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Show GOVERNOR SPRY'S INAUGURAL Kj ADDRESS Governor William Spry is not a K: hd fellow, hut lio has some tremend. fl out conceits as to his own Importance, ' H coupled with a very poor opinion of! I those w ho fall to Be in the governor I I the roncentrated wisdom of the ages 1 Yesterday, in his Inaupurnl address. J B (he governor devoted much time to KJ lamenting oer the stupidity of t00S6 Nfj -who cannot sec the politienl situation as he does, and he broke into a halle- Kf lujah when he came to that part in HL hit oration which was a review of the gHB lost election, saying M "Rallying to the popular crj of jHH Met the people rule,' without though! gaM:1 of the fact that the people alreadj 8j rule and without question or how un- H der a new plan the) might rule, Hj of our countrymen have been swept from their feet ro all hut a renuncla- gggQB tiOD of that God-given instrument KgggQgfl which alone is responsible for all that HBb we are and all thru we possess as MH a nation Thank God. the people of gggggggf Utah hate not been carried away b H the spirit of revolution that baa been M rampant the land: God fori jgggflggf their sanity in evidencing a belief In 1 H the constitution and the principles of' gHf truth and Justice UDOn which It LggaK based: thank God for their loyaltj gggfH and stalwart patriot Ism in supporting the established instrumentalities fori Lggaggg: the enforcement of law and order 09 thank God for this convincing testi- gggrfifi mony of their aversion ti the doctrine) HnH of control by might over rich i . and gggnH their continued I o n 1 1 to n stem of BBBtil civil government as nnclinnceahli- as I the er principles of Republican gov. rnment themselves. Thnnk God the j people of Utah are not unacquainted I with the blind injustice of popular ; clamor Law and order and the court I I of final appeal- the consflutlon have I staved rhe popular hand when if has I baan mlsed acalnst thorn contrirv to the standard of justice and rtghl Thev have felt the potent Influence of that Internment in establishing nd malntainlne their civil richts when a majoi-ltv of the people would have tiken them away " That would he called ' hocwash" down In Georgia Two-thirds of the citizens of the state of T'tah voted against Governor Spry and President 1 I, Taft The governor carried the state hv reason of the fact that two-thlrcs ; .' of rhe voters did not unite on one candidate in opposition to him, an. that is true of Taft Does the governor gover-nor pretend to sa this ts proof T'tah oted confidence in either himself or j4 the Republican party? What a rich egotism one must ) os-nese os-nese who. receiving only one-third of the vote of the state, accepts his minority support as evidence Iha the Creator played a most important pa. t In his election' The people of rtah are r.s height I as the people of other states and thev 1 Are demanding as much Tlic know j!S that the original constitution of tho United States proved so fn.- short of answering the purposes of the na-. na-. tion, as new problems arose, that , 1 twelve amendments were made even prior to the Civil war and three r.l. amendments have ben adopted since then Ibj than two vears after the orlg-k orlg-k f lnal constitution was promulgated, the document wa founl to he so de- 'i fielent that, to conduct the govern-H govern-H ment properly, twelve amendments were proposed, and ten v, er ador ted. Then on December 1 1703, the m; Eleventh amendment was passed. M On October 7, 18m. the Twellth amendment wag found necessnrv. December 5. 1864, the Th'Meenlh amendment was passel On Decomher 4, 18i5H, at the close Of th war, the Fourteenth amend-W amend-W ment was proposed nnl ."inally ratt- fied on July 21. 18G.? The last amendment was adopted on if March 30, 1869. Now what constitution does Gover-i Gover-i nor Spry refer to. th.? original constitution con-stitution with its seven articles, or the constitution that has been changing chang-ing ever since the foundati.n of the government, according to our require, raents and the shifting conditions of the times? The governor runs awaj with the idea that he and his comparatively I small group of pollti-Ml reactlonai iea have all the honor, all the patriotism, 'and the prescience of th country,! land that those who ir propoced J needed reforms are ;o be classed so dangerous although some of the brightest minds of "b. nation ar j among the reformer arm men r.t the highest patriotism are identified with I llie cause of popular rule- We presume the governor Ind in, mind. In speaking of th attack-- on the constitution, the demand ior the initiative and refcrenduii', not knowing know-ing that the supreme court of the United States had declared tho?e principles oi government to be whol-lv whol-lv within the bounds of the constitution. constitu-tion. The governor should have seme one censor his inaugural a Idresscs. |