Show 0 I LETTER BY HENDERSON The Judge Gives His Record and Views I1r I tlhr tnsevlwratnr free 1Inagp r wilier al the lisle I nrln I I n4 111hnt Nallrag rah ra-h Ali ar nrnt nr ray ltiter aalatJ lark to the 1Iln hcr the hhln tremenl and 4JIvu III run In iitmnerail wentlo Nice I ThlllTh Pg le eaveatln od tither The continued taulti by Impllca lion upon the direr record nt Judge llenderton he writes the Tribune ac follnwt Editor Trlbunei In the local I column xil your piper there hit recently ap peered various articles lilting or at feast Intimating that I im not In accord with the Chicago platform on the silver gnetton III 1e t not 10 much whit Iou been ilJ In brie articles directly but by held linen Intimations my want of fealty neller hit Iron day to day since h rtly liter the recent election been repeated The aiterllon that I am not In favor of free coinage 01 silver it the ratio 01 ir > lot It untrue fans In fivor of It I tKllfve t that It It fur the belt Interest 01 hepeople nl the Untied Stales and whhrmt walling fine the aid car consent ol any other nation mil tint It U I ol paramount par-amount Importance In any and all other lone and II entrutlrrl with any pol l Him In which I have any voice In the miner I hall do all In mr power to tiring IOU tint renal at soon at pol his t hive belo on the slump In every campaign deer the organisation ol the lemucrlle patty nn nttanl Ilna In Utah and eipeelilly j have I I been uglier In Slits work I during the taut three earn l > aljn iml I do not believe there U a man who hat heard me discuss political iuntlont during that time that had any Imrtrt on the subject I hive advocated It hens l as well it In Michigan where 1 hue made a visit every summer t vat In Michigan when ttryan wit nomln ald arriving there tint very day and I untie a number ol tpeechet there and myMillion on the subject was well understood un-derstood and wit commented on by the papers throughout the State 1rlor to the fast campaign In Utah there hat been no litue at to the merit ol surer The only question hat beenAt which ctl tins two parties the Democratic or Republican was and would etentually be proven to be the silver party I have believed and hive to argued and Insist + t lint the Deniocrille party wit lIt patty that would eventually be found to toe the surer party and I have tinted and a tocated during all theses jjiilgui all sliver men to remain In I It and Hand by It fur that reason and that doe 1ultllcan party would In the end tJe found to opposed to It In your hue ol lilt Sunday you vuullih a purported Interview with Mr Weber ol Ogden with headline Indlcat Ingllut I was on record against sliver and opposed direr resolution because 1 might return to Michigan and run < 4f Con Ire and didnt want to be coin mlm4 In this Interview Mr Weber Web-er assumes to tell hit recollection at to what took place Jive or tU years ago July 15 1891 In a cournlltee room at a county convention being held at he alsys4Ogden I In February before that aiiemyteii and a large number 01 cur moat Weber county decided to Issue a ciU for a linn convention to be held I at Ogden on the find day ol February for the purpose ol orginlilng the Demo cvatlc part of Weber county upon Na 101111I1 party llnet without regard to part amilalloni llefore that meeting occurred myself with a few othcri who dead boon prominent In that movement itrt together for the purpose of arranging arrang-ing the details for the convention and It WAIl Irrd that an aJJrett and Hate main principles should be prepared One ol the gentlemen not mytell greed to prepare a draft for another n11I1I to 1M held before the convert don Thais was done and a Might or two before the contention we met and eecdered It When we came to the cur icy cutMiaii the article propote was not ratliftctory to all and a 1 tee c mtlderible talk the article prupoic wa xrlckan out and the late Judge tlsfth who was present drafted a mo tudor which was ullifietorv In all and rasa geed upon It was H follows Moth We believe that the currency lit been Improperly and wrongful contracted and that the Interettt 01 commerce now demand a greater 01 ante of 1 money and we favor niaUn the necessary Increate by the free coinage coin-age nl liver bulllo Into money And U wat agreed that this should bIn presented b-In the convention for ratlflca inn The convention was held Th es i ralton vat presented end adopted oa Ir us It was written and I was l ed the permanent chairman of the iirganUallonth furor of the kind r territory Mi recollection itt theme j It It I relrethed br the fact that i i In my paiaeiilun iha mlnuui and r ail drab ol tltete resolutions ant d 1 an-t tghal rtolutln In tM hand h r tgLJudgNmlth 11 n Majr aoUowlag the ceitral aomnt t ii j Trrftorv was called together fur the pnrrxwe ol iHcmtlng the gnrs lion at to whether the JIvMon move 1 men as k I was called should l be accepted It and whether then t epted by 1 w Invite all the people ot the Territory lo the party At that meetlnR It wan dr clded by a majority to do to a minor Icy going out of the meeting and or anlilng a new committee claiming toe > to-e the regular ortanliitlon From i that lime the contest as to hleh was regular and which wit entitled to rec gnltlon by the National Ihmt > rae y was continued until It wit flnilly de 1 deed md settled In Chicago In 1891 I The Territorial committee In pursue nee ol lit dttermtnitlon called for a convention 