The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-19
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A Lehi paper begs and prays that
every man over q vote for the sugar
factory" This is the first time the
factory has been candidate, I take it.
American Fork is threatened with
calamity most dire-an ''Uncle Tom
Cabin" troupe has designs upon the
town.
Some antedfluvian is endeavor;ng to
revive the idea that the new state
should be christened Deseret. He
has made that suggestion i. the
columns of contemporary. Why such
change should be thought necessary
or eXpedient is beyond my limited an
Outstanding. Utah is good enough.
Let Utah be the name of the new state
There is nothing about the name of
which any one should be ashamed. Be
sides, from a commercial point of view,
change of name might have a bad
effect.
was born in Utah, raised in Utah.
and am proud of it. l should very
much dislike to see the four letters now
adjoining the map Of the United States
blotted out and in their stead placed the
name of little town in Willard county.
No. No! Utah" forever!
1t is noticeable that since the cleo
ton, the Cheyenne Sun Republican,
prints its editorials in small plea
That Utah will cut considerable of
figure in politics during the next few
years is conceded on all hands. Com
ments of eastern papers now coming to
hand show that the eyes of the nation
are upon her. and every move made
here will be closely watched. The Chey-
enne Sun, a near neighbor, by the way,
has the following:
Considerable interest is manifested as
to the outcome of the political situa-
ton in the new state of Utah, in which
a lively campaign is about to begin.
There is lot of young political timber
in the new state, at the head of which
is Isaac ,Trumbo, who wants to come to
Washington as a senator the worst way,
and the new delegate, Frank ]. Cannon,
Of Salt Lake city. 1t is taken as an il
lustration of the whirligig tendency of
the times that, after all the trouble the
United States has had with the Nor
mons, there is a prospect of their be-
coming an important factor in the or
ganiZation of the next Senate. Should
two Republican senators be elected from
the new state in the spring they would
give the Republicans just half Of the
members of the Senate by increasing
the figures from 43 to 45. But it is a
matter of pretty close figuring at pres
ent as to which of the two great noliti-
cal parties viii dominate Utah in the
constitutional convention. 1t is assert
ed that the Republicans may be able to
muster a majority of not more than
three at the outside When the enabl-
ing act was rushed through Congress
at the last session one of the strongest
arguments used was that the new state
OF Utah would be made Democratic
stronghold. But it seems in the recent
landslide the Mormons either forgot or
drlfted away from their Democratic
mornings and sent a Republican to the
Fifty-fourth Congress in place of the
Democrat, Joseph L. Rawlins. rho
worked so hard for the statehood of his
territory
Colonel Trumbo's fame, it would ap
pear. is not merely local, as some of
my Republican friends are trying to
make themselves believe. There are
Republicans, and their name is legion.
who, when Trumbo has been men
toned as a future senatorial POSSIBLE
ity, have merely shrugged their shoul-
ders and dismissed the idea with
sneer. But the result of the late cleo
ton has set those people athinking,
and the more their think-tanks work.
the more confused they become. They
arrive at about the same point where
I found myself the morning after cleo
ton, and they hear in the winds that
sigh around them, the refrain, Where
am 1 at?''
With chagrin and modification sew
eral Salt Lake Republicans, who imag-
ined themselves to be very good SEN
atorial timber, see Hope AXE wings
and disappear. Each day they behold
Colonel Trumho twenty-four hours
nearer the United States Senate; each
day Isaac impresses them more and
more with the idea that if he is "cran-
KY" as 1 heard a prominent Republi-
can say, there is a most decided method
in his crankiness.
He has gone about the hunt for a.
senator's chair in such a manner as
to convince me that he knows what
he is doing; and there are others who
will yet have this light dawn upon
them.
To my Republican friends I have this
to say: I am neither a. prophet nor the
son of a prophet, but it is dollars to
dimes that if the first Legislature in
Utah under state government is Re
publican, then, as the campaign song
has it:
key will sit in a senator's chair
And capital winds will blow through his
hair.
The only way under the blue skies
by which Colonel Trumbo can be de
feated in his one all controlling idea
at the present time is for the people 20
elect a Democratic legislature.
The doubling Thomases who may in
cline to the belief that this is merely
a campaign lie, are cordially invited
TO cut this out and paste it in their
hats for future reference.
IT will not be very long before Utah
will be humming to them !
selves: |
Oh. Lord on what a slender thread
Hang interesting things.
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