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Show NO. DIVISION WANTED. The War Gry of the Liberal Party Last Night. The Speches Mada by Judge J. D.Jones and Ceorge Sutherland. Resolutions Adopted Calling on the Liberals to Hang Solidly Together. The Liberals held their meeting last night in the courthouse for the purpose of electing a chairman, vice A. Saxey, resigned. There was a lage turnout of all clesses, the courtroom being filled. Mr. Geo. .Sutherland was elected chairman, and in his opening remarks dwelt upon the move being made to divide up on national party lines What was good for Ogden and Weber We-ber county would be-suicidal to -Provo. We havetoamuc'ito lose by dividing up, while if the Liberals hang together to-gether and gain ground as they have done in this city, we will carry the municipal election in February. He would not question the motives of the gentlemen on either side in Ogden. He knew a number of the men well, and belieyed that had they not thought it good policy to take the course they have, that they would never have gone into it. It may be the wisest move on their part, in fact, when all things are taken into consideration. consid-eration. But here in Provo, and in Utah county especially, the People's party have an overwhelming majority, probably three to one in the county. Now, then, don't you see if the people peo-ple were to tight on party lines, Republicans Re-publicans and Democrats would be in the hands of the People's party, or Mormon church, something we, as Liberals, and ai American citizens, would neverwant to see. The speaker thanked the meeting for the honor conferred upon him in electing hira chairman, and Jset down amid applause. ap-plause. A. A. Xoon moved the appointment of a committee on resolutions. The chair appointed A. A. Xoon, Dr. G. W. Shores, and Ju lJ. D. Jones. This committee retired and on motion mo-tion of J. E. Hills, the resignation of Judge Saxey, as chairman of the Liberal Lib-eral committee for Provo city, was accepted. Nominations for chairman were then announced in order. J. E. Hills presented pre-sented the name of Dr. Shores; "Propeller"Davis named Judge Jones, while W. S. Myton nominated R. S. Ilines. T. Startin moved that the vo ting be by ballot, as thensno one could take exceptions if they voted for or against a candidate. The motion prevailed and R. II. Dodd, R. A. Hills and R, S. Ilines were appointed tellers. While balloting was proceeding, the committee on resolutions came in. The ballots being in, the tellers counted the votes cast and announced the following to be the result. Shores - - - 27 Jones - - - - 6 Ilines ... 5 Dodd .... i Total yotes rast - - 39 On motion of Joseph F. Thompson the vote for Dr. Shores was made unanimous. un-animous. . The report of the committee on resolutions was then called for, and Judge Xoon read the following: We believe that the Liberal party is thoroughly acquainted with the local situation in this Territory, and that it is for the best interests of all that the Liberal party remain as it always hae been a terror to evil doers and violators vio-lators of the law of the United States; and that we work fur the upbuilding of Provo city and tlie advancement of the interests of Utah county, and the regeneration of Utih Territory; that sh6 may eventually be found worthy to attain her star tin the grand old American Flag.- and embrace statehood state-hood with priiiti u herself and honor to the nation, nlro.. nvueled by ecclesiastical ecclesias-tical power. Resolved: That, the Liberal party of Provo City abi ic in the faith, not as Democrats or Rrpublicans, but as American ciiiz?t:, on one common platform, for the advancement of American ideas, xn:dr American rule and to the support of the laws of tlie United States in 1 i:s Territory of Utah, remembering there are but two parties in this Territ-jrv, viz: the Liberal party and the People's party, and th it the People's u:u'y are identical witu the Church of .jti-us Christ of Lattet day Saints, a temporal and spirituai government in opposition to aU othlr governments m i.'ift world, and tha. the time for dividing on national j;'.r v lines has not yet ; j rived. Therefore, we believe the old Libe1" party "is the stint"1 A. A. Xoon, Chairman of Committee. The resolutions met the hearty applause of the Liberals present. Judge Jones then arose and spoke upon the resolu; ions. He said: Asa matter of fact, every stranger coming to Utah, except the. converts of the Mormon church, join the Liberal party. Now, ti.rn, there must be some reason for this. Then what is it? Investigation proyf-s that the People's party is distinctly a church party. Now, then, reverse the conditions. Supposing that & d of the People's party we bad here in this territory a Utah party, cvupo.cd of the members of any denoiniua'iin. Any loyal citizen, oppose! i church and state, would natural! and rightly join the party who weie landed together to fight it. Do you not think that if every People's p:r? man would look at it in this light tt-sy would do the same? Regards ;.