Show I THE CAMP FIRE The Inrgist Audience That Hu Yet Assembled at IIcndimrlcr Thl Wisconsin Delegation Is Illftlit Koynlly Welcomed Slleeches of Iteu Mr Illir Governor Fnlrclillds lIther ID rill anti Judge Mctlrldc The largest audience that has jet us mblcil nt the Pavilion numbering early 2000 was present last evening to listell to tlio speeches of lie Grand Arfii boj s and piomlncnt citizens Colonol Sells was again in the presld lilt chair The meeting was opened by tllll Hinging ot Marcblng Through Georgia Geor-gia ° the chorus of which was joined in with cOOt by the entire audicnic run HIV Mil IIIIF VIIH then introlucod to tin audience 1111I1 hit dilivcrcd tile wcliomo addiuHS HOIIHllIin tin follows I am hem to bid < l ehumo to ito visitors i I doubt nut that hose who ioiiHi from lie farther Iast hale lccn deeply impressed with tin ondroim ie i > urcos ot llio country WIt of the Alleghanlos Many of you cm re icmbcrtho time hell to romo to the far Wept meant tobid l farewell to your ilends with the tliougnt that you were ever to BOP them again Yet many mo lived to return and neo the wonder fill developments of the coittitry Ito hUll lIft I welcome the visitors hero not only in lie nuno of tho cIty but as a citizen his cleat Hetmbhc I welcome YOU In tile 1111110 of the Churches of Utiih In the nnmo of thu People of Utah and es I KHlally do I welcome you in thonumo oho o-ho lames II Mclveaii Post our little Mini of coldim AM an old < 1 soldier I clcomu on as old soldiers and I wish on II plciKint journey I toward the Hctthu 1 JII lt1 of b 1 tin Vhilo j on ale hero us members I oho o-ho Grand Army jou aro hero also us oval citizens and jou represent the dig lIit and loyalty of the tounliy for which our fathom split their best blood Got bless you all and all tlio people of Utah mil jour gathering upon the Golden Shore aou OIl Iviiiciuu or WISCOISSIN Vis then introduced to the audience and said in substance I wish first to 1 extend our thankH for the welcome 110 luuo received Wo had looked forward to this visit and many had expected to I meet old friends lion lmt this welcome is far greater thni wo hail expected rive hundred thousand men of lie Grand Army speak for themselves now as they did < I twenty years ago Wo unhanded un-handed together for love and the tic 1M the strongest that exists outside the fau ily relation No man shall use it for tt selfish purpose but all men shall use It for other purposes Why is it that 110 gather in San Francitco from all othe i irts of this country It is because to 1 love rt order and wish oi show WIg tlte t country Wo were moro than surprise with the many wonders and beauties 110 were ixsrinilted to BCD in cf ossing tho continent con-tinent If any man doubts that this is II i country worth fighting for let him ravel across it No men felt moro kindly to ward the men who fought for whllt iltoy thought right and wo thought wron than did the members of the Gram Army of f the Republic Wo only ask rhcltN l that the citizens of II this country I llab loyal evorywitero1 and so help us Goi 11 alt IsHlnNrlo to I Ito laws of our country shall bo obeyed Whenever this Government wants iti laws enforced let it tall upon the Gram Army Wherever disloyalty shall appear ap-pear in any State or Territory even in il J Utah it must and shall 1 bo crushed leglltl HfcV IVTIII LUIS OF WISCONSIN Was the next sjieaker Following is a synopsis of what ho said I am very much pleased with tlio reception nu heave received tonight In crossing tlio coo tinent I was agreeably disappointed In peeing such grand sccncrj and in visi ing jour city 1 was agreeably utah pointed receiving such a roal tel Iomc I as a guest of tho Grand Aim feel highly I honored to think that tic boys of dl and i2 arc receiving such a 1 JTnnd welcome tonight I think they will cato ca-to mind those day of the war I thin that you my friends who are gillng tins leception aro doing jour hounde duly In those old < 1 dajs when wo dill not know what post would bring word for tlio father to leave his family and togo to-go forth erhaps never to return tlIOO were indeed dujs of regret Did they go forth for 4ho Hake of the inuiiia the > would accumulate by fighting for their country Did they go forth for tho ClOt tation thoy would make Did till > r o