to represent you in the United States Senate. No other man could possibly represent you
to your benefit and to your vindication as he can. No dozen men nor any hundred men
among you are as well known as he is to the powerful and controlling men not only in Con-
gress in this later time, but throughout the country. You know, and this is realized
probably more by President than any other member of your people, that experience
and acquaintance are necessary in a Congressman or Senator to serve his people fully and
faithfully. If Colonel had been a member of the Senate ten years he could not have
gained more acquaintance and friendship to your advantage than he has gained now. Uni-
versally the people of the country and the people in Congress look to him as representa-
tive of . This fact of itself is sufficient for my position. The friendships he
has formed, the acquaintance he has gained with the most powerful elements of the country,
will all be in your service. Besides, no one else will ever know and therefore no one
else could ever redeem as he can, the thousands and thousands of obligations that we have
incurred in this long contest in your behalf. He knows many things that none of you will
ever know, and yet things that a people or a State can no more afford to forget or fail
to fulfill than any man of honor. I feel my own honor involved in the representation of
the State of Utah in Congress. This whole matter has been on my conscience as nothing in
my public life has ever been. I was the first to take up in detail the position taken
by Mr. , and the first to carry it to the attention of the Republican leaders in
detail, and the first to organize and assemble all the party influences in your behalf.
Very much of the action taken by others has been taken on my assurance of honor that I
was not being misled, that yours were a people in whom faith could safely be placed, and
that your destiny as a people and a State ran in the same grooves with Republican pol-
icies, Republican patriotism and Republican interest. I shall feel that I am on the bond,
that my honor stands for guaranty, and therefore that I am at liberty, and indeed con-
strained by the highest sense of duty that can actuate an honorable man, to make known to
you the obligations which rest upon you in these sacred regards.
I ought to say also, and will say in brief, that we have carried in parallel
with our contest for Statehood the material interests of Utah, that we have never for-
gotten the industrial and social ambitions of your people, that we have brought to the
to represent you in the United States Senate. No other man could possibly represent you
to your benefit and to your vindication as he can. No dozen men nor any hundred men
among you are as well known as he is to the powerful and controlling men not only in Congress in this later time, but throughout the country. You know, and this is realized
probably more by President than any other member of your people, that experience
and acquaintance are necessary in a Congressman or Senator to serve his people fully and
faithfully. If Colonel had been a member of the Senate ten years he could not have
gained more acquaintance and friendship to your advantage than he has gained now. Universally the people of the country and the people in Congress look to him as representative of . This fact of itself is sufficient for my position. The friendships he
has formed, the acquaintance he has gained with the most powerful elements of the country,
will all be in your service. Besides, no one else will ever know and therefore no one
else could ever redeem as he can, the thousands and thousands of obligations that we have
incurred in this long contest in your behalf. He knows many things that none of you will
ever know, and yet things that a people or a State can no more afford to forget or fail
to fulfill than any man of honor. I feel my own honor involved in the representation of
the State of Utah in Congress. This whole matter has been on my conscience as nothing in
my public life has ever been. I was the first to take up in detail the position taken
by Mr. , and the first to carry it to the attention of the Republican leaders in
detail, and the first to organize and assemble all the party influences in your behalf.
Very much of the action taken by others has been taken on my assurance of honor that I
was not being misled, that yours were a people in whom faith could safely be placed, and
that your destiny as a people and a State ran in the same grooves with Republican policies, Republican patriotism and Republican interest. I shall feel that I am on the bond,
that my honor stands for guaranty, and therefore that I am at liberty, and indeed constrained by the highest sense of duty that can actuate an honorable man, to make known to
you the obligations which rest upon you in these sacred regards.
I ought to say also, and will say in brief, that we have carried in parallel
with our contest for Statehood the material interests of Utah, that we have never forgotten the industrial and social ambitions of your people, that we have brought to the