Show GRAND BALLY RALLY of tile peoples party at lynne oct 1882 I an enthusiastic ratification meeting nice t was held in lynne precinct oct 1882 at p in the large schoolhouse was filled to over overflowing flowing on the platform were the hon D 11 peery jus jos stanford edwin stratford james jame taylor job pingree and win van dyke esis from ogden city and prominent gentlemen of the peoples party from lynne slaterville Slat erville mar sand harrisville noy u ir PEERY acting chairman tho the chairman explained that the object of the meeting was to endorse the peoples platform which would be read and to ratify the nomination of the lion hon john T caino caine as the people s delegate to the and of the united states it became the duty of every man who loved liberty and equal rights to take nn an active part in making certain the election of the peoples nominee the liberal party desire to manipulate nip the government of the I territory and to handle the public funds of which the most blatant of that party did not pay a dollar while the liberal party attacked our educational system to make capital for their cause it was patent to every man who had bad investigated the subject that our schools were an honor to the territory the status of education in many of he the t states and Terri territories tor ies possessing perhaps perlin greater facilities is not equal to teat that of utah JAMES TAYLOR TAY LOIl ESQ rud the platform of the tile peoples party which was received with loud and prolonged applause EDWIST EDWIN STRATFORD ESQ said the platform of principles you have heard read was adopted at salt lake city by a convention of the peoples party composed of delegates from all parts of the territory they arc a re principles princia I ca that I have believed in from my boyhood to the present time I was told in england that the people in america had z right to vote f for or the president of the united states and all their public servants and to exercise local self government but it never has been the case in utah our governor appointed by the I president and confirmed by the senate possesses absolute veto power I and can nullify any bill enacted by the territorial legislature in idaho the legislature can carry a measure by a two thirds majority over the governors veto not t so in utah there have been here governors who have vetoed every bill enacted by the legislature for the welfare of the people our U S judges prosecuting attorneys ac are foisted upon us without our consent our having the shadow of a it voice in ift they theis election selection wo we havo have now nowa a governor who claims that he is the end of all law and that it amounts almost to treason to do otherwise than he be orders or to test in the courts acts of Congress While he should perform without partiality y tho the functions of his office offic in the interest of the whole people cople he be stumps the territory in Z the interest of a email small faction and denol inces and ignores the majority of the community who aro are loyal and law abiding citizens I have broken no law of tho the united states and the tens of thousands comp composing a the peoples party in utah are alike free from from guilt under any U S statute or territorial law we are arc then loyal and law abiding the hon ilon P T van zile came here bere for his salary he knows but little about the people of utah and judging 10 from his expressions is is an enemy to tho the masses of the people yet yei he wants to represent us in contreas Con greas the moat most prominent liberals contribute but smallie smal lif any amounts to the public funds yet they are the most clamorous to manipulate and control them this fraternity hold under the government all the principal offices and want to supplant by fraud all our local officers we must sustain for our officers men who have something at stake have built up the country and will properly represent us JOSEPH STANFORD ESQ Q took hold of the Lili liberal eral platform plank by plank and broke the rotten fabric into fragments he ile showed that thead the administrative istra tive and political concerns of the territory were managed accord T ing to the laws aws enacted under the territorial charter by the Terri territory tor ial legislature and signed by the governor the church had bad not exalted itself above the state but had ever been formost in the just administration of the laws he denounced noun cedas as false the assertion that the mormon ormon power destroyed tho the freedom of the citizen op or sought to control his ballot or prompter prompted men to defy the law or shielded crimi nals it did not discourage immigration or settlement upon the i public lands ands by parties not not its own adherents adlien ants non hadnot had not been driven riven from the common do main by violence commerce was free to all without any obstruction from the mormon ormon f power taxation was justly and anti equitably ad administered and public officers are required b by y law to give and do give satisfactory accounts of the tile disbursement of public funds sectarian tenets were no not t ta taught lit in the public schools beit neither er were the teachers licensed by tho the Wo mormon rmon priesthood he followed on through u h the c vile slander until bk the abi liberal ral pretense pretense of a platform vanished ake pike the baseless 11 I fabric of a vision caving not even wreck behind james ta taylor alor job pingree and wm win I Dyke E esis seq IV were ere t alio li e next speakers the they mam maintained t stin e the tha principles declara declared in run tur S and denounced and to be utterly false also f the accusations made by liberala lib i era I s against a i 11 the peoples candidate to we regret r et that space will wilt not admit of a fa full al report of their remarks ED EL HERALD after an enthusiastic endo endorsement of the peoples platform three ringing in g cheers were given for TION JOHN T CAINE i our standard bearer to the and congress of tho the united states and the meeting adjourned |