Show SLANDERING A COMMUNITY It has been told to us that advocates of the TELLER statehood bill in their eagerness eager-ness to enlist support for it in Congress said to certain Senators that if the bill were passed and this territory admitted to the Union Utah would be a Republican state Wo do not believe the gentlemen making this promise will deny it What could they have been thinking of themselves them-selves when they talked thus What could they have thought of the people for whom they pretended to speak And what did they think of the Senators approached We do not think there is an intelligent man in this territory who believes for a moment this could be made a Republican state Some of the very men who made the promise to the Republican Senators have been laboring diligently for nearly a year to enlist the people in the Republican ranks but without success They have talked publicly and privately have omployed questionable methods and have sought to bring influences of an illegitimate chara ter to bear but all to little purpose the principles of tho g o p having nothing in them attractive to the people of Utah And what a reflection it is upon the character the intelligence and the man hood of the people to say that they could I or would thus ba delivered bodily in payment pay-ment for services renderad I One blushes when he thinks of the proposition He Is ashamed thatanybody should declare that the men of Utah have no higher regard for principle that they could be turned into 1 the Republican fold at the will of anybody We understand that one of the Republican I Republi-can Senators approaohed with the ridiculous ridicu-lous promise or proposition said frankly that he didnt believe the goods could be I delivered and furthermore if ho thought they could be delivered he would oppose statehood for men who regarded suffrage so lightly ought not to be intrusted with it The answer was a proper one for it was in defense of the honesty and integrity of the men of Utah If THE HERALD had the faintest idea that the citizens of this territory could bo directed di-rected into the Republican camp against their conscientious political belief if it believed that in gratitude for Republican Re-publican votes in Congress in favor of statehood the Democrats in this territory would enter the Republican party it would say delay admission for a generation until a race of men had come who were politically honest and prized full citizenship so much that they would not barter their principles for even temporary advantage But we do not believe this slander nor does anybody else We know the people of this territory so well that when any man says they will be Republicans if tho Republican party gives them statehood he grossly libels the community Utah is Democratic from one end to the other and rather than purchase emancipation with their honor their integrity their political principles the people will say continue the condition of territorial serfdom until I doomsday and we will remain true to our convIctions and maintain our selfrespect |