The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-18
MR.. ROBERTS AND CONGRESS

st. Paul Globe: Roberts case is being
! disposed of in the white heat of public
passion and prejudice. The arguments
advanced to sustain the summary action
of congress in refusing to recognize even
> his prima facie right to his seat are all
tinged with the colors of popular clamor.
1t would indeed have been more accept
able to the mass of Democrats every
where throughout the country had Rob-
! erts' party associates in the house not
yielded. as so many of them appear to
have done, to the panic which plainly
! seems to have prevailed.
| New York Post: A single week has
been enough to show that the people are
coming to be as much ashamed of what
their representatives in the house did
last Tuesday as were most of those very
/ representatives when they voted against
their own convictions of right simply be-
cause they were towards.
| Phoenix (Ariz) Gazette: Mr. Roberts
of Utah is conducting himself with such
modesty and proper decorum to win
! for him certain degree of respect, If not
of sympathy. There is such a marked
! contrast between his behavior and that
of some noisy and obtrusive critics. that
there is much in the Mormons favor.
New York Mail and Express: We agree
that all talk of thrusting Utah out of the
Union for breach of contract or for
working the confidence game" on the
federal government is merest buncombe.
and can serve only to involve unduly the
issue now before the people. 1t cannot
be abandoned too soon in favor of in
points are overlooked by the radicals. So
long as Utah keeps in her constitution, as
she does. a distinct and ''irrevocable''
prohibition of polygamous or plural mar
riage, the most serious legal charge that
can be laid. against her is partial failure
in the administration of her fundamental
law. But the same charge may be laid
against other states in relation to other
matters-and who talks of expelling these
from the sisterhood of commonwealth?
Boston Herald: There is something very
like an agreement among the members of
the house of representatives of congress
now. If we may accept what the letter
writer's from the capital say. that a mis-
take was made in the refusal to allow
Mr.. Roberts of Utah to take his seat in
congress According to the constitution
ne should nave Deen permitted to do this
The Herald. in common. with, we think.
most of the newspapers of the country
which are in the habit of weighing ques-
tons calmly on their merits, took that
view of the subject.
: Helena (Mont.) Independent: While the
Independent does not think Roberts
should be permitted to keep a seat in
congress, it also believes that he would
be given a seat IL he were Republican,
polygamy or no polygamy; FOR the COM
pact of our noble executive in agreeing
to support with the army and navy of
the United States the institution of polyg-
amy in the Sulu islands is good and suf-
ficient evidence that polygamy Is repul-
sive TO the Republican, party only when
1t is found in a Democrat. And besides
President Mckinley appointed poiygam-
lists TO federal Offices in Utah
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