[Apostle John Henry Smith Diary] The following Telegram was sent today.
Senator Cullom
Washington, D.C.
We Republicans endorse Statehood for Utah. Church domination and polygamy dead issues here. Liberal party disbanded last night and passed resolution favoring statehood.
[Source: Jean Bickmore White (editor), Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1990, http://bit.ly/johnhenrysmith]
"Church domination and polygamy dead issues here."
ReplyDeleteBoth of these issues are still firmly entrenched here in Utah. They have never died!
They were dead enough (at least from outward perception) to gain enough political favor to gain statehood.
ReplyDeleteIt was all part of the masquerade and fraud of the LDS hierarchy of that time period.
DeleteCullom was the Illinois Republican Senator noted in the link below:
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_Moore_Cullom