Show THE PEOPLE OF UTAH One of the graceful acts of the territorial terri-torial convention was its hearty endorsement en-dorsement of Hon Joe L Jlawlins our able representative in congress in these words We endorse the official acts of our delegate in congress lion J L Rawlins Raw-lins and offer his able and successful services as evidence of democratic energy en-ergy and fidelity to the interests of the people of Utah Never was plaudid more fairly won never more gracefully conveyed The beauty of this thing is there are no republicans re-publicans to be found to fight It This worthy Paladin of fair young Utah Is as Bayard was Sane puer et sans re proche and friends and enemies vie only to pay him honor He has grown to be a necessity to Utah As brave as Bayard he avoids no foe who elands in the pathway of the territorys progress pro-gress and when the ultra pious hypocrites hy-pocrites of New England gathered from Maine including Massachusetts to the Pacific coast to block her way to equality among the states and put Morse up as the peculiar champion of the republican partys opposition who but Rawlins was there to front him and in a few words tipped with a sarcasm sar-casm perfectly awlul expose the pious i fraud the party of God and morality was attempting to play not upon Utah alone but upon the entire west and south as well Moree was not afraid of polygamy breaking out of its boundaries bound-aries and feeding its lusts upon the leathery ancient husDandless dames of the east not at all It was because the act of admission would create two more democratic free coinage senators and two more staunch free silver representatives re-presentatives in the lower house Yet according to this typical puritanical hypocrite the eieat fear of the mother of school marine shuddered only at the prospect of the bloodyminded and lecherous old polygamists overrunning all Yankeedom to feed their lusts upon the maidens of Massachussetts If Rawlins had never accompWsWi = GVugut 111 i i 1 inr i GiiGvjxlguCIiJJff poor pittiful fraud he would and the I democratic party of Utah through him have won the undying gratitude of the people of this territory But we have a long list of equally brilliant services with which to crown the party and to justify the affectionate confidence of the democracy in the man For all the long years during which the rerublican party was the arbitrator ar-bitrator of her fate Utah received nothing but contumely at the hands of the national administration No matter mat-ter who was president the policy was the same showing that the personnel of the administration was as nothing in the presence of the settled policy of the party It is the same today it will remain the same until this generation of republicans pass away It ia i the same order of lawless disregard of the rights of the people which has ever distinguished dis-tinguished the party of trusts combinations combin-ations and corporations Before this party of intolerance the constitution is as a rag of paper brushed out of sight whenever it is either convenient or profitable to do so Here is Utah as well equipped at any period during the last thirty years as now for statehood still occupying the position of a territory terri-tory with no voice in national affairs albeit she has as great a stake in the government as any state in the union Her blood was offered freely a costly libation on the altars of national unity but the republican party still steadily turned her face against admission We are not the apologist polygamy nor do we countenance it in any way yet for the life of us we can see no reason or sense in the republican policy pol-icy keeping Utah out of the union so many long years on that score as if congress and the national authorities could not have dealt with it as well in a state as in a territory Hence we charge that the keeping her out was all along part of that same bit of political po-litical hypocrisy that Morses effort last winter was It is in the republican blood and the very same intolerance of thirty years since exists today It would prove but a sorry day for Utih if she should at last and with all this experience as a lamp to her feet return re-turn these intolerant hypocrites to power I |