The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-17


being so, they are entitled to this measure
which we are asking.
Mr.. Washington, the chairman, at this
point asked which the mass of the people
preferred, the Home Rule or statehood
bill.
Mr.. Dyer replied that he thought they
preferred statehood, but were aware of
the obstruction in the way OF getting 1t,
and therefore wanted The Home Rule bill
as immediate relief and possibly attainable,
while statehood could not be secured.
''Under the operations of the Faulkner bill
we could show
OUR ABILITY TO GOVERN OURSELVES,
so that statehood would be granted US in q
year or so, as matter of course"
The chairman asked Mr.. Dyer to say
what he thought of the Mormon people as
a law abiding people aside from and indie
pendent of polygamy. He replied that be
was born and raised in Mississippi; he
loved and respected the people whom he
was raised with and believed them as loyal
and law abiding people as the sun ever
shone upon, and he believed the people of
Utah compared favorably with them.
Mr.. Caine then asked what was the
standing of the Mormon people in bust
ness, what they counted their words for
and what their paper was worths"
Mr.. Dyer replied that in business mat
tiers their word was their bond and their
paper was always worth 100 cents on the
dollar.
Mr. Caine-You are not opposed to state
hood?
Mr.. Dyer-No; but am asking for the
Home Rule bill.
Mr.. Rawlins spoke last. He occupied
about twenty-five minutes with his re-
marks, and in a general way traced the de-
velopment Of the sentiment of the terri
tory which led up to the abandonment of
polygamy and the dissolution of the
Peoples party, which had been composed
mainly of members of the Mormon church.
He referred to the nature of the demands
that had been made upon the Mormon
people by the nation and by the gentiles in
Utah, and that they ad followed, and
IN GOOD FAITH COMPLIED WITH THOSE DE-
MANDs;
that the leaders of the Mormon church
cal action of their people, after the pub
lished proclamation which they had made
to the effect that they had no right to dc
So The former conditions were distas te-
ful to the members of the Mormon church,
and they were glad TO get rid of them. The
political feeling, when once aroused in
favor of any party which they had joined
was such as to render it impossible fol
: their church leaders to afterward control
He also gave an account of the elements
which now composed
THE REMNANT OF THE LIBERAL PARTY.
$ in Utah. MIR. Rawlins, in conclusion, re
ferred with great feeling to the fact tina
the gamblers and saloon keepers ant
gentry of that class, who of late year
= have made Salt Lake their rendezvous
were invariably members of the Liberia
party and were such largely Tor the reason
! that the Mormon people have the reputa
= tion of being law abiding and would be il
= favor of laws that would repress the voca
= ton of these people. He sketched the re
u cent
. ELECTION FRAUDS IN THE FOURTH PRICING
of Salt Lake city, and showed that the vic
. lators in each case were gentiles; that
y was in short gentle family affair, and h
argued that If these practices became ger
eral it would demonstrate tie fact that tn
y gentle and not the Mormon was incapabl
of self-povernment