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Show FROM IMPARTIAL SOURCES. It has been repeatedly charged within with-in the last few weeks, by bitterly partisan parti-san papers in Utah, that now since the territory elected a republican legislature legisla-ture the democrats both here and in Washington had combined to defeat the statehood proposition in consequence. conse-quence. Yesterday the Deseret News' special correspondent at Washington telegraphed to his paper that there was absolutely no truth in the sensational reports coming to that city from Utah and Salt Lake to the effect that the democrats have decided against statehood state-hood and also that the territory was to be charged up with a big sum for paBt expenditures by the federal government. govern-ment. The correspondent of the News reaches the probably correct conclusion, that the delay is caused by the gold bug fear of increasing western pro-silver influence. The retarding of statehood is therefore due to the gold bug influences influ-ences in Wail Btreet alone. We think the correspondent would have been more impartial had he refrained from exculpating both parties because it is a well-known fact that the republican party has alwavs opposed statehood, and did demonetize silver in the first instance. In this he is "so straight that he bends over backwards." However, he is good enough to say that ''there are more democrats than republicans in congress who favor western representation." Here is an exalted instance of Utah republican devotion, to Utah interests as well as general republican devotion to our statehood hopes. The "pigs will fly" when the republican party agrees to any farther increase of western west-ern influence in congress. We commend com-mend this dispatch and the lession it teaches, to the honest faithful pro-siatehood people in this territory of every shade of political opinion. It is an interesting theme. Up through it all, gleams the fact that if ever Utah has statehood it will' be only by and through the grace of the democratic party. |