Show PEOPLES PARTY resolutions of Ite to the retiring Off officers leers of weber couric county T A call for a new meeting of the delegates to the convention of the peoples party of weber county was cespon responded led to this morning by tho the attendance of a fair re representation presen ta of the delegates and a large number of olour our prominent citizens the meeting was called to order at 11 am nan by chairman thos D dee who briefly stated the object of the assemblage he said that a committee had been appointed by the convention of ot the peoples party to prepare an address to the retiring officers of weber county coun ty this committee was now ready to report wright chairman of the committee stated that a paper had been prepared in consonance i with the feelings of the committee and tho the instructions of the convention and at his request the secretary of the committee read the following to the honorable Fran FranU ilin inD D richards probate judge and other retiring tiring Kr of fibers of beber county GENTLEMEN on behalf of the people whose will wo voice wo we offer to you this slight tribute of appreciation the people of weber county are proud of the men who have for many years past occupied po positions tiona of trust within glicr ter confines eon fines and now that tile day is 13 almost here when you will retire for the present from active of facial life fife we cannot permit yon to take the place bf your modest modest choice without giving pi ving expression to the gratitude which we feel toward those who have served tile public with such devotion and integrity to your united efforts and the mutual work of your predecessors weber county is largely indebted for her proud tid rank of one of the beadi leading ro counties aties in the territory of utah A wise administration of 0 affairs here has made our growth in population in wealth and in ili the good reputation so necessary to public well being bein constantia progressive you have maintained us free from debt and from burdensome taxes you have provided in consonance with our revenue and population fine school facilities and have used used your best efforts to give aducat education ion to the he youth orthis of this community your end endeavor bayor has eo 0 far been that in educational matters weber county ia is a credit to the territory and a proud example to I 1 her ter si sifter counties you yon have bridged our numerous streams with structures not excelled in utah you yon have kept our roads in ili a condition not only fit for public travel but subject to con slant stant improvement yon have bave erected a fine courthouse Court housa and have given us its a reasonably extensive law library besides hiding aiding to the tile extent of your power to keep in weber county a system of public records unexcelled ill in the tile united stated you yon have worked early and late to advance our material interests without receiving adequate financial compensation and often without even due appreciation your services we lve respect and thank you for your fidelity and enterprise we regret the necessity which you feel for withdrawing from public life though we are confident that while County affairs reman remain under control odthe of the peoples parly party they will bo be administered w ith absolute honesty still wo we know that your intimate acquaintance with county business and your wise conn coun seli will be missed ve we sincerely sincere iv trust that your noble examples will be followed by your successors in order that the people may be able to do them equal honor lionor in conclusion wo we hope that the present pres t situation may inay not be perma lien nent tn but b tit that the happy day may eoon dawn lawn for utah when justice shall bedone be done when all men shall be free and equal equi and ad the people be permitted to restore yon vou to tho tile positions of con and aid honor from which they now have to regret your retirement with rood good feeling and profound respect wo we subscribe the peoples party of weber county in convention by WRIGHT 1 com c om Z KE F FJ J ca CANNON NN 0 X ja cittee at the request of chairman charles wright C lit L 1 P V j S on behalf of county officials who were 46 retiring from public life responded d to theaddy the address he ile paid a high tribute to tire the officials ci aig of aelier county ho ile said thai that under a careful ad administration ruin of affairs weber coun county ty had grown to her present strength the officers originally had been compelled to labor under adverse circumstances but the tile progress of the public had been rapid this county edlee the perfection of land titles in the town sites hero here without so much as a single case carried to the lie supreme court water rights had bad been adjudicated and by a wise action on the part of the weber county court legislative action had been stimulated and subsequently confirmed he lie regretted the retirement of staunch and tried officers in losing them and their services ve we were parting w with ith something of priceless value in public matters to his mind the abnegation of these men in in I 1 leading these positions and in sacrificing