Show SOME LIKELY CONSEQUENCES SALT LAKE CITY Jan 2918S1 Edits Herald Much has been said by many persons per-sons and papers upon the important subject of Governor Murrays action in designedly withholding the delegate election certificate from the right person per-son and giving it to the wrong one This morning I feel like thinking a few sober second thoughts upon the subject The great Kentuckian Henry Cay said be would rather be right than be President But the very email Kentuckian Murray whether he says so or noS would rather rath-er be wrong than be anything else and since he came to Utah he has been remarkably successful in going and doing wrong In fact he seems to have got into the way of being chronically chron-ically wrong and ot delighting in being so as some men do glory in their shame For what has he done jUlt right since he came here 1 should like to know Excepting his hasty fIght back to old Kentucky That was right enough so tar as I am concerned and would have been if it had occurred the very morning after he came to Utah Not that J wish the Kentuckiana any harm bat I wish the Utah people well I should Use to indulge in a word or two by way of reflection upen the I likely consequences of this certificate business as the Governor managed i or rather mismanaged First I will say that i Campbell were a generous man a liberal man an honorable man a just man an honest man a gentleman he would with eupremeat scorn refute the certificate to which he has not tho smallest particle of right as a stain upon his character a cloud upon his honor an imputa i ton upon his honesty as incompatible incompat-ible with the instincts of instinct a gentleman gentle-man i accepted by him all which it certainly i4 and would fling i back in Governors face with unutterable unutter-able loathing and contempt Will Campbell do this I should like to say it is a likely consequence But I much fear that it is very unlikely I very much fear that in his inmost soul he is not that sort of a man I am very certain that the less he is hat ECU of a man the more he is hat identical r of a man who is entirely unfit to represent Utah in Congress or anywhere else One of the likely consequences is that Utah will be misrepresented in Congress by Campbell i permitted to take his scat there Murrays delegate will advocate such legislation as the people of the territory do not desire but deprecste He will oppose such legislation as they do desire He will advocate the appointment of persona for federal office in the territory terri-tory whom the people cp not want to rule over them He will oppose the appointment of such persons as they would choose or wish to rule over them He will advocate such measures meas-ures and appointments as would please t very email minority of the people and displease the very great majority so that his presence in Congress as delegate from Utah will I be too veriest burlesque upon 8ny and all kinds of democratic or repub ican government Anotber likely consequence is that Utah will really have no representative tive as delegate in Congreee Tho law allows her one but Murrays perversion of the law imperiously I Arbitrarily disallows that allowance The majority rule is the constitu tional and legal rule of the country But Murray at one fell stroke abolishes that rule for this territory p and in ita place establishes his own personal dictum Such Sin S-in imperio surely was never dreamed I of by any of the fathers and founders and great lights of tbe republic Utah will have no delegate in OOn r abut a-but Murray will have a delegate thereat there-at the expense of the territory and of the Union So that one person and he not a resident except for a brief official term and for equally brief official purposes will have represen ation and resulting power and influence luence in Congress while the people of the territory will have none whatever what-ever While the territory and the people will not be represented in anyway any-way in the feJeral legislature Murray Mur-ray will be represented there He will have 1 fuller representation there than any territory or state in the Union will hive For he will have a delegation there equaling in number be constituency that really sent it there which not a solitary territory or state in the Union has So that he will not only be 1 bigger man than all the territory of Ulan but a bigger man than any sovereign state in the Union Indeed the biggest man in the whole Union Murray is the constituency con-stituency that sent Campbell to Con gres the only constituency that sent him there a constituency oone consisting con-sisting of one person and one per n only Campbells 1300 votes did uot send him there and could not send him there any more then Cannons 18000 votes kept the latter out It was Murrays vote and his vote alone that did ho mischief There was tbe cloven foot under that one vote So that for the time being at east Murrays one vote as governor counts for more than the entire 20 000 votes of citzens thatwero cast for both the candidates combined Murray Mur-ray could as reasonably and as law fully have sent Campbell to Congress on his Murrays one solitary vote without the 1300 other votes as with them This vote was heavier than everything else in the ballot bcx and no other vote was needed or of any real elect thero or anywhere else outside of Congress That is how the