to defeat the nomination of Mr. Hornblower. Before doing so we secured the pledges of
honor of Mr. Gorman and Mr. Hill that they would favor the admission of Utah. But for
this opportunity we should have stood no show whatever, despite of all the powerful
influences we had assembled, to pass Utah into Statehood in this Congress. On the
second fight, over the nomination of Peckham, these gentlemen again appealed to us and
we again organized a line and gave them success. This increased their gratitude. Mr.
Hill from the first day changed about and has been our active, willing friend at any
call on our part and at every opportunity he could see himself to serve us. Mr. Gorman
did not come so promptly up to the fulfilment of his promise and kept wishing to post-
pone fulfilment until after the tariff bill. Indeed, it is certain that he went so
far with his power as Chairman of the Caucus Committee of the Senate, and therefore the
dictator of his party in the Senate, to instruct Senator Faulkner, Chairman of the
Territorial Committee, to keep the bill in that Committee and out of the Senate. Mean-
time we had been organizing our forces, and found a splendid ally in Senator White of California, who has been from the first everything as loyal and helpful and vigilant
in your interest as he could have been if he had been a citizen of Utah and one of your
own people. He has had not only this friendship but he is a man of remarkable re-
sources, of experience in legislation, of determination in purpose, and peculiar facil-
ity for such work. He had rendered you a service your people can never fully repay.
While waiting on Senator Faulkner's movements, who kep^t^ delaying even a meeting of the
Committee to consider Utah and who kept going to West Virginia on days that had been
appointed for that purpose, and who employed every sort of tactics to keep us defeated
and yet in a good humor, we kept strengthening our lines in the Senate and also in the
Committee. Afther they exhausted all their excuses for the non-action of the Committee
they began to lay the whole blame on Senator Platt, who was the principal Republican on
the Committee. Senator Platt had still retained his opposition up to this time, despite
of our bringint^g^ to bear upon him the united influence of the party and many powerful
influences in New England and his own State. Finally he resented the idea of being
made responsible for what was in reality the secret Democratic program of non-action,
to defeat the nomination of Mr. Hornblower. Before doing so we secured the pledges of
honor of Mr. Gorman and Mr. Hill that they would favor the admission of Utah. But for
this opportunity we should have stood no show whatever, despite of all the powerful
influences we had assembled, to pass Utah into Statehood in this Congress. On the
second fight, over the nomination of Peckham, these gentlemen again appealed to us and
we again organized a line and gave them success. This increased their gratitude. Mr.
Hill from the first day changed about and has been our active, willing friend at any
call on our part and at every opportunity he could see himself to serve us. Mr. Gorman
did not come so promptly up to the fulfilment of his promise and kept wishing to postpone fulfilment until after the tariff bill. Indeed, it is certain that he went so
far with his power as Chairman of the Caucus Committee of the Senate, and therefore the
dictator of his party in the Senate, to instruct Senator Faulkner, Chairman of the
Territorial Committee, to keep the bill in that Committee and out of the Senate. Meantime we had been organizing our forces, and found a splendid ally in Senator White of
California, who has been from the first everything as loyal and helpful and vigilant
in your interest as he could have been if he had been a citizen of Utah and one of your
own people. He has had not only this friendship but he is a man of remarkable resources, of experience in legislation, of determination in purpose, and peculiar facility for such work. He had rendered you a service your people can never fully repay.
While waiting on Senator Faulkner's movements, who kept delaying even a meeting of the
Committee to consider Utah and who kept going to West Virginia on days that had been
appointed for that purpose, and who employed every sort of tactics to keep us defeated
and yet in a good humor, we kept strengthening our lines in the Senate and also in the
Committee. Afther they exhausted all their excuses for the non-action of the Committee
they began to lay the whole blame on Senator Platt, who was the principal Republican on
the Committee. Senator Platt had still retained his opposition up to this time, despite
of our bringing to bear upon him the united influence of the party and many powerful
influences in New England and his own State. Finally he resented the idea of being
made responsible for what was in reality the secret Democratic program of non-action,
"Letter from James Sullivan Clarkson, 11 July 1894," p. 20, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 5, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/RwjV