Show ANOTHER PLAIN TALK 9 reasons why the people of utah should be republicans 0 BY JOSEPH F r in an article which appeared in the columns of the tile salt lake herald of octo her ber 11 ia I 1 I 1 C W penrose writes under the tile licad head of plain talk reasons wh why IV tile people of utah should be democrats to let this article go unnoticed might convey the idea that some of us who are republicans have no reasons to offer why we should be republicans As I 1 see no reason in discussing these questions eions why anything should be mud diat that aes ues is I 1 not friendly in its character I 1 feel the greater liberty in setting forth to the public some of my rny reasons w hy the people of utah should be republicans I 1 I 1 may not be able to enumerate all the tile reasons there are why we should be republicans but perhaps I 1 may cite a sufficient number a show that we w e are justified in accepting the doctrines of tile republican party as those which are best adapted for the government of this country I 1 may say to begin with however that it is a matter of surprise to me that my friend C IV penrose should take so narrow a view as to express r C swon wonder derphy why lat ter day saints should shoud b be 0 republicans S lie ile starts out with the statement that because the tile people of utah revere the con ution of the united blates states and titan many of them regard it as divinely in inspired spirg they should be democrats for my life I 1 cannot discover why this should be a reason for being a Deni democrat ocra t for I 1 or this bell c fj I 1 is not peculiar ee liar to democrats the in most os t 0 of f tip tl e republicans t ep bublic ic of or my acquaintance myself included believe the constitution to have been divinely divinely inspired if I 1 therefore were to use t the I 1 ie ad Cap landum argument of C NV penroe penrose 1 I would sa av if that at because R republicans believe the constitution of L united blatus to be divinely inspired the people of utah should be republicans lie lies says avs again the constitution is a democratic instrument it was he lie saye says prepared bv by democrats and is nn an expression 8 on t throughout of pure democratic doctrine A were ere my friend a professional politician I 1 should hould call such a statement as file he above iii mere cre claptrap clap trap for in this lie gives us a new version of history lone none would be more surprised at it than the trainers framers of the constitution themselves I 1 undoubtedly the framers of the tile consal i aution were democrats but they were also republicans to say that they were democrats in the partisan sense in which mr penrose uses the title is 19 not true if hm his kiev v lew were correct one would almost wonder how flow the nation ever came to bo be called a republic A democracy of the united states of america would surely have been a more fitting title for a govern ment whose charter cli arter having been framed by democrats was itself democratic an and d was throughout an expression of pure democratic doctrine lucre there would ike then n have been no talk of republican institutions republican republican principles or form forin of govean in ell t talk tali which to those who hold the view expressed in plain talk as to the exclusive democratic character of the nations institutions and its founders must sound singularly inappropriate it is on oil historical fact that thomas jefferson who is held up today as the tile great apostle of 0 r democracy ran for president of the united states as a republican and arid did not seem seen I 1 to be ashamed of the title iho the fact thatah that at the time the tile eon constitution sti tut ion was framed all true americans were both republicans and arid democrats that la is opponents of the tile monarchial system is a sufficient answer to the point my friend tries to ala make ke they were republican democrat democrats or dem dent socratic republicans or plain republicans just as the term su suited I 1 ted them hut but the they were not partisans in the dense sense in which he lie uses the term to apply to the word Derno democrat crat or democracy any other significance igni fi c a nee at chat time would have been deemed a trilling with language I 1 would not lot accie c him of doing tins this but does it not have this appearance friend penrose is correct in saying saving that a democracy is a government by the people irom from whom all power come comes hut but what pray is a reau republic ic whence come the government and the power of govern in a republic have the people less docto tocto to do with it because someone in straining to make a point rejects the title of republic and adopts the title of democracy surely this is sophistry of the t thinnest wittiest kind one would almost imagine in reading ia plain n to talk ik 1 that the democrats had find always a T 1 maintained I mn I 1 I n it the he constitution of the U united red slats e and nd all its provisions inviolate and arid that some someone ane else had been 1 6 I 1 I 1 trying to destroy that immortal instrument n a and it d upon this ground the writer appeals I 1 eals to the people of utah in an e endeavor i ici e dinv inv bor t to 0 convince them then that they 0 ought u Z h t t to be democrats that my rc m ders may obtain a fair understanding