Show 14 A rr IM I I GRAND BALLY tile peoples I party rally round their stalwart stan standard dard bearer and en endorse dorse the curent principles of the Plat platform foring after Power powerful fid addresses by eio elo allent speakers our audi date WH att attend end the tile irsie of the liberal candidate on oil saturday night at numerous is lights in the city hall yard betokened some extra extraordinary y occasion soon the lively strains of music gave tone to the preparations and amidst tho the flaming torch lights A i floxd PROMS ON preceded by a mighty banner of the stare and stripes and formed by he the ogden brass bram band Fir emens brigade and arld F fourth ward br brass band all in full and find gorgeous uniform passed down fialli street tu icar near the corner of r franklin where in n front of the residence of conf S richards a hale halt was mado made and after several fine performances b by y he the bands the kro procession cession formed forme again I now n OW including lions abai C geo O Q cannon P D Rie richards bards ohn john T r caine D 11 II lorin farr arr judge dusenberry Dusenb crry S R hurman thurman cha chail IV W penrose and other distinguished citizens citizen the cortege brilliant and dignified amid the stirring sounds of martial music then passed to fourth Jou rth street to young thence to fifth up tip to maine and thence to the tile taber nacle being followed by an nil ever swelling multitude on oil arrival in tho tile tabernacle the ogden brass band discoursed the 61 stirring i rr i n t tune ull e of the tile star spangled isinger I ir while the distinguished gentlemen the platform the file vast edi edifice rice was not noly crowded to its utmost capacity but hundreds stood outside while hundreds hundred had to return with disappointment the audience was called to order by the chairman HON 11 n D ir it PEER was ivas thankful for the honor shown him and stated the object of the meeting to do good to all men irrespective of f creed and denomination after referring to tho tile peoples candidate for the bip of utah territory to the and congress who would receive the tile suf frages of the people from the rio colorado in the south to the bear lake in the north he be gave way to V F RICHARDS who I in a strong and i impressive I voice read the declaration of principles which lie premised by a vigorous and eloquent introduction in which he lie indicated the right of the sovereign sove sovereign reig agn people eliciting loud and hearty hea arty applause the reading of the platform of tile peoples party was interrupted with frequent and powerful signs of approval on the part of the audience samurl SAMUEL K was the first speaker odthe of the ev evening ehing ho ile licar tily endorsed indor sed every principle of the people s platform because they are those given to us by our foro athers of the revolution As a free son of utah lie was not ashamed to acknowledge led e the principles rin he be advocated lie ile bay had no vindictive feelings against any I living ay iy I ng roan man in fact lie was not here to discuss the merits or demerits of men but the merits of principles he ile did not believe in dirt slinging which had lind hitherto a been the monopoly liono poly of the liberal party but now that party waa was conducting the campaign in as genteel a manner mal itier as they were able to do the candidate of the liberal party was a man of ability and fair personal reputation and he lie had nothing to object to in him but to his poli political optical principles the speaker believes that tile constitution and government odthe of the united states are the greatest aud and most sublime in all the earth and the peoples party cannot afford to say anything against it the tile speaker then declared there were good principles in the peoples platform while ho lie was sorry to state that there were fewer good features in the liberal platform than in in any similar document ho he had bad ever known of while admitting that in in the liberal party there were men ef of political wis wisdom doni ho lie was sustained and by the strength of tho the peoples platform which alone prevented ills his knees from front trembling the peoples party are tire struggling for local self government and state sovereignty and here the speaker branded the liberal attempt at ostracizing tho tile whole peoples parly party as disloyal he ire also cauterized the liberal presumption in asking for disloyal and traitorous votes of the tile peoples people party tit the mart speaker then analyzed ie kibel 11 claims for the substantiation of their charges of disloyalty against the peoples party and characterized to speak in their own stylo style their pretenses na its making political capital out of falsehood speaking Sp eakin aa as a lawyer of tile law of 1862 he lie admitted it as Constitutional it having been so declared by the U S supreme court but ho lie would not go around bounding hounding the of offender renders and he here referred to the similar action b by even liberal leaders mr L thurman burman man reverting to the charge of diali disloyalty against tho peoples copes I I party challenged 11 the liberals for proof roo f calling upon eternal truth there there was wass today to day as loyal a people in the territory of utah as there ever was or lad