The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-10-12

lican party and its progenitors ever
dreamed of, or could co in thousand
years OF uninterrupted sway. 1t did
ell, Nothing more is left to be done.
Il made a state of Utah and placed in
her hands the power to take care of
herself, to shape her own destinies and
direct her own course, as any other of
the sovereign states of the union has.
and that is all Utah wants or cares
for, or ever did want or c4ro Tor.
For more than thirty lOIS years
the republican party had this same
power and used 1t not. The frat time
the democratic party exercised supreme
power for only eighteen months, she
conferred statehood, all that Utah
asked for or needed. And yet this
good president of ours says the Nor
mon people of Utah should be repub-
licans and not democrats. If he is not
juster religious leader in the church
than he is in politics, may God pity his
misled people.
Yes, home rule is a favorite demo.
cratic tenet and Notwithstanding Fill
more gave Utah one home governor
away back there in the SOS, the de-
mocracy has given her home COVER
nors and home officers of all kinds
forever hereafter. Should the people
of Utah be republican or democratic?
Which? The good Smith doesn't ap-
pear to like the home rule bill OF 1892.
He seems displeased because it was
probationary measure. He forgets
the republican probation of thirty odd
years duration. Mr.. Teller's bill Ger
tainly proposed admission, but Mr..
Rawlins' bill procured it. Yet, ac-
cording to Mr.. Smith, the people OF
Utah should be republicans and not
democrats. MIR. 18th comes Oh down
to Mr.. Buchanan's day, He states
simply what action Buchanan's govern
ment took, but gives not line of ex-
PLANTATION as to why his policy WAS SO
chosen; it is not done because MIR.
smith is ignorant OF the causes, but
simply that he wishes to argue un
fairly and succeeds most perfectly.
This remarkable pamphlet takes the
ground that because all the world be-
tieved Utah democratic on national
lines, therefore the republican party
was justifable in keeping her out of
the union and in leading strings all the
years she did. Not only this, but in
the eyes OF It's author the cruel policy
cf that party in one, aye, ali of its
measures regarding Utah were justi-
fed because of this belief. If any
other man inside or outside OF Utah
had made such a plea the world would
have spent the next hundred years OF
It's life laughing.
President smith says: 'It (the dem
ocratic parts) sent an army with the
avowed intention of crushing the peo-
pie OF Utah.
Now he Knows, or mas the means Of
knowing that whatever the intention OF
the administration may have been it
was never disclosed for the reasonk khat
Ge aeral johnson came to Utah 1lder
sealed orders that were not opened ,Un-
til after all matters of difference be
tween The Mormons aud the govern
ment were satisfactorily adjusted ana
President Buchanan's universal am
nesty proclamation had been issued
and accepted.
The terms under which the army
entered Utah We're strictly complied
with by President Buchanan, but We're
violated by President Lincoln in the
first year OF republican Administration,
Mr. Buchanan was misIed by false
reports of the situation principally by
ex-Judge Drumond who reported that
the recorus of his court were destroyed,
which records are still in custody Of the
proper officer. Quartermaster Van
Welt came into Utah in advance Of the
army to purchase supplies, and learned
Of the true situation, which
he reported. On learning this, Presi-
dent Buchanan sent Colonel Kane,
Mr.. Cooper and others to inquire into
the real situation of affairs and dis.
patched Governor Powell and General
McCulloch as peace commissioners
with an universal pardon If all >itizens
of Utah, for all offenses they might
have committed against the United
States, and that pardon was presented
to, and accepted by the thousands Of
Utah citizens assembled at Provo to
hear what the president had to say t. |
them, before the army entered Utah. |
But it remained for another admins
ton to right the great wrong by con-
terring the creates! possible good upon
The territory by admitting her to per-
.ectly equal position and one where
she can at all times fully protect her
lelf.
How dare Mr., Smith say that had
;he republican party known Utah as
avorably as the democrats did, they
would not have passed the act of '62?
What warrant has ne for saying any
uch thing2 That is simply and only
partisan excnlpatory assertion and it
las not single fact, remote or near
. support it. However, put of that
ct came conf5eation, and robbery
Which continued ut til democratic ad-
restored what a republi-
an administration had robbed Utah
f. Still, according to President
mith's way of looking at it, the peo
lie of Utah should be republican and