Show PRESS COMMENT r new every device has been attempted tempted nl by the mormon leaders first a constitution was adopted in which polygamy was forbidden but it was seen that without the restraining power of the federal government ment it would remaina remain n dead letter then came the revelation which ordered the abandonment of plural marriage 0 followed by the party division scheme which was the most transparent fraud cfall of all all these have lave failed to have any impression upon the country which remains birin arm in the conviction that until the en tiles dominate utah that territory should riot not be admi admitted tied as a state utah ULM is abundantly fitted for statehood but her admission to the union until the gentiles dominate the lie territory would be a crime without parallel in the history of the country tile the boston herald the ehll especial danger 0 of utah its as a state will ill lie be at once recognized 0 as the institution of poly polygamy among b her e r people if the proposition tali come from a democratic senator we should have c expected to have escen it treated as ti a wicked device to corrupt the virtue of the american nation but us as it is we ire pre presume that people will be beallmon allowed ed to listen to argument upon tile the subject this argument as offered by senator teller ii that poly polygamy gainy is is dead in ill the territory and that it need riot not therefore lie be a disturbing element clement in ill forming tile lie state we assume alio from mr tellers action that there is mill ill b republican voles in ill the senate in favor of its ml mission andthil and aliis feen to 10 indicate that there abc republican hopes of two tivo more senators of their party faith from utah yet vet it Is is poasi possible file that the Colo colorado senator lias has finance rather than politics in mind lie ile showed in the late con ros that lie cared moro for dilner dilall lor for party detroit sun 5 un tho bostell adt d erti editorially ole observes perves to the admission of N now mexico arid and ari AH 1 znna us as states on oil the grounds of the influence they would have on oil silver legislation and the fact of their having 0 too many mormons cormons anil mexicans alexica laiq to be eligible clig eli gable ablo sisters in the union the latter objection comes coines with poor pool grace 1 from a paper willell advocated conferring the va voting efin franchise upon near nearly y 0 blacks du 0 1 l lier iier cent of liliom whom could riot not read or write tho ne v york it is title that utah is growing 0 rapi rapidly Ily it 1 t is alu true that hat as in an organization tile lie mormon onri i have made a public i enunciation of theo frenke and in ill america Anic rica the intolerable doctrine of plural marriages but the coincidence which immedi immediately bitely supplements this renunciation with a concerted demand for statehood is is we li believe clieve too transparent iran parent t to succeed the american people must iiii t have if a ve more inore than mere tion that the federal law will be honestly honesta y obeyed 1 arid and that sms first let act as a atte will riot not bo be a return to its former evils in aggravated fashion tile the now ew york Adre advertiser 1 I it is to lie be hoped and believed that utah is approaching the point when she will be pro icily qualified to become a state slate the th polygamy objection lias has ficen been overrated ed A greater objection isz is and lias has been the command of lie church authorities lias has over voters oters making V a state IL ate go govern anent out ofa of a hierarchy i is s riot not a wise thing to do A littau further furt lier delay in the case of U utah tali is advisable the baltimore sun still senator t or senat tellers bill to admit utah into the i ae union as a state is it a surprise utah has the population to justify its admission it had that mail many years air ago go it ought to have lave been admitted in preference to most of the six states created by the last congress its misfortune is that it is i reported e lort to be democratic in sentiment this has kept it out together with new nev mexico exico Al it is ib alleged that utah is unfit for statehood stat e because some small percentage of its people have more than one one wife that is insincere if it wore a valid reason for keeping utah out it would be a valid reason for wishing 0 to put new york and a 0 half do dozen z en other states out the records of the courts of these show a large number of men with several wives than utah has it is ia politics not polygamy that keeps utah waiting file L lican policy lias has been to keep it out of the U union nion because it would probably add two to t the th of the de democrats in ill tf the 1 ie senate hence the surprise that senator clyator ClI ator teller favors utah 4 it anlis does lio lie wish to reint reinforce orar the silver silve r contingent continent contin ent or is utah turning republican ican T the Phil philadelphia adelphi a press pre ss while ile the Morn cormons mormons ions are arc thus united in one solid bod body y the opposition oll is is divided among democrats and republicans rei I 1 public ans until within A i few months there have been only two parties in utah the cormons mormons and the anti mormon but tile the auti have decently recent lecent ly split up and organized into republican trial and bemo democratic bralic parties while the mor mons hold to together 0 ethar tile the danger 1 of giving utah statehood under such circumstances is self evident and no little surprise was wag caused today to day hy by the fact that mr teller proposed to admit utah as a state without an any restriction restrictions it iniss is said aid that other freo free silver senators are of the same way of thinking n on this ni matter titter the cormons mormons on national issues are all democrats probably because the democratic party ha has s always been frie friendly ridly to them A lill bill to admit utah as a state along with new mexico and arizona is 1 almost certain to pass the house at this session arid and free coinage of silver senators un oil the republican ii side are arc going to vote with th the c L democrats fo for r t the lie admission of these new f tales the bill will also P pass masi tile the senate senator faulkner recently introduced trod a bill giving civill I 1 tile the people of utah L all the privileges 0 cs of local self government without at ati nitting tiie the territory to statehood senator teller says that this a mere makeshift and that lie is in favor ofaf of admitting tn ittin the territory to the union of the li states tates |