The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-17
EDMUNDS TO TIE FORE.

As has been asserted in The HERALD,
Senator EDMUNDs is opposed to the propo-
sition to disfrauchise the Mormons with no
better excuse than their religious belief.
The old Vermonter is on record with more
than one speech against Acknowledgement,
anddenying the right of Congress to go to
that extent He is not, however, opposed
TO expressing the Mormons most relent-
lessly. Heis also jealous of anybody who
steps into the field which he has pre-
empted, that of fathering and supervising
all anti-Mormon legislation. He was very
indignant statesman few years ago when
Representative TUCKER, of Virginia, in an
effort to acquire notoriety, introduced
and had passed by the House a very
drastic bill intended to make mince-
meat of the Mormons, so to speak. The
bill reaching the Senate in due time, was
referred TO the judiciary committee, of
which old ST.. JEROME is chairman, and
there it was riddled and emasculated to
such an extent that TUCKER could not rec
ognize the child of his venomous heart and
vicious head. The yirginian was then
indignant, but he fumed and ragged in vain
He had trenched upon the preserves of a
greater than he, and must accept whatwas
offered or get nothing, the Offering being
the emasculated bill, bill which contained
much more of the handiTork of EDMUNDs
than of TUCKER,
The Vermonter has again found poachers
in his field, STEWART, CULLoM and STRUBLE
all having introduced bills for solving what
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are all on the same infamous line, that of
disfranchisement and deprivation of all civil
rights. EDMUNDs cannot tolerate this sort
of thing, hence he comes to the front wi b
a settler for the ambitious intruders, and a
settler for Utah as well. A synopsis of his
bill was printed in The HERALD on Friday,
and it is needless to say that it turned the
community upside down, metaphorically
speaking. CULLoM and associates aimed
exclusively at the Mormons; EDMUNDs
goes them one better and shoots directly at
Utah. He doesn't propose to disfranchise
in terms, but would accomplish that indi-
rectly. The STRUBLE gang would place a
quarter OF a million people at the mercy of
less than four Thousand Republican voters ::
EDMUNDs would make seven men absolute
masters Of the persons and property of
$50, men, women and children. The Utah
commission and the governor and secretary,
seven in all, are given supreme power to
make all the laws by districting the terri
tory and apportioning the membership of
the legislature in a way TO return only
such men as will do their bidding: the
same men are 20 fill all the offices not
abolished, thus doing away with the neces-
sity for elections save for members of the
legislature. THE HERALD does not in
tend to be impudent OF offensive, but it
cannot refrain from asking the Utah Gen
tiles how they like the fruit. How do
they relish the idea of ARTHUR L. THOMAS
holding and exercising power over them as
great as that held by TIE Gar over his
subiects7 What do they think of the
proposition of living under such rule as
would be given by the Utah Commission!
Are they delighted with the reflection that
seven men, all rank partisans and all
more or less given to thrift,
HoRATIo, sitting as dictators over
community of freemen who had been in the
habit of entertaining and expressing indi-
vidual preferences as TO men and measures!
Unless we are mistaken, and the non
Mormons arc cut out for serfs, they will
protest quite as earnestly and kick quite
as vigorously against the EDMUNDs-T THOMAS
bill as the Mormons have done against the
BAsKIN-CULLoM mersure.