The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-01-11
PROVO CITY. JAN. IL. 1894
A BACKWARD GLANCE.

1t will doubtless be remembered by
most readers Of Utah newspapers that
about two months since we had an
election in Utah, and statehood, while
not an actual issue, was nevertheless
good deal talked of. Then the repub-
licans did not dare to plead guilty to
the charge of hostility to statehood. In
fact SO high arose popular feeling in
favor of the early admission of the
territory that many of the republican
papers, and all of their speakers were
compelled to swallow the bitter pill
and go teeth and toe naiI'' for the
measure. Such papers as the Ogden
Standard, the Logan Nation, the En-
quirer of this city, and many others
prayed, groaned and turned up their
eyes in the ferYency of their desires for
immediate admission. Time rolled on.
The election came, hypocrisy pre-
vailed and republican majority was
elected to the territorial Il gislature.
Last Monday a rather severe test of their
ardor for statehood was quietly applied
in the legislature. a resolution favor.
ing early admission was offered and it
was incontinently voted down in far
less time indeed than it takes US to re-
cord the fact. Another fact was OBJ
servable, the voting down was done by
the republican majority, the friends of
the resolution were democrats.
This result should not, and probably
does not surprise anybody in Utah or
perhaps in the United States. Since
the good year 1861 the republican party
has been in power in this government.
Times almost without number since
then the good people of Utah have
knocked at the doors to oe, admitted. |
A deaf ear was always turned
to their prayer. "Not yet" "You ]
are not yet prepared" "You have
not yet abandoned polygamy."
Alter that was done solemnly by the
church and by the territorial legisla
ture-after these solemn abjuTgations
the cry was, Eyes, you have done SO
ostensibly, but wait until we deter
mine if your acts were candid"
"We fear youriare poisoning" You
don't mean it. LET us wait
and see." All attentive readers of the
papers know these facts, and know also
that these various objections were
made by liberals and republicans and
these same readers know that all acts
favoring admission were performed by
democrats. The voting down of the
statehood resolution the other day is
and was only the carrying out of the
same republican instincts of opp; 81
tion to Utah statehood. 1t was only
this that the beast is true to his in
stincts Of opposition. He can do moth.
ing else because ii. is his instinct, his
nature. And yet two short months
since he was bowling because the DEM
ocrats would not accept his cries for
statehood as voicing his real desires.
After this if any Mormon or pro-
statehood gentle is deceived on the
question of liberal or republican de-
votion to the statehood idea, it will be
his own fault. The thing cropped out
too plainly in the legislature. They
can deny their hatred of statehood no
longer and if Noyember's election were
to be done over, after last Monday, the
result would be reversed by an enor-
nous majority. The republican party
Of the United States is but an enor.
nous aggregation of hypocrisy, and is
only exceeded by the republican party .
n Utah. Let no citizen of Utah
onger deceive himself The repubIl-
an party both of Utah and the ma
ion are forever opposed to statehood y y