you to use your judgment in making known to others in authority with you, and the actual facts of friendship and enmity. I very much coveted and so did Colonel Trumbo the ad- mission of Utah to Statehood through a Republican Congress. Through our system of effort, through the assembling of influences reaching into every State of the Union and almost every neighborhood, reaching into the Churches, into business elements and corporations, we succeeded in getting the bill through the House and in gaining practically a unani- mous vote ...

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 Allison, who was then the most influential Republican in the United States Senate, and Speaker Reed 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 ...

and he also found that he could not help to discriminate against Utah because it was a western State without alienating from the support of the protectionists in the Senate such western men as Senator Stewart and some others. He was too manly to bear off the sins of the secret Democratic purpose, and was too mindful of the interests of the East to help break the protection line or let any Republican Senator vote for the Wilson or free-trade bill. Finally he came out flat-footed, declared himself for Utah&apos ...

been in the past. The contest in the Senate has been one of such detail, changing every day and frequently every hour in such strange manner, that it is impossible for me to recite it to you with anything like fidelity here. Suffice it to say that it has been such a peculiar situation that we have never been able to leave the ground. Colonel Trumbo and I have remained here since November and devoted ourselves entirely to an alert, vigilant, constant watchfulness of the situation, ready to detect danger at the first ...