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Show fc.ifril laws and supervised by the prcsi- That seemed to he a fair proposition. It is known mb a provisional guve'rnment. Tin; straight-out republican! of the territory op. pot i change of the present form of gov. eminent, believing that the mormon residents resi-dents of the territory have not euflicicntly departed from their habits and forms to re. eeive Stetehood. At the situation at present stands the mormons have simply proven themselves hypocrites, despisers of the federal fed-eral government, and designers' who would capture a state government ami rehabilitate moiiimiiism if they had half a chance. I'luh will likely remain a federal charge for many years to come, and her di-franchieed mormons mor-mons will spend tnanv days yet in the poetical poeti-cal wilderness before they see the sunlight of liberty. The lice's correspondent has, however, how-ever, matle one serious mistake. He has mixed up the liberals with the di-visionist di-visionist republican; The liberals are unalterably opposed to any change in form of government just at the present time. The divisionist republicans have advocated complete statehood. state-hood. The straight - out republican republi-can and the straight "lt democrat!, who compose the liberal party, hate Do UM for either the I'.M i.KM.ii CAME anomoly or the Tel-leu Tel-leu statehood bill. Till'; FAT in Tin: 'USE. The correspondent of the Omaha B4 at Washington does not think that Utah is to lie granted either statehood or homo rule just yot, and stuns up there-suits there-suits of tho hearings before tho committees com-mittees on territories by saying: "Utah will now have to stay out in the cold latitude of a territory till she has purged herself of all mormon tendencies." ten-dencies." A comparison of the dispatch below given with the interview with ,Iiulge. row Kits found in another column of this paper, will disclose many points of similarity. "Hot headed mormons at an unexpected moment lost their Lai Jance" and the fat is in the tire. The lire's special is as follows: Utah's claims to statehood have been thoroughly thor-oughly cooked during the. aat week so far as this congress is concerned, at least. There liaye been some important developments he-fore he-fore the house and senate committees on territories during the past, week which appear ap-pear to have not been called to the attention of renders of the regular press dispatches. .Uthe beginning otT the hearings of th,eo committees upou the subject of statehood for Utah the prospects were bright for a par tial succeas. Now the fat is all in the tire. Hot-headed mormons who appeared in tin: puiso of "reformed christians" at an unex- pet ted moment lost their balance and showed their true spirit uud lost all. l tah will now have to stay in the cold latitude lati-tude of a territory until she has purged herself her-self of all mormon tendencies. To begin with, the mormons, who now claim to be ex-mormons, opened up their i campaign for statehood by presenting to i President Harrison a most humiliating and abject memorial for amnesty. They pro- j 1 -sed to have Ions: since ithondoned iu the ! fullest sense the orincioles of nlnral wins- riaimed to have had a new revelation Irom heaTcn, and, after pledging Ihe nil est fealty to our lews and the OtuiSUtn cburcb as It s ands throughout the civilized portion of the world, asked to. have their citizenship restored. Then came Congressional Delegate t'ainc with his bill for statehood. During the hearings before the committees of the two liousss of congress the past week, the faille representatives of the territory, smarting under cross-examination by member of the committees who wanted to know the true condition of the church and the undcrlvoii; aim in desiring statehood, so that inielli-gent inielli-gent action might be taken upon the mens, tires before tliem, slipped a cog or two and showed their hands. They roundly denounced tho system of federal government which has prevailed in Utah for the paft decade or two, and railed v henimitly at tho Edmunds anti-polygamy law. They charged the t'tah Commissioners, United States marshals and the federal judiciary ju-diciary with corruption, venality and everything every-thing else despicable mentioned In the English Eng-lish lexicon. It at once became plain to even the most partisan democrats on the committees that the mormons wanted state hood simply for Ihe purpose of placing tho government in the hands ot persons of their own choice. They were rebels under church rule, are rebels now, and hated any and everything having a federal llavor. The denunciations of federal power showed plain enough that with stile government Vtah would be dominated by the mormon church, and as far as possible would be a sc. ccssionist. So the plat for statehood iu a moment became not only a farce but an abomination Had it not been for the fiasco of the t'aine crowd it is not altogether im. iirobable that the rc.Ucsi of the liberals, who I have been lighting mormonlMa loi th and i nail for years, would have been grnn'ed and I tab give n a provisional government that i, a government half way between the pres- i ent form and statehood -a government by the people of the territory udee ted under |