Show MORE PLAIN TALK Mr Penrose Punctures Republican t Republi-can Criticism I w FALSEHOODS PLATLY FLOORED W 1 The Party of tha Rich and the Well Born Never Had Any Love for Utah or Her People After traveling about 530 miles a large I portion of the distance on buckboards over mountain and desert through sand and dust and snow and mud and addressing address-ing nineteen meetings in twelve days I find in Circle Valley a pamphlet purporting to be a reply to an article which appeared in the HERALD under my signature entitled Plain Talk To say that I am surprised at the personal attack that is made upon me in this pamphlet and the temper it displays dis-plays but feebly expresses my feelings in view of the fact that it bears the name ol gentleman who calls me his friend and T has always been regarded by me with ue highest esteem and respect The pamphlet is headed Another P im Talk H and contains so many errors as w las l-as needless repititions of my name that I cannot forbear a hurried reply I have but B few minutes in which to do so now as my j engagements till up nearly every hour of the time left before election day and a meeting wiii soon be waiting for me It may be that other bands have tanen the matter up but if so I have not seen the result in this remote region The first part of the pamphlet consists of play upon words and an insinuation that my statement that one reason the people of Utah should be Democrats is becauee they revere the constitution and that it is a Democratic instrument is nero claptrap clap-trap and a trifling with language As my assertion is virtually admitted to be true In another part of my critics remarks I will pass by this as unimportant with the nuly remark that I will leave the readers of both articles to decide which effusion is the more entitled to the terms which ne has seen lit to employ Then follows an alleged attempt to relate re-late the history of the Democratic party and its actions toward Utah Wo are told that the Whig president Millard Fillmore gave Utah tangible home rule and consulted con-sulted the wishes of the people in appointing appoint-ing Brigham Young governor What that has to do with Democratic history is not very clear and it is still less clear why this action of a Whig president should be placed to the credit of the Republican party which was not then born But is it not a fact that what the people here asked I for was statehood which would have been tangible home rule indeed and that instead in-stead of the bread of full liberty they received re-ceived the atone of territorial vassalage with the absolute veto power of the governor gov-ernor attached And when did Millard Fillmore ask the people of Descret whom they would like for governor The man appointed suited them batter than any I other but who else would have accented the place at that time in this far away and sparsely populated wilderness I The gentleman passes over Pierces administration ad-ministration without comment but common com-mon fairness would have prompted the admission ad-mission that Pierce the Democratic president presi-dent did give the people of Utah their choice for governor by the reappointment of Brigham Young when he found out their sentiments We are next treated to an attack on the Home Rule bill something entirely foreign to the question at issue and we are told that the measure was clumsy ridiculous and unAmerican that it was a monster mon-ster an insult and a sham and that Hlt proposes not to loosen the chains with which the people are now held Let us sea I said nothing in support of the Home Rule bill but the facts about it are that it proposed to give the people of Utah the right to elect their own officers from thn governor down to abolish the Utah commission and to loosen the chains in Vvhich the people are beldI that none would remain except that which might be I Impossible one federal court if the laws of Congress were violated And if in the organic net given us under a Whig administration ad-ministration was as the gentleman asserts I as-serts tangible home rule how much more tangible would this proposed j measure be which Is so far in advance of i the organic act that would abolish those I provisions which constitute most of the J chains under welch this people are held I As to the cost of Home Rule it must be clear to every thinking mind that if we II elect our own officers we must pay the cost whether under a Rome Rule measure or under full statehood It is as well to be just whether we are discussing politics orS or-S any other subject I We are then told that the sending of the t army herein 1S5S by President Buchanan was the act of the Democratic party and i S an exhibition pure and simple of Democratic Demo-cratic rule Also that the army was sent with the avowed intention of crushing the people of Utah Now for the facts It was not the acts or any party but of one official charged with the execution of the laws The act under which the president was required to appoint the governor was as my critic states a piece of whig legislation legisla-tion Evidence came to Buchanan that satisfied him the Mormon people were in rebellion against the government He sent a new governor and now judges and troops to support u cm if the alleged rebellious people should resist their authority No statement was made about crushing the people of Utah The songs and boasts of lewd private soldiers must not be construed con-strued as the sentiments of the president No such announcement was made by him The avowed intention was simply to support tho newly appointed officials in their Installation The sufferings which followed were the consequence of the voluntary vol-untary action of the people themselves in moving from their homes and was prompted no doubt by fear of what might arise rather thav front anything avowed by the president It is true that I was not here at that time as so kindly 1 intimated by my professed friend but my spinpa tbies were as strong fo r the people whom X always loved with my whole heart as if I bad been present and shared their hard lot Nor do I concede that their sufferings were the result of Democratic ruleu but think rather the result of Whig legislation and a blunder of one