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Show GOV. AX TELL AND HIS DEFAHERS Tho Xcw York Herald coutnius a letter (rota this city, dated Murch 18tlit rehashing the charges which have been circulated hero in a disreputable- quarter against Governor A xti'll charged which commenced to be published immediately upon tho governor'-! arrival in the territory, and were repeated for weeks without ceaeiition. That, our readers may see bow faithfully theso slanders have been reproduced, we quoto ao much ot tho article as refers to the governor: gover-nor: Tho notion of our newly -appointed Governor, Hon. S. B. Axtcll. hits arousinl ipiite a commotion in Zion, and hi- extraordinary Course has created tuch int-ne ilisiiitia'action in the minds ol'lhe anti-Monnoos that it is dvubsrd whc'iln-r he will lava any further u-e-fii.U'a a government ollicer. lnli-ruiition lnli-ruiition of his coning lo Utah was sent' to Hon. W. LI. Ho-por, cx-du'cg:ite to. coi-t;rc-s, and a staunch supporter of tbo j kind 'tn A-a consiui'iico of this in-l discreti n or perver-ity, II ib olloney wa- in t-L on his arrival by a number of liritfh'un's chief priesls and former JJtiu-v.'W JJtiu-v.'W Ii'.-ionarii r, who, nfier gushing ovor the olllcial pngaii with nausuuing utl'u-cion, utl'u-cion, cArricJ unn a willing victim to a Mormon hotel, kept by nn unro'n-striicted unro'n-striicted polv-imiit. f r abode. Tins sealed Mr. Ait'li's f'to without further proi csp. The FO'Te'.ary of the territory and ai tine Rovertiiir wa- itifultir gly ignored, ig-nored, anil u.a:iy furnitr fnenda of Air A x tell, who had lun& known him in Calif r ia, woro al li;httul that he miht !-how his pr- fjronco f r a lending Mormon and a d.tiant champ-oti of pj- lygaiuy. DtLEUAT- I'.VS OS S RECORD. This aerious error whs f allowed up by an i. lli'-ial t ct yet more unfortunate. Two daya utter his arrival Governor Aile 1 i-sti d and mailed to Delegate Cannjn, in W'apiiingt.'ii, aco titi ate of his election elec-tion to tl,o J?i rij'-third congre?. .."lie el'-ction w.is held in August last, and cx-(.ivernor cx-(.ivernor Woo 's (Mr. Ax;el!'s predecessor predeces-sor in otlic) and a -ting-Governor Black had withheld th's tknument on tho ad-, vice of llio best 1 wyers in Salt Like, for the fallowing wc:ghl.y rea-ons. Asearehl into tho records of the federal courts iii j U lah show that Mr. Cannon ia an unnaturalized un-naturalized alien. Two indictments for felony have bten foun i by the grand jury nga'tist this adult-reus apostle, and at thelime Mr.AxteH i-sued tho eortilieaiea resolution to expel Cannon was pending in the house of representative?. Further, the delegate's nouiin.ttioQ waj made by three unknown men, at a secret meeting, without t:;c people being consulte 1, and his election was a w holesalo fraud, two-thirds of the men, women and children chil-dren voting for him being, hko himself, subjects oi a foreign power. Such iuda-cont iuda-cont hato on tho part of a high government govern-ment official to surrender a i important pofition to a diiloyal hierarchy is very soveroly commented up n by the Gontile population, the more e- ecially that Delegate Del-egate Cunon is an appointee of his mas-Ur, mas-Ur, hrlgiam, sent to conres for the avowed purpose of compelling a national recognition of tho Alormon god, polygamy. poly-gamy. A CORRUPT BARGAIN. The Gentile organ in Sa;t Lake doe; not hesitata to arsert that tho issuance of Cannon's credentials whs one ot the conditions con-ditions of a corrupt b-irgiia t which (?cnator Sargent (who is att rney for the Central Pacific railroad, and may bave favors to ass of the governor of Utah), Dolezate Caiinon aLd Mr. Axtell, wdre, it is alleged, parties. Anotlior grave charge against tne now executive ii tho sc. commissioning to otlico one of the most opprobrious members mem-bers of the entire Mormon heirarchy, one William Clayton. T a i a man is usurping ino oiuco of territjrial auditor, ia dliiuice of an appointment made by ex-Goven:or Wood", and is so intolerant a zeah't tht, when one of his dugh-ers married ft rojpectable Genti'e.it is alleged he drove the poorgirl from his house and subsequently rvfiiuod lo visit her wbsn she lay upon ft dying bed. Loval citizens in Utah sy if suen men are to be rewarded re-warded with p .iii: ion and o'.Hcial favor the influence of government officials amorg them, does inore harm than gcod. O0VIKN0R AXTEI.L'S SOCIAL AUDACITY. The Mormon practice of polygamy f irms a broad and w.'M defined Iiipj 0t dotnarcstion bo'.ween Gentle and saintly Society. But M r. Axtell baj overstepped over-stepped this b urul; he appears on public occasions in the ojmpany of polygamous dames, and he- was so indiscreet to admit ad-mit to some of hi vititors thst he hsd found "the beet society" aim-ng the members mem-bers of i he Mormon Church. Such an exposition of "my policy" has fixed Governor Gov-ernor Axtell's pyili-'ii.and now the business busi-ness men and mine owners in this territory terri-tory are uing all their ir.tluence with their friends iu Washington to have so utterly unrit a man removed. Such malacicious nonsense, which fell "stale, flat and unprofitable" upon the Salt Lake public, which is iamiliar with the authors of these calumnies, and their objects, may deceive well meaning people at a distance, dis-tance, when repeated in an