The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-10
THE ISSUE IN UTAH.


This week both political parties will
hold their conventions to nominate
candidates for Delegate to Congress.
The Democrats hold theirs in the Salt
Lake theatre Saturday the 18th inst.
and the Republicans hold theirs in
Provo the 18th inst. 1t is quite certain
the Democrats will renominate by ac-
clamation Hon. ]. L. Rawlins, the
present Delegate. There seems to be
no doubt but that the Republicans will
again name as their standard bearer
Mr.. Frank j. Cannon, their candidate
OF two years ago. The candidates be-
ing the same as two years ago the is
sues will also be very largely the same.
Two years ago the people of this ter
ritory heard the great issues that di-
vide the people of this country ably
discussed by both sides and after ma
ture deliberation they cast their ballots
for Mr.. Rawlins and how well he has
justified the faith placed in him all
know. Every promise made by the
Democrats then has been kept. The
Democratic party, the party that has
ever stood up for the rights of the
people of Utah has granted their
every request In vain and in
vain in the past has Utah
knocked at the door of the Union for
admission, and her knockings have been
unheeded by the party in power; not
until the advent of the Democratic
party to power has that knock been
needed and Utah asked to enter the
Union and join the sisterhood of states.
The admission of Utah as state is
entirely the work of the Democracy.
1t is needless to enumerate all the
other acts of justice done to the people
of Utah by the Democratic party; the
restoration Of the confiscated property
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat
ter-day Saints; the passage of the bill
to throw open to settlement the Uintah
and Uncompahgre reservations; and
other things.
Contrast this with the record of the
Republican legislature last winter. It
was sought by it to grant the peoples
money in the shape of bounties to pri-
vate individuals. No provision was
even made to raise the funds out of
which to pay these proposed bounties,
but the University of Utah, that insti-
tuition of learning of which every citi-
zen of Utah is proud, an institution
public in the very highest and best
sense of the word, was to be crippled
in order that the peoples hard
earned money might be given to pri
vate persons. Was there a man or
woman in Utah who did not blush for
shame when the Republican members
of the legislature hurriedly quilted the
House and the Council that they might
shirk their duties and responsibilities,
and they had to be hunted and run
down by officers of the law like crimi-
nails fleeing from justice? They were
unfit to be called men, yet how more
unfit to make the laws of men.
The issues of the campaign of 1894
will be largely the issues of 1892 The
men to represent those issues will, in
all human probability, be the same.
The people know the issues, the people
know the men. The promises of the
Democratic party made to the people
Of Utah in 1892 have been fulfilled and
it has in all things kept faith with
them. Let the people of Utah keep
faith with the Democratic party, the
party that was their friend when all
others were their enemies. Let them
read the history of their territory if
they would know who have been the
champions of their rights In the halls
Of Congress- the voice that was ever
raised in behalf of Utah was the voice
Of Democracy; in the Supreme Court of
the United States the judges who have
delivered dissenting opinions in favor
Of the people of Utah have been Demo-
cratic judges. With all these facts be-
fore him he who would say the people
of Utah will not cast their ballots for
the same principles in 1894 that they
cast them for in 1892 knows them not
and SANDERS them in saying so.