official But mark tho re ultl When the president for whose course I offer no apology found out his mistake ho sen here a commission of inquiry in-quiry On their report ho issued a general I amnesty without cny strings to it without any bumble petition to prompt it and wthout paltry excuses and needless delay Contrast that with the dilatory ftnd vexations amnesty course of the pres tnt Republican president But is it n fact that the sufferings in the move were greater than those under the Republican lslBtion of more recent times i I do not believe it Ask those who I participated In both and I am willing I wil-ling to abide by their answer I But my critic claims that these also are r chargeable to tho Democratic party and he points to the stringent execution of the laws under Cleveland Who framed and passed those laws Who worked up the nation to the antagonism which resulted in their passage Which party made their enactment part of its political doctrine and policy Let history reply S In 1856 as my writer admits the Republican > Repub-lican party was born As soon as it breathed it uttered a cry and opened its < mouth to bite at the people of Utah In its first platform it asserted the sovereign Ij power of Congress over the people of the territories andpledged Itself to the exter pation of polygamy as one of the twin relics of barbarism In 1862 it passed the antlrpolygamy and confiscation act which was the foundation of all antiUtah L legislation built up by tho same party In 1874 it enacted the Poland raw depriving us of tile right to elect several of our local officials taking from the probate courts that we ttdn elected all their criminal and most of their civil jurisdiction and depriv ing us of half the right of trial by an Impartial Im-partial jury In 1882 It framed and passed the Edmunds I act the provisions of which I seed not particularize r par-ticularize except to say it Inoludad that small foretaste of the force bill known as tbe Utah commission And that these pro Q = c visions with all the oppressions that resulted 1 re-sulted were not only the acts of Republican Repub-lican men but the practical fruits of the policy and principles of the Republican party I here cite a plank of the Republican platform of JESt Reserved j That It Is the duty of congress to enact such laws as shall promptly and effectually effect-ually suppress the system or polygamy within our territories and divorce the political from the ecclesiastical power or the socalled MJF mon church and that the laws so enacted should be rigidly enforced by the civil authority author-ity possible and by the military If need Be Here is a plank from the Republican platform of 18SS The political power of the Mormon church in the territories as exercised in the past is a menace to free institutions a danger no longer to be suffered Therefore we pledge the Republican Re-publican party to appropriate legislation asserting as-serting the sovereignty of the nation in all territories ter-ritories where the same is questioned and in furtherance of that end to place upon the statute stat-ute books legislation stringent enough to divorce di-vorce the political from the ecclesiastical I I power and thus stamp out the wickedness of polygamy I These are Republican principles and this is Republican policy and the oppressive 1 and prescriptive legislation under which Utah has suffered are the results Let it ba remembered that both Buchanan and Cleveland whom my critic charges with grave offenses were sworn to execute those laws which Republican made in pursuance pur-suance of Republican doctrine and what tney did is logically and politically charge le to Republican legislation and Repubii arty principles JL < attempt made to place the responsi bilit of the Edmunds act upon the Demo j crativ party because two Democratic seers who were minority members of th utliclary committee of which Edmunds > S chairman were said to be favorable to the measure is unworthy of serious consideration consid-eration and one is almost tempted to turn the critics own vituperation upon himself but I will not indulge in passion or resort to invective He fails to remember thd eloquent appeals of Democratic senators for justice to Utah and the opposition of I Democratic representatives to the now notorious no-torious Edmunds acta strictly Republican measure passed as lib is forced to admit by a Republican congress As to tho EdmundsTucker act I have no apology t make for any person responsible for its passage It originated in a Republican Repub-lican senate The country had been worked up to fever beat by Republican hatred of the Mormon church as expressed In its platforms and thundered through its press The preachers joinea la the crusade cru-sade Petitions signed by their congregations were sent to Congress by the wagon load The Democratic party was charged in and out of Congress with supporting polygamy because its leaders opposed the various Republican bills introduced in-troduced for its suppression and to dragoon dra-goon the Mormons into the separation of religion and politics No congressman felt secure in his seat if he said a word in favor of the unpopular Mormons The Tucker assistance to the Edmunds invention was the effect of this extraordinary pressure which is chargeable to Republican doctrine doc-trine and Republican policy A number of Democrats stemmed the tide and voted against the measure but it was useless President Cleveland refused to sign the bill He did not veto i because as he said his veto would not help the Mormons for it would have been passed over bis veto and the only result would have been a further excuse for the Republicans to charge the continuance of polygamy and church rule in politics to the Democratic party He who charges Grover Cleveland with insincerity hello wness and cowardice simply exhibits temper and slanders a great man and a proverbially courageous public official We next have a resurrection of the bloody shirt which has no application to any taint in my Plain Talk to which it purports pur-ports t be a reply Efforts made by much stronger pens to fasten the civil war upon the Democratic party have been signal failures and we will let the dilapidated But I must