| Show ABOUT STATEHOOD 1 jiff A r F balth of f 14 silt it att man fers craun gnei bw at W dwelt hallit k H acir re to the h plain raeta ti to the cac case mir toralf to k mma mm A boy assets blow slow I 1 from the tb tait Us una taka move lion charlei charles crane chairman of he ito pub taa territorial committee mr MT DRAB sin UT poor wr little ail met alm illi libl I 1 it pan to baro aw I 1 air afi tol tot inimitable virtues to is press their paltiel and humiliation and contempt or me and to exhibit goer genet ally their anxiety and deep concern for 1 their cause in utah they have ateo also retorted resorted to bitter lir ear cum aud and ridicule which are r always the t a strongest itron weapon weapons 0 of a weak cause if it they ean can oak make any politick political capital capitali by their vindictive personal attack attacks upon me I 1 can only wish it may do them more food good than thin hum harm for I 1 bira bays only the bed best feelings of friendship tor for alt lilt aua vindictiveness tor for done none I 1 had DO no idea that anything I 1 could say would create luch much a stir and corn com motion I 1 freely admit atall what I 1 aid bald was woo not ired mud probably wf was very crudely and poorly said which I 1 very much regret titers IN ID however bo now DO no uia use of my lamont lame alloi log orr over its it lack of smoothness ADA so I 1 will leafe leave the lamentation to my democratic Democrat lo friend friends than thanking kinn them of coune course for the interest lot erett they ii 1 in me aad and th their 0 deep concern for rot BIT my cal CK position la in this cue the latter la is but the th shell or at bulk husk of the cocoa nut while the milk or meat ot of the same lie ties la in the tact fact that I 1 am not tot a democrat it I 1 bad been my church petition position and the imperfections ot of mt my addren address might kate bays been cloned glossed over with sweet charity and my humble effort efort lauded landed it is ft a mere question of whole whose ox or 1 to gored ored lo 10 proof of this statement I 1 call tall attention tent lors to the fact that not ova word of critIc lom or condemnation bits been bola uttered by democratic press or peak speak en art against the speeches of democratic ecclesiastical dignitaries on account amount at 0 their standing standi tg influence or authority ai As a furt further er proof not long ago a man of alq agh position in to the charca church to which I 1 11 0 credited the ali lion hen joseph L 1 with baying restored to 0 the tie mormon people their property w which h a is republican congress bad taken from thein them when whom everybody knori and 0 ova better than bew beibers bers he be topped stopped t 11 I 1 think about it that the tb mormon church property wr was taken from it during the administration of grover cleveland with ft large majority of democrats Demoe rati in the iio hour f representatives and end only two 0 of t a republican majority in the senate and yet lot not one word of eon con I 1 tra diction or cembre was ever heard against it from the democratic aide side lie wai u not charged with attempting to ue use laurch influence tolu enes in pol otles lc al though he wai was an apostle and wai woo appealing to the tb youth of the mormon peo people pie to vote for sir rawlins out of gratitude for his hi bating restored rei ta to alica the the church property I 1 bute buys no charge to make against my friend for erron errors tu in bla his impromptu speech nor not for being a fot for I 1 know be would not deliberately state a false hood lisle lie in an honorable and shIgh a bah minded man I 1 regard him BI as a deir deit friend and is conscientious gentleman and neither he tifer any other raw man should bo be made an offender for a word iiii ile speech wai was moreover amenda aai ended widely published libed and li Is being used for gd thunder by the democratic party and by the way wa faytol ytol so Is nita mine but in a very different anner manner it wu was W wrong tong for chairman ba irman crane to even a iett RII sit amend amendment met to nine mine but lit all right for or the speech of 0 my dem crolo friend to be amended great stress li is laid ou on mr my remarks herein I 1 endear ored to how show that democrats Ue were not happy at the tb prospect Kt of uth utah becom ins D a republican braf und and visiting to deter defer until by 01 lorn some mani means belt beat known to them tho the signs of the times about t become more for tbell cartr luem I 1 deal not rope apet watt wa was t r ported of 0 my speech for lot it IS I 1 al ready widely circulated and largely commented upon my M ids maj way have been unhappily put forth but TUB THE RIMA 1118 a that I 1 did not kaow gad nd still tilt do not know of a democrat who after otter the ta try ry la to the election rt t members if f the lait last Lel leliter ru was oot not afraid that utah woi wot i 1 becom becomer a bbate or wh wal was really happy in the aboul t add aud while I 1 know there are democrats broad enough not to oppose inch such admission but who would w iconic nl though it were republican jet yet I 1 laru I 1 believe tile ie de no cratic