The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-06
THE TIME FOR STATEHOOD.

| We clip the annexed paragraph from
an editorial on statehood in sheet we
will not name because it is very anxi-
Gus to obtain some notice from The
Herald which it is constantly defaming
It's opinion on anything is of no conse-
lquence whatever, but this is a sample
of the receptions which the Republicans
are. endeavoring to work off to influence
the people Of Utah:
With the cowardice so characteristic
! of Democracy the bill provides that
| Utah shall not enjoy the full rights of
statehood until March 4, 1896.
We have no objection to fair fight
on the relative merits of the work of
the Democratic party and the pretences
of the Republican party in reference to
the statehood question. But it will be
found that falsehoods like the forego-
ling, clipped from an alleged Republican
sheet, will do no good to any one but
lonly cause i'll feeling and provoke retail
iation.
The bill for statehood contains no
such provision as that stated. On the
contrary it contains provisions by which
the full rights of statehood may be en-
Joyed by the people of Utah, if they
please, as early as December 1895. If
1.-THE frothy and fiighty writer of the
paragraph we have quoted can find anv
such provision as he says the bill con-
tains and will send it to The Herald
we will publish it with a full apology
for disputing it. The means by which
statehood can be reached fully by the
time. we have stated, have been fully
explained in The Herald and can he
understood by any person of ordinary
sense who will carefully read the en-
abling act
Now as to the ''cowadrice of the
Democratic party on this question.
The whole measure securing to Utah
its rights and privileges as a State is
of Democratic origin and passage.
From its Introduction by Delegate
Rawlins to its signing by President
Cleveland, every step has been the
movement Of Democrats.
The Republicans in Congress do not
appear-except in the manufactured
accounts and irrational comments of
have done anything except keep quiet,
and that silence was due to the efforts
of certain Republicans from the West.
"Cowardice!' Where has that been ex-
hibited in this whole statehood affair
except by Republicans in Congress?
The most polite thing for these pop
gun Republican concerns to do is to
initiate their confeeres in Congress and
say nothing. We will be pleased to
make the contrast at any time be-
tween the conduct of the two parties
on the statehood question. We have
been so gratified at the solution of
the Utah problem that we have had
no desire to say anything against the
tactics Of the opposition. But they con-
tinually provoke retort.
Nothing is clearer or more certain
than that the Republican party has
been the inveterate foe of the people
of Utah and has refused them the boon
Of statehood whenever it has been ask
ed and that party has had the power
to bestow it. 1t is equally certain that
big effort has been necessary to
hold that party still, and not try to
block the way when the Democrats,
having the power at last, determined
to do justice to Utah
1t only remains now with the people
Of Utah to proceed under the provis-
ions of the enabling act and so order
their affairs that the returns of the
election in November, 1895, shall be
sent to the President in time for his
proclamation to be made so that Utah
may enjoy all the rights, privileges
and imnlunities before the close of
next year Democrats, keep that in
mind and do not allow the truth to be
thrust aside by ignorant or lying Re-
publican assertions like those we have
commented upon in this article