The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-25
THE REPUBLICAN ADDRESS.

BENNETT and Apostle JOHN HENRY SMITH
upon the earnest appeal for statehood
which those gentlemen made to the Senate
committee on territories on Tuesday. The
representatives of the local Republican
party went in to win. There was no fool
ishness about them. They meant business.
They made it perfectly plain to all within
the sound of their voices that Utah was
qualified morally, Intellectually and tinan-
cially for state government, and gave
their word for it that if statehood were
conferred the government would be car
ried on properly, free from the dictation
of the church, and in manner to COM
maud the confidence admiration and re-
spect of the country. The speeches were
admirable in so far as they advocated state
hood. Indeed, they went over the same
ground which had been so thoroughly COW
cred oy the members of the Democratic dele
cation who have been entertaining and en-
Tightening the committees for the past two
weeks. The facts and the figures which
the Democrats had presented were repeated
and more deeply impressed upon the minds
of the Congressman. The certificate which
! the Democrats had given to the honesty.
sincerity and patriotism of the people of
Utah was sworn to as correct. We want
everybody out this way to read those
speeches. We want the addresses to be
read all through, and after the people have
complimented Messrs. BENNETT and SMITH
for having set out to perform a real
service for this community, W
want those same people to suggest,
if they car, the excuse which the gentle
men will present for deliberately trying to
undo all the good they had attempted.
Both these gentlemen protested against
Home Rule for Utah, and one of them,
when questioned, said he would prefer the
continuance of the territorial system to
the application Of the FAULKNER bill. We
hardly expected any fair minded, bona fide
: resident of Utah would say this; we GER
tainly did not look for such an expression
to come from one who had resided all his
life under the territorial rule, and been not
only keen observer of the evils, the op
pressious, the outrages of the territorial
: system, but personal sufferer from thai
system. Rarely has partisanism led ar
intelligent man to such an extreme as Mr.
. SMITH went in the course Of hi!
4 address. We say it was partisanism which
induced him to say what he did, for hi
Judgment as man and resident woulI
q never have permitted him to take the stand
!, His party has set out to oppose Home Rule
q aud he goes with his party. The real mean
ing of his words was this: If the people o
Utah cannot have all their rights withhold
t ali of them; let the people continue to b
u ruled by officials sert from distant state
: by al unfriendly appointing power; let a.
offensive governor continue to exercise thu
absolute veto, defeating Legislation
o enacted by the peoples representa-
e tives; let our elections be controlle
S by a commission whose outrageousl
partisan acts have been denounced by a
from the United States supreme cour
c down to the humblest citizen who has bee
% deprived of his vote or had his ballot null
3 fed by that of some imported hobo who's
coming and voting were encouraged an
permitted by the partisan commission
~ let the elections continue TO be declared
- favor of the minority; let the people hav
. nothing to say in the selection of iuries an
the legal adjustment of their disputes; PEI
nit none of the rights of citizenship I
these good people, unless they can have a
l. their rights here and now.
q The HERALD confesses that it is aston
ished at Mr.. SMITH, and 80 will the peopI
of this territory. who are longing an
= pleading for Home Rule, be astonishet
N They will be astonished to learn thu
70 In his eagerness to obey the commands
his party he raises his voice in advocacy
the continuance of the bondage and oppre
a. sion against which the protest is universe
h OF course what Mr.. SMITH said will NAL
40 no difference in Washington, but We appr
az bend it will not help the Republican part
in this territory, where practically all tt
people are eager for self-government, ar
IS in their eagerness are content to ava
VI some of their rights and privileges
III American citizens year or two, provid,
~ they can at once unload the chief portion
u. the evil of nisrule with which they a
afflicted. We say Mr.. SMITHS prote
as against Home Rule will have no inf
" ence in Washington, for the reason tn
he the national party to which he belongs
ne opposed to immediate statehood for Uta
We and with that party in control of t
Senate and having the President t
Democracy will be powerless to confer t
~ boon, end for the further reason that CT
:, tain Republicans, more liberal-minded tn
- their fellows, have agreed to join with t
n Democrats and grant Home Rule un
such time as the unworthy doubts concel
ing the sincerity and loyalty of the peol
of Utah, entertained by unreasonable r
- publicans, have been dispelled.
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