| Show false friends tho old exploded democratic falsehoods regarding the republican treatment of utah are beginning to be rehashed by alie democratic press ef utah here ia a sample from a democratic contemporary ua eee whether or not the republican party i iho true f jend of woman or joroan in utah who chased ahe utah woman the kepueli CAB who cor years held up utah to abase and misrepresentation tu party who enacted the national designed to crush to earth the religious hiliet of ahe women of butali tho republican party who demand lor a 8 clause id iho party taking these into consideration what possible reuse in reabon can be eiven any bah woman should support the party which for thirty yeara has heaped upon deseret every form of abuso aws robbery ahe first direct prevarication is the statement that the republican party dis franchised the woman of Utah The disfranchisement under a damo cratic administration at in 1887 it was at a time when bah was unjustly maligned and hotd few friends the democracy acde a pretense of for out people and when democrats got the reigns of in their hands hey showed the deeply dyad danble dealing for which that parly u broken ha B always been ud Senat eor edmunds had beann a against polygamy hid hi d in 1887 during C everalda evel aLda first adain admin ahn senate pasta the edmanda bill wb ch afterwards become abe edminds tucker billard ecat it do the democratic houe hou e the mormon did cot of course like abe edmunds measure and they felt flure abe democratic Demo craic house which then stood democrats and ke publican would kill it were not the friends of the mormon people imagine their astonishment to find the way in which democrats their avowed friends set about to out her d heild they cent abe i campara ively moderate edmunds measure to the judiciary committee of which J candolph Ean dolph Tn chera democrat was chairman aad this democratic committee of a democratic congress submitted a substitute and sach a substitute it hair almost stand on end to read it aud those who desire to verify our assertions may find it on p 83 of the congressional record it may there be seen that ahe democrats not only proposed dis franchising the women but ahby wanted to disfranchise the whole mormon people and make all of our local offices from members of the legislature tu justices of abe ia a terrible reflection on a free government anel especially on the party that boasts of its principles of liberty but there it ia in black and white filed away in abe government archives and printed in alie congressional record in the records on succeeding pages follow abe debates not a word is said in favor of women and their franchise by any democrat on alie other hand alie women of utah are grossly insulted by the party which now claims to be their only friends listen to this from that man tucker but you are there no homes in utah yes bat what kind homes in abich the bearc of the hug band is divided out aou diffused among eo many wives that it is lost when it gats to any one mhd father of n number of distinct beta of children abe wives beine mothers earn of only one set what a partnership a home in which to rear children 1 that is the way in which this friend then regarded utah ia much more of the same kind of insult to mothers of utah not n re home in tha whole territory according to his statement from the republican then utah had no political claim john T caine had sold us all to democracy and it was published to the world that cormons mormons were democrats yet were fair minded men among republicans and the only defenders alie women of utah had while being robbed of their franchise by their friends came from alie republican side of the house tom reed leader of the republican aide of the house said he favored the general principle of the tucker bill except the section reference to woman suffrage if opportunity port unity is given to me he went on to say 1 I ahall vote against eliat I 1 see no reason for incorporating it into the ahl there is not the slightest occasion for it and I 1 protest it but notwithstanding the kepueli can protests the bill was passed robbing the women of their franchi sebut thanks to the republican senate all the people of utah were not chased senater edmunds bad as he was would not stand so much democratic liberty as all that and by a with the Democrats soine of the worst features of the buoker bill were eliminated the disfranchisement chi of the women of utah was accomplished however and they remained franchised disfranchised dis until the republican constitutional convention restored the of which aliey had been robbed under a democratic administration and by a democratic Damo cratic congress As to the republican parly yelp angly following the demands of the democracy for suffrage clause in the constitution recent history is so clear in favor of aba republican party that wa ars surprised at the cheek of the democratic editor in claiming that the democrats took the the initiative held their convention first unanimously adopted the suffrage plank and the democrate Demo crata simply f bulked along in th wake of the more courageous ra pu blicaus we repeat in the words of our contemporary possible excuse in reason can be given why our women here in utah should support the party and we add in the words of cleveland of perfidy and disho noras the democratic party has proven to be |
