The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-12

That is quite consistent, seeing that the
Standard endeavors to be a Republican
paper But it should be more guarded
in it's charges against this paper and
the party. Here is an extract from it's
issue of Sunday,
Yesterday the Utah statehood bill
was called up for action in Congress,
but as there was not a quorum pres
ent. the bill could not be passed. The
Salt Lake Herald comes out editorially,
and says that the Republicans opposed
the bill; otherwise it would have
passed.
The Herald has been misrepresenting
the Republican party about long
enough We know absolutely nothing
about what took place in Washington,
but we will wager that the Herald S
statement is false. The Republicans
are in favor of statehood for Utah, and
we challenge the Herald, or any other
paper or Democrat, to disprove this
fact. If the Democrats who alone have
a quorum. had been on hand, the Re-
publican minority would have cast it's
vote for Utah as q state.
If our Democratic friends really want
statehood why don't they pass the bill
at once; they have a majority and a
very large majority at that, and they
need have no fear, or ask any favors of
the Republicans.
This is followed by another intimation
that The Herald told a falsehood about
the matter and the article is headed:
ut Is False" Let US see where the
falsehood lies:
On Friday evening, the Deseret News
published "a regular press dispatch
which said:
Gin the House Kilgore Of Texas called
up a bill to admit Utah to statehood
and the Republicans began to filibus-
ter. The morning hour expired without
action on the bill, etc
This was preceded by a special from
the Washington correspondent of that
paper giving the details of Republican
opposition. Here are some of the par
ticulars:
~Ohfertion being made. call of the
roll was ordered, the vote standing AS
for and against. Dingley of Maine
made the point of no quorum.
'Kilgore moved a cali of the House
and the motion being sustained, a call
of the roll was again called. on which
1873 votes, just ten more than quorum.
Most Of the Republicans will try to
obStruct the consideration of the bill.
but many of them will support it when
it comes to q vote and the Democrats
end Populists will generally support
it,
We have taken these dispatches from
our evening contemporary, so that the
Standard shall not have any excuse
for attributing them to Democratic
source. The Associated Press is motor
iously Republican in its bias when it
has any, and &C. R. who sent the
special to the Deseret News, is Calvin
Reasoner whom no one will have the
hardihood to call Democrat, for he is
as staunch Republican as ever
the country.
Saturday mornings Herald and Tri-
hune contained the press dispatch about
the Republicans filibustering. The
Standard, which takes the same dis
patches, suppressed it. We had nothing
to say about that beyond the fact that
it was not published in that PAPER
If the Standard chooses to cut out part
of its service it has a perfect right to do
so. But after suppressing that damag-
ing piece of news, to accuse the Herald
of falsehood in saying the Republicans
opposed consideration of the bill, when
both the regular and special dispatches