Show the essence of petty there have been many exhibitions of a desire on the part of liberals in ogden city to insult and wreak petty vengeance upon the mormon part of the population since the liberal party by shameless fraud and vile corruption obtained control of the city government the changing the names of the principal streets was an arbitrary exercise of temporary power that exhibited innate meanness of soul and a disposition to abuse the authority wrested from the majority so with the closing up of a public spring that has for many years been prized by the people in its vicinity at a public meeting which by the courtesy of the mormon ecclesiastical authorities of the place was permitted to be held in the tabernacle er smoking was indulged in contrary to the desire of the people who owned the building and one representative liberal we are informed sat on the pulpit and insolently solent ly blew the fumes of his cigar in the face of a gentleman who mildly and respectfully requested him to desist he was not taken by the neck and hurled into the street nor disturbed in his contemptible liberalism in numerous and nameless ways the supporters of vico and declaimers aimers against its suppression sion in the junction city who have gained the upper hand have shown that they are devoid of magnanimity and the instincts of the gentleman and have sought to annoy and humiliate and demean members of the peoples party who represent the very large majority of the actual inhabitants of a similar stamp is the act of JF T dubois of idaho who represents in congress the republicans of trat territory he has succeeded in effecting the following changes in the names of in bingham county the postoffice post office at to kaintuck and the retention of mrs mary M dye as postmaster the at wilford to berry and the retention of chas A gordon as postmaster the postoffice post office at brighton to edmunds and the appointment of win coxson as postmaster the spirit that prompted this petty malignity can be easily discerned these places were named by the poo pie who settled them and who form the bulk of the population the names were of respected and prominent citizens honored by the inhabit tints nothing ant a desire to insult them and prostitute the power afforded by a little brief authority could have actuated the insignificant and paltry soul that worked for the change the usual rule in postal matters of this kind is to consult the people who inhabit a place to receive a iee name but in these and arher instances that could be named the evident purpose has been to annoy and do violence to the wishes and feelings of the inhabitants simply because they are cormons mormons Mor mons kaintuck is substituted for jrex burg to plaster on the place a reference to the unscrupulous person who framed that test oath which will yet figura as infamy berry is a sop to a democrat who as a judge on the bench has played into the hands of the republicans edmunds foisted on the town because it would be distasteful to the people who look upon the laws popularly known by that name as a stretch of congressional authority and designed to deprive them of both political and religious rights corob their church and obstruct law abiding members in the exercise of the franchise these are straws that show which way the liberal wind blows it reminds us of a made by a prominent liberal so another at the city hall on thomast election day wait till february said he and well make there mormon s of b s bite the dust we omit abe profanity that accompanied the expression it is the spirit that moves behind these contemptible acts that wo de aire to direct attention to it should warn every mormon as to what would be the consequence if the crowd that supports such detestable specimens of the denra homo and such spiteful and petty meanness should obtain the balance of power in this city and territory bics |