Show AND ITS OPPONENTS alio republican organ still insists in maintaining the position that democrats are and always have heen opposed to the granting of statehood to utah dispatch that is another dishonest statement from our local opponent we never have charged that democrats have always been opposed to state it is known aboy neyda aeve admitted a state sinca the slave cudgel jtb out ci their handa we do claim however that damo brats and liberals are the present opponents to utah statehood we beh we can prove this to the understanding of even conr clotem cotem across the block it will be conceded we hope that liberals are opposed to statehood as vell as home anle PO we will not argue that part of the proposition ar efrank enough to concede that by favoring statehood they do so as against home rule they know they cannot got statehood anda lhome rule at the acae time therefore chosen the teller enabling act as better than the faulkner came measure if conr friend will note this down and concede it is right then we will proceed farther democrats should be as frank as republicans and admit we cannot get both measures past that they hayo chosen the faulkner came in preference to the teller enabling act and that by working for he bill of ther choice they do 0 o against the bill providing for the admission of utah if democrats get their measure j past by both houses of congress then there ia 0 o chance for the enabling act is there and as the dem are working for the passage of their bill then it must ba conceded they are working for the defeat of the republican measure now if they would defeat the enabling act paving the way for admission into the union is it not sound logic to say they are opposed to statehood it seems to us nothing could be plainer than that democrats Demos rats and liberals ere opposed to statehood ank suppose we lo 10 A tit the question in another ht the salt lake hera id is authorized to speak fr tho democratic party of utah the same as the dispatch is authorized to speak for the democrats of this the chief organ says t is generally Rene rally conceded nov that the introduction of a bill for the of this territory to the union a mistake r il now he democrats tell us they avor the teller bill then they favor a iri stake and that would be an admission which a democrat uever makes to be consistent with bis party he enst say he is not favorable to a woree and as that is what the bill for the admission 0 utah is then tha consistent democrat must say ho is opposed to it that so and if ho is opposed to tha tellar hill whose provisions are for stata hood what must we think of him T why simply that he loves home rale better than statehood and that ought to stamp him as a crank in any in america thai plain enough dear dispatch |