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Show WHAT PRESIDENT SMITH' b'AlD OS STATEHOOD. ' Quito number (if our renders hnve nslicd us to pnblMi tlio r-peeeh of I'rcaldent Jojoph I' dmllli Hindu nt a Heptihllenn rally In llio '.'A product, Silt Mice City. l'or tliclr tx-nellt wo publish It below. . ''I nuvcr nude nn nltfmpt to make n polltlc.it uneci'lt In my 11 to, uml it scoiiir tosm'o Hint yu have henrd loo imii'li e,ood tnlkli'S for It t.i tw nocemiry fur me to n.iy nnytliing. However, leiidorno very heartily the-facts, tho ntateiueulu of fnct, tli:tt linvulccii imdo In ttio licnrln of thU audience. ltUnlitllo )nto In life for mo to bcRin to attempt the rolo of n .polltlc.il Hpenlier. but It has been circulated circul-ated nrnund tliut my respected kinsman, .Mr.. John- Henry b'mltli, nnd mynolf liuvo .renounced oflrallegliinco to tlio jftepuplhau party and have Joined Hie Democratic party. It miy bo somewhat obligatory upon mo on tills occasion to 'j that thU Is n dillieult problem for mo to solve. Hint is, I ow my friend, Jol.nf Ifcnry, could linve become n Democrat, Dem-ocrat, eve" " l' "'l renounced Itcpuli-liclsni Itcpuli-liclsni i lilid I . n a"ll "ru l,,nt il would b3 ni Impossible for io. . (A'piluel. ' "I belolvp lliat do not owo our present pioipcet for Stnteheod to tlio I Democratic party. I am convinced in jny tnfnd that if It cio In my poncr, or n- if It lmd neon In llioir jiowcr In tlio present tide of events to line prevented vlio pacs.iK0 of the Knnblin, Act, they would linvedono it. Our Inst I.egislnturH rt as Republican, mid if there vitro Democrat In Olnli or within tho United titnlcM who had knowledge of tlmt fuel thatwns not afraid to ndmlt U tub into iho Union nsn St He, fearing that it ( mjiiMjlicconie a Itepiiblienn State, then rhavu not licnrd of that Dcmbcnit, I U-liciu thai an effort ww lnnde by that j& u j-irly to present the pass.ii:e of the Hu v 4ib!hin net, mid 1 beleiso that it -s iorecd uu thorn in Cmigrcs by our Ko imblicin frfeiutd, Our republican friends In Oonsrtsa wcie not nfmM to ndmit Ut'tili into the Uulon nsn Statu because ils Inst lA-giittaluro was Republican, and t'hey bill faith tlxit Utali would ljucoinon llepubllcaiiStiillj. While tlioy vero in tno inajoiily "they were determined deter-mined to tliow tlieir hnnd on thin oc-: oc-: casion, no thnt it should not be said tlio ' V Hcimlillcafts or tho' Heplibllcaii paity stood In tho way of tlio. admission of r "Uinh. Awumliis tliU position, our i3 Dcmociutio friends In older to sao tlieir r tredltnnd to. inaliitnlu tlieir pretensions, werj forced intu reluctantly allowing i ihcKnnbling net to pass Csn.'icss. If I wero the Jtepubllcnn party and ? you know, thoioot you who nre nc- 1 quaintcd h lib mo that I niu not deposed I lo bo illiberal in my feelings and Utah ? hid knocked nt my door for admission lintrAi-ini? m 1 did that Utali was Demo- 1fatlc, 1 should lmvo shut my door "" jigaliikthcr. It is rcasouablo to supposo !r that tho Uepubllcaii parly would freely open tho baM for a Democratic State? " And was it' not believed that Utnh was overwhelmingly and irreocnbly Demo- r'liu? Our Democratic friends thought they ownet Uti'i and carried her in their pockets, and theieloio could treat her ns they pleased Tliu ItepublicaiiH believed this, mid certainly when we L rsked llio parly for admission they io- KnrJci' us ns jiolltical cncmlcH. Would you expect them to gio it to ns under these ciicumttaiices? r "Hut whmi Utah comes to tho front .. rnd proves that she is not Democratic, fa l,ut U Republican Uepubllcaii in her h rttfnliinouls, Republican In herindumrlfH, i Jtepublictil in her political faith, U- b- j.bllcan fiom tho ground uji-thoii jo" - a sk the Democratic parly to admit ou. ,, j nd they nro loath to lot you In. Uut v' nie Republican minority go to the rescue '' "M'd force tlio Issue and the favorable ,tctm upon them. And bo they urged i 'heaatjilsslonof tho passage of the En- .1 ib.lng lft, nnd tho Dtmocrats were m ' forced to let It pass or forever let It show thntthey were enemiea of those whom they hnd nourished nnd fostered." 'Bo I lieliivo that Instead of our belnj: Indebted to Joseph I,, lt.iwllni nnd the Democratic party for tho Dialling net that It W n debt of grntltiulo whicli w t one to tho Republican party, nil cf this Is said by our Democratic friends to tin contrary notwithstanding I Jo not believe that there Is a republican, n man who has the faitli that Oolongs to the Republican party of Utah, that hnd the faintest idea that Joseph , Rawlins nr the Democratic party wero tho means Of giving to iih the prospects that we have of Incoming n State. And to the credit of our Democratic friends be said that I do not believe '.lint they nro very much dilferenl from us, save In their lcwa cf tho methods of government mid of what It lakes to inako a nation of pioplc wealthy mid Indipcndcnt. In this rc-spest rc-spest wo (Hirer from them. I believe that there la no intelligent Democrat In Utah who believes within Jiimsclf Hint Joseph I). Ilnnllus or tho Democratic party were tho primal cmisc of the passage pas-sage of the Knnbling net. They say they believe K, but that is political capital. ''1 think It Is Shakespeare who says 'There Is a tide in the nlftiirs ol men whicli taken nt its Hood leads on to fortune.' I hclievo Josehh I,. Rawlins CHine in on tlio crj't of n tide. I nlso' think that when tho tido recedes Mr. Rawlins nnd his party will be left strnnded on tho shore. 'lion. Joseph I,. Ritxlins, coming into in-to tho delegation as he di.l, could not, if lie would, linvedono Ici towards the admlfdon of Utah than he did. It was not he, but lUwns Providence, n combination combi-nation of circumstances Hint culminated hefuieor just nboiit tho time Hint Mr, Raw llni whi elected Delegate. I bolicve . that ho beliovos this ns nn Intelligent man. "I do not believe that he In norlhv ol he honor. I believe that the honor Is .duetotho wUlom mid the liitdllgeul inclinnof the people of Utah in dlidiiig upon National party lines, mid ofcoaili g don ii toHhowtlnir real (onvctions. Tli.it is what I believe to be the rutton for tllu condition luatweste confronting us to-day. "1 ttust that Utah will go into the Union now, or in twr) yrnrB hence, by the grace of the Democratic pnrty, n Republican State." And I (rust that the wlbdom nnd Intelligence of the people of thoTerrltory u ill nover,"sofnrwniio(jr diminish ns to mnke her ever niiy'lilug Limn a Republican State." |
