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Show LOCAL HAWKEYES. FORMER IOWANS, RESIDENT IN SALT j LAKE CITY, UNITE IN A PETITION To the CMgraOMI From That Slate to J lllM In the lcfiitoftlu I aulknerand j Teller Hills They Want Statehood Neither In Meet nor in Name. The subjoined is au appeal of former i Iowans resident in this city to the conjrres. liaiktU deletratiou of that state to unite in effort to defeat the r'aulkner-Caine and the Teller bills. The petition was today placed In competent compe-tent hands for obtaining Miniatures, and already many former residents of the Ittpc- IeTnia to an invitation to Ihj baptized, enii-rah enii-rah ,.r ... e do not assume that any one of you gild be biased by consideration of tcnipor-B tcnipor-B party advantage, sufficiently to vote for fctclmHl for I tah, after haviui: carefully nsidered the matter, through the lirovi-Jon- ,.f (be Teller bill. That bill would not pit the territory In time to take part in pconiiii national election, nor would it ft either one of tho two great parties ad-Intake ad-Intake in numerical streuiith in ongres, itil Dearly the close of its second session, even if you ahonM admit I' tali baton wreli 4, I SOB, you would be very likely to Fleet in the senile one republican and one Rot rat, and in the house a political hybrid ISoine of you may remember a disling-iabed disling-iabed fellow citizen (ieo. y. Cannon. elected 0 congress in 1S70 and re-elected in 1ST and a HU. II,. lost his s- at March 22, IV'-', by BC passa-e of the Edmunds aet, and for otn. years thereafter he waa au exile lrom (tall because of violation of the law. lie agistered himself in the three congresses, CspeellVelv. as a reonlilieati AS atl itlde- rial Hawkeye slate have affixed their Bam -to it. it will go to Washington in due time, and it is scarcely neeeaearj to add, with many of the names of the most worthy citizens citi-zens of this city tipon it. To lionorabies W. B. Allison and James F. Wilson, United States senators from Iowa; and lionorabies .T. J. Seeilv, Walter I. Hayes, 1). B. 11' ndereon, W. U. Butler, J. T. Hamilton, K. K. W hile, .1. A. T. Hull, J. P. Flick, Thomas Bowman, J, 1'. Dol-liver Dol-liver and George 0. I'erkius, meinliers of cuugress from Iowa: Centi.kmi'n Residents of Salt Lake City, Ltali. and former Iowani, either by birth, long residence or both, in the great Hawk Eye Mate, we eel Impelled to appeal to you iu a matter of vital importance to us, and one also that should be of material concern to the congress of the United States and to the people generally throughout our be loved country. We respectfully petition you to unite ii efforts to defeat both the Faulkner-Cuiie bill and the Teller statehood measure, nuv before the respective bodies of which -4L arc members, applicable to our territoi LM and, wc shall as briefly as possible endeav.tr to give sonic of our reaaoBt for praying frl the defeat of both of them, and our del mW that congress h:i refrain from farther htf-H Islatton affecting the political status I First We desire to say. that while we iij like our countrymen everywhere, dcmoci Wj and republicans respectively, upon issuK 11 it anil as a democrat. Mr. Cannon is me ol the lirst presidency of tiie Mormon ! i, at home now, and if not directly in-eresti'd in-eresti'd in politics, it cannot be said that lie a leader, ami a "prophet, seer aud revelator" reve-lator" is a disinterested observer. In conclusion, we beg to suggest, or rather to propound inquiries for your consideration: considera-tion: should you, as members of congress, lot require a little longer time than a few nioii!!, us a probationary period in vvhieli to f he sincerity of the mormon people, following fol-lowing their defiant attitude in I tab, mani-fc mani-fc d continually for more than forty years, and which never ceased until less than a y. ar anp a half ago? lo you want to afford Utah's mormon majority .i dress parade for tlie piivilcge of showing under the Faulkner-Culne Faulkner-Culne bill, for a year or two, that the saiuts are on their good behavior for once, and could therefore with safety bo entrusted with statehood, in all or nearly all that the term Implies, if they should commit no excesses until a coming session of congress? hi view of the fact that we have only about tlve territories left, do you wish to ignore all precedent in the matter of territorial terri-torial government by giving to Utah the attributes at-tributes of statehood iu every sense except in the privilege of representation In congress con-gress and iu the electoral college, which the Faulkner-Calnc bill provides for? Is there not ample opportunity for these people to show their sincerity through exercise exer-cise of the attributes of local self-government they now possess'.' You, members of congress know, of course, that they already possess a good many of them, far mere in tact than any territory ol the tinted States 'ver had prior to the administration of John Quincy Adams, and Infinitely more than has the District of Columbia, containing more people than Utah, where you are today. Wo ask you, in view of the fact that the mormons have made, prior to the present year, four attempts to acquire statehood for vtuh, beginning more than forty years ago and ending with the last failure in 1887, whether it is not reasonable to anticipate that if now successful, they would avail themselves of the power of their majority of more than two-thirds iu the Territory to govern and control here, in the vindictive Tad oppressive manner, which lias charae-j charae-j wed their actions heretofore whenever 1 "t wherever they have been able to excr-1 excr-1 I 1 ) authority? 