laity patty at as tuch such would vigorously oppose it w kulil 14 this be the cai ci u i li it I 1 ti 0 coi cot dl di tl it mi mo imbued tn in i ly if that in fil if I 1 11 a Is of cutill I 1 li I 1 ill IT and slid irrevocably lit ande hid the s s a ame m 0 a 0 feht be to of he tie 1 1 e p u bs ic A i p g I 1 t I 1 I 1 if I 1 tile I 1 err lory tory was on the tb other I 1 alanl an I 1 ill thil J 9 and as a it wilts ws I 1 be ley lem that the P 1 oi tie I 1 I 1 tl if nade finite br ily ti Is W wo ild hine haft tracked the statehood bill 1111 hut it forced fr cert ly t y the I 1 to eitler edtl er palo ai or join in the passing of II 11 a state how baltor bill or elie else stand lefoe tle its conn colin try in tile attitude of a breaker of its pledge ur mt raw faulkner knes democratic chairman the tb committee on bertl tor tot on had gayso bli bit wort word that utah should be b admitted daring during the session tes slon the Deml ratio party la the territory lud and heir form bad borated now dow that they had the power they the would aee to it that the tb long afta sis deferred forred justice to utah boua come and that speedily thit that the lb should be admitted limy dini demo crat and his party a butth stoob turn bitted milted to this pledge s g w which when to their surprise utah went republican in her bet legislature the admission bill was woo sidetracked into ft a pod pigeon bote of tha the committee subcommittee sub la in the th lait senate where it lingered llo ered for mouth months sod od iu in all probability would still bar have bea been languishing had bad not senator platt ft A republican member of otibe Us committee tee moved in to the matter pd its ft ile da d ach do lutr eo do du 11 F thi h fir A y 4 it it was M ILI elliod tied tha the democratic party should be responsible it wai was dragged out of the pigeon hole hol and put U djoa pon its it passage pa aa including the c e suse aua dellied and ud insisted lol ted upon by the den dem octal deferring the for or nearly two yer years why this proc nation on the part of the democrat democrats it 11 they were dot not afraid utah would be republican would this postpone ment meat have hat occurred it tha the party bad been without feat ear and true to ito lt prom too let it would never bite have been delayed ft a day but for tha the shirking quill quaff ties and disposition of the party and I 1 do not doubt the belief that but for the solemn pledges ninde the party hare hays killed the bill I 1 do not lay say that tha the delegate Ci lete of the ti territory shared a bit an 40 1 lo 10 this eeling feeling I 1 know of other democrat democrats who as a individuals would ataop upon the principle principles of right and would gladly admit utah ather republican or democratic be could all h wai as worthy flod and ready for or admission and this feeling Is to by no DO means confined to democrat democrats but the party so a a party would not and I 1 state it at my belief neither would heie individuals acting As a the party and for the party lopresti lot resti and that loielo as all parties act fabey would leare it for a republican con grell to do 40 and everybody knows that A republican administration with a strong congress would do it but nobody knows that a democratic administrant m n with a demo dome cratie congress would hate have done it without compulsion evea it utah was thought to be overwhelmingly deao cratto cratte during the first term of graver grover cleveland the democrats promised pr to admit jtb into the un on bat but broke brok a their promise proff llie at that time the houe houle of its re was over democratic la in tile hm ben ate abe republicans bad had a very small majority but enough Republican shad to support i a for or tha the admission adm lolon ot of uth utah it on buo ouo cam came bearor the knote nothing up patently parent lj stood tn in the war way A provision bail bad ben been inserted la in the constitution of 0 the proposed biota state prohibit eg ris po lyga tuy kail and it wu was understood that this provision v As acceptable to the party and its it leaden leaders Ever everything thing was ra doue done by the th people that ww was required of them than to 10 meet any ob that might wise rise and it ww was understood that the r should be admitted by the democrat democrats but what wai woo the remit result when they bad it tu its their to admit utah when in fact they had promised lied to admit utah and whom nothing stood ID in the way of 0 their doing so 10 the decoct democratic tic party beut aukon baik on its it promises and ud refused to take any action to the admission of utah why v came cause forsooth or oue one of tie tl le leaders aberm of that party declared it WM wits impolitic at d that utah was I 1 he fly ili ti 0 DOM ovial 10 where was ra tl ti a democratic ilac desire then to dou ja stleo to a 1 errit ury tn in every way lOed fled to enter it tie union y bid did a or did justice in it Is case TIME ARY mra PACT that this t it I 1 Is useless fur for any beatt rat t deny bay ear tt it a p airty RI at d the party pledges cannot be ded tied u upon pon not ID so alth lb tl if a party I 1 OBI