foith that they might be honored 1 in 1 titeir t old ago Wheio was one that evT dreamed that lie would tonic back f They went forth actu itud by the spirit of mtriotism knowing that they were lightIng light-Ing for the piobervition of tho giaiulc land oti God Almightys earth It was II happy circumstance that which cause tlio war fliuso men who fought hlllo established a fact u > on the pages of tie history of the Union i They have show lt aooh ll that tlio Union I is one and indissolubl And < 1 my friends in order that tho jout may bo educated to appcciato thin reat ness of this country and lie necessity of loyally they must bo trained from till beginning us a gardener would tuiin a oiniL plant Then imnriss l IIIKIII II hit minds of f Ito joung that this is tho gram jest j-est country on Gods footstool I knoll that tho mations are capable of infiisu till proper spirit Into thu rising gener lion for if hail over doubted 1 coull I not do BO after an occurrence of a foil j earn ago Wo w ent < low n to Milvt alike to attend a union of all tho State troop Tho streets were lined with small hos who had taken positions in the trees Oft btooiw carriage steps and every oilier available plate Asthojyunger men of tle tl militia passed the hojs 1 cheered bitt when tho old veterans 1 came along I every one took off his hat and bowed his heai I to those nun who I had ltl fought for the I tlag and l allowed l not one star of it to bn tlthlt I crated Ioud 1 applause I fJiuiu cm LK A joviallooking little man was then introduced and said t I want to Mate that I am one of thoso fellows who got the title of General ithout having earned it In lie war I tarried a knapsack and musket Now I am thu last surviving private of the late war All I tie other Iclll fellows huvii UgJtl homo title i or other above 1 till rank of uptaln Laughter And I it is because I am a private and hctauso I am little that they all pun on m > name But I tell you that when we were retreating from thu field of Hull Kim and I heard thu rebels behind mo veiling Git git jou Yankee tout of a git pit git I was mighty glad I wasnt six feet high I bee here the banner of the Ioyal Ugion that of tho Grand Army and that of tho f1opit Ii hi I ore Lilt hue toil you what tlitivimtm I ho Hint iiidiuilcs that goal officers uru netessarj to do good lighting j till hcioml that without tho common boldierthu olllters wouldnt fight very well j and I Ito third that without thu women neither of us would amount to a very grettt deal Loud ap plause and laughter It takes a whole I eojlo to eavo a country llo then flpoko of the harlBhiw en ured hv women who stajed at homo I wring the war and lion much worm it wan to bo n soldiers wife than to ben soldier and woundup hy giving nn en rely original solution ot tho polygamy uestion that brought him a hearty round of applause The band then plavcd a selection and another war song was sung JUDOF j n MimiDE WIIS then presented ns tho next speaker lIe Raid < ho felt a little out of place us he tins not a soldier and never had been one Bllt ho had lone his share of fighting f in another wa Ho was a 1 lawyer and it wits always necessary for thorn to do a good deal of hard lighting Ho then wenl on to say It t is I needless to say how IIIUlI wo are to see our guests hero tonight to-night Wo are moro glad than any other icoplo possibly could be brcttiusu too are In 1 need f of friends Wo kayo man curl i sities hero in the way of f mountains l 10h and our tll lake but l thin greatest t luriositv of them all is i this church wo hno in our midst and them tire some iiiii > s about it that need an nxnknation vitiii we see men who will 1 hold up their right hands and swear to support tho Constitution of tho United < Stitc and till then go out ami try to ovcrthiow the I k > v eminent men who in the nimoof eligiou aro constantly committing tho lackest ciimcs it seems to me tint i hero is I omothing tint needs to bo OK lalncd I I Fort veals u OII I uossod the continent I1nd canio into this valley when the onlv uinian being to be found hot 0 was an cil GOtI Ntd 11311 man who had I built 1 his hut on lie Ogden river Tho cjes of man had lardlj seen tlio valley 1ifteon yearn fterward I came bark and found here a city with a strange people dwelling in it I went to ito