participated in the deliberations of the convention, acquiesced in the results. Not one of the defeated candidates at that convention has any grievance, but to the contrary all are loyally supportting the entire Republican ticket. At that convention a state central committee was named, consisting of one member for each of counties in the state, the twenty-sevesuch member being elected by the delegates of his county, to the state convention. Later this committee met with the nominees selected by that convention, and after "due deliberation unanimously selected, a chairman. A few days later the chairman selected an executive committee. Some of the members were not delegates to, nor participants in, the deliberations of the state convention, but are men Interested in the welfare of the party at large, are loyal Republicans, and all desire a complete victory of the party In the state in the ensuing elec9l n tion. . J Finding that the Salt Lake Tribune, Heretofore a Republican paper, was not supporting the Republican ticket, this committee as soon as organized, sought a conference with Senator Kearns, and the principal owner of the Tribune, and Joseph Lippman, Esq., United States district attorney for Utah, and political manager for Senator Kearns and also the manager of the Tribune, with the end in view of ganization of this committee. Thereupon members of the committee at once offered to resign, that others to be selected by the senior Senator Sufficient might take their places. members were willing to do this, to give the senior Senator an equal voice in the committee, but even this was declined. Offers were also made that the senior Senator and his friends were privileged to select speakers for the campaign, and especially if it was desired, to select speakers who should accompany the nominee for governor on the Republican ticket on his tour of campaign. Every offer and inducement was made to them whereby they would have full voice in framing, conducting and controlling the policy of the campaign. All these offers were rejected. The motive of the committee in thus attempting by concessions to secure the support of the senior Senator, and that of the Tribune, for the ticket, was not because we admit that the proffered concessions of right belonged to them, but because we felt that it was our duty as Republicans to leave no stone unturned to secure that entire harmony in the party in this state which would insure not only party success (for we desire to say we do not entertain any fear that any disappointed or rejected candidate is able to defeat the party of progress in this state), but to be certain of a greater Republicans who are making an effort to disrupt and defeat the Republican party in this state. We call your attention to the fact that four years ago the Republican party of this state chose a senator then not generally known in state politics. He was elected over the heads of men grown grey in the service of the party, and whose Republicanism had been tried in the crucible of both victory and defeat, and whose party loyalty could not be questioned. The victory of the senior Sen ator in the legislative caucus was the cause of bitter opposition, but his opponents, finding themselves in the minority, gracefully accepted his triumph, and the entire party in this state willingly upheld his hands and gave him the support due his exalted position; and now, because the Republican nominees of the state ticket are not his personal choice, nor of his selection, he deliberately insults the people of this state, attacks their good faith, and impugns the honor of the people who have so generously honored him, and is striving to organize a party which has for its object the revival of all the bitter animosity and hatred of the past; to sacrifice upon the altar of his private pique and wounded vanity all that has been gained in twelve years for progress, peace, contentment and good will among the citizens of this great state; and to defeat the state ticket of the Republican party. We deny his right and that of the Tribune to offer this insult to the men and women of Utah who comprise the Republican party, and who carry its banner in triumph to victory at the polls. We deny his right to challenge the good faith of the delegates to the late state convention, and we repel the insinuations and charges that any delegate was influenced by any consideration other than his desire to nominate the strongest possible ticket. We deny his right to impugn the motive or good faith of any candidate before that convention, and finally we resent on behalf of the good people of Utah, the unwarrantable charges of church influence" made by him, his newspaper and his followers. We denounce his action as not only hostile to the Republican party but also as an attack upon the people of Utah, and the progress which marks the civil and political institutions of the state. We deny the right, as we question the ability, of any person to revive the bitterness of the past. Every college and institution of learning, every school house in Utah, the good feeling and friendly relations between all classes of citizens of this peaceful and prosperous state, contradict the charges of the Tribune and the malicious and untruthful utterances of the platform of the new party attempted to be organized by the senior Senator. The majority of the constitutional convention which framed our state constitution was composed of Republicans, and likewise of members of the dominant church in Utah. That, constitution provided: The rights of conscience shall never be infringed. The state shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office of public trust or for any vote at any election; nor shall any person be. incompetent as a witness or juror on account of religious belief or the absence thereof. There shall be no union of church and state, nor shall any church dominate the state or interfere with its functions.' Upon the provision of our constitution, the Republican party stands. J J Republicans of Utah, do your duty. Stand by your party ticket Stand by the party of prosperity, progress and equal rights, whose success insures the development of the natural resources and the upbuilding and maintenance of the home industries of our state. With malice toward none, with charity for all, seeking only to do right, and to accord to all Republicans alike the equal consideration to which they are entitled under party discipline and government, the committee confidently appeals to the rank and file of the party and asks them to say whether the disappointed ambition of one man is sufficient excuse for the attempt to defeat the grand old party of Lincoln, Blaine, McKinley and Roosevelt By order of the executive committee. WM. SPRY, Chairman. ALLEN T. SANFORD, o Secretary. -- Thrifty Scot. A Fifeshire Scot not only stole flowers from a grave, but won a prize vith them at a flower show. |