der of this and sec see what foundation there is f for or tile statement that they all ought to bo be democrats I 1 desire to examine amine ie as briefly aa as possible the history of the democratic party and arid its actions towards utah I 1 tab since since this territory was settled I 1 I 1 might to do full justice to the subject eo go back to the days lays of missouri and illinois but this would introduce an clement element into the discussion perhaps not altogether profitable I 1 therefore shall omit all reference to events which occurred before the pioneers pion eera came to utah though in doing so I 1 leave out a great many points that would add force to ray my argument after the settlement of utah territory the first administration that came ili into to power was the whig administration of taylor ati or fillmore general taylor died and millard milmore fillmore the tile vice president became president of the tile united states let it be said to the credit of that whig a administration that the people of utah then had tangible home role rule granted to them rill Fill mores administration con eon salted the wishes of the people of the territory as to who was the man of all others among them whom they would prefer to I 1 b be e the their r governor brigham youna young was i beir c choice hoice and without best hesitation ita tion president resi fillmore rill more appointed that distinguished guis I 1 ed man as the governor of the territory such acts as these speak louder loader than words and arid empty professions has the democratic party wit with all its pretended love for home borne rule ever done as much for us as that I 1 am aware that home rule is a favorite favori to theme with democratic politicians and this recalls that monumental the bo so called home rule bill now pending 9 in congress the measure is 61 clumsy r ridiculous idi culous and un american the who whole e realm of legislation offers no parallel to it it is is a monster and is an insult and a sham ill in that it proposes not to loosen the chains with which the people are now held but to gild them with coin wrung from their hard bard earned substance am I 1 I 1 not justified in ili judging of democratic pretensions and ideas of home rule by that measure when framed its existence was kept secret A knot of democrats con eon the thing ili in darkness in in bait salt lake city and its birth took place when introduced in tahe house of representatives its parents had reason to be ash ashamed allied of it for the best pica plea urged in its favor was that it would furnish the citizens of utah a time of probation during which forsooth they could exhibit their atness for self government 1 this we was s the estimate placed upon the people of utah by this Demo democratic crall 0 wea measure s ur e vet yet it is thought to bo be such a superior a i or specimen of bf democratic borne r rule u le I 1 that ter t it has become a democratic idol before which all utah has hag been expected to fall down and worship mr penrose calls senator tellers bill for the admission of utah a a sham linin but it did propose admission did it not what did this democratic home rule measure propose it proposed a form of state stat e government men t without the power lovern thereof it t increased the tile burdens of tit the e people without giving them a any ny voice in the affairs of the nation and an d furnished places for a lot of hungry politicians at the expense of the peo people e ali in 1850 the republican ian party came into existence general fremont was the pre didenti al candidate of that party against him hini the democrats pitted james Dut hannin ft james buchannan was elected then the democratic party showed how much love it had for the people of utah the first act was to remove governor young that wag N as its way of showing allowing its regard for home rule next it t sent an nil army with the tile avowed intention of crushing the people of utah perhaps the meanest most oppressive and arid heartless t officials elUcia ls with the exception of the governor that L U tab tali was ever carml with came at that time as the representatives of democracy the republican party had assal assailed led ply polygamy gainy ili in its platform it but the democratic party undertook to a show ow the country that it could go far beyond the republican proposition it would attack the whole structure and destroy the whole mormon institution this was wag tile illustration which the people of utah tile then n had of democratic love tor for the constitution and their rights as a people mr penrose takes makes the statement tb that at the democratic party lias has been the friend of utah ili in nil all its efforts to secure its rights will the truth of history bear this out ont it must be always borne cornein in mind gindin mindin min din in considering si the action fiction of the two arca great political parties towards utah that the impression 15 oil was meral general and well grounded up to a recent date at e that the I 1 mormon people were hopelessly democratic the republican party therefore viewed them as their political opponents they had nothing in to expect from them theta politically and they treated them accordingly on the contrary the democratic party had every reason io to believe that the mormon