| Show co MAJ r NOUNNANS I TALK I Tit Band Plays the Major Speaks i and the People Listen if 1 f The Principle of Free Speech With Mention of the Local Issues Agramoiito Introduces Prof XcKee Who Winds Up Democracy nnd the Meeting Too I I According to I announgcment Major James H Nounnan last evening held his Democratic meeting in front of the Federal II I Fed-eral Court House The Camp Douglas Band which for some time previous to j I the opening of the meeting had been driven around the city in a drag discoursing I dis-coursing patriotic airs and thus drumming up the populace occupied a position on I the balcony and rendered some fine music I mu-sic sicAt At about S50 oclock Major Nouunan i who for fifteen minutes previously had j been seated in a chair on the balcony i wrapped in his summer clothes and a j brown study was aroused from his reverie j rev-erie by frequent yells from the immense crowd below for his appearance and I without waiting for the election of any I I chairman or secretary strode to the front t I and commenced t address his auditors His speech taken verbatim by a DEMO CRAT reporter was as follows I MAJOU KOUNNASS SPEECH j FellowCitizen This i simply 1 rebuke I to the abridgment of free speech This is not 1 movement of my own seeking I am I not in the habit of speaking publicly and uniformly avoid doing so and I dont wish j to thrust my thoughts upon other people when they dont want them On last Saturday night I visited a Democratic I Demo-cratic meeting and was called upon by the populace to speak on that occasion Mr I Bamberger who is a member of the Democratic Demo-cratic County Committee as well as a member 1 mem-ber of the Democratic club refused to suffer me to speak after having taken the stand i and laid down a proposition of the issues that are pending here Now our election is rapidly approaching and it is necessary we I should be energetic and thoroughly understand I under-stand the propositions involved in it I The abridgment of free speech is one I that moves the pulse of every Amer I ican Free speech free thought and a free I I press are the great levers of American liberty lib-erty and wherever it is in the least abridged i it tells badly for our civilization Asformy 1 Democracy no man doubts it and Mr Bam berger should have made proper apologies I for his conduct on that occasion not only tome to-me but to 1 his party I waited for three days and 110 apology came I then solicited this meeting The next day Mr Bamberger II made all apology to me personally and between be-tween him and myself there is no personal difference but he thinks that he didnt insult in-sult the party that he then and there represented I repre-sented He should make a public apology to the party I Now the Democratic party has for the first time in the history of Utah placed in the field a Democratic ticketa straight Democratic ticket composed of good men good pure and true men who are thoroughly identified with the country One of the men at the head of that list 11 C Chambers is I a man who has expended as much money and is giving employment to more men today to-day than any fifty men in the Peoples party and i continuing to do it in the development develop-ment of the lesources of our country and the building of railroads He has been in flip nnrmtrv snrnn fiftflpn v nrs Holivnr I Uoberts Wanother He has been a citizen here for thirty year and is thoroughly identified iden-tified with the country These men I would uphold and encourage for they deserve the support of every loyal American in this county and Territory On the other hand our only known opponent is the Peoples party They have with one exception f well there is one man on that ticket that is i I a good man if he was not in that party but j the Peoples party is really governed and I controlled by a priesthood uniting in their I I body all the elements of a Church and State This is contrary not only contrary but i is subversive of the liberties of the American people It is a proposition that is offensive to any American Now there are thousands of men in the Peoples party who should not bo there They should take and read for themselves take the Democratic platform plat-form and the Constitution of the United i Stats take them home and read those i things and I commend to them also the I Edmunds bill Laughter and applause And they should gel those off by heart Now how many men and women are j there in the Peoples party that have ever read the Constitution of the United I States Not one hardly in a thousand is I familiar with the Constitution of our COUl try I and its laws Now I have been here a long i time some eighteen years a resident of this Territory and 1 know just as well as you all I know that there is no comparison between these parties One is purely American in all its elements mid there should bonn division I among the Americans in this Territory Every man who is a lover of his country should stand firm and true to the party and to the country here The Peoples pary party are really so much in the hands of the priesthood priest-hood that they are not permitted to think for themselves nor act for themselves and when the truth is told they contradict it and even after admitting the truth sometimes their journals will deny it I Now I was struck with an article in last veuiiiigsiesrref NIl alluding to the speech 1 I of Mr Kawlina criticizing the conduct of I I the Legislature here in not passing laws I against immoral conduct The Deseret Neies I admitted the fact and gave as a reason for i that the Legislature might get a great many of their own people who were living in polygamy into trouble including mem hers ot the Legislature themselves who were polygamists Well they have been unfaithful unfaith-ful to the interests of the countrytheir I I Legislatures and in almost every official ever ofcial capacity The statutes of this Territory are just simply an evidence of the imbecility imbecity and incompotenoy of our former representa I HYPS tves I Now what we want i to stand shoulder to shoulder in this country Every man who is I lover of his country should stand fn I with the Democratic party here in Salt Lake The principles of Democracy are neither circumscribed nor circumcised The Te I Democratic platform is broad enough it is long enough it is high enough for any i American to stand on This is a turnout gentlemen that I had I no idea of You dont know how grateful I am to you gentlemen to sec you here but I i would not have requested this meeting if I I II had postponed the notice of it for one day longer but my friends all over town took it up and just simply because it is a priuci prnci plo that is dear to every American I night I thank you gentlemen very much Good I At the conclusion of Major Nounnans speech the band played The Star Span I glod Banner and 0at the finish there were cries for Doctor McKee the colored Democrat to make nn address After considerable solicitation on the part of the crowd and those on the speakers stand the band having rendered Van kee Doodle meanwhile he was brought I forward by General Agramonto who in troduced him as follows j Ladies and Gentlemen As a Republican dyed in the wool but liking to hear a good I Democratic speech I will now by request introduce to you a Democrat Doctor or Pro fessor McKee While I may not indorse what Dr McKee may say 1 like to hear a good Democratic speech in Utah as well as anybody I is so rare we find n good Democrat i Dem-ocrat of his color that I think he will be n i rara om to the whole of you DOCTOK MKIE Soon became fairly launched in the intricacies I intrica-cies of a political speech and showed that I though having an ebony skin he posessed a heart that heat with true Democratic fervor He said that he was a Democrat I soul and body and that in his mind all the elements of freedom were embodied I 1 i i in its precepts That he had been told j j repeatedly during the war that Democracy j I j j I was dead and he i predicted at the tjme > r i > Y I that it was only sleeping and in a few I years would be stronger than ever I Although twentyfour years had been a long time to wait Democracy i was now in the ascendency and I 1 had every indication of staying with us His sentiments though an advocate i I advo-cate of free speech differed materially i from those of the speaker that preceded him for he was averse t having a split in the Democratic ranks and though the i gentleman might feel that he had been j ill treated by the local Democracy there I was no just cause for him to be in direct I I antagonism to the party and thus deplete j de-plete their ranks until they would be a nothing for their Philistine antagonists to walk over in the coming election He believed in a united Dempcracy and with Grover Cleveland at the helm the Democratic Demo-cratic ship would be keptclear from the shoals that wrecked the Republican party and with an honest administration and equal liberty to all there was an endless I end-less future for the Democratic party After the speechmaking was finished I some tar burning was indulged in and the Fort Douglas band played some fine airs at the Walker House I |
