more an engine of injustice and oppression toward you than a representative party of
just sentiment, and which had finally become simply a means of persecution and money-
making, the apparent sanction of acting in the name of the Republican party of the
nation. To do this efficiently it was necessary to dispossess this Utah Liberal party
of its membership in the Republican National Committee, and to give admission instead
to the Republican party in Utah, and thus to gain entrance of the national party on the
local ground, where it could deal in justice and fairness with your people and take up
with intelligence the preliminaries of the final settlement which has now come in fair-
ness to you. To those of you who were remote and who know little of the national pre-
judice and of the difficulty of assembling the support of every State in a National
Committee, this may have seemed a trivial matter. I happened to be Chairman of the
Republican National Committee at the time, and even I, who knew much of this prejudice,
was surprised to find how obstinately the most of the members of the Committee held to
the old-time prejudice and how timid nearly all of them were as against the reproaches
of their people for rejecting the Liberal party in Utah and admitting to membership in
the National Committee a party that proposed tolerance and fair play to the Mormons the
same as all other Americans. It took a year of patient effort, of direct personal
appeal to almost every member of the National Committee, and more than that of system-
atic work to reach the influences back of these men personally, to give them the
courage to act along the line that we proposed. It happened that the meeting of the
National Committee where Utah for the first time was admitted to fair-play representa-
tion in any National Committee was held in Washington, where all the allied influences
against your people had their representatives on the ground for action. These influ-
ences stormed at the Committee, frightened away all but the most resolute men, and made
it extremely difficult to carry the matter successfully through the Committee. But it
was finally done, and when it was done the Liberal party of Utah was for the first time
cut off from connection with the supreme sources of national power. Colonel Trumbo may
sometime when he is with you, in the confidence that exists between you and in the great
affection in which he holds you, give you many of the details of that first struggle,

more an engine of injustice and oppression toward you than a representative party of just sentiment, and which had finally become simply a means of persecution and moneymaking, the apparent sanction of acting in the name of the Republican party of the nation. To do this efficiently it was necessary to dispossess this Utah Liberal party of its membership in the Republican National Committee, and to give admission instead to the Republican party in Utah, and thus to gain entrance of the national party on the local ground, where it could deal in justice and fairness with your people and take up with intelligence the preliminaries of the final settlement which has now come in fairness to you. To those of you who were remote and who know little of the national prejudice and of the difficulty of assembling the support of every State in a National Committee, this may have seemed a trivial matter. I happened to be Chairman of the Republican National Committee at the time, and even I, who knew much of this prejudice, was surprised to find how obstinately most of the members of the Committee held to the old-time prejudice and how timid nearly all of them were as against the reproaches of their people for rejecting the Liberal party in Utah and admitting to membership in the National Committee a party that proposed tolerance and fair play to the Mormons the same as all other Americans. It took a year of patient effort, of direct personal appeal to almost every member of the National Committee, and more than that of systematic work to reach the influences back of these men personally, to give them the courage to act along the line that we proposed. It happened that the meeting of the National Committee where Utah for the first time was admitted to fair-play representation in any National Committee was held in Washington, where all the allied influences against your people had their representatives on the ground for action. These influences stormed at the Committee, frightened away all but the most resolute men, and made it extremely difficult to carry the matter successfully through the Committee. But it was finally done, and when it was done the Liberal party of Utah was for the first time cut off from connection with the supreme sources of national power. Colonel Trumbo may sometime when he is with you, in the confidence that exists between you and in the great affection in which he holds you, give you many of the details of that first struggle,