'osses.sing no representation whatever in congress except that which is voiced by a delegate, an cider in the alien hierarchy with Which we have been so long compelled to wage war, we appeal to you, not merely as former lowans, but as Americans, irre-spectiue irre-spectiue of consideration us to vvhieli of the great national parties should acquire supremacy In the administration of our government, gov-ernment, to let. "well enough alone" In mat-tfrt mat-tfrt pertaining to the situation In Utah. And your memorialists will ever most humbly pray. pertalning to the administration t our ant tional affairs, aud our national governmi jB; we are to begin with, tir:-t and foremost ABf ,' erieans, and that the situation here for num.,, than twenty years past las forced ii, unite in a common cause in the organMI tion, known as the liberal parly. H It is less than sixteen months since K. mormon church ceased its openi vBg attitude I iwai 1 I national gov i inn Hi and that as through a manifesto throuBy its head, which announced the su.-pcn-iJJJ of the practice of polygamy. The jaj biguity shown in the wording of that eH ment, and the remarks publicly madeB one or more of the chiefs of the churclfl l that time, furnished ampl" ground for M J, conviction that there was no sincerity I 1, the purported yielding then announced, B if that were not sullicient, we have had toil V ninny given by presidents and npostleam)r the church before our fellow eitizenH brother lownn, Master-iu-Chaneery (m y Loofbourow, last October ill the esBeat' cases, clearly confirmatory of our priof,,,, lief that the famous manifesto of l'nm,.,,! Woodruff was but a delusion and a That testimony was, In effect, that polyHL-was polyHL-was a divine principle, wrong to folloi practice, because it is in violation oB',, law of the land, but the Deity may iHu,,w the same in ten days or in on hour thL rll a new revelation. nnT Here we wish to note that many U ()Ur countrymen iu the states do not 8eH,n t,,, comprehend the fact that polygamiH,s B mere incident in the conflict that has "LftV'B prevailed between the mormons an,j1(. g -utiles wherever and whenever thk elements have been located iu the s-iHe vj. cinagc. H It is the contention of the f(rmBtjla( mere "man made laws" arc not 0B whenj they conflict with revelation will bs it may be communicated I i dally Mhrough their "prophets, MYi-iH ' revelators." The inculcation of thiaBff,. trine L the priesthood, and acceptHL thereof I by the pie, m: do prav -Oii'i'i'v liHMilliii "lMMW tiles in Missouri and Vii-vfcois, befon TBp lygamy ever became openly a tenet ol Hf mon faith, and has been ihe priim of all the dissensions here in Following the issuance of the noted festo, some eight months thereafti . HJ were doubtless regaled with aceouii corning the dissolution of the peoples' HAV mon) party of Utah, and the division BB members upon national party lin - BB presented by tie- two great political "rBBT izadion of our nation. Von have all i BY uoubtless, that many gentiles, form, r HaV crals, had accepted that action sf the BbJ been taken in good hLB and lhat they bad united witii flic, two BYj parties on oee or the other side in thoBBJi BHJ You have also learned undou !!y.BWJ the liberal party declined to disband AVJ that upon the lirst test on party liic-H the so-culled division the liberals i "I larger vote, both in Salt Lake City and B territory last August, than at an H election. 'lhat election and subs.H H events enable us to state to you in alflj dor. that of the 0000 gentile' voters inSJ Lake City, and Die 10,000 of the samrl territory, less than 50U have gone BJ party on the division mavement in BJ and iess than 500 more have BJ way iu the remaining territory. Upon a full poll, the territory H about 85,000 votes. The liberal BJ strength U centered iu the BJ b is of Sail Lake City, and Ogdeu, H Park City, and two or three other H mining camps. BBVJ The division made by the mormons H general election in August last, BJ since been a common subject of . BJ ridicule here, especially as it was inuuBBjV' BB if the republicans got the worst of iH the democrats will very likely reci Bl same experience at the next contest. H niil oil dep. id upon the . MimabBBH... mormon chiefs as to which one of thflBBY; best show H hereafter, and which one tcBBpat you menihors of congress affiliate BBma:, be the serviceable to them I H national capital. BLBM National party issues thi BVB about, end they care less for BLBb prime ern is to build up I of (iod on earth" a govcrnm BBf pendent of the, one to whii BM claim allegiance as they on n BBwl they will use uuy and all polil BBV accomplish Hut enl. That v BBal those "peculiar people" mad BpBl 111., more than half lite, I 1 they voted solidly ono way a BJ I and solidly the other way at the nAf flj deceiving and disgusting bulh the S Knij democratic parties of those days; l have made the same exhibit fn .BBT, western territories recent years. In past years the honorable hodv.H H you member, ha, given us wi-jBJ proprinte legislation. The firsl no BpBT ': which -'''BJ governed, conlalned a pr.o BBB been a bulwark for the gci their presence in considerable for. BB) fc.lt in the territory, a little m BBV years ago. That act contain IBTI which give.-, the governor BVI power. Hut for Ihut power, BVI erectly evereised as il lift- I Is i n, our mining ami oiherinipoi H tr.a! enterprises would liavesiiiTei Bl , through manifest ills; . ... i ; i , n i BJ f "oiiti.ulers." 'I here BJ templed legi.-.bition of thai Bj M Hi easily be proven. kn II was not until after ( urn. lb BBj- !al.!i ! e, tbr.-e miles east of the BBT,. an "outsider" could vv.tli safety ; rH'. ultli in the moiiutain BW ing us, and but for the e-tabii-nii, BI ' military po.-t and the prot, , t: ii- through BJ the flrmness manlfeFted by M Aw miniRtretions in asserting the -m H i i . our government here, tew if nj Bj us be in Utah to address you at this Bn rue Relative to the two measures Bf you, the Faulkuer-Catne and the TelleBfl i, i l J " wo beg to say that we are uticoiii;Mj.i,ll,j,hv.-iy opposed to both, or either. If ',,,. I , . mil us to remain in itafu v, h,,iBV.u,r for n few years, vm will guarantee tliaBM',,,! il . able, through gentile iinmtgriitiH,, to take eoi ourselves without any uBW.; , Hon, e, , pt an maiding eel, Brro-honorable Brro-honorable body. Then, Me feci iBM,iirc.i 1 ' we shall be strong enough to repBM, .4 Bl |