The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-05

which was their right. 1t has kept up this
opposition all it's life until now, and even
today cannot help manifesting its bitter
ness throug prominent men OF the party
in Congress.
| The movement now inaugurated has its
represented to the party that if Utah is
admitted under Republican auspices, the
probability is that majority of its people
can be induced to vote the Republican
ticket and thus insure two Republican
( Senators in the upper House Of Congress.
The party needs them badly. 1t is in des
perate straits to keep control of that body.
Oklahoma would probably send two Re-
publican Senators. There is a bare
chance that New Mexico would do the
same. Arizona is considered safe for the
Democratic party and that is why the
| Republican caucus at first refused to let
Arizona in on the omnibus bill. And
the only reason why consent has been
obtained to include it, is because of the
| likelihood that the whole scheme would
fail if that territory was excluded.
The great anxiety of the Republicans is
to get the prestige that the admission of
these territories under Republican ad-
ministration will be likely to gain for it.
They know that as soon as the Democratic
party gains control of the government the
territories will be admitted. That being
foregone conclusion, they want to reap
the fruits of Democratic sowing, and, as
far as Utah is concerned, obtain the adj
vantages accruing from that which they
have viciously and unrelentingly opposed
! from the beginning. If it were not for
the Democratic victory which swept the
| land in November, the Republicans would
still be found fighting Utah and her inter
ests as they were right up to that time
They mead Utah two Senators and that
is all the good will they bear to her today.
| 1t should be the aim of the leading men
of the Democratic party in every part of
this territory to make this clear to the
public mind. Utah owes nothing to the
Republicans. The sudden change OF
front is purely selfish. They want to
pose as the benefactors of the people whom
they have relentlessly pursued from the
day that they entered into power. They
think that they can beguile them with
the plea that it was Republican good
will and Republican votes which gave
Utah the liberties which she has been
struggling for all these years. But whom
have the people of Utah to thank for the
denial of those rights and for the neces-
sity of the conflict? Who but the Repub-
licans that now seek to grasp all the
benefits that will cume from the privileges
they prevented Utah from enjoying.
It is one of the most transparent pieces
OF political humbug ever held up before
the gaze of a discerning people. 1t is
equivalent to the supposition that the
citizens of Utah are as ignorant and
feeble minded as the Republicans have
for many years represented them to be;
that they are incapable of thinking for
themselves; that they are so easily led
that they can be hoodwinked with mere
pretensions; and that they are SO eager
for statehood that they will lick the hand
that has smitten them again and again,
if it is now turned apparently to help them
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advantages that the movement may bring.
It is another exemplifcation Of the fact,
as often demonstrated, that the ssg. o. p"
is party of expediency ready to favor to-
day that which it detested yesterday if
party interest renders it apparently
advisable.
That there are few men in the Repub-
lican ranks who are working consistently
to accomplish the admission of the terri
tories before President HARRISON goes out
of Office, we will not dispute. But that
it is for personal ends and that the Re
publican party may gain the credit that
belongs to the Democratic party, must be
obvious to every observer. VIII any con-
siderable number of the people OF Utah
fall into their trap? We think not. The
fall campaign was a great eye-opener.
Men and women, and even boys and
girls, had cause for deep reflection on po
litical issues. We do not believe the
scheme can be made to work. Let state
hood come, no matter under which adj
ministration, and the freed citizens of
Utah will know who has done the real
work Of emancipation and to whom the
credit belongs The eleventh hour Re
publican repentance is not seasoned with
the salt of salvation.
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