The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-30

and Henderson and Allison said no.
thing. OF course Trumbo did the bust
ness by, with and through General
Clarkson. as disclosed by Major
Handy.
From the gallant California Colonel
we have, received copy of the New
York Tribune, which confirms the
statement that the placating work was
his, SO to him be all the glory he de-
serves. A special to the New York
chief organ of Rebubhcanism says:
President Cleveland's approval of the
act enabling Utah to adopt a constitu-
ton and to become a State in the
American Union concludes an interest
ing struggle which has extended over
eight years and has had an important
relation to national politics. So far as
resources, population and development
are concerned, Utah was ready for adj
mission even before the Dakotas, Mon
tana and Washington were. If the tests
required of Utah had been only those
70 which other new communities are
put Utah would long ago have been a
state. 1t was polygamy that kept
Utah out of the Union polygamy and
A certain practical American distrust
u body of men who claimed to have
direct and immediate communication
with Providence.
Much of this feeling disappeared af-
ter the railroad got into Utah, and the
Mormons aWoke to a new sense of
their destiny. But the process of
awakening was naturally gradual, and
i was not always helped along by
Gentle influence. 1t was difficult to
make the country believe, and much
more TO make the GentileS of Utah
believe, that the Mormons had ac-
in, foi4 ~, -
country and were rendering strict and
faithful obedience to them. This, of
course, was a condition precedent to
the admission of Utah. 1t was not only
necessary that the MOrmons should
abandon polygamy, but II was neces-
sary that their neighbors and the en-
tire country should believe they had
abandoned it,
In making plain the good faith of the
Mormons no single influence has been
so constant sor more effective than that
Of Colonel Isaac Trumbo, of San Fran
cisco. Not coercion, but admission"
has always been Colonel Trumbo's
method of solving the difficulties in
Utah. The story of his determined and
systematic work during the last ten
years would make an interesting book.
1t began with the enlistment of influ-
entail public men, who slowly became
convinced of the essential truth of
Colonel Trumbo's representations.
Then, little by little, public and religi-
Gus associations were reached. The at
tempt to disfranchise the Mormons was
defeated, in the Republican Congress in
1889. The Liberal party in Utah and
the Mormon party, as such, were sub
lected to processes that resulted in dis
Indignation, and the people of the ter
ritory were slowly but finally separ-
ated, not on questions relating to the
Church, but on the same questions of
National policy that divided the peo-
pie everywhere. A delegation from the
new Republican party of Utah, COM
posed mainly of Mormons, was ad-
mitted into the Republican National
Convention. The National Committee
Of the Republican party was induced
to support the movement for State
hood, and when at last President Har-
lison became thoroughly convinced
of Mormon good faith, and issued in
1892 his proclama ton of amnesty, the
work preliminary to a successful APP
peal to Congress in behalf of Utah's
admission as a State had been done
The Church property seized upon by
the Government under the Poland and
Edmunds acts was released, and the
Democratic as well as the Republican
leaders were induced to support the
cause of Statehood The political par
les III Oldu were united upon a COM
mon plan for a constitution The En-
aiding act passed both houses of Con-
gress unanimously. All opposition dis
appeared in the face of the evidence
marshalled by Colonel Trumbo, PROV
ing the orderly conditions existing in
Utah and the fact that the demand for
Statehood proceeded with equal
warmth from both Molmons and Cen
tiles. The friends of the Utah bill in
the present Congress have included
Senators Allison, Hansbrough and
Platt among the Republicans, and Sen
ators White, Of California, and Black
burn, among the Democrats, and the
successful conclusion of their work is
a source Of great satisfaction to the
leaders of both parties