Show they meet in Terri territorial torii d convention COnVenti oll of clubs A GRAND GATHERN k the territorial league 0 perfectly perfect organized 1181 REIGN dt while ik sound principles and deep reason joined in the 8 1131 i ROSWELL 0 BORE LITHIUM great at for to pa be SM log la in the a jessers 85 parlina farline and dorr borr for afternoon and licking lic Elen ning lagi the great republican day of utah territory occurred yesterday it was a day of e enthusiasm and happi u the earnest wishes of being permitted here in utah to launch out on a aea with the ships the same rudder rn diler the same dangers storms and pleasures which have characterized the birth and growth of the republican party bad had at last been fulfilled the tile patriots cheered and rejoiced it was the occasion of the territorial convention of clubs the first ever held in utah A business session was held in the morning and continued until 4 p m A league ot 01 clubs was organized through the territory with officers who will make the organization a grand success A committee on resolutions and platform is at work and will report today to day A grand mass meting was held in the evening rowell 43 hart of michigan addressed the people he told more in fewer words and in the most pleasing and acceptable manner than the people of oden thought it pul blo for any man to do it was in to every sense an entertaining educational meeting today to day at 9 a m the officers and executive committee of the league formed yesterday will meet at the reed hotel parlors AC at 10 a m the convention will continue its session the platform will be presented discussed and adopted at 2 p m a grand mass meeting will be held at the opera house congressman horace F bartine of nevada an acknowledged national nations speaker will address ail dreas the masses gathered from all parts of ol the territory at 8 p m ex congressman horr will delight the people with his peculiarly culi call arly happy exposition of the gr grand nd republican principles everybody should attend it is an opportunity ofa of a lifetime one that should not be missed the oden bat band kd will aid materially in in making the day one of unalloyed pleasure hundreds of people whose interest has his been awakened will arrive from all parts of the territory as delegations from almost every county ap sp feared yesterday it WAS a day of fencing reN cing a featt euch such as but few can withstand and one which delighted even democrats though galling to their principles the territorial con convention vent ion of clubs opened in the grand opera house yesterday morning at 1030 10 30 sometime previous to that time large numbers of delegates had gathered holds band of salt lake like was stationed in front of the opera house discoursing music while kents military band of ogden paraded the streets with banners there were delegates from nearly every county in the territory Teni tory while many visitors accompanied the delegations gat ion ions e the stage was nicely set and here and there flowers made the settings superb through the failure of securing the flowers promised on time the decorations were sere not as elaborate as bad been anticipated the word welcome a bung hung over the stage in evergreens ever greens mesdames 31 N X graves E AI allison and 0 11 mcclure deserve the highest braise praise tor for their efficient services on decoration ec oration the orchestra circle was filled with delegations while the circle contained a good sprinkling of spectators there on oil the stage col alien allen miller frankj 1 rank J C cannon annon A J bailey A 6 bishop ben den E illch rich D II 11 baldridge A II 11 heywood 0 11 mcclure Mc Olure of ogden john henry smith john morgan 0 IV bennett jales james devine jsmes sharp john at zane of silt salt lake james T I 1 ll I 1 ammond of logan 0 F basen olsen of lot hyrum B I 1 bjones 1 jones of brigham cit City Y and wm balderston Bali Ball erston of the th aimel salt lake mr frank J cannon called the convention to order by reading the call alt and introducing col alien miller so temporary chairman col miller in his ear earnest riest and impressive manner said gentlemen of the convention I 1 thank you it Is an honor anywhere to preside over a convention of republicans republic public ans but here it is doubly GO so applause A little over four months ago in a territory approaching two hundred and fifty thousand people there was not a republican club in the territory there was not a republican organization to be found anywhere the doctrines of the party were not taught to the people the charge was made iterated and reiterated that a vast majority of this two hundred and fifty thousand thoua and people were all aliens to our gov government and un american in principle this an orallous Ora olous and peculiar elate state ot of clairs flairs ex existed fated here a little over four months ago what was the condition touching the material interests of the i territory T nearly half a century ago people against whom this charge was made bad had made their way over and I 1 through a thousand miles of 0 desert waste in peril from rom thirst in peril from hunger in peril from the savage onslaught of the indians they finally eat sat down in these valleys then covered with nothing bat but sagebrush the home of the savage and