The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-13
FROM CHARLES ELLIS.
FavOrs MIR. Smith as the Republican
Candidate For Governor.

To the Voters of Utah.
Gentlemen (and ladies next time)-
nature made the States in our grand
mountains.
Politicians are making the states for
the campaign that is to crown Utah
with statehood.
The writer of these lines is not a
slate-maker, but an American citizen
whose special pride is that he lives
under a government where he is free
to express his thoughts without ask
ing permission from prince or poten-
tate.
Exercising that freedom, he writes,
or speaks, now as he has ever done,
since he came to her for the rights
of Utah and the peculiar people" who
have given her name.
Coming to Utah at a time when the
friction of opposing factions was
generating fires of hatred in every
direction, he has seen a most wonder
full change for the better. and fiatters
himself that he had something to do in
the work that has wrought that
change. He has taken no part in poll
ties for the reason that his action in
opposing the old conditions of hate
naturally and necessarily singled him
out as a mark Of hatred for those who
seemed to think that peace could have
no victory in Utah. But he thinks he
has earned the right to a hearing on
any matter concerning the well-being
of Utah and her people, and. so be-
| lieving, he writes:
Utah and the Nation.
| There is no state in the Union that
bears so peculiar a relation to the
general government as does Utah.
FnrfJ-Qicyhf there TO
| this valley a band of pioneers who, on
account of their religion, had fed for
safety from the land over which
hoated the Stars and Stripes. When
| they anchored their prairie schoonerS
in this port they were in foreign terri
tory. But most of them were Ameri-
cans by birth. AS a result of the
Mexican war with the United States
this territory passed to the American
government, and the first political &C
! ton of those pioneers was to form
local government pledging fealty to the
United States and asking to be recog-
nized as an integral part of the Union.
! There is no intention to elaborate the
| history of that early occupation of the
territory, but in passing I would say
that the struggles, amid adversely, of
the Mormon people from 1S47 to 1852
are the basis of a story as romantic
and heroic as anything in American
history.
1t is proper to say that if the Nor
mons had not settled here, the kgest-
ward tendency of the American people
would have settled this country just
as it has done ali other parts of the
great west. But the fact is, the Nor
mons came first and were the pioneers.
They came poor. They possessed only
religious zeal, power to increase and
multiply and that determination to
live that makes the bosom of mother
earth a yielder of food.
1t is true. they did not develop the
mineral resources of the territory, but
for a reason that, as l have said many
times, marks the sagacity of their
leader who said: We are thousand
miles from any base of supplies. If
we neglect farming for mining we will
starve. Make the farms support the
people and then we can farm the mines
with safety and success 1t was be-
cause that advice was followed that
Utah became the greatest territory the
United States have ever owned.
The State of Utah.
The people of the United States hav-
ing become satisfied that it is time
to admit Utah into the Union. the peo-
pie of Utah are now TO elect the Of
ficers who are to start and run the
machinery of the new government. AS
IN all parts Oh the country tHelS diG
many applicants for every office, and
much danger that. because devils rush
in where angels fear to tread, because
men without capacity or principle seek
the offices for personal ends. while bet
ter men are silent because they will
not force themselves upon the popu-
lace, the people at large may be de-
ceived into choosing men who may
make of the state of Utah what the
territory has been for years, stink in
the nostrils of the nation.
1t has been my pleasure to say
publicly, east and west, many things
in favor of the Mormon people as to
their general integrity and ability to
govern themselves in harmony with
the nation. 1 appeal to them now to
make good my statements. 1t is for
them to determine in the approach
ing election what the character of
the state administration shall be and
also what character the state shall
carry into the national legislature in
the persons of its representatives in
the House and Senate.
1t has already been heralded over
the country that Utah morals are so
loose that a, man with a, little money
al his command has come here with
assurance that he can buy his election
to the United States Senate.
My good Mormon friends, do act per-
nit such a thing 20 ne done. Do not
give your old enemies such club to
be used against your peace and pros
perity. Do not, in short nominate for
any office any person who would en-
deavor to secure an election by pur-
chase. Remember that any person who
would bride a voter by money or
promises to vote for him is a traitor
to American liberty. the only safety
of which is in the purity and sacred
ness Of the ballot.
The Governor.
The selection of a candidate for the
governorship of the new state is an
important matter.
What l shall say about it may dis
please some. and yet if all will con-
slider it well my claim will be seen to
be proper and just
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