people were democratic now in contrasting ill the 0 treatment extended by the two parties arties to utah this tills fact should not bo be lost los tp L sight of the democrats had every reason for treating us as political fri friends endi the republican for treating us as political opponents I 1 feel free in sat saying ng that remembering this fact we have been e ell treated better in utah bv by the republicans than wo we hive have by the tile democrats I 1 assert this and it cannot be truthfully contradicted that the greatest grea tet buffe sufferings n I 1 and arid miseries which th the e people eol li e of U utah i at hae endured t those hose w which hc 1 l have entailed the greatest loss and arid sacrifice have been experienced under democratic ad administrations in iniestra see mill star bt arVol vol 21 page W As I 1 have already said sold it was under tinder a whig W lug administration that utah a t territory el ri tory this was in in 1800 1850 during the forty two years which w inch have it 3 ve b bince ince el elapsed ft ped i there have been three democratic administrations rations those of pierce buchannan arid cleveland of Pl piercen Pier erces cea administration it need only be said that there was no agitation of affairs and she attracted no attention but of Buchannan Buc hannans 8 administration tra tion who can describe the sufferings feringa suf of the people of utah under it after the lapse apse of thirty four years it chills my blood food to think of them another exodus of the people of all our northern settlements in inclement the jn clement spring of homes abaid abandoned on ed an another of tier launching forth to search new homes men women and arid children fleeing from front an all army whose threats of outrage and arid violence were borne to their ears by evera every breeze from the east the tit recollection of the acts of moba mobs was then too recent to permit any feeling of ofin ili ditle rence to prevail those who took part ili in those scenes and yet live cannot forget them neither can their children who have heard the recital of them this was an exhibition ex hibi tion pure and simple of democratic rule shall wo we take that as furnish in ing g reasons why w bv tho the people of utah should be ile democrats I 1 doubt if my friend frien penrose ro e himself would bo be so ardent in fit presenting in g his reasons la in favor of democratic rule i if f i instead of being in in the tile kingdom kingdom ot of great britain and under the rule 0 of que queen fit victoria he had shared the tile handsh hardships inq and arid privations of those days da s from 1 rom buchannan to cleveland a period of twenty four years cars the republican party was in in power among other legislation it enacted the law of mr penrose calls this tills act that egg of the con eon fis cation bird of prey I 1 do not defend much less approve of that act but ill this Is may be said I 1 had the republican party known utah as favorably as tho the democratic cratic party had reason for knowing her ter thit that egg would not have appeared As it was wit it remained only oni a an n egg of twenty five years yeam an and I 1 then it wa was hatched atell ei under the administration of of grover grov er cleveland mr cleveland is again a candidate for the office of chief executive and with r remarkable 0 mar kabe fatuity my friend would have all ill of us think him the man who ought to be elected but what claim has ha mr cleveland to our gratitude rati tude or by b what acts of I 1 his its did he show hitri himself elath the friend odthe of the people of utah we are told that if the tile manifesto had been issued during the cleveland administration the people of utah would have received very verv different treatment to that which b his s administration dealt on to them but there is considerable sid erable room to doubt this while he wai wag vet yet president a constitutional I 1 tut 0 ional o nal convention anve tion was called in bait salt lake cit city and a state constitution was fr framed ruled ar lor utah wh which practically madette made the continuance of polygamy poly polygamy am in in the proposed state jamy here ere was the tile opportunity for the democratic P party ala or y to show its friendship for utah no Z man in public life knew better than president cleveland the condition of affairs in in this territory for no president ever had guelf 1 1 I 1 copious explanations and from so many different sources given to him did this action of the delegates of the people in framing this constitution have auy any effect did it produce a cessation of prosecution 0 or r e evoke vo k e a any ii y ki kindly n d lv interest in those dark d days y s 0 of f se severe v e re t anal r ia I 1 not the tile least no commiseration no relaxation of rigorous enforcement of law on the tile part of mr cleveland and ills his administration what is such friendship worth it is when peo plo pie are in trouble that true friends exhibit their sympathy sympathy and give their aid during those days a y s 0 of f w which 1 1 tell I 1 speak the admission ot of oth other er te territories r ri t or i e as states received democratic endorsement but of utah it was said by an eminent democratic leader that it was a fly in Democratic the Derco cratic ointment 1 that is our case we |