The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-23


expression. which has been so shame
fully perverted, and which Hon. J. f.
Smith quotes in a wrong connection.
There was no better friend of Utah and
the MorInons in Congress than Sun
SER Cox. He was favorable to adj
mission at the time he used the ex-
preston quoted. 1t was uttered in
Democratic caucus when the question
of admitting the two Dakotas was dis
cussed. Cox was strongly in favor of
the bill Gentlemen who were then
working zealously for the admission of
Utah proposed to add Utah to the Da
kotas bill. 1t was against that method
of presenting the Utah question that
Cox exclaimed: utah would be the
fly in our pot of ointment"
Why did he say that? Because he
feared, in view of the still angry pub
lie sentiment, the bill for the Dakotas
would be spoiled and defeated if Utah
were tackled ON to it, That is the max
ed truth, and Sunset Cox entertained
no sentiment against Utah in general
such as that which has been manufac-
tured by Republicans in Utah out OF
that expression.
The gentleman relates an alleged
conversation with Senator Pugh and
two Utah Democrats. Part of it is
true; part untrue. We have before us
the report written out of that fnterview
by the individuals whom Hon. Joseph
f. Smith says are 1.-TWO of the best and
staunchest Utah Democrats That re-
port shows that at first Senator Pugh
was violently opposed to Utah. but af-
ter cooling down promised to read what
those Democrats presented, and said If
he could become convinced of the sim
certify of the movement he might, be m
duced to favor it. The expressions at
tributed to him by Mr.. Smith are NOT
in the report and were not used, as the
gentleman. can learn if he will ask the
two Democrats to whom he refers.
Senator Pugh did NOT say "Constitu-
ton be DAMNED And the remarks
about ''the popular will being the
constitution were not made by Senator
Pugh, but by Senator Edmunds on an
other occasion, as Mr.. Smith may learn
from his Republican friends.
committee to which the bill for the
restoration of church property was
referred. He worked hard in favor of
the bill. And thus it. appears that the
attempted Conversion" spoken of was
not altogether failure.
But granting that this solitary Dem
ocrat was bitterly prejudiced against
Utah and the Mormons, what of it?
Did he represent the Democratic par
ty? What about the host of Demo-
cratic Congressman who favored Utah
and would then have helped to admit
her, if they could believe that she had
any chance of admission? What about
the violent hostility of Edmunds, ALI
son. Ingalls,, Reed and host of other
Republican Congressman who were al
50 interviewed and who were
bitterly opposed to Utah's ad-
mission? Does the gentleman
call it fair" and liberal
argument, to single out that one vio-
lent Senator, add to his language and
present that as an exponent of his
party sentiments? Shame!
And to what purpose does he inject
a paragraph about secession? What
has that to do with Utah's admission
into the Union? The bloody shirt
argument is now despised even by the
party that raised it. To use his own
expression, it is "a piece of paltry
clap trap"
The gentleman repeats the senti-
want +bot on ovorr,,Iipo Dro,,idapoa
had much to do with the admission of
Utah. This is a sort of mild modifica-
ton of his contradictory statements in
his maiden" speech. But he seems
utterly disinclined to give any credit
to Delegate Rawlins for the work he
accomplished in that direction. At the
risk of the cry of 'sacrilege," we will
repeat the logical conclusion, that if
Providence worked to accomplish this
end, the instruments used were the
Democratic Delegate, the Democratic
Congress, and the Democratic Presi-
dent. Quod erat demonstratum.
But the gentleman insists that the
passage of the statehood bill was
forced by Republicans To support
that statement he tells a Tribune tale
of Senator Plat compelling Senator
Faulkner to drag the bill out of the
pigeon hole and put it on it's passage,
and that improbable and fanciful fairy
tale is told for a fact by Hon. Joseph
F. Smith Let US Hext have an en-
dorsement of Jack the Giant Killer as
veritable history Plat the most in
vincible and immovable opponent OF
Utah: Platt, who, as chairman of the
committee on territories, was, up to
the last moment, Utah's implacable foe;
Platt, who had to be placated by gen.
tlemen who worked with him assid-
uously to keep him from fighting the
bill with his eyer-unyielding bitterness,
forced Senator Faulkner, Utah's
staunch friend, and the Democratic
Senate to do as he, now emasculated
of power, should bid theml Oh, how
partisan vehemence does seem to
blind some good men!
The gentleman modifies the remarks
made in his speech down to the nsser-
,tion that he "does not know of a DEM
ocrat who, after the Republican vic
tory of last year, was not afraid that
Utah would become Republican
State or who was really happy in
the thought That is a very
different thing TO what he said and
which wounded SO many of his good
friends. We might take this modifi-
cation without much dispute but for
his final statement:
'swhile to hurt any mans feelings
is contrary to my wish; whenever.
wherever and upon whatever subject l
speak or write, I utter the honest SEN
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