The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-26


whom it might hurt
He was sent as Governor to Utah
when stranger to her people; he had
been there nearly three years. He
found existing there state of things
he was not prepared for division and
bitterness as intense as the border
States before and during the war ever
knew. He was glad to inform the com.
mittee that that feeling did not now
exist. IT, he said, the committee lis
tened to the low, sweet dulcet notes of
OF the gentlemen advocating Utah's adj
mission, they would be led to believe
the state of things to be paradisacal, but
such was not the fact; d spirit of intol-
eraEce still existed, such as exists no
where else. The history of the people
showed that those who differed from
them were prescribed, that no Federal
officer, however honest he may be in
his CONVERSIONS, could oppose them
without receiving
THEIR UNFAvoRABLE CRITICISM.
Mr.. Barnes, of Georgia, asked how he
regarded the spirit of the Tribune ar
tieles read to the committee yesterday?
The Governor answered in the spirit
of intolerance and bitterness.
Continuing the Governor slightly
fiattered himself that he had not re-
ceived the first adverse criticism from
Mormon source, but he was found now
opposing them in that he appeared, as
a citizen, against the admission to the
Union of States of the Territory he
represented.
Mr.. TAULBEE-Governor, whom do
you represent?
A.-As q man and citizen he enter
tanned certain convictions, and as such
he had right to be heard. Besides,
he did not hesitate to say he represented
the universal sentiment of the non
Mormon people of Utah.
Mr.. Taulbee merely wanted to know
if the Governor felt it incumbent to
represent the minority.
The Governor said he was invited by
the gentlemen representing the minor
| ity to appear before the committee,
and as governor he felt it incumbent
upon him to either sustain or oppose
movement involving the interests of the
whole people.
| M. Tauibee wanted 10 know If non
Mo- III On had participated in the move
ment for Statehood, whether or not he
would not be regarded Jack-Mormon.
The answer was that he would have
been designated as such.
Mr. RICHARDs-That is the reason
the non Mormon element had not as
serted itself.
The Governor here produced a copy
of The HERALD and greatly amused the
committee by reading an editorial re-
fecting on himself. ] refer to the issue
of your journal in which the doctrine
is held,
"oEcE A GUERILLA ALWAYS GURR-
lila"
The Governor seemed to feel all right
about it. and so did the committee.
The Governor then told the committee
what he had done in the way of har-
monizing the two factions; how that
the organization known as the Chamber
of Commerce had been effected; how
that he had assisted in uniting Nor
mon and non Mormon in celebrating
Independence Day; how he had con.
tributed to advance the interests of the
Territory in other ways, such as work
School and the Deseret University, etc.
the committee as to the attitude in
which he stood with regard to
the people. He would not have
the committee think for single
moment that any antsgonism
existed between him and the people;
he was not here to attack or indict
them, but to fight system and de
nounCe an evil. In order to show the
state of things that existed in Utah
when he went there, the Governor
called the attention of the committee to
his report to the Secretary of the Inte-
rior for 1887, which he asked to file.
The balance of the time was consumed
in reading the topics contained in that
report and commenting on the same,
In one of the Governors comments he
referred to the
PROGRESSED LOVE AND vENERATIoN
of the Mormon people for the Oonstitu
ton of the United States, and their be-
lief as to its divine origine. He said:
"Now, gentlemen, you catch on; you
get the idea as to where they get their
power-it comes from God" But
when the constituted authorities made
polygamy crime, they said the Con-
stitution was right, but the Lawmakers
were wrong. Here followed little un-
pleasantness on question of veracity.
MIR. Richards endeavored to get
the Governor to define himself,
and that gentleman did so in
short order by means of
personality. He said that from public
utterances in pulpjts, in conversations
on street corners, as well as in private
conversations, it was claimed by the
Mormons that they had right to vio-
late the law against polygamy; and the
Governor further said that Mr.. Rich
ards in conversation with him in the
Riggs House so claimed; that Mr.. Game
had also done SO. Both these gentle
men in turn arose and emphatically |
denied the allegation, challenging the /
Governor (Who had said he would take |
their public utterances for it, to pro- |