been au anywhere abere ho ile referred to that va valiant i bant and nd gallant band the mormon battalion who had bad traversed ly r the wilderness and ruid planted the slaw stare and stripes ph on oil the tile pacific coast they biad d received acknowledgments knowledg ments for their valor such as few in military I ii tary bod bodies i es over ever hecei received ved and such are declared disloyal such are branded as traitors traitor q call on them the peoples party parts will promptly answer the nation nations a call while the liberal Li beril party will bring up tile the rear the Po people oples s party arc lire branded aa as nullifiers in the liberal platform for going peaceably into Courts to vindicate their rights right the liberal candidate stands on this pa platform ta and let liim him be pent fent to congress let him have influence and power there and anti we ire will have a congressional enactment declaring every member of the peoples t party ar t pi who goes to the tho courts to assert ins J constitutional right rights a nt nullifier I I alifier and a traitor the reaker speaker alo also denounced in deserved deservedly lit scathing terms the liberal scheme to get a commission to rulo rule utah he believes that the peo people I governed should participate in lea the administration of the tile government this is an invincible principle the protection of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the purpose of government and from these fundamental principles the tile liberal party has widely de departed part treating them indecorously in a sarcastic manner they will endure forever whatever party endorse them they areas arc as right today to day as they were a hundred years no ago P parties which ignore them will s sink u i ignominiously in the dust duat to rise no anore tho tile speaker appealed to all who loved liberty in asking them wilether whether they endorsed the action of tile lie governor in subverting tile principles of government by his late no ao tion no nol I lie here contrasted tile action of governor murray in the 1300 to outrage e with a recent expression of the sa same T lic gentleman aleman that the peopled peoples will should bo be re regarded added sovereign and lie asked where there was tre treason aton where there was nullification the speaker fully showed the injustice of tile action of the executive E and otherwise proved that there was eminently I more nullification on oil the side of afe alie liberal minority than there was on the P people s party large majority tit though oil it is vigorous applause t noy c IV si was the nex next t sp speaker lie ile was much pleased to meet at this ratification meeting political speaking was a new tiling thing to him and ho lie asked the indulgence of the audience we live under tinder what whit isaid to be a government of the tile people for the people and by iho file people having a written instrument for it applying to territories as well as states the speaker demonstrated hou the tho constitution ution extends over tho the rica as well as over the states we have been told that utah had no constitutional right enjoyed no privileges save such as the government chose to grant to her but tills this is wrong the tile congress of the united states is as much bound by tile constitution the supreme law of the land as any private individual a and even as an almighty governor is but there are even rights of man mail before all constitutions such as laid down in the declaration of independence the rights of life liberty and pursuit of happiness for wh elioso securing the constitution has been framed the speaker alen referred to the first amendment to the constitution guaranteeing to every man mail the free exercise of his religion in the mormon church there is is a prill principle against which laws have bare been enacted and to a lawyers mind the tile matter appears to have been fc fettled iett led but neither cong rem nor the supreme 11 C court have a right to infringe upon a mana mails belief or his exercise c thereof as long as tills this exercise religious belief docs does not infringe fr dge upon nav any other persons 91 life ife liberty or pursuit of happiness n es the aspea speaker ker claimed the right to criticize the acts of ev every branch of the government odthe of the I U S congress executive supreme court or even of tho tile governor of a territory we have havo a right to tr try y and show wherein even tho the gre great at solons of a supreme court have made errors we are parts of the sovereign people and still have the right rights vouchsafed to them and us by the Deel declaration of independence the people gathered into these mountains arc are destined to carry the glorious principles odthe of the U scon ution from tho tile mire and rhodust into which it haa has been dragged by demagogue sinto purity and sanctity before all nil tile worl dand the speaker hoped this people would elevate po itice government to its true sphere and pristine i I purity arity mr penrose referring tot to the FI to outcry about union of church and sli owed the fallacy of it tracing out ut the tile political working of the nomination and election of officers in utah and explaining how tile local civil offices were fill edby tile choice of the at the same time lie eloquently