Show I r r WHAT WAS IT II We stated on Tuesday that the Dein otcrala In the convention nominating Judge King passed a resolution which committed the party to the full In dorsement of tho act that In the es timation of the party the crime of liv ing in polygamy was right At tills our morning contemporary Is coarse in Its aljuse We suggest It lhat It go back to the files of March 2nd and see whatMr Van Colt what Mr Alfales Young what Mr louts what Mr Tim mony what Mr Stewart what Mr Mc Daniel and what Mr Letcher said on the subject of that resolution when It was Introduced If It was not an In dorsement of polygamy what wan it In traduced for If the purpose was not to xclte the anger of all polygamlsls and Compel them to Indorse Mr Rob crts what was It Introduced for Mr Van CoLt thought that Mr Roberts was not a man that woiiid want hhJ troubles lo drag his party down to de feat Mr Young was sure that It was a firebrand thrown Into a barrel of powder Mr Stewart said I canxoe 1110 no reason why lhat firebrand should be embodied In the I report of that com II mltl e You are raising an Issue I ue that j i la dead and will bring turmoil and I I i strife to the party l Mr McDanlel i tauutad 1 the conventual aud suggested I I that It nominate anc v tliiiman who j was QxeIUdcllJjrom from Consrena to elect him to continue to thresh It out and tcT t settle It avid to keep l It up until tiini IB no more Mr Lotchcr called attention to the fact that the fight on Mr RobcYlM was si pOrHonal and not a nai h f uhL pl all whleljmeunt that aIL 1q1 lif iill jiarti I Iq Jielpfd Wp o exclude c iVob 4 MV li bdr rls An r hose1 I who favgrcil ll w4uitdld heyvimve4o say Mr I ThaieheiMvantcdlhj rcuolution passed i He declared 1 that the people of Utah had boon falsely I accused and ho wanted want-ed that fact staled What was Hc accusation Was It on any other subject sub-ject except polygamy It will not do at this late day to get angry and runt The fuel stand that the resolution wan Intended to vindicate B H Roberts and to hurl the defiance of the Democratic Demo-cratic convention it the Congress of the United States for excluding a nulyg anilst If that resolution would raise such a storm In the convention Is It not natural that it should be referred to in the public press and on what I round does the Herald call reference to Jt libel And how anxious it suddenly sud-denly has grown that capital shall not be turned back from Utah or the wheels of progress stopped Why didnt it notify no-tify Its own convention to keep l out the firebrand and to avoid tossing a match Into a powder magazine The Trlbuno has not kept back capital it has not I slopped any wheels oC progress We heard that cry for fifteen years until tho majority of the people here concluded I I con-cluded to come under the laws and the only reason there Is any trouble now Is they didnt come They may read the I ito i Salt Lalco Herald They may think that to bo eternally In a Jar with the I Government and people of the United I States Is J i good way to bring capital I here and to keep the wheels of progress rolling but they Avlll outgrow It The I one thing that has been hardest for a certain class In Utah to learn from the I I first has been that the proper thing was to put themselAOs under the laws I p and they have been encouraged to fight I lhat for twontyfiAo yours through one administration after another of lie Salt Lake Herald and judging by the tone of that Journal now the crowd that has hold of it at pr sont is the very meanest one that ever had a position po-sition and used its best efforts to misguide mis-guide and make trouble for lie people |