matter stands at present and a very of affairs it pretty aspect aftiirs presents D o you like the picture Could any thing political be more preposterous Talk about onsman power after this Though absurd to an extreme decree de-cree yet it is a very serioua matter But however serious it is not without its ludicrous side For i is really an open question whether the delegate owns his constituent or the constituent constitu-ent owns his delegate Which is it Does Campbell own Murray or does Murray own Cambpell Which ia the greater of the two in this funny business busi-ness Which is which and which isnt which They each count one and one only Each is essential to the other like the Siamese twins Each has given the other all the distinction dis-tinction nod importance he has The delegate is nothing without his constituent con-stituent and the constituent is nothing no-thing without his delegate This matter mat-ter seems considerably mixed and I shall not attempt to unmix i Some of the papers say Murray made a mistake Bless your soul do you believeit My confident opinion i as follows He made no mistake only in so far as designedly and con epirmgly doing an illegal act a vicious deed a gross wrong knowing and meaning it to be Each is a mistake mis-take He knew well enough that his act was unjast contrary to law and in direct violation of the express rghts of the people He did not try to justify i but he tried to excuse it He hoped to be able to dodge the real issue blind the public with falsa issue and thus take advantage of the popular prejudice and the public animosity excited against the Mormons Mor-mons so that while he inflicted grievous injury upon them be might escape the merited censure and just punishment which his heinous offense deserved For his offense is rank and smells 10 heaven He eicgeded his authority and he 6new it Nobody really believes he did not know i He meant t exceed his authority and risk the consequences but He hoped to bo able to do it with impunity im-punity I was not an inadvertence I was notbioj in the nature of an inadvertence in-advertence I was a wilful premeditated pre-meditated deliberate and reprehensible reprehensi-ble conspiracy of treasonable color and quality against the liberties rights and in expected and hopedfor effects the property and lives of the people of the territory over whom it was his high and sworn duty to be the governor the constitutional constitu-tional and legal governor and e qfficio the protector and guardian and conservator of their liberties and rights and not an autocrat a despot a tyrant a traitor an unprincipled and heartless betrayer oppressor and desppiler of the people Such is my opinion There can be no worse condition than that which is likely t be induced in-duced in any government wherein the rulers desert tbe cause of right and ally themselves with wrongdoers I warping the law to cover the most indubitable illegality and the rankest injustice When the chief magis rate of the territory deliberately and with malice aforethought places himsel on the side of those unprincipled unprin-cipled lawless and reckless creatures who conspire to cheat and defraud the people and rob them of their rights aa citizens and become himself ho chief conspirator the head and front nf the nffonHmfy what most naturally t be expected We can ex pact > no other than that the baser kind of men will be encouraged and emboldened to follow in tbe same rack of fraud conspiracy and lawlessness law-lessness with wellgrounded confidence confi-dence that i the Governcr can tread in that track with impunity and with success so can they that at least they will have a friend an excuser an ally in him To a great extent this would place the bulk ot the community com-munity at the mercy of the very worst elements of the population limited in number it is true but Unlimited limited in bitter prejudice and intense hatred toward the great majority and in disregard for that which is fair and honorable and just and lawful and right I such en outcome is germane ger-mane to true republicanism why let it be so proclaimed and then there will be no deception no hypocrisy about it But it will be wi simply proclaiming pro-claiming that republicanism is not another name for liberty but is another an-other name for extreme license Under such a black flag proclama ton desperadoes would feel author ized to go to any lengths i it was only in the direction sought hats hat-s to the decided prejudice of the Mormons It would be delivering up by far tbe Ire t and beat part of the community bound hand and foot into the base and bloody bands of hose who have no respect for any thing who neither fear God nor regard re-gard man when either stands in tht way of their ambitious and wick II l designs and who spend their lives iu Keying upon the better portion of the community In my humble opinion Murray Campbell Watterson Peirce t al will do well to get them to a nunnery nun-nery I mean to retire to a monastery for seven rears while they closely study 1 good homilectio encyclopedia to strengthen their moral faculties i they have any For I do not see how the conclusion can be avoided that they sadly need some such sort of strict and evere but withal salutary discipline Indeed they might well leave their country for that space ot time for their countrys good whether or not for their own BIRDOH HILL |