all their political rights without a amur mur mur or a contest was a most in ot feeling spectacle his concluding wish vao that the men who had bad been n nominated omina ted to succeed the officers who were now retiring would per er furia their duties as comp 84 adherence Ilie rence to public weal and aa as little tle eel ugliness as had been tho caso case with the roen men who had bad held public office offices but were no longer looker entitled to election that when the present term was ended the officials might be entitled to tho the honorable endorsement F was called for and briefly responded he did not feel proud he said of the laws which had bad forced the tho retirement ti of many worthy men but he did feel to honor those who were sacrificing all for right he spoke in complimentary compliment terms of the ad 1 dress which ho be said was calculated not only to compliment who were now leaving office out but incite those who would succeed to deeds of nobility and self sacrifice luchard ballantyne ESQ felt to appreciate the tribute of respect paid by the convention through their committee to the officers retiring and was pleased to see manifest among tho the young who are now coming forward a disposition to honor honer those who have served the public faithfully in times past during u rin his bis life as a citizen of the united gestates states he lie had bad enjoyed more libert liberty civil aa as well aa as religious than ke he had dared to expect when he left his native home hence he was not apt disappointed but wondered that what we see had been eo so long deferred the speaker referred to the exodus from nauvoo and briefly alluded to the privations of the to this place which had bad been to us a haven of rest when compared with the sufferings of the people in those days the present proscription was of trifling moment men L in conclusion he expressed the belief that those who now retire from office aa as a measure of public expediency ency could bequeath to their children ch ildron the positions pos i which they themselves had held as a legitimate heritage relying upon their integrity and ability lloy HON LORIN FARR PARR followed in remarks alluding to the address and to the present situation he said that it ought to be ba a matter of wonder that sons of revolutionary F fathers athers should be deprived of the right to hold office and to vote the object of the restrictive law yach h had been passed by Con congress gross wa was s to give t to 0 people ople who were not interested in tte the welfare of utah control of tile legislature but it was his prediction that such an effort would fall fail but it waa was possible that congre as was not yet through with this ae legislation I 1 in that case ewe there were further aurther sacrifices to be made by the citizens of thia community but the result would be the same justice would triumph young men wet were c bein being brought fok forward and th they Y would be trained lo 10 public duties it would be their office however to study the light of their predecessors and the example of older men F for or himself he wanted no praise nothing that could be said of spoken by the tongue of a cicero or written in letters of gold could add to his reputation among the people that must rise or fall by his merits I 1 ho ile thanked god for proscriptive enactments not the men who framed edthe them mand and he sincerely trusted that they might have their purifying in effect that sin might be put dg down wn and righteousness established CHA CHAISES WRIGHT chairman of the committee which had prepared the address said that the paper was designed to be b a tribute of praise not only to the men choto day were retiring from office but to those who had bad held eld official positions in times past and had re tired or who were by congressional enactment precluded from holdin holding If office fice his wish was that the af address might meet this situation men had bad been compelled to retire from public office because a congressional enactment was against them not because th the 0 voice 0 of r th alie e people bad consigned them to poll poli obscurity ho he hoped that the men who were le leaving these walks in life would accept this tribute that their success successors sors might do equally well and that finally the rule of justice might be bor restored and cincu elected to office who would voice the tile people and fulfill their wishes to the fullest extent after afler this a few remarks followed the address was accepted as the feeling of the convention and ordered published with these in minutes in the ogden III atal ai JUDGE AARON F FARK formerly probate judge of this colin county after repeated calls responded 0 aided he said that he felt highly I 1 Y complimented by th the e address and thorah possibly he might not take an active voice in the forthcoming election I 1 liis lis sympathies would be with the people because ho he indorsed endorsed indor sed the tile nomination which had been made applause was liberally bestowed A motion to adjourn prevailed and this meeting of alio delegates of abe convention of the peoples Part parly and citizens cit fzens was dispersed ic |