Show A DECIDED CONTRAST W WE take governor francis E R warren of our neighboring territory of wyoming to be b not only x r gentleman possessing a keen appreciation of justice but also of a cod considerable sid erable degree of of originality it Is 14 an indication of ordinary mental cast and caliber to join wi thoutle gard to justice or truth in a common clamor especially when it takes take wh shape of a popular howl agai njg any class toward whom the sn and snarls of the unthinking and undiscriminating multitude are aft turn torn ed to take an independent poet tto under such auch circumstances cir stand by the light of indisputable facts treating the shrieking bortne f rabble as the whistling of the efird W requires some degree of moral courage the chief magistrate of 1 wyoming gives evidence of bai being 1 a man capable of taking that stand therefore we are attracted toward him with a feeling of respect but why speak thus concern concerning int the governor of wyoming t tj as much what he has not done don a aa j what he has performed that draw draa forth these comments quite ik ii large proportion of the population or of e i the territory in question are ax e latter 1 I day saints commonly desi designas designate gnAW tl mormons cormons Mor mons governor warren in J making his late annual report to the government had a good word tamy to say for his people what he did doto connection with that report w wa ao class the whole population as 06 one 1 he did not make flesh of class and fish of another but spoke jj of them as an entirety been governed gp verned in the matter by bk ambled aad jid popular clamor aas t sa his sense of justice had been blunted race be would have directed the atten uon of the government to the fact asat a portion of the people whose Vv governor ernar he Is ia are believers in the marroon religion that they are Jt table not to vote according to the d ic ija of political axe grinders and H bould fl hould therefore be deprived of the K dower to vote at all governor f warren jwarren evidently concluded that f C ids people without distinction j have a richt to exercise the fran 3 jp ehlke according to their choice so f long as they wield it legally he 1 an teemed to have an idea also als 0 that the t religion of the people or any part of t ibern is a matter with which neither SSP nor the government has any f ait ess the only question with W mich they have to deal being the r of the law to which U are amenable in fact so far as the she report indicates mr warren is jk k 11 acting in the spirit of his office as ahe the governor of the whole people ty wyoming and not the governor p a favored faCt faction IOD y the contrast between the report of governor warren and that of governor ot of arizona in respect f to the point herein I treated is strongly marked the 1 rafter selects a part of the people of territory and proclaims himself fos w political purposes their enemy probably proba toly it did not occur to him at pe abe ume time but it is nevertheless a abet that in assuming this attitude be also became the enemy of the T whole commonwealth of arizona tte pe asks the general government to haep jrp in and within the confines of idea official domain strike a blow at al rule the repeal law which out the abominable anti aw ormon religious test oath was passed by the lawmaking law making represent allt av aves of the whole people of ari jana ona if we recollect aright the iM MiMe of the measure was nearly A f not quite unanimous it was signed by mr Wolf leys in office and beame vo rive rame law now comes the present governor and informs ae general government through fhe secretary of the interior that the ture and governor of arizona ere sem and did not know business he asks the gov maxent nt to undo the work of the ical I 1 legislature thus aiming a blow t tome bobae rule in his own territory bus us he offers an insult to the poole peole among whom he holds an im I 1 nt official position he does octant irant them to have the privilege their own business I 1 evidently being a foe to home rule and an advocate of centralization of power which is in contravention of the genius of american institutions the contrast between his course and that of governor warren throws the latter forward in a most favorable light as a man of fairness and independence pen dence |