people ever had. These are elements, as you will notice, outside of Congress. In Con-
gress we had at the start the powerful help of Senator , who was then the most
influential Republican in the United States Senate, and Speaker of the House, these
two men furnishing out the most of the power we have utilized on the Republican side in
Congress. When Congress was Republican these were our leaders and main helpers.
This brings us down to the expiration of the Republican Congress on the 4th of
March. It is well enough to express again, with sufficient emphasis to make it endure,
that it was in the heart and intention of that Republican Congress to make a State.
Ninety-nine out of every hundred of the Republicans in Congress favored this, the Repub-
lican desired it, the Republicans in the House did their part towards it, the
Republicans in the Senate stood ready to do it, and the whole gracious act of Republican
intention was defeated only by the strange influence exerted upon the Republican Chair-
man of the Senate Territorial Committee, an influence exerted from your enemies in Utah
in some strange and secret and yet sufficient manner. It is well enought^f^, and think
fair enough, that you and all your people should understand that the Republican party as
a party in Congress and in executive power desired and intended to give you Statehood.
It was only through that strange thing and its stranger power called courtesy in the
Senate that your disappearing enemies in Utah were able through the exercise of peculiar
power over one Senator holding a place of peculiar advantage, that this Republican inten-
tion was defeated. Let me say here clearly and plainly that this influence, whatever it
was, was not one of corrupt character, for no man ever lived who was further above cor-
rupt things than Senator . In some way I think this malign influence in Utah exer-
cised through some Republican Senators from that region an influence on Senator Platt,
making him believe that it was necessary to defeat Statehood and that the sole reliance
for this necessity was on him.
This brings us to March, 1893. During the summer of [18]93 we kept in constant
motion all the influences through the organizations of friends we had perfected in every
State in the Union, not only to hold the turning tide toward friendship for you among all
the controlling elements of the nation, but if possible to increase this feeling into
friendship. We had able and strong and controlling friends at every influential church
gathering, all the Methodist conferences, and all the synods and associations of the dif-
people ever had. These are elements, as you will notice, outside of Congress. In Congress we had at the start the powerful help of Senator , who was then the most
influential Republican in the United States Senate, and Speaker of the House, these
two men furnishing out the most of the power we have utilized on the Republican side in
Congress. When Congress was Republican these were our leaders and main helpers.
This brings us down to the expiration of the Republican Congress on the 4th of
March. It is well enough to express again, with sufficient emphasis to make it endure,
that it was in the heart and intention of that Republican Congress to make a State.
Ninety-nine out of every hundred of the Republicans in Congress favored this, the Republican desired it, the Republicans in the House did their part towards it, the
Republicans in the Senate stood ready to do it, and the whole gracious act of Republican
intention was defeated only by the strange influence exerted upon the Republican Chairman of the Senate Territorial Committee, an influence exerted from your enemies in Utah
in some strange and secret and yet sufficient manner. It is well enoughf, and think
fair enough, that you and all your people should understand that the Republican party as
a party in Congress and in executive power desired and intended to give you Statehood.
It was only through that strange thing and its stranger power called courtesy in the
Senate that your disappearing enemies in Utah were able through the exercise of peculiar
power over one Senator holding a place of peculiar advantage, that this Republican intention was defeated. Let me say here clearly and plainly that this influence, whatever it
was, was not one of corrupt character, for no man ever lived who was further above corrupt things than Senator . In some way I think this malign influence in Utah exercised through some Republican Senators from that region an influence on Senator Platt,
making him believe that it was necessary to defeat Statehood and that the sole reliance
for this necessity was on him.
This brings us to March, 1893. During the summer of 1893 we kept in constant
motion all the influences through the organizations of friends we had perfected in every
State in the Union, not only to hold the turning tide toward friendship for you among all
the controlling elements of the nation, but if possible to increase this feeling into
friendship. We had able and strong and controlling friends at every influential church
gathering, all the Methodist conferences, and all the synods and associations of the dif-