influential paper like the New York Ucrahl, and are therefore deserving of an attention which they did not merit in the insignificant in-significant and scurrilous sheet which gave them birth, though it is tryiug to our temper and patience to waste time and space iu refuting such unmitigated un-mitigated trash, and we beg the pardon par-don of our readers for the infliction. It appears that what "sealed Governor Gov-ernor Axtell's fate" wa his selection of a hotel. He engaged rooms at the Townscnd House, where he had Stopped on a previous visit to this city, through his friend and former associate in congress, Hon. W. H. Hooper. No matter what he might do thereafter, that act damned him in the estimation of the peuny-a-linera, who set their heads at woik to blacken his character and drive him out of the territory. For the governor to se-j lect a hotel residence on his own re-; flponsibilicy, was a piece ofoutrageous audacity. But Ins excellency is not tho first gentleman that has been j abused on the same account. About six months ago United States Senator i p. P. itjrtou waa bitterly attacked'' from the earn1 local source for a similar simi-lar offense. He a!.so n topped at the Townsend H.jiwe, whosi hospitalities hundreds of our national notables and distinguished literary men have enjoyed. The impertinence of the scribbler who prescribe,. luuh to his victims with the same rash audacity with which be attempts to regulate the affairs of the nation would be sublime, sub-lime, were it not below tlie ridiculous. ridicu-lous. The facts about Delegate Cannon's iconreN-iionat certificate he in a nutshell. nut-shell. When Governor Axtell arrived ar-rived here, he found this case to be as follows : The record its filed in the office of tho secretary nf the treasury, under the seala of the proper returning officers ot the several sever-al counties, showed his election as delegate to congress by a majority ol 17,847. These figures were undisputed. undis-puted. For some unknown reason Lhc late Governor Woods had failtd to issue a certificate of election to Mr. Canu. n. Guv. Axtell deemed it his legal duty to remedy this omission, and at once forwarded to Delegate Camion his certificate. He had no right to do otherwise. The governor is neither a canvasser ol election returns nor a judge of the character of the delegate. He had nothing to do with the indictments against Mr. Cannon nothing to do with any stories which might be afloat in regard to his competency. Those were questions which congress, and congress alone, must Bettlc. The people had elected Mr. Cannon, and the fact being clearly shown Governor Axtell could not go behind it to discover excuses for the neglect of h is duty. Con gres3 has for several years had a Utah contest on its hands, and the game will prob ably be repeated at tho next session, notwithstanding our delegate has received re-ceived a larger majority than any other member of the house. The following paragraphs are too puerile to notice. That the New York Herald should have been imposed upon by the yarn about a bargain between the railroad nabobs, Mr.Can-non Mr.Can-non and Governor Axtell, is not complimentary com-plimentary to that paper. It is a purely imaginative invention. The appointment by the governor of a"Morinou"to be a notary public is another of these weak and silly charges. charg-es. The executive is allowed by an act of congress to appoint one or more notaries-in each county, and we believe be-lieve that Governor Axtell has refused no applicant who has shown that such an appointment would be useful to himself or of convenience to his neighbors. The religious or political opinions of applicants are not usually considered, the office being purely a business one. There can certainly be no reason why "Mormons" as well as "Gentiles" should not hold this position, po-sition, so long as they are citizens of the United States. The last paragraph in the above quotation cannot be misconstrued. Like all the other charges it is a mean attempt to excite a prejudice abroad and lead to the belief that the governor is simply a partisan of the "Mormons," incapable of acting fairly in his official capacity. Here, where all the circumstances are well known and the authors of these calumnies are understood, they are regarded with contempt by all respectable re-spectable people. Governor Axtell will be judged by his official acts, not by the abuse and clamor of a few prejudiced individuals. Up to the present time there have been no complaints com-plaints save from the local source from which the above charges originated. origi-nated. Aside from this source no public eflorts have been made in any quarter for his removal, and judging from recent events ,the influence of the governor's few enemies is not very weighty at Washington. The Hsrald is not the orean or defender of the new governor. It asks nothing of the federal government govern-ment or its officials, and it has always al-ways wielded a free lance in the criticism criti-cism of their acts. Governor Axtell will not certainly be an exception to this rule. But in his desire to be non-partisan to be governor of the whole people without regard to religious re-ligious views, he will receive the sympathies sym-pathies and support of the Herald and of all respectable people of the territory. |