Show KAWLINS SPEECH As Delivered at the Territorial Conven top at Salt Lakeon September 15th Mr Chairman and Gentlemen of the conventionYou confound me you overwhelm me with kindness I do not know what to Bay There are no words I know no phrase which is adequate to describe my feelings at this moment Applause My highest high-est ambition has been that my public life Dhonld be successful and that I should honorably discharge > > my > duty to which your suffrage called me two years ago and then > > be at home with you I expected my lot tp ba eternally cast here lp private life and had formed the fixed purpose not again to accept a nomination tq public offjcej J but I your kindness has wrested from me my fixed purpose hits shattered my firmest resolution and Lere I am helpless help-less but not hopeless Applause and laughter I have not sought this nomination nom-ination nor have I scttaht any other nomination but coming as it does from the representatives a true and honest people I cannot reject it great applause but take it up ani with the aid of the people we shall carry your action of today on to tue culmination of a glorious triumph Applause Some of the gentlemen who have been instrumental in bringing this about laughter The office appetite like the oplUm habit when it gets possession of a m nA vcico We will make you senator vet I Applause and eersIt is hard to get it loose i I have felt that I could quit without bretking my heart although this may not be true Laughter J But I give you all notice that I shrill expect you en ejection day i The eloquent and charming gentleman gentle-man uoinm lUd at Provo the other day a voice BreeKetmd e Hisses No No We are gom to have a lair and friendly campaign applause a contest that will deal l equally with all classes Applause This gentleman in accepting the nomination inquired so I read in the daily press whether the people were going to vote for the hones sons of toil or toe dynamite bomb Now 1 dont know which he claims to be Voice ties a Uniinou Continued laughter Whether he is the honest son of toll or the other I can scarcely think he meant to say that if not elected he and his associates were going to join the latter because they adopted a resoutiou to exclude anarchists They also adopted a protective pro-tective plank and it would be unfair to say that in the event of his defeat my opponent and his associates would build up a protected Enfant industry of anarchists at home Laughter uTt seems according to the press reports of his ppeech tint some of Mr Cannons fneuos so he claims were not permitted to net on the grass at Wusnmgton Laughter It is too late to make a speech Cries of Go on1 Stopping a moment mo-ment in hia speech MrRawiins glanced over his audieiice < e eiiremarked L < I Pe hrr nhuultl Iur Pnn = L mot might be in my own interest Today 1 receiver a record from Washington containing a list ot the bills introduced in tae t last congress with the names of the men who offered I them Here it is holding up a large book It is official and while l l I am going to refer to the record I am not going to read it unless some one challenges chal-lenges the truth of my statements and then I may read it all Eight thousand bills and 2000 resolutions were introduced intro-duced into the house which is composed com-posed of 356 meuibeia and four delegates dele-gates THere are now 85 > members of the senate which makes 441 members of both houses excL sive of delegates There were passed during the special speci-al and regular BtSbionsSO bills and resolutions reso-lutions of a public nature Seven were drafted and introduced by the delegate from Utah Apporiionuif the others would give each eeyea tenths 01 one bill apIece Applause Ut the other territorial delegates the standing is Arizona 1 New Mexico 2 and Oklahoma Oklaho-ma 4 4The The republican papers at Washington Washing-ton bpcke of the success of Delegate Flynn of OKlahorna in the matter of securing the passage ot measures as the remarkable event of the age One of theee bills was a relief measure for the heirs ot a certain man another for permission to build a bridge over a certain stream another authorizing postmasters of the fourth class to administer ad-minister oaths to pension applicants Speaking of the bills for Utahh benefit MI Catching chairman of the committee on rues officially mentions the seven from Utah as all being of national interest Whila not desiring to into details as to the ipiluiation ol the 400000 of church money returned to us treasury to be used for the piuouba originally intended 1 wilI for once set aside my modesty and quote fruity the record The bill was prepared by myself I took the report before the committee When the measure VHS iimouuced in the house it met with opposition from fiarkms of Illinois and Burrousjh ol Michigan both republicans It passed and was sent to the senate shortly afterward lion PranKlin D Richards Rich-ards and Judge Wilson came to Washington Wash-ington and advocated the measure greatly assisting me file bill passed and the president approved it The bill for the udmission of Utah was drawn up by myself and referred to the committee on territories Congressman Con-gressman Wheeler of Alabama also introduced a eimiliar measure which eras als > referred In looking over his bill and mine J concluded that tho former for-mer did not contain the favorable conditions con-ditions mine did and that had it passed only ouelwU as much hmd yqqld haye been ceded to the state it aid not provide for the debt of 725000 now charged against us I took the bill I had prepared and making statement pf our position laid it before the committee com-mittee and the conference concluded with a favorable report from the committee com-mittee The republicans signed it as a personal favor saying that they did not consider themselves bound to yote for it because of their action Mr Kil core moved my bill instead of Mr Wheelers arid the measure W3 accordingly ¬ ac-cordingly reported 1 came home to Utah and announced announ-ced that the people Were entitled to statehood and that I would continue to fight for the measure When T returned re-turned tq Washington J consulted air Kilgore and the speaker Mr Kilgore I ailed the bill up for consideration The republicans under the leadership at Mr fl fig ty ot Dune r reauriad tot to-t tables byt euiutning Silent at roll call thus breaK lUg a quorum So we h dtp I d-tp wait and proposed to make another I attempt to consider it on the Monda following Speaker Crisp assured me that if the republicans fought it farther a rule would be reported covering the case I reported this to Congressman Dingley who agreed that if time would be given for discussion that Monday and Tuesday