Show A CAPABLE LOBBYIST GOVERNOR CALEB W WEST returned from washington on saturday he had not been in town more than a few hours before he indulged his hie penchant for being interviewed that Is ie the way some men have of gaining notoriety and displaying their asininity if the governor had sufficient judgment to introduce into his career a number of brilliant and prolonged flashes of silence some people might be led to suppose that he was the possessor of a certain degree of wisdom with him however this seems to be impracticable he must speak or burst the first portion of the interview in question was devoted to showing the necessity for a non mormon momon lobby to become a permanent institution ution at washington that the representations of mormons cormons Mor mons might be offset by their influence and assertions sert ions in the past there has been neglect in this matter and thus an egregious blunder according to mr west has been committed by the gentiles of utah he expresses the opinion however that the present session of congress has been beena a notable exception a bright oasis in the desert of gentile negligence this is what he says on that point but at this session fortunately a capable non mormon delegation was present and they were able by by prearranged arranged pre and systematic work to t set aright the many false fake impressions made by the assiduous misrepresentations of the church party f the innate modes modesty tty of the governor in thus declaring himself will be apparent when it is considered that he constituted a third part of that highly capable delegation his capability was mostly exhibited while in the east in doing what he be lid jid so soon after reaching this city getting himself interviewed by newspaper men and making to them glaring misstatements and subsequently having them dis disproved he also accomplished the remarkable feat of having himself called to order on account of his indecorous indecorous conduct before the committee on territories it appears as if more than one of the I 1 capable delegation are given to brusque and discourteous interruptions judging from what occurred w when hen another third of that delegation presented himself in the if matter of the investigation before judge harkness as an attorney by courtesy of counsel for the court we here present a conspicuous evidence of mr bests capacity aft si one of the end men of the peculiar trio comprising the non mor mon lobby which recently opera operated at the capitol the interviewer with whom he met on saturday evening credits him with saying this in the confiscation receivership cleril matter for instance the clerics lobbyists hobbyists made congressmen believe that the government could with cequs equal 61 propriety and justice r cate methodist baptist or Cath catholic oliO properties they would say these denominations exercise an influence in politics the same as we do and a nd yet et th they are not interfered with with by b the he government the united unite states cere have seized our tabernacle our assembly hall the pas of our clergymen and ou F church historians office so that even our simple acts of worship have t been interfered with Is this and so the statesmen appe appell fl 1 to have come to believe the ILC r hg w religious worship has been 1 infringe V ua upon don and that outrages have been 0 dl committed the true difference be 06 yi tween the mormon church and the to christian denominations havig been lost sight of now what mr west attrib attributes attribute to the mormon delegation at waal waffle of ington is j just about the substance i A A what mr mcbride s lid dd on saturday the ime latter is another third of the capable anti mormon delegation which evidently did not see we eye to eye on the subject of robbing tiie the latter day F saints the govenor thought when he was advocat ing S through the anti mormon teter viewer the taking of the property of the mormon people that he h was in line with those whom he represented presented then in washington lie he doubtless to is in spirit but not in pretension he reminds one of the akau okau in the story who was the pos demor asor of a capacious facial orifice teto into which he put his foot every time he opened it he now announces himself squarely as in favor of f robbing the mormon people of their property this position is precisely preci eely what those hose whom he assumed to lepire depre nellt dt as a lobbyist are endeavoring with all their cunning and sophistry sophis tty 4 at t their command to deny prom from what the governor says subsequently he evidently realizes tie the probability of his being soon out or of ejob a job he is consequently cast 1119 g about for an easy berth being willing to spend the balance of his time as a capable non mormon legate at the capitol this is the way he puts in his plea pies the non mormons cormons of utah should never let another session 92 pa without one or more capable negates tee 1 stationed in washington at ching ng eve every I 1 mormon mano manoeuvre slid and ready with a checkmate AA A 8 hk he is so verdant as to be out elasan ken en as asan an advocate for the rob bery ry of f the mormon people those who have the hiring of a capable delegation and do not want their true tue inwardness to appear win will doubtless exercise their prerogative to reject ned any and all bids and drop rop him as they would a hot potato when governor west made his advent to this city in iii his official wity opacity he was given a cordial aada ad it might be almost said mid a royal ayal reception the people of utah w did him honor by believing in advance that he would do his duty d be the governor of the whole people and not the tool of a con tOmp Pt ible tible clique of I 1 active politicians ticla tic ians nV much less to become one of thera hem at that time rose to the sentiment of the occasion and so ex himself he said the fame rf of tiie the people of this territory had ached hed him he had heard of their hospitality their industry dmd d numerous nume virtues W IV said he be 1 I could be untrue to such a people I 1 would be unfit to live and again if I 1 know my duty I 1 believe I 1 have the courage to perform it how much fidelity is manifested towards a people by a person appointed to be the governor of the whole population who will leave his official post and go to the capitol as a self styled capable gentile lobbyist and there advocate the rightfulness of the wholesale robbery of the great majority if this desertion of his post and perversion of his official functions was an act of treachery on his part has he not been untrue to a people who never harmed him but bat have treated him because of his position with a courtesy hospitality and kindness far f ar beyond his personal merits merite if this be the case has he not pronounced upon himself a terrible judgment if in acting in this way he has been performing what he considers his duty his theory in that regard is warped indeed and the degree of courage necessary to enable a man to fall ahu in with a designing clique whose chief aim is the perversion of the institutions of the country by robbing a worthy people of their political rights and their property might be injected into the governors eye without invoking an involuntary tear consider the initial pretension as to his future conduct of the governor on his advent to utah and make note of his present position look lbook on this picture and on that and I 1 what a fall is there my countrymen |