vindicated the right of every manbo he lie an all ecclesiastic or not to hold office and try to influence mankind for the best good this is even asserted and a I id claimed by the sectarians sect arians its all right for a methodist to hold office or for an for a catholic Catli olic but its all wrong for a mormon marmon how ilow much better would it be fur for religious god fearing men to have influence in matters of state and cleanse the filthy pool of politics the constitution prohibits the encroachment croach ment of the thel state upon nowhere it prohibits the good influence of churches in state affairs it lias has emanated from front divine providence and is built upon true s I principles I I sa 15 W I I the speaker also referred to the tile recent action taken by the sectarian churches church ca of f the country in the agitation against mormonism v 11 to which ia is due in a large nims u rethe inimical legislation against the people of utah and showed allowed how bow eager clergymen and laymen are to b bring ring church pressure to bear upon the lawmakers law makers of the nation in lit substantiation several documents of sectarian priests ask asking for political influence were adalu adduced cc before closing the speaker hoped h ed that tho tiro fire of politics now kirill kindled ed in the I hearts ica r is of the people of utah would continue coutin to burn bur n and that when we become a seail state we ire set a good example to others not infringing upon the rights of others he lie contrasted tho the great privileges of statehood and self government for which hon john T caine would valiantly contend and struggle with the oligarchy and oppression whose advocate th eLiberal candidate is and appealed to every american citizen every good business roan man whether ho he wanted to be governed in the style advocated and hoped fur for by the liberal party a commission of nine or fifteen people a government without a vote ol 01 F every v e rv man who casts a vote for tit the la latter t ter votes for his own serfdom in and vassalage with wi tit an earnest earne st advice to all big his old friends in ogden to vote for hon ilon john T caine mr penrose clofed his vigorous and vigor busl bously applauded address busic music by tho the fourth ward band JION JOHN T CAINE crne amid grand applause then addressed the vast audience udie he ile had with pleasure witnessed the kind reception with which the opening of the tile peoples political campaign had been bee n attended As the nominee nou lince of tho peoples People party sparty for the he lie felt proud of the honor lionor tl though tough not regarding the task placed upon him as one to bo be envied for many ivere tho the prejudices pr and strong the opposition to beset liim hill but inasmuch as is ho lie had lidd keen been chosen chown lie ie would tako upon himself the trust proud of of standing upon the peoples platform which bears t comparison with that of any other of our neighboring states or territories ho was not a politician nor speaker bit but t lie intended to stand by the principles of the peoples platform and to be true to the interests of the people of utah he ile then denounced I the men who arc are acting in the front rank of the liberal party political tricksters trick stere unscrupulous lous adventurers men who have nothing to lose but everything to win bit on the other hand the solid class of the non 11 mormon formon dd not practices he asked this I class havo have you ever lived any where life and property were more securely y protected never i the taxes have been light the revenues have been economically an and d honestly administered referring to the fourth section of the liberal platform the hon ilon gentleman demolished the unsubstantial el charges arges of the predominance of church over state in utah and challenged any one to prove that lie the speaker lad ever been becaj influenced by any church authors aul au hori lv ty in his calling as a legislator he ile hurled back this insinuation into tho the teeth of those who make it as an insult and a falsehood his principles arc enunciated in tile peoples platform by them he intends to livland live and by them intends to die for they arc are principles of eternal truths and all tho the charges against them will die lie as their promoters will to be known no more mr van zile bad referred to the ag as a dead man but said he lie I am not dead and judge van zile will find findle me a aver very y lively li v el i corpse and with your assistance on tho ath of november I expect to lay him out and assist at his wake long and renewed a applause lause the honorable elonor M candidate of tho the peoples party closed afterman after an earnest appeal to tho tile young men to for themselves between tile two wo platforms platforms with exhorting alic tl I c iconic e to show that they are earnest it ii I th the e vindication of the ina inalienable lielia rights and the pursuit uit of happiness liap JUDGE WARREN N X Y expected on nov noy eth to cast a vote for or the hon lil jolin john traino T caine for delegate to congress no man lad asked aim him yet to do so but as ls an american citizen lio lie purposed to exercise the rights of such ho ilo had been surprised ars ed to licar hear the arguments of our political opponents lie was ed rt |