The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-28
An Interesting Paper on the
Gentleman from Vermont.
EDMUyDs AND THE MoRMoSS.
His Iron will-The Enemies He Has
Ma:e-Utsh and the Republicans
The Tucker Bill.
SALT LAKE CITY. Nov. y. 1886.

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commence in Washington. and vii
terminate its existence on the ith Of
March next. So far. the members com
prising the forty-ninth body of na
tional legislators have not immortalized
themselves by doing anything
extraord nary in tie way OF legislation
In the FIRST session they sat nearly eight
months, but most of the time was cor.
sumed in talk. One important measure
after another would be taken up, dis
cussed for days and sometimes weeks
and finally laid 10 one side without any
decisive action being reached whatever.
In the beginning of the session, Senator
EdmInds, of Vermont, managed TO get
no a contest between the Senate and the
| President. Considerable interest wss
manifested in this issue. Edmund>,
shrewd politician that he is, worked the
subject for all it was worth. He posed
as the champion of the Republicans in
thought that in the matter OF
the removal of certain Repub-
lican officials from office, he
would compel the President TO
furnish certain papers which the
Senate, in no very courteous man
nar. had demanded. The debate
dragged along for days; great speeches
were made by both sides, and finally
vote was reached which TO all intents
and purposes gave Mr.. Edmunds a very
! black eye. The resolutions that he had
submitted, and that had provoked so
much discussion, were only adopted
| by q majority of one. II was q COM
plete victory for the President. Ed
munds himself could not fail to per-
ceive this. He smarted under the snub.
/ he is not q man that likes to be de-
feated in anything. He glories in hav-
ing his own way. AS chairman OF the
committee on judiciary, it is said that
he bulldozes that body into complying
with his wishes in almost everything.
II the members of his committee Will
not agree TO his wishes in almost every
thing; he goes of in a temper, and
there is a cessation of business, so far
as that committee is concerned. until
be gains his point, or something equiv
slent to il. Mr.. Edmunds is undoubt
edly great man. He is q first-class
lawyer, anc a. politician be stands at
the Top of the tree. His oyerbearing
manner. however, combined with an
iron will, has made him many enemies
both in and out of the Senate. He is
recognized as the leader Of the Repub-
licsns in the Senate. but many
of his colleagues refuse TO fol
low him. They refuse to submit
to be bulldoZed by him. II il
suits them they will vote as he votes;
II il does not, they vote as they please.
his name has often been mentioned in
connection with the Presidency. but he
has too many enemies-all of his own
making-in the ranks of the Republi-
cans to ever succeed, no matter his
desire, IN getting the nomination for
President at Republican convention.
His refusal to 90 on the stump for
Blaine, while it may be a small matter.
did him great deal of harm. Blsine
viii never forgive him, and the Blame
ties will bear him grudge as long as
he is on top of the earth, and they will
not, perhaps, let him alone when he is
underneath ii. Edmunds' chance,
therefore, ever 10 get nominated By any
Republican convention as its candidate
for President is about as remote as il
possibly can be. He seems, every
thing considered, to have risen as high
upon the political ladder as he can ever
climb, not because he lacks brains, ex-
perience, aptitude, peculiar fitness for
tAC AAEAcSI pOAAAACoA pOslllOu III tue
land, but because he has gained for
himself reputation which has sown
the seeds Of luminosity for future
harvest. SO far as his seat in the Senate
IS concerned, he can occupy IL for life.
He halls from q very small State, the
constituency of which are willing TO
overlook all his faults. Some show of
opposition. based upon his attitude to-
wards Blaine, was made q short time
ago to his reelection TO the Senate, |
but almost without spending a
cent, or giving himself the least
concern, he had walk-over |
or in other words, was reelected for |
an ther SIX years. Death alone will re- |
move him from an active political lie |
de viii always be a power in the SEN
ate of the United States, and will only /
cease to carry through whatever meas
ure he introduces in that body when
the Republicans lose the majority,
which, II is TO be hoped, they will in q
very short time. Senator Edmunds
has always made the most Of any cues
ton which was likely, by his advocacy,
TO gain him public notoriety. This has
been evidenced time and time again.
His attitude upon the Mormon question
may be cited es an example. Although
he pretends to the contrary, he cannot,
even IN private conversation, hide his
upon the subject. The
Edmunds bill Of 1882, pertaining to
Utah, now being enforced in a manner
that never was contemplated by Ed
munds himself-I believe he has so ad-
mitted-is one of his shrewd produc- (
tons. His second bill-that introduced (
in the early part of last session-was by
3 great many degrees worse than the f,
first. Its provisions are too well known
10 require comment at the present time.
Nothing half so infamous in the WAY of
was ever attempted before.
IN either house of Congress. Nothing
IN the same line, GU side of Mormon.
.sm, Or pertaining 10 the people called
Normons, would dare be attempted in
any Congress of the United States
'hhe land OF the free and the
home OF the brave" without caus-
ing the greatest opposition on the
part of every patriotic. freedom
Toying citizens Of this country. Ibaye I
with too many members OF
ngress-Ssnators and Representatives.
upon the subject not 10 Enow that, so
lar as Republicans are concerned, The
of the M0rmons was not the