Show villa itt superlative WISDOM yesterday was governor bests day before the house committee on territories the lint of the chairman offered a day or two ago eliat liia excellency cel lency was ont of order war as vie feared it would lie wasted upon him lie bobbed up as usual and with much dillay of courageous dig anity said bis litile say ills opening flourish was a coined to hiis own manhood tadd fairness following that ame mme lie modest information aliat his official management in utah biad never received other than unbounded praise bad never anet with a bingle adverse criticism lie wished ir understood that lie lid been invited to RO to washington to work w ich the ring lobby and finally lie named the democrats one of which he ia whom that should utah bo come a stati their party would never carry a ample election in alie territories eat this latter argument was a conclusion and must have nearly overwhelmed alio democratic members of the committee in view of the late triumphs of their parly in dakota montana idalio and washington territories ri if sir west had boasted less of bis on a candor and honesty lie would have had more time to present arguments if he lias ao it is a pity he biad no friend at his elbow to suggest to him that the committee was not in session merely to hear him sound hiis own praises such as takes up tw o chirds of the space given him by tins correspondents every one must admit was not only wholly out of place but extremely indelicate what do they care whether he is brave or fair or falsen lie appears to have started oat with the idea that lys motives were in desperate need of vindication and lie should auve remembered that in the common everyday every day affairs of life men are invariably put on their anard against one who asseverates ates too much we wonder where the governor dug up the flattering flittering flitt ering notion that the old non cormons mormons would have to fell out and get an ay if utah were to become a state it must be true because he says 80 he is not quite so sure about the new non cormons mormons but he e ys iffy eay the bame thing this is appalling indeed I 1 can it bo that w e have lived here all this time and have never heard of the universal intention of our gentile friends to desert us in this summary fashion do the the walkers and scores of in silt S lake AS well as prominent non cormons mormons of this city and county whose names are known lor business and integrity to every reader contemplate an athing so aa gov west threatens many of them were here and prospering when tins self lauded spokesman of theirs way doing bis best to kill off union soldiers that fortune has favored him in giving him a good office ought to make him grateful why does lie begrudge gifts of another kind which the same good fortune is ready to pour into alie laps of the business anen of this territory it is true that means the end of carpetbag carpet bag appointments but in opposing a system which would injure his class there s no need of conjuring up idle beara about commercial ruin alie men who are in business do not off icea and any attempt to measure them iu ahe bialt bushel of those who do is too transparently patently ly selliah to to misunderstood history shows that alie cormons mormons are neither republicans nor demo brals iblas governor sentence Ben tence we do not think history avows any each thing but e en if the atrocious can be maintained ta ined is not tle penally which the governor io vernor aag a litile too grievous what if lie mor mons were prohibitionists or mem lei s of the newly fledged american parta what it they believe in ant ting the best men in office regardless of politics first kiss lire rod ot Ite publican or democratic party rule they are worthy of statehood shades ol 01 the patriots forbid i the cormona aar a matter of fact iler as well the difference between the parties and are as capable of making a choice between them as oilier anro ft has all the time been urged against them by that they were solidly democratic tt a certain extent they are but the of the tariff has brought out the fact that biere are hundreds of active and able among them men fully ablo to give a rea son for the political faith within them besides there are among their leadra mchose power the governor an thal edg affect to dread BO much staunch who joined alie grand old party when abraham lin yan did and tome who even knew him and learned 0 o re him when ho was but an obscure illinoia attorney att orcey the cormons mormons hava no houna it to divicie on national party lines in their local elections national argues were not to be decided the opposition bunk iti cg whether of ono other in gel control of the tivo ofT icea the cormons mormons voted aba ticket in order hi maintain control of the r majority if their party neither an nor democratic principles the LiLier party have neither an nor if history haa mannona to be neither one nor the other story has maila the showing ai to the governor will conclude hiis tiis addrena tomorrow to morrow the dispatches inform us lie may be holding his argument in rc erve and we await with much his eror aaion but ue warn him tant lie u a little careful how be talar hero will bo everal adverse on hta i |