Show OPPOSED STATEHOOD barely has led an intal man to euca as extreme as sir SMITH went in the course of his address we say it was j which induced him to say what he did for his judgment as a man and a real j dent would never have permitted aim 1 to take the stand his party haa beet out to oppose boat rule and be poes with his parly the above is from the salt liu herald which paper also charges action of the republicans is more strange than the action of the liberala whish latter are the known enemies of progress while the republicans are the avowed friends of the territory the herald seems to be laboring under the impression that the position taken by the republicans ia against the welfare of utah lat us look at the position of the parties in utah on the legislation now before congress republicans oppose home ml but bayor statehood Democrats favor home anle but oppose statehood liberals oppose both home rn leand statehood we bailiere that ig a fair represent of the position of utah parties democrats consistently say they favor statehood aay more so than republicans can say they favor home rule if democrats favor statehood why do they not work for the teller enabling act they not only donofe work for it but thuy say it is a partisan measure with much more force can republicans say the faulkner caine bill its designed to give the democrats ron arol of the territory wo may not be intelligent but we are opposed to home rule we think statehood is better and we are ready to concede that froat a democratic standpoint democrats may soe more advantages to the territory by means of home rule than statehood and hence they oppose statehood and work for the faulknew caine bill bat we for one alej agreeable to leaving the whole mutter to the intelli genco of the people if they see more advantages in homo rule than statehood all right we will then confess our entire ignorance and say the democrats were right in working for home rule as against statehood wo think it just to ourselves ours elyes to say this much because our position haa long been that bakon by JOHN HEMBY SMITH before the committees in washington we acsay have beau even more opposed to home rule than the democrats are to statehood but we at least want aba credit of the courage f our convictions |