The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-01


would go into retirement and Demo-
Gratis would appear in their places
No man can be elected to either
house OF congress against their wish
viii not trespass upon your patience
long enough TO recite the innumerable
circumstances that prove this asser-
ton. but viii merely refer to enough
instances to illustrate the method In
1897. at the session of the legislature
which was TO elect a senator and
which was composed of sixty Demo-
Gratis and three Republicans, Moses
Thatcher was the favored candidate of
the Democracy in the state He had
been an apostle of the Mormon church,
but had been deposed because he was
out OF harmony with the leaders. The
Hon. Joseph l. Rawlins was a rival
candidate, but not strongly so at first.
lie was encouraged by the church
leaders in every way; and finally,
when his strength had been advanced
sufficiently 10 need but one vote, a
Mormon Republican was promptly
moved over into the Democratic col
umn and he was elected by the joint
assembly. / do not charge that Hon.
Joseph l.. Rawlins who occupied a
seat with distinguished honor in this
great body for six years, had any i'm
proper bargain with the church, or any
knowledge of the secret methods by
which his election was being COM
passed; but he was elected under the
direction of the leaders of the church
because they desired to defeat and fur
ther humiliate a deposed apostle.
Case of Mr.. kearns.
L Will not ignore my own case. Dur
ing nearly three years I have waited
this great hour of justice in which L
could answer the malignant falsehood
and abuse which have been heaped
ma n &c
answer. and upon myself. living man
willing TO wait the time for answer.
Lorenzo Snow. a very aged man, was
president of the church when l was
elected to the senate. He had reached
that advanced time of life. being over
so. when men abide largely in the
thoughts Of their youth. He was my
friend in that distant way which some
times exists without close acquaint
anceship, our friendship Gf I may
term 1T such) having arisen from the
events attendant upon Utah's struggle
for statehood. For some reason he did
not oppose my election to the senate.
Every other candidate for the place
had sought his favor; it came to me
without price or solicitation on my
part. The friends and mouthpieces of
some of the present leaders have been
base enough to charge that 1 bought
the senatorship from Lorenzo Snow,
and now I denounce the calumny
against that old man, whose unsought
and unbOught favor came 20 me in
that contest. That I ever paid to him
one dollar of money, or asked him to
influence legislators of his faith, is as
cruel falsehood as ever came from
human lips. So far as 1 am concerned,
he held his power with clean hands:
and / would protect the memory OF
this dead man against all the abuse
and MISREPRESENTATION which might be
heaped upon him by those who were
lis adherents during life, but who now
attack his fame in order that they
may pay the greater Difference to the
present king.
Defense of Lorenzo Snow.
''You must know that in that day,
we were but five years old as a state
Our political conditions were and had
been greatly unsettled The purpose
OF the church to rule in politics had
not yet been made so manifest and
determined. Lorenzo Snow held his
office for a brief time-abOut two years.
What he did in that Office pertaining
to my election here and now distinct
~ assume as my burden; for no man
shall, with impunity. use his hatred
of me to defame dead Lorenzo Snow
and dishonor his memory TO his living
and loving descendants
AS for myself, / am willing to take
the senate and the country into my
confidence and make a part of the
eternal records of the senate, for such
of my friends as may care to read, the
vindication of my course to my pos
terity. 1 had an ambition, and not an
improper one to sit in the senate of
the United States. My competitors
had longer experience in politics and
may have understood more of the pc
sought what is known as church in
huence. 1 sought to obtain this place
by purely political means L was
elected. After all of their trickery, my
opponents were defeated, and to some
extent by the very means which they
had basely invoked. l have served
with you four years, and have sought
in a modest way to make creditaple
record here. 1 have learned something
of the grandeur and dignity OF the SEN
ate. something of its ideals, which /
could not know before coming here /
say to you, my fellow senator's, that
this place of power is infinitely more
magnificent than I dreamed when l
first thought of occupying seat here
But were Il thrice as great as 1 now
know IL to be- and were I back in that
old time of struggle in Utah when L
WAS seeking for this honor, L would
not permit the volunteered friendship
of President Snow 10 DeSLOW upon me-
even as an innocent recipient. one atom
of the church monarch's favor. Ny
ideals have grown with my term Of
service in this body. and I believe that
the man who would render here the
highest service to his country must be
careful to attain to this high place by
the purest civic path that mortal feet
can tread
Long Live Joseph"
81 have said enough to indicate that
for my own part l never countenanced,
nor knowingly condOned. the intrusion
of the church monarchy into secular
affairs And L have said enough to those
who know me to prove for all time
that so far as am concerned, my cleo
ton here was as honorable as that of
any man who sits in this chamber; and
vet l have said enough that all men
may know that rather than have dead
mans memory DETAINED on my account,
I will make his cause my own and will
fight for the honor which he is not on
earth to defend. This will not suit the
friends and mouthpieces of the present
rulers, but I have no desire to satisfy
or conciliate them; and in leaving this
part of the question, / ayenge Presi-
dent Snow sufficiently by saying that
these men did not dare to offend his
desire nor dispute his will while he was
living, and only grew brave when they
could cry;
Lorenzo, the king, is deadl Long
live Joseph, the king
LAS a senator 1 have sought to fulfill