Tabernatlo expecting to fl icar a sermon I lieuid an harangue nstcad of talking of religion they talked of mines and slock and preached do iancu to tho Government of f tho United stales 1 went away again anil came Kick a few Irs afterward to live here 1 had piejudiccs hut I felt that I i had a right to inquire into thu nature of some of their Itatro I ound that they were the edicts of the President of the Church ot locus Christ ot latterday Saints I took occasion to express mj opinion of tlio laws and I received tho invitation that HO many of he early comers had to get out if I lidnt like it Hut I i concluded to staj and I have stajed Applause A few jears ago I wen to Washington and incnt throo months I in trj ing to lift 1 George H uannon out 01 Ill MOtitliltl congress Wo did lift him out and ho Ins stiijcd out ever since Now what I want to saj by l way of particular information something some-thing of f tho way the children ore brought up by tlio Mormons They tare taught fioin earliest childhood to hate the Government of the United States they are taught that the Government is their greatest enemy They say weve not Federal olliccrs here who form a government They dp forma form-a skeleton of a government but it is only II skeleton In regard to tins style of government I can only say that until we have a government that I is respected wo have g government at tlt The el boys in blue speak of their readiness to stand by tho Hag but this is not a light of bajo nets Wo ask the officers hero w hat they do with lull taxes wo pay Wo are answered ans-wered None of jour business Wo ask why they do not obey the law Thej answer Because it is not constitutional constitu-tional When wo undertake to punish lawbreaker they will ho and perjure themselves to get him free Why lying has risen to the sublimity of a lino art Nov how can jou meet them James It McKean was at the head of tho liklit for a long time and ho went down with the dory of the light but nol tho victory lemember when a mat was wakened from Ins sleep and asked togo to-go out on u call of duty He left his I1ridn of three weeks went out to tho street and was murdered in cold blood This was Dr Uohinson In this fight wo too havo lost men and wo dont mean to yield < l the flag We have nallei the Stars ami Stripes to a stan and so long as there is n Mmjlo strip of it left wo mean to remain fighting under it Wo ask that the political power he take from tho Mormons All other mca sines have failed Wo want a government that will he rcsponsi bio to homo one for its actions audit you will not make it responsible to us make it res > onsiblc to the Govern mellt of tho United Statos At prosen wo dont want tho Grand Army to ecltlo tho imestion but unless thero is souio solution discovered before long there will bo but one solution leftthe sword < I Wo ask for help and < 1 we get nothing hut promises A bill pi ses one House of Congress onlv to he tied up In hits other Had it not been for these Mormons instead in-stead of a city of iOOIJO wo would heave one of 100000 and the whole mile would IMJ filled with Hiriflv boneit people peo-ple inMead of n lot of people who vegettitie rather than live It would < 1 he covered all ovci with cll1Ilcll timid schools Hem I wo havo a tumplo that 1ms tilt 1211 cost II i million dollaiH and the loot isnot on there is another in 1ogan one in Maul and one at St George each costing fron lntof f IIf three to four hundred thousand I dollars What havo we In tho waj of ehoIH Thero is hardly a detent Mhoolhousu III the whole Temtorj J Wo want lIch legislation as will take care ot the piojile Wo want such coplo hciu as still take to ever ottiipitiun We want tilings changed Kighttenths of the population will nuvcr be able to rule We waul the Governmen to take hold of iifiairH Hiiro are very few of us hero who want oflitu but v1 do want justice ami wu do want tIle rights that havo been denied us Wu u care nothing for political division Iii fact most of fTl us heave I lot tro our identity i Tho nonMormons hero 1 are a unit Wo want help and if we ask long enough we will get it Wu tire hero tonl ht because wo want jour friendship and your sjm path Tho aiidienco was then dismissed hj tho chairman who extended an invitation invita-tion to all to ho thero tonUlct |