The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-16
RnPUBLICANs AND TnE rEaRlroRIrs.


a Republican contemporary applauds the
plank in the Minneapolis platform which
declares in favor of the admission of
all the remaining territories 1t is evil
dent that our contemporary has been de-
ceived by that plank, just as the trainers of
the resolution intended that it and all other
residents Of the territories should be de-
ceived. Deception was intended. The
convention never proposed that the terri
tories should De admitted until they were
Republican in politics. The convention
aid not propose that the Republicans in
Congress should take the resolution as a
party instruction to admit the remaining
territories. The Republican party has
never yet admitted Democratic territory
1t has persistently and with determination
opposed the admission of every Demo
cratic territory, while it has let into the
onion Republican common wealths with
less wealth and fewer people. Mon
tana was Democratic, and for years
pleaded for admission only to be met by an
emphatic refusal by the Republicans
Finally, the territory veered towards tie
Republican side and gave promise OF going
over to the &. 0. p. whereupon the Republl-
cans stumbled over each other in their
eager haste TO admit the territory. Dakota
vas diyidsd and admitted in order to make
TWO Republican states, and every Republi-
can was urgent to let Washington in be-
cause 1t was safely Republican. And look
at tho record in the cases of Idaho and
Wyoming. The former was Democratic,
that party. Its appeals for statehood were
denied, but a Republican state being
needed the Mormon people were disfren-
chised, the e. O. D. thus being given CON
troi, when Republican Congress
FASTENED TO admit Idaho. 1t wasn't
necessary to disfranchise the Mormon
people Of Wyoming in order to create
Republican majority, and that territory
was let in, its Mormon inhabitants being
worthy Of oil the rights Of citizenship,
whilst their brethren just across an mag
mary line were not coed enough to vote,
sit on luries or hold Office. These terri
tories being made safely Republican, were
promptly admitted, but Democratic New
Mexico, Arizona and Utah have been
hecged out, and told TO wait. The Mime
apolis resolution is another notice that
these Democratic dependencies must wait.
1t reads:
We favor the admission OF the remaining
territories al the earliest possible date, hariag
due regafd 10 tie interests Of he people Of tie
territories and he United States
How even Republican citizen of ter
ritory can find any comfort in this plank
we cannot understand. There is string
to the resolution, and it is very plainly
seen by all who are familiar with the Re
publican record on the admission of terri
tories. The earliest practicable dato''
means when the territories have been
made Republican; the "due regard TO the
interests of the people" means
partisan regard. This resolution was
drawn for the purpose Of furnishing
the party an excuse for opposing
the admission of any Democratic
territory, and that excuse will, in our
opinion. soon be taken advantage of by the
Republican Senate. The House has passed
bills for the admission of Arizona and New
Mexico, two territories fully equipped for
statehood and as well if not better pre-
pared for taking on the enlarged powers
and responsibilities as Idaho and Wyoming;
yet, we shall see the Republican majority
in the Senate reject those bills, on the plea
that it will not be "to the interests of the
people, TO erect those commonwealth into
states. Arizona and New Mexico are
Democratic.
THE HERALD, as matter of course, can
not know in advance what the Chicago
convention viii say on this matter, but we
can predict and promise that there will be
no strings to the resolution, no opportu-
nifty for reading between the lines, no
lOophole through which the party will seek
10 crawl when Republican territory, if
there shall ever again be such freak,
presents q request for emancipation. We
believe the convention VIII demand the ad-
mission CT the remaining territories with
out further dallying, and we believe that
the Democratic party will vote aye on
every motion to free the unfortunate and
long-suffering dependencies.