The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-11

sIedu Oh De|Ween o1OrmOnS anu OeuIuec,
and the hates will pass away as they
should have done long ago.
Our esteemed contemporary, the stad
and dignified Philadelphia Ledger, has not
been quite itself on Utah questions since
one of its employees has been the recipient
OF Salt Lake money for writing on the
Liberal side of the local question. The
Ledger departs from the issue and says:
Utah has little chance of being admitted
into the union as state. Distrust of the
Mormons was sufficient to keep it in terri
torial bondage, and now, in an election on
party lines, it turns out to be Democratic.
There will have to be a change in the ma
tional government or in the politics OF
Utah itself before the state can be allowed
TO add another star TO the flag
OF course, the fact that Utah is Demo
cratic would stand in the way Of her ad
mission with this administration and the
present Republican Senate, but we can
assure our contemporary that when this
territory again asks to be taken into the
union as q sovereign state, very little OBJ
! lection will be raised and that little will
not be influential. The fact is, statehood
troubles nobody in these parts; nobody is
asking for it, and so far as we car learn,
nobody is anxious for it. 1t is desirable as
a matter of course, but not SO desir-
able as TO inspire anything like
formidable movement to achieve II.
THE HERALD has said many times during
the past two years that the next movement
for statehood for Utah will start from the
other end of the line-trom Washington in
stead Of this territory. Every day brings
proof of the correctness of this prediction
The people here, regardless of politics, feel
that they can endure territorial govern
ment with large degree OF complacency
quite as long as the cation can afford 10
| pay for tie fun of denying full American
citizenship to as loyal men as can be found
anywhere in the LAND of the stars and
stripes, We feel certain that the powers
that be win grow tired of this sort OF thing
quite as soon as the people of Utah become
eager to don the new conditions and accept
the increased responsibilities and burdens
attendant upon statehood
The Aspen (Col.) Times is familiar with
the situation and therefore takes a sensible
view OF the late contest and OF the future,
I 1t says:
The Liberals. .or Gentle party, carried Salt
Lake city in the late election, but those who
! took q stand in favor OF political division on
the lines Of the old parties should not feel dis
heartened. Ii was not 10 be expected that the
radical change proposed could be successfully
accomplished in the first campaign. The IN
successful attempt is by no means discredit-
able, and those who engaged in il with honor
able and conscientious motives TO promote
/ moro cordial buSinpsS and social relations
tween the warning factions OF this territory,
may feel satisfied with the record they have
made fully confident, as they have reason 10
be. that the courageous stand taken by them
viii some day be heartily approved by popu-
I lar demonstration signalling even a greater
triumph than the viciors in the late contest now
celebrate with spirit.
Our neighb Dor, the Reno State Journal. is
also well acquainted with Utah affairs, aud
il has been al interested spectator of what
has been going on here. AS q result OF its
observation it comments intelligently as
follows:
For the first time in the history OF Utah ter
ritory an election has been held on national
lines. There were three parties in the contest
the Democratic and Republican, composed of
Gentiles and Mormons, and the Liberals. com
posed almost entirely of Gentiles. It was
charged by the Liberals that the Mormons
would vote for the members OF ttelr church re-
CARELESS OF the ticket on which they were
nominated, but the returns show this accGsa-
ton was unfounded; in fact, the Mormons
divided on partisan lines fully as much as the
Geatiles. There were bishops and elders of
the church on both the Republican and Demo
cratic tickets, and the returns show that they
received no more votes than the Gentiles. The
Liberals carried Salt Lake city and elected
about one-third Of the members OF the legisla-
ture. while in Ogden the Democrats were sue
cessful by a small plurality. 1he Democrats
have majority in both branches of the terri
torial legislature, but the Liberals control the
municipal government of Salt Lake city.
The able and conservative New York
Times editorially comments on our election
as follows: i
The effort to readiust the politics OF Utah
upon the lines of the national parties of the
country seems to have been fairly successful as
shown by the election OF Monday. The old
Mormon or church party was abandoned, and
the Mormons were divided between Democrats
and Republicans The old anti-Mormon or So
called Liberal party" persisted in making
separate nominations, which were supported
chiefly by Republicans. The result was a VIC
tory OF the Democrats by I small plurality
over the Liberals" the Republicans being
third in the race. This result Is likely 10 pro-
mote the movement for aba ndoniug the old
lines as il shows that the Republicans might
have carried the election in this case If they
had been united. l. also shows that they were
responsible for such effort as was made TO
keep up the old antagonism between Mormons
and anti Mormons. AS soon as the abandon
ment Of olygamy is accepted as 6nal and ire
vocable the Old issue is likely % disappear and
the politics OF Utah will become normal
The Times correctly classes the Liberals
and Republicans as affiliated in principle,
and points out that it was the perversity
of the former faction which prevented the
Republicans from casting majority OF the
votes. Admitting that so or 80 per cent. of
the Liberals are Republicans in national
politics The HERALD confesses that If the
Liberal party were to disband the contest
between Republicans and Democrats would
be much closer and more interesting than
the late struggle was; nevertheless the !
Democrats have no longer any nervousness
regarding the politics of the territory. |
Utah is Democratic, and we believe per-
manently so, in spite of the com
biuations which can be formed |
TO defeat the great party if
the people To confess the truth, the /
Democrats didn't have chance in the last |
campaign 70 more than half do what they !
can do. They merely gave the opposition |
an inkling of the mightine3s of Democracy
in this territory. In contests hereafter. |