New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-28
STATEHOOD FOR UTAH.
STRONGLY OPPOSED by THE NoN-PoLYGA-
MISTS.
GENERAL HARmsoHs ELECTION GREAT DIS


GENERAL HARRIsoNps ELECTION GREAT DIS
APPOINTMENT TO THE MORMON LEADERS.
Salt Lake City, Utah, jan eo-Ths election Of Gen..
eral Harrison has proven disappointment 70 Tho
Saints Of this Latter Day zOn' and the Republican
lead In Congress makes the dose all tho more bitter
There really strong hope. which had bean dsfty
encouraged by the Mormon Delegate 10 Congress, John
T. Calne. that Utah would DO admitted 70 tho Union In
the event OF Cevelands reelection and the retention
Of control in Congress by tho Democrats Statehood
Is, naturally enough, tho great boon which the
Mormons crave and to gain It they would 90 10 al
most any length except To give up, IN absolute good
faith, their pet doctrine and favorite practice OF
polygamy. The liberation by the poygamists Of the
monogamlst Calne as Delegate 10 Congress Is like
thorn In their side. They do not consider him true
representative Of this people, because ho has only
one wife but as 3 man with than one IS not al
lowed in Congress, Mr.. Caine viii probably succeed
himself for an indefinite number Of torus
Before his last reelection characteristic incident
occurred IN the nominating convention. Mr.. Game
was the churchs candidate and them was no lkeli-
hood Of any opposition, but good saint with many
wives who married as No. or clever young woman
doctor long ago. thought was bis duty to protest
against the religious bigotry OF Congress, and said
daily that their reason for sending Mr. Game to
Washington was because they were not allowed TO
send the man they wanted.
tits perfectly true that q onewife man does not
adequately represent the Church, whose delegate no
is but Mr. Game bore the humiliation like lamb, and
has worked hard for tho interests Of the priesthood
ever since. He has made many friends among Demo
cratic politicians and getting things into an ex-
trcmely hopeful shape when tho bombshe Of Repub-
| lioan victory knocked all his schemes into pi
The objections Of Mormons here to the admission
Of the Territory to the Union in the present state Of
the arc perfectly reasonable and valid. II
would Of course be a circus for the Saints but
extremely cold day for the Gentiles.' The lattcr
would not DO In exactly the same tx az "nggcr'
In the South undor tho ruio OF Southern ohvalry, but
he would pretty IT, because II tho Mornons
enjoyed the full fling which Statehood would give
them, they would ondeavor to mako the temperature
here cool for anybody but Saints 10 1.-Two IN. The
State Legislature would be the creature Of the First
Presidency as the Territorial Legislature has always
been Tho Senator'S and Members OF Congress would
be first Of all Mormons the Governor n 10 not
indeed the Mormon President would be Saint desE-
| mated by him, and the remnant of the Gentiles'
would be egrepousy left Every once In the state
would be nled by Mormon. and tho Offices would
become as they are practically at present. hereditary,
SO that mono but the Saints could come At them.
Should man Of Brigham Youngs talent and char
acter then come Into power in Zion, tho State would
soon revert to IT'S pristine glory as onoman despot-
ism no polyeamist could be prosecuted except in
United states Courts they would be parayzed and
- as-~~"
| 10 freeze out tho Gentle&
With such a condition confronting them. II Is not
especially surprising that the non-Mormons Of all
parties creeds and natIonslitles resident here
| are averse to tho admission Of Utah 10 the Union.
/ They would all Ike the benefits Of Statehood for
themselves, but are willing to await time when
| Statehood may have .ar chance Of proving
benefit rather than drawback Thore are Il Is safe
to say thousands among the younger Mormon genera
ton who at heart Indifferent to the doctrines
their Church, and are far from wishing to SEQ poly
gamy perpetuatod Ono day they win confess much
and give their reasons, which arc based on bitter
| experience But the next day they win relont,
and II Is as much out OF the question to canse a
breach in their solid front at tho polls as In that
Of the Bourbon whites of the South.
Though held together here by tho Church organl-
Eation called "The Peoples Party the Mormops
are, in sympathy. almost unanimously Democratic
on National Affairs Tho newspapers and periodicals
various parts Of the Territory continue TO foment
feeling OF bitterness against the Government, ard
against all tho world outside their narrow soctarian
q people has been stuntcd and checked as much BY
The incubation OF ignorant preudlces and spitefL
ness against the world at largo by the practice Of
polygamy and tho grinding demands Of Ae ntbing
sands OF the people In state OF poverty while Il
| has enriched tho few who have been In charge.
Polygamy has proved tho ruin Of some OF The bright
est and most honest men who have connected their
fortunes with tho scot; has wrecked the homes and
lives OF many families and brutallged 10 the last
degree largo percentage Of the mon who have
practised Il. The women II has crushed and broken
berocay, buoyed by blind faith or innat,cism. their
saddened ard desolate lives have been terrible com
nsntary on the systena