The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-06-26
THE PEOPLE OF UTAH.

One of the graceful acts of the terri
torial convention was its hearty en-
dorsement of Hon. Joe. L. Rawlins,
our able representative in congress in
these words:
We endorse the official acts of our
delegate in congress, Hon j. L. Raw.
Inns, and offer his able and successful
services as evidence of democratic en-
ergy and fidelity to the interests of the
people of Utah.
Never was plaudid more fairly won,
never more gracefully conveyed. The
beauty of this thing is there are no re-
publicans to be found to fight it. This
worthy Paladin of fair young Utah is
as Bayard was "Sans puer ct sans re-
proche" and friends and enemies vie
only to pay him honor. He has grown
to be a necessity to Utah. As brave as
Bayard, he avoids no foe who stands in
the pathway of the territory's pro
gress, and when the ultra pious hY-
pocrites of New England gathered from
Maine, including Massachusetts, to
the Pacific coast TO block her way to
equality among the states, and put
Morse up as the peculiar champion of
the republican party's opposition, who
but Rawlins was there to front him
and in few words, tipped with sar-
casm perfectly awful, expose the pious
fraud the party of God and morality
was attempting to play, not upon Utah
alone, bat upon the entire west and
south as well. Morse was not afraid
of polygamy breaking out of its bound
aries and feeding its lusts upon the
lesthery ancient huspand-less DANES of
the east, not at all, 1t was because
the act of admission would create two
more democratic free coinage senators,
and two more staunch free silver re-
presentatives in the lower house. Yet
according to this typical puritanical
hypocrite the great fear of the mother
of school marms shuddered only at the
prospect of the bloody-minded and
lecherous old poly lygamists over-running
all Yankeedom to feed their lusts
upon the maidens of Massachusetts.
Ii Rawlins had never accomplfshsd
----4--------.a-.--E=- sz4IS1Osng % Ihis
poor pittiful fraud he would, and the
democratic party of Utah through him,
have Won the undying gratitude of the
people of this territory.
But we have long list of equally
brilliant services with which to crown
the party and to justify the affectionate
confidence of the democracy IN the
man. For all the long years during
which the republican party was the ar
bitratOr of her fate, Utah received
nothing but contumely at the hands of
the national administration. No mat
ter who was president the policy was
the same, showing that the personnel
of the administration was as nothing
in the presence of the settled policy of
the party. 1t is the same today, it will
remain the same until this generation
of republicans pass away. 1t is the
same order of lawless disregard of the
rights of the people which has ever dis
tinguished the party OF trusts, combIn-
ations and corporations. Before this
party Of intolerance the constitution is
as rag of paper, brushed out of sight
whenever it is either convenient or
profitable to do so. Here is Utah as
well equipped at any period during the
last thirty years as now for statehood,
still occupying the position Of a terri
tory with no voice in national affairs
albeit she has as great a stake in the
government as any state in the union.
Her blood was offered freely, costly
libation on the altars of national unity. |
but the republican party still steadily
turned her face against admission.
We are not the apologist of polygamy |
nor do we countenance it in any wav.
yet for the life Of us we can see no
reason or sense in the republican pol
ICY keeping Utah out of the union so
many long years on that score, as if
congress and the national authorities
could not have dealt with it as well in
a state as in territory. Hence we
Charge that the keeping her out was
all along part of that same bit of DO.
litical hypocrisy that Morse's effort last
winter was. 1t is in the republican
blood and the very same intolerance of
thirty years since exists today. 1t
would prove but sorry day for Uts b
if she should at last and with all this
experience as lamp to her feet, re-
turn these intolerant hypocrites to
power,
DOES the Tribune defend or atak
Tohn Sherman or the republican ma