wild beast and nd the still more bavage bavage aborigine so dry and arid and were the soil and climate that it seemed as it an ocean ocea a would be required to satisfy sati 0 fy their thirst torrente torrents there were I 1 in n abundance fed rm the enow snow capped mountains that surrounded them th am without any experience in irrigation or a knowledge of ita its principles plea with a patience born of necessity and yet halt half divine they chained those moun mountain tala torrente torrents to the thirsty plain and the prophecy of scripture was fulfilled tul ful filed the desert did blossom as the rose applause take these valleys surrounded by these mountains and their potency tor or production prod action is immeasurable M aas and d almost inconceivable va his take these mountains with their pre prep CIRUS cious metals only awaiting the developing ping hand of man to supply the world with an abundance of gold and silver with mountains of iron ore so pure within twenty miles of where we now stand that the smith with a little I 1 I 1 tt to skill from the raw material might place it upon his anvil and hammer out a razor that would split a hair situated midway between the Blis surl river and the pacific ocean oc a n with the mighty trunk lines of ie railway a ll 11 crossing the continent and passing through our gateways what shall we become when the stamp mill and the steel rail rall mill beall sit bit down in our midst when they come and they shall acutely come for god in h his Is divine wisdom has so ordered it they will come to stay applause for the sake of argument tl that at the mormon people are aliens to our government and un american then what have the teachings and aid doctrines of the republican party par lost I 1 0 their efficacy are there any all doctrines e known to civilization better calculated to impart love of country and patriotic sentiment than the teachings and doctrines of the republican party if there ia Is salvation for any people for any class of people in a political sense that salvation lies in the lines of the the republican party applause I 1 deny that the mormon people are aliens to this government and un ameri can and I 1 here assert that th the e cha charge ge is a caluen calumny conceived fo for r bassand base and interested purposes seo applause I 1 here say in presence of this gilead assembly that in my simple judgment there is no place in these united states where the investment of capital is more secure than right here in the territory of utah there is no place in tha them united united states where a better return for that investment can be looked for and I 1 further say after investigation and due consideration that my mature judgment is that the permanent source of the gold and silver not only of the united states but of the wl whole 1019 world lies within the bowels of t the majestic mountains of this great and ad grand territory applause the republican party was organized as a barrier against the aggressions gres of the slave power the tile i immortal m lincoln declared that there wae was an irrepressible between freedom and slavery that the government could not exist bait half free and aa of halt hall slave either freedom must cease to coexist exist or slavery must die applause when the republican parly party was born there was wits not one foot of ground i round on all the earth where mm man c could ou id stand erect and thank his god that hat oppression oppression r ruled it not not one true england G land had long asbed the traffic in human beings she h bad had struck the fetters fro from m the flipps of her black slaves in all her bar colonies but the poor and down trod den of her own soil and her own color were dominated by a lordly aristocracy here in this country which bore the proud beast 1 of the land of the free there was upon the statute books of the nation a law known asibo as the fugitive slave law it was made a penal offence to assist harbor or conceal the poor slave who was fleeing from the united states to find freedom under a british flag agrest A great 11 majority of the democratic party then said if you do not continue this state 0 of I 1 affairs we will divide the union and form a government of our own every state which entered into the c confederacy and accepted that constitution with slavery and free trade as organic law are solidly democratic today to da day the republican party re replied 0 this cc continent nent this grand and d re mighty continent has been let eat apart by the band of the lord for the freedom and redemption of man and we will make it so pure that a slave cannot breathe in it without being free the republican party strong in the justice of its cause with abiding faith in almighty god with its eye 11 e steadily fixed on the polar star of fr freedom odom grappled with secession and rebellion and and crowned its efforts with victory though a herculean task applause it planted the flig flag on the ramparts of the greatest the grandest the freest and hap happiest vell t nation of all the earth where it floats oats today beloved at home and respected abroad it gathered up the credit of the nation from the slums alums and gaiters 0 of I 1 insolvency and bankruptcy it picked up the constitution ail all honeycombed with treason remodeled and redeemed it and mule