sere heidy ely censured for any party for th ili lut last tent yare ore oe 01 thirty ruri years ki owing olo or 01 believing as the party did that utah wn wits over w ratio I 1 would have d denied ell led bet her admission into the ual a I 1 well it I 1 hid h W been the parly party I 1 would have done differently from rom what the party did aldr would ill tl party IT bays dyna dome differently dlf Terenti from what the republican party did V they each had the chance and they both rejected it t but oa on different grounds foi iod and ud vastly different the itce ibal ca can party had bad never promised prom lied harte hood to uth utah on uri the contrary coot its ti leaden leaders bd declared that the he not be admitted under condition conditions then at x toting liln tl TI ry ey adhered to that declara declare tion and utah i a eq eibling bling not did not pil pass antil those tho coi i 8 oila caw go g of hie pur ty bid pledged bood in lit art and they violated that pledge bud SV gave to n ui us the mia lim it ta 1 I 1 icker letter law fat stead U bat I 1 milita or would do in its a I 1 arty I 1 In firlit not lot 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 wd ill alie I 1 awer do 24 kit all I mid loul tleta Is t L 11 1 it viewing tile ali ni hiitter itter from an in divid vil aan J lilt XH a of a territory it halh j estly deserves the rillas indu d glories of hood J will jirld to no mats the lit ho hairr ic r of being more liberal ciul e in tri fit est or arevat tin t in mind or I 1 burt than I 1 in linthe the effort to alt ii ito ir tl a to t of all re r g gudden of arty cities an in an american b irn mid and A T VIM of utah I 1 lay say and always have hn said let itt uti utah be b ft a no tie matter which at h party arants trants rant it tot ot I 1 believe bell her people are capable of or self lf ut A and ad t would to clod god that party politic politics were based on ahli principle atwould it would were they an apt nta and ii we must grapple with the alt sit nation ai it 4 li is I 1 condemn neither parly party for guarding ita its own life lit against it its opponent and la in this point can causes e a reason tor for 11 a rejection rl cllon at of utah here bers latort by oy the th republican party but I 1 cad no laeh such reason won unfit until recently for the democratic party but buttrey they spurned ibe the golden opportunity and now they would rot n trier th tl iTeld it 1 they could by art ar assa attitude attl of friendship foreign fore lifa to them in ait 11 the tb year years gone on by in the spring of 1887 an u effort wu was madr made by a couple ot of the th tery very b alt and utah Democrat alto consort senator luh pugh ot of alabama a brotter to the th admits AW wy N A fw bolth in I 1 il wipe oy of 1 wito people to W si llull ther they wen wars dolda met by the h senator la 10 the th indicated to near as i may be by the th fol tot lowing word words be b damn down edl this Is 1 a popular poi lr government anil the popular will Is I 1 the lite constitution iha JOB popular sentiment li is against the th admission of utah and you might 64 well appeal to a whirling cyclone or a howling blizzard as to appeal to too cow gross tor for admission ite ile expressed the ati popular sentiment of his party as aillie the proved it waa was the popular sentiment of the dear dow to secede from the union and we democratic booth did it but the popular sentiment of the tb can CB north wai was against it and stronger at ronger than that of the bouth i and the union and the perpetuity of the nation were preserved pre itts it ln A good thing till nil to be on the right aide side and have a powerful friend aa re an ally ID in times of need I 1 luy say that I 1 do not believe that the credit of admitting utah bt bouts louts to the 1 am OC to t io a pat baity ty I 1 lie Is m much u ch charged popular sentiment has bad had something oni ething to do it the condition conditions which tiare have arlien in fit utah not hi by tl a efforts of the democratic party but bet by the 0 of f the mormon teo ido pin bare have much to do with it the co op oration of the republican party leaden leaders with mt ali republican in utah hu has bad had much to do with it 1 or do I 1 deny that the efforts of the utah democrats alio also bad had much to do with it I 1 will give to ev eye i IT tuan his hi due but above all lilt there Is I 1 in over ruling I 1 providence dence which hai has bad had much to do with it and to all those and to any other cause which has contributed to it I 1 giro give the credit and not to the lira L rawlins and his hi alone as a li Is done by out democratic friend la in conclusion it Is I 1 but fair to aay oily to oil 11 II air my friend la to utah this while to hurt any mm mail a feelings Is I 1 contrary to my 07 wl wish 3 is abene whenever T or wherever he rever at aid 4 upon whatever wha what teTer eyer subject I 1 peak speak or write I 1 utter the haneit 0 my heart beart and t believe that DO no fair minded perua person wishes that I 1 should do otherwise even it 1 af my view views do i ot with his own very respectfully josea it F halt lake late CUT city oct is 18 1801 |
