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Show I ANEW I PARTY I Organized to Fight Political Mormonism B Outgrowth of Kearn? Defeat in convention. BY Salt Lake papcis herald the news B that Senator Kcarns, TheTilbune, hflyv- and many "Anti-Mormon" people In BW Salt Lake and over the state, liac BBV made the break at last and have at- Hl tempted to uiganic an "Antl-Mor- IB mon" pait). Whcttiei the attempt BY will result successfully remains to be BB seen. It Is stated that on Wcnnesday flfl evening nearly two hundred "tcprc- K scntatlvc citlcns" met at the Auer- HK bach building in Salt Lake, and after Bfl a certain amount of strenuous talking BBS organized, adopted a dcclaiatiou of flfli principles and eveiy man present flflj pledged "our life, our liberty, our flfl property and oui sacred honor" to the BB movement. Bflj Joseph Llppman, of The Tribuno, Bj was present and said that paper Bflj would support the movement, and HH David if. Keith said that he and Mr. HI Kcarns endorsed it. BK According to The Tribune the HE meeting Wednesday evening was the flfl tesultof a few conferences held bv Bfl well known business men and profos- HE sional men during the past week. In flfl these conferences the scope of the 9M work to be suggested to a larger incet- HE lug was discussed and a committee HJ composed of live Democrats and live HJ Kepublicans was appointed to suggest HE a plan of procccdurc. HJL This committee leportcd at Wed- JHk ncday night's mi'cting, a minority Jyp? favoring a Voting League which JOB would pick out candidates fiom the KB political panics and recommend their n suppoit. The majoilty fa voicd the Bfl oiganis'lngof a new party in I'tah, IB which will nominate a ticket made up PBjj strictly of cltlens filendly to the Hfl Aincilcan movement. To act on this IB report the meeting Wednesday night BK was called. flE lllOLUTIONS BB The following platform or dcclara- IB tlon of piinciplcs was unanimously ad- SB opted: BB "Wheicas, An expeilenco of four- jH teen jeais since the tirst malcilal sign fl of the abatement ofy tioublcd condl- BB tlons here was seen Intlie piomulga- BB tlon of the WoodrulT manifesto has H .shown that the promises made were H ciafty and Insincere; that the sought- H for division of the people on party H lines was not can led out in good faith; ! H that both party organizations have BJ been dominated and used for the dou- BE ble purpose of maintaining an ccclcsl- B astlcal contiol which had no regard H for either, and of picvcnting remon- BJ strancc or opposition by those who JEjjJi. favor the ficc cxeiclse of Individual BBh judgment and pieferencc In political B affairs, and nk "Wherc.is, Repeated experiences, einphaslcd by events just past, have fully proven that this ecclesiastfcal dominance is all-powerful and pcrslst-B pcrslst-B ent, and that It cannot bo shaken oil S as long as those who oppose It aro B divided into hostile camps, but on the B - contrary, since such division of the B friends and supporters of American B Institutions their voices arestlllcdand M the hands aie strengthened or the fflj crafty manipulators of the church KB power and its application to political flfl alTalrs, therefore, Tc It resolved: BB "1. That we will no longer play in-Bj in-Bj totho hands of the church leaders by yX a division which simply pandeisto B their desires and put poses. jg 2. That wo will repel with every K means at our command the Intrusion B of ccclcslasticlsm Into poliUcs or the B affairs of state. ofl "X That we lefusc to merge Utah mtt alfalrslnany national party action, mm sin'jc tho division thus cicated para- BM lyyesevciy elfoit to Amciicanlc the jBj state. B "4. That so far as alTalrs hcie are BK concerned any dlv Mon on pai ty line Is W?k a sham and a farce, every pledge of PV the ecclesiastical power to icfraln WUto from direction In tho political nllalis BV ci" the people having been shamelessly WW vlolatcd.overy pretense of letting poll- H tlcs nlono il slmmcful nn(1 ll0,l0W wsflj niockeiy. Iflflj "5 That wo will novel cease to de- BB mand the complete fieedota In polltl- fljflj B cal alfalrs, untoucned bj any taint of apostolic control; that we demand the complete separation of church and state, in fact as well as In name, and that we will repel to the utmost all efforts to perpetuate the ecclesiastical ecclesiasti-cal contiol of public alTalrs In Utah. '0. That the public schools are the especial pride of the Amorlcan people; we resent the giasping domination of the ecclesiastical power therein and pledge oui selves to shake It olf at the earliest possible moment. Chinch ccntiol of the schools must go. "We disclaim most emphatically and positively any desire or purpose to attack any church or to assail anyone's any-one's religious sentiments or church afllllatlons. Our purpose Is as set forth herein, and no other. "Appealing to all fair-minded citizens citi-zens of Utah to sustain us In this our righteous purpose, indefinitely, surely and forever to separate the church and state, and asking in this the suppoit sup-poit of evciy lover of Ameilcan institutions insti-tutions we declare the occasion for this to be t Intel) , and the provocation repeated and extreme. " "Come with us and let us redeem the state. Among those present at the organization organi-zation meeting weic W. Mont Kerry, IT. J. Dlnnlny, .1. I). Wood, W. P. Noblc.H. G. McMillan, David Keith, Joseph' Llppman, Charles 10. Hell, K. It. Critchlovv, Dan Dunne, Isaac Ha-elgrove, Ha-elgrove, A. II. Kcll),S.P Armstrong, W. U. Allen, Wlllaid F. Snjder, Ru-dolph Ru-dolph AlIT, George It. Hancock, Capt. .fames Illack. 11. II. Hey wood, James Kcnnclly, .1. It. Morris, John A. Street, J. J. Stewart, A. R. Carter. Capt. Miner, J. W. Cahoon, D. Elliott Kelly, George L. N)e, J. E. Darmer, Judge Samuel McDowell, Frank A. Swenson, A. C. Reese, E. W. Kelly, William Nelson, Dr. Henry La Mottc' C. E. Offenbach, G. R. Cleaveland, Henry F. Heath, J. J. Mjers, Archibald Archi-bald Stuait and Maurice Stifel. |