10 beheld In Salt Lake on July 101891 In Weber county a convention I enllon wn called for the 15th ol July to nominate members 10 the Iegliliture and 10 send delagahes to that convention This lathe convention to which Mr Weber alludet and I tee from the pub ihed records of that convention on the sliver quettlon It said We demand the free and unlimited coinage of sliver Into money ° I wit elected a deligite to the State convention and attended Goy Well W II King F S Richard Jones lion Elder IIo Kurd of Sinpete Judge Sutherland J I lliwllnt Adamt of Ion and myself were appointed a com mltte on resolution The seventh ar tide of the platform wan We favor the full reiteration of silver to the potion po-tion It occupied In our National cur reedy before lit demonetliatlon by the Republican party This was only five days alter the convention alluded to by M r Weber The following October a convention was held here In Silt Lake to organize the Democratic society ol the territory an11 I was elected lit preildent In June 189 a territorial convention was held at Ogden at wldh tale Caine and my sell were elected delegates to Chicago The platform had the follow Ing IPWe We fiver the full retloratbm of silver Ui the rxHlllon It occupied In our National currency tyttem hclore lit monelliatlAn by the republican par tl October Jlh 1891 a drmncrallc con notion to nominate a delegate to Congress Con-gress met at Provo at which Mr Itaw line was nominated far Congress It contained the following Fourteenth We look upon the de nnellutlon of llrcrhy the Itepubll can party In 187 at a crime and demand de-mand the reitoritlon of the while metal lo III proper potlllon atapirtolj the National currency At to all these conventions except the flrtt I refer to the published account ac-count In the dally papers I recollect all thee convention In a general way The details ol them I do not remember I rememberlhe convention of July it I 891 at Ogden at I do the other I hue no recollection of my delalli bout the reioluttont nr any opposition front any one or ol being In the com mlttet room I Informed by Judge Itolapp that he hat no recollection of any such convention at It I mentioned bl Mr Weber and he nyi to me Hut If any such episode occurred he would hue remembered It understand hat Irol Lewis says the time It will he teen from this statement that I was thoroughly Idrntlrted with the movement and Hut I could not trace had any such motive at that excited ex-cited by Mr Weber The territorial contention wat to be held fi odii lereafter What thlght hive been deemed beat at that time at to resole Ions by that convention I ilo not know but I did nnt give at a reaton for iinpot log this or any other resolution nr fur taking any step In relation toll that 1 IIIlaht 110 to Michigan and run for con rett I had hid an opportunity to run forcongreit In Mlcnlgan bifnrr I I ante to Utah and I wit urged In be l > come a cindldite alter that lime In lull when a nomination was the allle tan election The reiotutloni pined by that Ogden convention of which he speaks are no stronger thin the ones patted In Ieb uiry or those patted five days alter wards The truth Ii I that the User question In those days was not the vita issue In our politic We had lora quettloni which we were dealing with hat absorbed the attention of everybody every-body The great and only question a t hat time wat of the Hunt of I the people 10 become Identified with the two great parties Thli waa the light we had all land The right was alBtmed on one tide and denied on the other and two organliatlont were claiming recogn tlon from the rational party Nobody olned or refrained from joining the Democratic or Republican poly on the quettlon of silver Phase who belletet In I the right of tit teople regardless 01 what they had been In the pan to become be-come Identified wild National quettlun either joined the Damixrill or Kpllb Mean party at they uw fit Current Na tonal politic were net much considered consider-ed or illtcutted between the parties lIa the all ol 191 I had no thought at any time ol running run-ning for congests or for ant other offie 1 MI fully IdentlRed with the more men and whatever was dobe wa tone to meet the iota which we then had In ban and which war then before ut WII were especially anxlotit that the qua ton ol the right otthe people to illy Ion I-on party Hut ahoijM l be pretented nn I merit unitUsed < with any other que I tlon Regarding tbecnnvrntlor C r I 1tM oHrr t 1891 wl i Mr Rawlint inininatcd I writ remember tha r ihort tlfflf Morel he convention In n h r elty of Ogden Mr Weber eiprettei a nr a dealt to go to thr contention and tIn t-In case he did iollclti l my conteni t pretent my name i I candidate for 1 gate At I remember It Mr Wer had only jest acme to the territory Since I removed irons Ogden lie rears ago I lone had no parllrula ac qualntance or relitlonwllh Mr Weber I hive no meant of knowing except whit It I ittteJ In hit purported Interview Inter-view what hit opinion It I at to my democratic dem-ocratic faith nor am Ipiftlculirly concerned con-cerned about It I should not mention the Incident oc curing In 1891 but for the motlvei n crlbed to me by Mr Weber In conclutlon deilre to say that I do not believe that the prosperity so much advertised will not come to the country except through the remontll ration 01 direr at demanded by the Chicago platform fours II P Ilisnimov |