ferent Churches held during the summer. All the time we had felt that the coercion
of church sentiment over men in Congress was the thing to be feared, for religious in-
tolerance is always last to release its grasp. We succeeded well and increased our chance
among these controlling elements during the summer; and this brings us to the assem-
bling of the Democratic Congress in December. During the extra session in the summer,
called by the President to meet the financial situation, our question played no part.
And when Congress met in December, Democratic in both branches, with a Democratic Pres-
ident, our situation had become irritated against us with the Democrats by the results
of the various State elections held in that year, including the one in Utah, where your
people had elected a Republican Legislature. Nothing during the whole time in which I
had been engaged in this movement has made the difficulty of it so plain as when it was
demonstrated that we had to go to a Democratic Congress, with the traditional intoler-
ance of the Democratic party against Republican communities and Republican interests,
and ask it to make a State of a Republican Territory.
ferent Churches held during the summer. All the time we had felt that the coercion
of church sentiment over men in Congress was the thing to be feared, for religious intolerance is always last to release its grasp. We succeeded well and increased our chance
among these controlling elements during the summer; and this brings us to the assembling of the Democratic Congress in December. During the extra session in the summer,
called by the President to meet the financial situation, our question played no part.
And when Congress met in December, Democratic in both branches, with a Democratic President, our situation had become irritated against us with the Democrats by the results
of the various State elections held in that year, including the one in Utah, where your
people had elected a Republican Legislature. Nothing during the whole time in which I
had been engaged in this movement has made the difficulty of it so plain as when it was
demonstrated that we had to go to a Democratic Congress, with the traditional intolerance of the Democratic party against Republican communities and Republican interests,
and ask it to make a State of a Republican Territory.
"Letter from James Sullivan Clarkson, 11 July 1894," p. 16, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 5, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/NpW2