Show that political buncombe HOD moses thatcher Tha unfortunately had to undergo a surgical operation busl before the convention met and he found thai improper baste in resuming work had produced unfavorable results compelling him to abek quite absolute baet and treatment for a few day a bated this fact to the convention but instead of sending hia coro munica tion at this point he went on to write the convention a fatherly epistle lie told tb other members that ho aronld expect no remuneration during hia absence and under no cir would he demand re to be paid fram any de which the people of utah maybe required to raise through taxation on their property should the generous appropriation of congress prove inadequate to the expenses of the constitutional convention he also stood on high moral grounds of true patriotism and the rights of the governed which all americans believe in and wound up with another effusion on public expenditures the letter was evidently written to give mr thatcher in particular and his party in general a little tree advertising ver in tha minutes mr co ray of jenab did not like the lofty tone of the epistle and characterized it very properly prop eily too political aa buncombe this aroused the democrats and the convention had a regular partisan battle with the result that the minority was properly eat down upon it would have pleased us better if the whole epistle had been expunged from iho minutes mr thatcher may be a purest man socially ai all recognize that he is but in tho convection his rights are no greater than thosa of other members his letter ought to have been treated as excuse and not baon entered on tha minutes THE advice to rule tho convention strictly on partisan grounds will bait please the people democrats Damoc rats havo merited such treatment |