The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-03
into the Union under a Democrat
administration.
srArEHooD AND HOME RULE.


We observe that among other Re
publican receptions is the impudent as
sertion that, ''the Republican party
first proposed statehood" This, in the
face of the notorious fact that the Re.
publican party. from its inception, has
been thoroughly hostile to Utah and
has expressed its enmity in it's party
declarations.
The Home Rule bill of last year. and
the miserable abortion of thing which
pretended to be favorable to statehood
have been brought forward in support
of the fiction of Republican sentiments
as to admission. A few facts will dis
pose of that.
The Home Rule bill was proposed as
stepping stone to statehood, because
through Republican opposition there
was no hope of going any further The
Democrats who favored it did so on
that ground. They expressed them
selves as preferring greatly full adj
mission bill, but offered that to meet
Republican objections against state
hood.
The bill introduced by Senator Teller,
who has always been an exception to
his Republican colleagues on the Utah
question, was not bill for the admis-
sion of Utah. 1t was a mere preIimin-
airy measure, prepared in this city as a
makeshift and offset to the Home Rule
bill. It was not expected to pass, and
would have been very little use if it
had passed. If the Republican party
favored it, why did the Republican
Senate not pass it? Full power was
held by that body to put it through
The party did not want statehood nor
any stepping stone to statehood. And
the bitter speeches on both bills direct
ed against the people of Utah we're
made by Republican members.
The thing sent to Mr.. Teller was in
tended as a bluff. It was introduced
to block the way of the Home Rule
bill which, whatever may be thought of
it as a temporary expedient, contained
nothing Infamous" The only infamy
about the business was the misrepre-
sensations of the bill and it's promoters
on the part of Republicans, who ought
to be thoroughly ashamed of their de-
ceptions.
Is the Republican party in favor of
statehood for Utah today? If so
where is the sign of it? Even the
Utah Republican papers that are so
eager to avow their statehood beliefs,
and to repudiate the unwise and I'M
patriotic utterances of some of their
chief stump speakers, merely state in
substance that they want Statehood.
Do they want it now? Will they help
to get it under Democratic admins
stration? Would they not prefer to
wait for three or four or five years, so
as to get the bare chance of admission
uiuCl a 1lCpuDl1Cotl OOuSTeSS WHICH
they may never see?
The only chance for Utah's admis-
sion for years is open now. Let Utah
elect legislature in harmony with the
national administration, and the bill
favorably reported already will be
passed and become law, SO that
there will never be another territorial
legislature but liberty will really
dawn on Utah." and the way be
opened for her permanent prosperity
and unobstructed advancement. Do
not be beguiled. The only party
which can give Utah her political free
dom is the Democratic party, which
holds the keys to open the door and
the will to welcome her into the
Union.