The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-08


high tribute to his ability as a sol
der and strategist.
Depew on Failure.
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew has not
added 10 his reputation as am orator
by his career in the senate. He has
made a number Of set speeches since
his admission none of them very good
and most of them very bad. His worst
effort was his two days speech against
the omnibus statehood bill, In which he
voiced at second hand nearly all the
eastern prejudices against the west
He maligned New Mexico and Ari-
IONA; he attacked the MOrmons and
the Spanish born citizens of New Mex
leo; he belittled the resources of the
west but his greatest objection 10
granting statehood TO more western
territories was his fear that the thinly
populated states might gain control of
the senate and invite attacks upon our
form of government and lead 20
amendments 20 the constitution di-
rected against minority representation.
which would be little short of revOlu-
tiOnary. Senator Teller, I'm a two-min-
ute talk, demolished the OratOriCal
structure which DepeW had been piling
up for two days and left him with
nothing but a long string of words TO
show for his long-Winded effort Sen
atOr Teller said
Il do not wish to interrupt the sem
atOr, yet i must confess that after a
quarter of a century's service. most of
/ the time I'm this body j can hot hear
with much patience the threat of revo-
luton i'm this country: that the gov
eminent organized by our fathers is 10
[ be destroyed because the original plan
/ by which the small states were 10 have
In this body the same power that the
Z large states have is now Objectionable
TO the senator from New York. 1t is
not any small thing 20 talk about
changing the political conditions I'm
| this country, changing the form of
/ government under which we have lived
and grown so great and strong You
l cannot maintain i'm this country a
/ government upon the theory upon
which this government was established
| If you concentrate all the power i'm the
hands of the great states.
/ The United States was organized by
| the West men who ever lived, on this
continent at least, and / think
/ should not eNaggerate II I said upon
any other They organized it wisely
/ They provided that the smaller states
| should have In this body the power thai
/ the great states have, and now, after
more than one hundred years. is there
! any reason for amy man 20 stand IL
{ this chamber and condemn that system
/ of government
: New England, with its twelve sen.
I atOrs I'm this body. has not as many
/ people as has the state OF New York
/ Has this government ever suffered. Mr.
! President by the small states OF New
/ England bling represented I'm this body
/ I say here, and ] want to say it TO tn,
/ senator. that he does not represen.
I anybody In this country when he talk.
( about breaking up the form of gov
l eminent which our fathers esta blished
! and which the experience Of more thar
a hundred years has shown 10 be Ia,
wisest Of any government ever estab
/ nshed under the sun
81 have listened to a good deal o.
/ nonsense. and I have listened wlthou
/ protest during this debate to a goo,
deal that / consider beneath the dig
nifty Of the senate: but I could not III
ten 10 what the senator from New
/ York has said without saving here. a,
/ a senator from one of the sovereign
[ states Of this union and az a citizen %
/ the United States, that I resent the in
suit and ] think the American peopI,
/ VIII resent this insult from the sen
/ ator from New York"