December 11th and 12th sound be acceptable The bill was taken up Mr Ktlgore spoke first and Morse laughter and cheers second In reply to Mr Morse I was questioned closely by MrDinsjiey The next cay many republicans congratulated con-gratulated me expressing a desire to support the position I maintained Mr Reed when the time for consideration came went to Mr Wheeler and asked fora postponement I called his atten attention tion to the fact that we were working under an agreement which when corroborated cor-roborated by Mr Burroughs of Michigan Michi-gan caused Mr Reed to advise the republicans re-publicans to vote for the measure Senators Dubois and Shoup of Idaho and Carey of Wyoming did all they could to assist me but Heed and Dingley desisted only when confronted by a vigorous opposition The bill then went to the senate where new factors appeared and a new lino of policy developed itself I am not here to question any mans motive tor they are sacred But some times fools rush in where angels fear to tread Certain republicans came to Wash ington and held a conclave They passed in secret conclave a resolution which vas pre ented and rejected the senate resolving that it was not courtesy court-esy to that body to suggest the action in that manner Then it announced that Utah would go republican The representatives of that party from this motion got themselves them-selves inerviewed and through the I newspapers announced repeatedly that when admitted Utah would reject the party which has been her friend The democratic senators grew alarmed al-armed They based some confidence in the statement Some of them were loth to vote for the admission of a republican re-publican state The tariff bill had something to do with the matter too the democrats wishing to dispose of it ere the statehood state-hood bill came up Just before the tariff measure came up it was announced in Washington ttat there had been a bargain made by which a certain railroad scheme was lfebBIl 1 1 flcm 1 fl hQ7l1 t < > hte Kf tF trust was to PIt up the money That Colonel Ike Trumbo was to be one senator sen-ator cries of ha ha and Colonel Clark son the other That Bishop Claw son was to talk for the Mormon church churchImagine Imagine the effect That Utah was to be republican and that the senators were to be the tools of the foulest corporation cor-poration on earth They never took the trouble to deny it applause The bill came up in the senate at 5 oclock one afternoon when several senators sen-ators were absent Some of them coming com-ing in soon after some of them remarked re-marked that had thev been present when it was called up they would nave objected to it One of them noticing Pratt upon his feet talking for the bill remarked that something was wrong The bill was passed and I told them that 10 power on earth could deliver the people of Utah to the sugar trust applause The record will disclose what was done many difficulties were encountered encount-ered in respect some bill Much time was spent not only in introducing bills but in defeating others which were unsatisfactory un-satisfactory One was the bill to combine com-bine Utah and Nevada and which at the time was favored by the press ot the country Then came the bill for the removal of the Colorado Utes to Utah It was urged most vigorously by Colorados representatives I saw that all members of the committee were present and when it came up for consideration all the republicans voted for it and all the democrats except one voted against it Cheers Bills have been passed relieving us from a heavy debt opening up 125000 quarter sections of rich and fertile land The miners have been relieved from assessment work a magnificent site has been granted to the university of Utah and other measures which will be of vast benefit to Utah have been passed The distinguished dis-tinguished editor of the Salt Lake Tribune Tri-bune stated this morning that I had gone down to a democratic congress and had discovered a gold mine by which the people of Utah hadbecome suddenly rich and that I was entitled ta but very little credit In the matter That may be true but let us carry the parallel a little farther For thirty two years delegate had been going down to republican congresses They prospected diligently worked hard but found nothing of value there They came back home without even an ounce of silver applause Mr Rawlins then proceeded to present pre-sent in detail the record of legislation with reference to Utah referring to the measures passed by republican congresses con-gresses and comparing them with democratic dem-ocratic measures It was a strong logical presentation of the case and showed plainly which partv has in the past been the friend of Utah and her people In concluding this showing from the record Mr Rawlins said ii hope I have done no injustice to the republican party The democratic party is not perfect and my partisanship partisan-ship does not lead me to approve all that has been done by those elected by democrats There is political unrest in this country but the great masses of the people are honest and true Sometimes they make mistakes in electing representatives to office There are people down east who have come to believe that the powers of leiialatQn may be used for their own anent and they are not all republi can Unfortunately they control the eadmg newspapers of the east They have opportunities for preventing the I Continued on Fourth page RAWLINS SPEECH Continued from First Page facts and misleading men My short experience in Washington has taught me to be distrustful of what those en propose There is a mighty syndicate which has been able to dictate a finaL cial policy to the benefit of a class and the great injury of the masses The Wilson Bill reduced the tariff on woolen goods from 98 to 48 per cent yet the reduction saved more than enough in one year to pav S3 head for every sheep in the United StatesBrmg ing it right home it would save to the people of Utah about 600000 There was another issue tbat must be taken up and forced and that was the silver question Applause It is so late now that I cannot go into that questi on at this tlae Cries Go on go on No I have talked long enough But let me saj I believe it is the desire of the masses of the people to have silver restored and I believe it will be done 1 thank you for the heartiness and unanimity with which you have honored hon-ored me by this renomination The delegate who is elected in November will scarcely have time to qualify before be-fore Utah becomes a state but if the people of Utah pay me the compliment of a reelection I shall appreciate it It has been my endeavor to discharge my duty impartially and for the good of all Again I thank you |