Show IT 13 well understood that Gen Moses M Bane receiver etc ia in Washington for the purpose of securing secur-ing another four years lease of office He went there for that scle object and is staying to accomplish it He has been renominated by tto President Presi-dent and like a hundred or two others his name ia with a committee commit-tee awaiting the breaking of tht deadlock in the Senate It is alto understood by a few people at least that there is opposition to his con tirmatton what that opposition will amount to cannot of course now be stated and comparative few people are at all interested in the matter t The many care not at aU whether Gen Bane continues in office or is thrown upon his own resources re-sources for a living But there is i one thing that those who are fighting Bane will object to Tbe general baa made it prominent that the opposition oppo-sition to him was Mormon HP parades himself aa a prominent promi-nent and rabid antiMormon and is claiming recognition at the hands of the administration on that score That may be a recommen dation with President Gurfiefd aa it has been with some of his prude cessore yet Bane known that tbt opposition to him does not coma from Mormons or Mormon sympathizers hence the piteous appeals that he makes for aid to overcome the bitter animosity of th church are simply put forth to bide the real l reason for the fight against him Such items as the following which was sent from I Washington to tbe InterOcean are being published in behalf of Bane and are evidently inspired by him General M H Bane a gallant one firmed eoldier from Illinois at present receiver of public land at Sat Lake City Utah has been renominated for the position and his name ia before the commute His record in the department is perfect his accounts balance to a cent but he is one tthe most s > utEpoken opponents oppo-nents of polygamy and the political j power ofthe Mormon Church and iso I is-o f tnown tofavor the disfranchisement oCt oC-t l polygmisis and the turning over of the i jgovsrament oftbe territory to a legislative i legisla-tive council I such as WaS done in the Ii Northwest Territory Hence be hs incurred I in-curred the bitter animosity of the Mormon it Mor-mon Church EiDelegate Cannon ha jf personally preferrod charges against I him and exGovernor Emery of Utah I has been enlisted to oppose his confirms 4 L i tion On the committee are four western 1 t i f men Senator Plumb chairman Hill of C Colorado Van Wyck of Nebraska I and McDill of Iowa In several the t 1 1 states and notably in Colorado the in I i Uuencesof the Mormon Church is making I t mak-ing itself sensibly felt In politics and if r one or more of these senators should join IL f with the democrats they could defeat the 1 c nomination I n I If t 11 If Mr Cannon has preferred f j t charges against Bane we will nnder I1 j J i4 1 lake to say the latters enmity towards U the Mormons has nothing to do with r r I LL them and aa to Governor Emerya t p labors in the premises nobody understands under-stands the causes therelor better than tho receiver who knows the Mormon business has nothing to do with the exGovernors opposition There is an earnest fight against General Bane and it has been going on for years It was not his antiMormon record that saved him in the past nor will it be now if he shall be saved but bis armless sleeve which he waves piteously before the publio eyes and which is a better pleader for office than a good record or a fluent talker We would be glad if the Senate were to reject his nomination net because he is an enemy to the Mormons for the enmity and opposition of his kind amount to nothing They are like Pats ben which was an owlall feathers and sound bat be cause wa have long regarded him as an unfit man for office Hia present oonduct in attributing the opposition to him to the Mormons rather than acknowledging the trutb in the premises is an apt illustration of the trickery of the man and furnishes a strong reason why we think it would be wrong to keep him in office |