-e move to divide on party line, it m,y be alright so far as Ogden is concerned, but it will not work in Utah county. The speaker did not impugn tiie motives of the men in Provo, who were patterning after Ogden, but they would yet find out that it would do thain no good to divide the local patty. The Liberals must not lose gr.mnd, they must hin-x together. Way? Bectusa tiie church can control either party. Tiie election for members to the legislature :s approaching, and if we divide now we will not only lose membership, but we will lose ground. We must stand shoulder to shoulder if we think of making any advance. Just so long as there is a church party, I care not whether it be Mormon, Methodist or Presbyterian, just as long must we stand firm and resent any thought of division, in fact we must fight it. Our friends tell us that joung Mormon men; liberal minded and fair, are loneing to divide on party lines. But will they? Dare they? We had an illustration of this at the last February Febru-ary election. There were some young men who swore that they would oppose op-pose the election of the People's can didate for Mayor in every possible manner. They met in private, drew up their ticket,' and had it printed; but when it came to election day, did they vote for it? Not much. They placed their tickets on the table with the other tickets, but no one knows who placed them there. Xo one would father them. This has been the history all along. Take the Sagebrush Democrats. Demo-crats. They thought they would come out and organize. They did so; they played politics a little; but after a certain cer-tain conference with church officials at the penitentiary, there was nothing more heard about it, and they went out of existence. I am ready for party lines when the time is ripe, but not until then. The Liberal party has done too much good for Utah for me j to leave it yet. To it we are indebted for the free school system; to it we are indebted for moral reform in this Territory, Ter-ritory, and in fact to it are we indebted in-debted for eveiything else that is good. I will tell you what I believe. I believe that the present move to divide on party lines is a scheme of men back east, and that a few parties have been sent out here to work this division for the purpose of statehood. What would this mean? Why if statehood state-hood came while the present condition of affairs existed, we would have a Mormon legislature, a Mormon governor, govern-or, a lieutenant-governor and a mayor in every city, and tkose that have suffered suf-fered martyrdom for their religion would be promoted to the fattest offices. Now, then, what would we be able to do with such a condition of affairs? We couldn't go to Congress and ask redress. If it resulted in a civil insurrection we couldn't ask congress to interfere, for they would answer that we had a state militia, and a Legislature. I admit there are a few fair minded men in this city who would like to see division, but so long as the Teiritory remains as it is, it never must be divided. Ogden, Salt Lake and Provo have yet to learn what we learned twenty-five years ago. When they go monkeying with the Church party they are monkeying with a buzz saw, and let me tell you it will kno ck tbem on the head. Applause. Dr. Shores thanked the meeting for the honor conferred upon him in electing elect-ing him chairman of Provo precinct. He was opposed to dividing on party lines, yet he was a true Democrat. In fact his Democracy had never been questioned, and in the state he came from he could always be seen with the "yaller dorg following him." There being no further business before be-fore the meeting it adjourned. Tiie Paysen Enterprise is now published pub-lished as an eight-page paper. Its columns are well filled with news, and evince much rustle. Wi are glad to see Superintendent W. R. II. Paxmah, of the Provo L.,M. & B. Company, around again after h'.s recent severe spell of sickness. Stive Eunjsjsll is haviag his business busi-ness property improved, so as to permit per-mit of increasing his stock of bugg'es, wagons, farming implements, etc. The Ephraim Jtegisier is to be commended com-mended on its enterprise and push in comin out as a tri-weekly. It is to be hoped the people of San Pete countr will appreciate this stroke of pluck by staying right by it. The mail for the south did not leave Provo Thursday morning, on account ac-count f the morning train being delayed at the Nanows by a freight train running off the U. P. "track, and demolish'ng two of the cars. The mail went down yesterday morning. On Friday of last week the First Baptist Church of Provo city was organized or-ganized with seventeen members. This makes the third Baptist Chinch in Utah. The local church hope, to be in their new house of worship by June, or sooner. The Baptist church'at Salt Lake city started with ten members and the church at Ogden with thirteen. thir-teen. Both were started about ten rears ago. The Elders of the 2nd and 3rd wards nietm the Second Ward meeting-house Wednesday night to organize an Elders' El-ders' Quorum, but owing to the severe illness of Presidents Smoot and Cluff, and the death of a grandchild of President Presi-dent David John, neither of the Stake Presidency could attend; consequently, after a shoit meeting, in which Bishop Bish-op Wride and Elder Philander Brown, of the Second, and Elders Lewis and W.H. Brown, of the Third wards made some interesting remarks on the proposed pro-posed movement in organizing two quorums, the meeting adjourned until to-night at 7 p.m. The Democrats of Payson held an enthusiastic meeting last Thursday night, in the Opera House of that city. The Silver Band (one of the finest musical organizations in the territory) was out on the atrectg discoursing sweet music to the people. Despite the inclement weather, the Opera House was well filled with an attentive at-tentive audience of both ladies and gentlemn. S. L. Page acted as chairman. chair-man. Messrs. A. D. Gash and Win. Probert delivered enthusiastic speeches on Democracy, and the reasons for national parties in Utah. An organization organi-zation for Payson was perfecled,band twenty-one gentlemen stepped on fto the stage and signed the platform |