The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-10

pray to God for strength and courage
with which to so out to school in the
morning on account of things that had
been said about me- But never asked
for quarter: 1 never asked of anybody
to plead with you TO hold your tongues.
THE REAL QUESTION.
I think. perhaps, I have reached the
friends. think perhaps you will agree
with me that as far as the senatorShip is
concerned, L care very little about it.
think no man would have talked the way
l have tonight who had any lingering idea
OF affecting. so far as he was concerned,
the senatorial question. am doing
higher duty now and intend to do it to
the end. The issue is not whether Frank
j. Cannon shall be elected to the senate;
the issue is whether the reactiohists shall
be permitted TO do the things which would
strain US worse than anything on earth.
1t is not the Roberts case, that will be
settled just like that (Snapping his hng-
ers). He will be seatel or he won't be
seated. But there is a greater question.
Senator Platt, chairman of the senate
committee on territories, took me TO one
side in Washington, and talked to me
about the situation out here He remem-
bered the time when L went TO MIN with
other men and beSought him to yield
whatever prejudice he had against the ad-
mission OF Utah because we were true.
I have seen the charge made in the news
papers. and want the people here present
to tell me how to answer the inquiry II
he should say to me: After we took you
into sovereignty, you sold out senator
ship to the highest bidder, through the
business apostle of the Mormon church.
(ApplauseO l want you to tell me how
shall answer that. And the proper an
swer to that is of more Importance to me
than seat in the senate for life, and
will say that l have had all that l am
entitled to. Those who don't like me
will say that l have had a goes deal
more. I am willing to retire; 1 was will
ing to retire long before this candidacy
came on, but am not willing to be sue
ceded in that exalted office by a man
who cannot set the name of Utah as high
as [ have set it in the senate of the
United States. (Applause). And no man
can do that who either buys the place or
secures it by ignoble means. Behind him
mighty people. The sole issue is for you.
and as you people decide it. so will your
children and so will all the people in the
days to come in Utah be benefited for
good or for i'll.
GOLDEN KIMBALL'S LETTERS.
On Jan. 7th just as this question was to
be brought forward for decision, a ques-
ton which belongs. not to apostles and
not to business men, but to the legislature,
which cannot absolve itself from the re-
spOnsibility,, nor permit another to dis
dressed certain letters to j. Golden kim
ball. which were printed. With all due
respect to the vigor Of attack made upon
and by other newspapers in this state.
they have never been aSSailed from the
quarter which should have resented them.
/ believe no man living can have a higher
yeneration for the leaders of the Nor
mon church than l have. have sat on
Brigham Young's knee; knew the Won
der, the splendor of that mans career:
John Taylor was my family relative, ana
my father was his first counselor. VII
ford Woodruff was the gentlest and ten
derest friend ever had in all this world.
lasT hon
him. for the splendor of his attainments.
for the vigor of his mind, for what
know of his high motives, so that what
shall say will be said with full con-
sciousnesS in your own minds that / love
the men who lead the Mormon church.
and that whatever I shall say is as a
Mormon and in anger toward none
PREDICTS ANOTHER STORM.
I waited day after day after the Grant
letters mad appeared. The Tribune was
quoting them and attacking Mr.. Grant,
and l waited and watched for word
to come from that place where the word
should have come from in my humble
judgment l am not a good man, and
cannot see things PLAINLY, but II seemed
to me as though the Mormons should say:
''Heber j. Grant, we will not partake of
this sim They are the people who should
have said it. But it is for me, as sena
tor of the United States in this hour, to
say TO you what / know will happen un-
less you correct thinS wrong. Utah, the
Youngest of the states, the falreSt, the
richest and the one which has done most
to entitle her to sovereignty of all the
state. will so down a hiss and q bye-word
unless you repudiate this thing before all
the world. The woe and tribulationS of
the past will be like summer morning
with the storm which will come
upon your hearts if you do not now dis
charge the reactionists from political and
official authority.
[ want to ask you what you would have
thought and what would have been said
of Pat Lannan had he written letters like
thought of O. W. Powers had he written
letters like this in politics:
''Heber J. Grant & Co. invested $49 coo
in The Salt Lake Herald at the time that
it became the Democratic organ, and have
since paid $4,000 in assessments, and sub
oeuuently assigned their stock, without
to Mr.. Chambers, on ac-
count of not being able TO pay any more
assessments. AS l own 40 per cent of
Grant 6, Co.'S business, you can readily
see that my change to Democratic eX-
perience account is only second to that
of Messrs. Chambers and McCune, and is
one of the straws that has nearly broken |
my financial back and l need material !
prosperity TO help strengthen that part |
of my anatomy; hence my desire for the |
election of Mr.. McCune."
Suppose Pat Lannan had said that ten |
years ago. We would have said that he |
wanted to sell senatorship for his own |
private pocket Would not we have said |
it? What would the News have said, the |
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