Show BASKIN AND BENNETT The Welcome Given Them by the Loyal League at the Federal Court House Last Evening They Give an Interesting Account of their Winters Work at the National Capital Rousing Speeches made by both of the DelegatesA Large Crowd of People Present According to previous announcement the Loyal League met at the Federal Court room last evening to welcome their delegates Judges Baskin and Bennett upon their return from Washington The place was crowded to its utmost and had there been more room there would have been more people present The meeting was called to order by Colonel Hollister and upon invitation VicePresident R C Chambers took the chair Mr Chambers then called Mr Bennett and that gentleman was the first to address the meeting As it is an understood thing among the members of the Loyal League that none of the proceedings of a I League meeting shall be made public and as THE DEMOCRAT was not informed that last nights rally was an exception to the rule we are obliged to take synopses of the speeches from our Republican opponent to which we give all the credit that is due to it under tile circumstances JUDGE BENNETT Said in substance I wish we had received re-ceived as rousing a welcome as this in Washington We could have done better bet-ter than we did but I can say to you that we are making progress in the effort Mr Bennett then went on to tell of the many difficulties to be encountered in working for a cause like this in Washington Washing-ton how Congress is taken up with other matters and how hard it is to get attention from it He then expressed himself as pleased with the new law and though he does not think it was all we need he thinks we should make the best of it He regretted that certain sections had been cut out of the bill but he insists that we still have a good law After paying a high compliment to Mr Baskin for the work he did at the previous session ses-sion of Congress he went on to enlogize Mr Tucker for his valiant efforts in behalf be-half of Utah TO GOVERNOR WEST The Speaker paid a high tribute to i Governor West and his indefatigable I labors in the good cause Mr Bennett drew a grand picture of the presentation of the bill to the House by Mr Tucker that gentlemans eloquent speech and the final passage of the measure by arousing a-rousing majority In speaking of the action of the Conference Committee Mr Bennett assured his hearers that politics had nothing to do with the result and laid the blame upon Bat Collins He said that the Eastern people thought that the oath would settle the question but they will now see how little it amounts to He referred to many of the best features of the new law and wound up by saying that the people must stand together in the League and fight until the common enemy is conquered JUDGE BASKIN u Who entered during Mr Bennetts speech was greeted with a hearty round of applause and when he arose to address ad-dress the meeting he received another salute J Judge Baskin began by going back to his first mission in Washington where he fell in with J Jandoiph Tucker and found in him the champion for whom Utah had been looking The result was the formation of a bill which surpassed all the expectations of the most hopeful of Utahs citizens He went back to the days of the Cullom bill which he himself had drafted and told how it was killed by the Gentiles of this Territory Terri-tory This incident was used by the speaker in showing the gradual change that had come over the Utah Gentiles referring to the unity of opinion now existing among them and the solidity with which they all stand for the needed legislation He said that this shows how the Gentile element has become educated up to a standard where they can fully realize the faults of their Mormon brothers He drew attention to the difference between the broad Democratic principles of government I gov-ernment existing in the East and the narrowminded control exercised here in Utah He then went on to APPEAL FOR UNITY Between the two outside parties here He said that there is no sense in introducing intro-ducing party politics here and referred re-ferred to the Loyal League and the Gentile press as fixed powers here He paid THE DEMOCKAT a handsome compliment and said that he wanted to I see all difierences between the two Gentile Gen-tile organs here settled Later on he spoke of the representation representa-tion that we are bound to have in the Legislature under the new law and spoke hopefully of the outcome of the work now being done by the press the patriots and the National Legislators Mr Baskin closed his speech by showing show-ing that the Loyal work is aggressive and is constantly gaining ground while the Church is continually losing ground and must go under sooner or later After a rousing vote of thanks had been given the energetic delegates the meeting meet-ing was adjourned until the 29th inst |