The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-07

can be but little obscurity regarding
the truth in the matter. Before Mr..
Rawlins came to Washington to place
himself in line with the Democratic
party, the people of Utah had received
no consideration at the hands of the
Republicans. Bigoted religionists and
uninformed philanthropists had made
of the dominant party as regarded Utah
matters shuttlecock to be thrown at
VIII; and the consequence was the
placing upon the statute books of many
laws subversive of the very foundation
principles of republican government
and unprecedented in our national his
tory.
With the placing in power of the
Democratic party for the first time
since the war there was an immediate
and marked change in the policy of the
federal government toward Utah. Per-
haps it will be said that the Utah Re-
publicans, either unable or unwilling to
influence their own party leaders in the
matter, then made such an Impression
on the newly victorious party, still
flushed with success, that they were
able to work wonders that would have
delighted Aladdin and the genii of the
lamp. Even had they done so it would
speak i'll for the Republican party; for
It would be conclusive proof of the fact
that the Democratic leaders are ALWAYS
more ready to listen to the plea for JUS
Tice. That is a part of their creed: it
has but little place in the creed of the
party OF Capitalization, which wants
the hand of the government ever con-
cealed in gauntlet of iron.
Then Ike Perspired.
But the credit of this victory in an
organization open to conviction on anv
question, of this kind cannot be given
70 the Republican leaders, The worst
ngnts on all the bills that came before
inns congress were in the committees.
Inere were the petitions of religion
lists, the pleas of the conservatives. the
opposition of the fasteners to be met
with on every hand; while the storm
center was in the meetings of the
committees. And here it was that the
Utah Republican lobby, perspiring and
ambitious, alleged to be working al
ternately for the Southern Pacific and
their own congressional aspirations.
could logically have but little infiu-
ence.
For instance, on statehood. What
man with common sense cannot see
that when the enabling act was be-
fore congress and the national legisla-
tors mad a knowledge that there had
peen Republican majority in the last
campaign there would be a disinclina-
ton among certain party men to pass
the bill? And if the man sees this can
he believe for one instant that the
presence of a Republican lobby would
aid the cause among the Democrats.
who must decide? 1t rather retarded
action. 1t was natural that the Demo-
cratic party should hesitate before
jeopardizing the reforms it had set out
to inaugurate. Every indication that
these reforms would be placed in ieop-
ardy by the admission of Utah would
but add to the opposition that must
be encountered before success could be
had. In the end it was the Democratic
principle of home rule and the favor
ableness of the party toward the peo-
pie of Utah that weighed in the grant
ing OF the boon. This is indisputabIe.
The Republicans were compelled to put
the best possible face on the matter.
Return of Church Property.
AS to the return of the property of |
the church, taken by an act that amaz- |
ed some of the most radical of those |
who supported the doctrine of central |
izatiJn Though, to tell the truth. this |
of Capitalization, when work.