sanguinary garment go say in passing that my critic alleges on page 12 that Buchanan was oaralyzed by the miserable doctrine of states rights and on page 13 he says The Republican Is this party believes in states rights the kind of argument that ho elegantly calls driveHI Let it pass Then follow n series of similar arguments argu-ments based on tho assumption that I accused ac-cused the Republican party of absolution paternalism and monarchism As I did nothing of tho kind tne whole attempt falls to the ground What I endeavored to do was to show the tendency of the Republican Repub-lican principle of Implied powers as opposed op-posed to the Democratic doctrine of strict construction of the constitution I also claimed that the Republican policy of protection pro-tection was an outgrowth of that Republican Republi-can political heresy These which form the cheif subjects in Plain Talk my critic has carefully avoided and not unintentionally uninten-tionally of course has led the reader off into another field of political inquiry His labored endeavor to make out that President Brigham Young and other leading lead-ing Utah gentlemen were protectionists because they encouraged home industries almost provokes mo to indulge in the language lan-guage to which my critic resorts But I forbear Brigham Young put his money into home industrses invited others to do so and urged the people to pratronize their productions Ho did not advocate a high tariff nor did he ask the legislature to appropriate ap-propriate the public funds for any of his private enterprises I he had done so ho might with some propriety be called a Republican I Re-publican protectionist He advocated Democratic principles both as to the limited lim-ited powers of the general government and the economical questions of the time I and others who venture to differ with my critic are generally called by him apprentices ap-prentices in politics I do uot make any great pretentions as a politician but I find that in my conncutions of political principles princi-ples I am in accord with such apprentice in politics as Carlisle Mills Brecken ridge Vest Call Brown Bynum Wilson Tilden Hill Cleveland and a list of living lifelong advocates of a government by the people to say nothing of Jefferson and other departed heroes he-roes and statesmen Further my critic has not as yet refuted any proposition proposi-tion I have laid down and without desiring to retort in the spirit of his effusion must say that in the articles which I have seen that bear nis name he has not in popular opinion exhibited the band of a muster However efficient he may be in another sphere it appears to me that in the field of politics it might be profitable i he served for awhile as an apprentice One lesson all should loarn is that passion is not politics poli-tics and that rancor is not reason I will here Insert one of the gentlemans paragraphs simply changing his word Democrats for my word Republicans to show the kind of masterly argument by which ho endeavors to prevail I have shown how unworthy of the confidence of the people of Utah the Republican party has proven itself to be how flagrantly It has failed to exhibit true friendship to them in their hour of distress and peril how whenever it had the opportunity it has endeavored to out Berod Herod and was ashamed of the people of Utah and their apparent devotion to It and fearml lest the country should think the Republican party had any connection with or sympathy for us it has never hesitated when in power to deal us deadly blows Yet after all these exhibitions exhibi-tions of its perfidy after being literally struck and spurned oy that party there are those in Utah who abjectly lower their backs t ba again struck and seem rather proud than offended of-fended at the treatment they have received The principles of the Democratic party when faithfully carried out I believe to be tho best for Utah and the country at large I have not time now to take up every point put forth in my critics attempt to reply to my Plain Talaand many of them are Irrelevant but I will say that I do not see why he claims to have been compelled com-pelled to make it I did not assail him nor say anything with intent to wound him Nor did I question the right or propriety of his or any other Republicans placing In print his reasons for wishing other people to be Republicans although most of them are like that I have quoted above capable of being used as reasons why people should be Democrats i the party names were simply transposed In conclusion I say it Is capable of demonstration de-monstration that the troubles of this territory terri-tory are strictly chargeable to Republican principles Republican policy Republican legislation and Repuollcan hostility toihe people of Utah And if this is all traceable to too belief of the Republican party as my critic intimates thattne thate people of Utah aie Democratic in their belief and sentiments then I say that is all the more reason why I should not be a Republican For then all al the pretebded high moral excuses of that party for pursuing the Mormons are but hypocrisy and pretense and endeavors to enslave a large body of citizens and debar them from their rights because they are Of another political complexion buch a policy < and such principles I despise and detest I Utah I believe will soon enter the Union as a free and sovereign state When she attains her political liberty I for one I do not want the general government under any plea of impljod powers to interfere in the domestic affairs of the new state Therefore I am strongly in favor of the Democratic doctrine of a strict construction construc-tion of tho constitution and therefore I ama am-a Democrat And I reiterate the sentiment sentment that this i a root reason why the people of Utah should be Democrats I have not said Hal tho people of Utah as intimated for I do not want any Republican from conviction to stultify himself But I do not feel that I transcend my rights either as a citizen or as a Mormon in stating publicly the reason which appear to me to be sound why 1 and others whom I may convince should support the Democratic I party C W PENUOSE lSD Circleville Piute county Utah Nov 1 |