made it speak the truth it wiped out every fetter on the human race ah my democratic friend I 1 know I 1 have baen on ground which holy it be makes me keg democratic feet uneasy I 1 know I 1 am reading from a book who whose pages contain the brightest ch chapters p te A I 1 in the history of the tile republic do not tell to shut but up the lids 0 of that book do not flaunting fla flaunt in our faces your outrageous simile of the bloody shirt you need not ask us to forgive we have forgiven with a mercy so godlike and divine as to fill 11 all the nation of the earth with wonder after spending five billions of treasure after sacrificing five hundred thousand of the noblest and best blood of the nation such a monument M en t of forgiveness and mercy is unique and alone in the worlds history do not ask us to forget know you not that the book which you ask us to close forever contains the name of the immortal lincoln know you not that and Ha and and chases are written there together with a host boat of other 7 know you not that the beok yon you ask us no to close forever contains the name of the greatest soldier the world has ever known ulysses 8 grant applause know you not the names of sherman of sheridan of of thomas together with a host of others are written there ob do not ask no my democratic friend ti to forget the names and the deeds of our h irdee tt ey belong to the republic sod they are pan part of c it its grandeur and glory they belong to your our 1 children child blomen thes and nick mine and sy a long on as an patriotism and find love lev 0 of country co hall shall exist they will not be forgotten and now my ray friends to you ano i h have but lately joined the republican ranks in this territory I 1 will say BAY that the two great cardinal principles ol 01 0 1 I 1 the republican party are first the equality of all men before the I 1 law w no matter what their race their cal color or or their creed applause TheBe the second cond principle ie Is protection to american I 1 industry plan n of u t rl and lA JA merican labor applause P protection to the america american citizen at home and abroad we have built up in this country a temple of I 1 liberty euch such as the world waver saw before the fathers of the republic laid tle foundation of the edifice the republican party erected the superstructure and adorned it with every trophy of libet liberty ty known to mod ern civilization within that temple there are no reserved beate as a ts no pro boxes from w which aich lordly wealth may flaunt ita its robes in the eyes of the poor true they may dress themselves in their silks an and 1 their eating but it if they do not want to get them soiled they must take them out cut of the way when the soot seat be grimed blacksmith enters to lay bis his offerings on the altar of liberty applause the republican party of the Nati nation aske the men of utah to join with it in the protection of thle great temple of liberty will you do it aye aye were heard in response 0 H mcclure secretary of the ogden and weber county republican club was ejected elected temporary secretary re on motion tho the chair named B 11 II jones of box elder J K R carter of morgan heber dwells of salt lake A R Iley wood of ogden and joseph unwell of cache county as committee on credentials on motion the chair named 0 IV bennett of salt lake J E bagley of ogden PM FM lyman of rocele 1 don dan 0 johnson of springville Spring ville ana and T B critchelow of bait salt lake like aa as committee on pern permanent anent organization and order of business hon lion john henry smith was wag called for he ile said it has been the dream of my life to see utah a republican state great applause I 1 can see no chance for the growth and spread and development of this country e except x by the adoption of the principles principle enunciated by lincoln the voice of battle is hushed and the voice of peace has spread over the land today to day it is a question of internal improvement and the development of all industries I 1 believe the mission of the republican party in utah will be fraught with success that the young people will choose wisely and my dream be 0 realized james devine was called for he ile said this is not a time for speech making but one of a business campaign we are not here to tell why we are republicans but to educate and convert the wavering those who are investigating I 1 congratulate the people of ogden ie its their boldness in oming coming forth and dispelling the local issues issues that bad made political life unbearable and taking the first step toward national organization applause pl ausel toe opposition in salt like lake rou well know it is the as was ran annchen ann anti ched against the republican party on its inception and will fail as that opposition did john morgan on being called said the doctrines of the republican party need no eulogy from me too the history of the past is its monument the idea had gone abroad through the nation that the movement is a ruse on the part of the mormon people I 1 say it t is not true and that the mormon people mean just a t wl what hat they say and thoth hat they ey are far r from being alienated from their loyalty to the federal government ern ment I 1 see before me general minty whose flag I 1 followed for three long ong years |