| Show THE UTAH SITUATION from FM the ghe chicago herald june 12 11 charles ellis elite whose name la in not unfamiliar to readers of the herald and who has haa been a resident of salt lake city utah since early in 1889 is in the city taking a days rest in oey ney from onland to the home of the Knicker knickerbockers bookers mr ellis received a dispatch from salt lake city yesterday which said the terri cent central 61 committee of the peoples party met at 2 today and unanimously adopted resolutions dissolving tb the e organization mr ellis says ays this is most welcome news as it means the end of the strife that has for many years stood in the way of progress tho the mormons cormons will henceforth vote as democrats or republicans public ans according to their predilections and as an a necessary consequence the guti anti mormon or liberal party must also disappear in the rear near future in fact its best men have already deserted it and are pushing work on democratic or republican party lines throughout the territory fully convinced that polygamy has been honestly abandoned by the mor mons and that they are desirous of all the rights and protection accorded to other reli religious gous oua sects the 2 he herald berald representative I 1 interviewed mr ellis at the sherman house and inquired what to is new in the utah situation well said mr ellis everything is now new the scriptures have something at least they had when I 1 was a boy about all the old things pawing passing away and everything being made new whether that had any reference to utah I 1 do not know but certain it is that in the territory today there exists a condition which has never been there before and it Is in not only new but it is good excellent the best beat in short that could be produced in the beginning of a movement that is destined in the near future to bring utah into the grandest of the american states when president harrison was to in salt lake a few weeks ago he saw there a very large gathering of people and received the finest welcome given to him on his journey by any community of population he e may not have reflected that fully three fourths of them were mormons cormons Mor mons yet such was the fact he probably did not realize that the finest decorations displayed in honor of a visit from the president tP were on mormon business blocks yet they were at one point on his jour our ney through the city children were awaiting for him and greeted him with hall flail columbia and the waving of miniature american flags he spoke of it as the most beautiful and touching welcome he had ben given he may not have thought at the time that fully three fourths of them were mormon children yet they were half an hour later be was making an address in which he reminded the mormon people that the american government rested upon clean honest elections and the home in which one woman reigned the uncrowned queen it was ai all 1 true enough and when mr harrlson harrion made that address it was as true in utah as elsewhere in the united states that the home recognized the reign of one woman as queen the old regime had pawed passed away As to clean elections it never was true that the mormon people offended in that way the only dishonesty in the elections in utah has been practiced by the anti mormon or so called liberal libecap Libe raP party and the curious thing about it is that the dishonesty has occurred largely since the control of the election machinery in the territory was placed in the hands of men appointed in washington MORMONS ARE ABE LOYAL CITIZENS but mr harrison cannot avoid the reflection that he saw nothing in utah which would indicate that the mor mons are not as loyal as the inhabitants of illinois and that they should not be deprived of their rights in the union on the ground of a religious faith the only objectionable feature of which has baa been abandoned do you think the mormons are republican in politics it is in too soon own to say what they are as a whole there has haa never been any politics in utah what has pawed passed for that has been simply a local strife between the gentiles who have been striving to get control of the territory and the mormons cormons Mor mons who have been working solely in self defense for years the gentiles have been striving to get the che mormon voters dis franchised by national legislation today the fair minded men of the gentiles insist that since the mormon people have renounced the only feature of their faith against which the country protested there no longer exists any ground upon which to keep up the strife and hence the old local party hostility should cease A mouth month ao ago the leading democrats withdrew from the liberal party organized a democratic club and are extending their work through the territory two weeks later the leading republicans also withdrew from the liberal party and organized a republican club and they too are pushing their work through the territory the mormon voters at once met them the night before I 1 left salt lake the salt lake county committee of the peoples or Mormon party met and after discus ing the situation disbanded but it will take time for the people to settle for themselves whether they will vote me f for r high tariff or for revenue only one thing is quite certain they will all vote fur for free coinage not of the worlds but of american silver but since both the republican and democratic statesmen of the near future in the west will be on that platform and as mr r harrison will probably get there himself before 92 it is ie yet a matter of uncertainty which way the mormon vote will go at present I 1 am inclined to think that many of the prominent mormons cormons lean toward republicanism OLD PARTIES HAVE DISBANDED then the old utah partie swill not meet tit it the polls again 9 that isit is it in the august election for a legislature there will be three parties democratic republican and liberal that is to say while the old mormon party will not appear a few gray old men who have been mormon eaters for twenty years in the liberal party are not able to rest 0 nights it at thought of losing their prey with them are a few office hold ers who would lose fat fait things and soft enada if utah should become a state they control a small hoodlum and rig raft element of hangers hange monand anand those these will make an effort to repeat such frauds as won the election in the winter of 1890 that is the situation today it is full of promise that the old strife in utah is rapidly dying and will probably cease with the demise of the alleged liberal party at the polls next august then utah will be free and in due time will become great you may say that I 1 have deen a diligent student of the real state of things in utah for two years and a half have been over a large part of the territory and know exactly what I 1 state when I 1 assure you that polygamy abandoned there is not on the continent a more moke loyal law abiding people than the mormons cormons Mor mons and as an industrious people their equals are hard to find bud and their superiors do not exist on this continent their enemies might say to you that the church had hired me to make tb this to state statement there would be however no truth in it I 1 have spent many years helping the under dog that work is in never hired and seldom paid for the mormon church has never employed me and I 1 have never asked employment of it I 1 advocate the rights of the mormons cormons because it is right and if the mormons cormons were the persecutors instead of the persecuted as they have been I 1 should be against them only let the nation be fair alike to all sects and mormonism will soon cease to be a thorn in the flesh of anybody 10 |
