Show KENTUCKY AGAINST UTAH Exactly why the population of Louibvilo Ky should be divided into two parties on the latest phase of the Mormon question has not ytt been made clear Nevertheless this seem to ba the case In the absence of any exciting political topic and while the spring racea are too far distant dis-tant to inflame the minds of men the propriety and expediency of Gov Murrays action in giving the certifi cite of election to Campbell who waa not elected delegate rather than to Cannon who was elected excited the people ol the good city of Louisville I Louis-ville This is a more burning ques IOD in Kentucky than the compoji IQU of Garfields cabinet is elsewhere else-where It serves to bridge over the dull space which intervenes betwixt the presidential election and the In cowing of a now administration The Courier Journal leads the van of whet we may call tbe Campbellites and I the Post espouses the cauee of the Jannomtee The firstnamed journal appeals to the public with a frightful and bloodcurdling array of adjec tives and the lost responds with sarcasm saying among other hard things thai its competitor is either corrupt or crazy The beat of this conflict is inexplicable inexplic-able only by tbe fact that Governor Murray is a Kentuckian It must be assumed then that Kentucky should stand by Murray right or wrong Indeed the CourierJournal in one of its tremendous double leaded and highly volcanic editorial articles says tblt when Governor Murray Wli a escorted by his fellow citizens to the railway train which was to take him to Utah where they knew dancer perhaps death was to be laced they meant as Ken tnckiacs to eay to a Kentuckian Ye are with yoj and they will be with him to tile end of the war And these gallant Kentuckians we are further told are proud that the traditions of the pact will live again in the person of this young Kentuckian Kentuck-ian who can neither be bought nor bullied This is the reason why tha Beat of war has been transferred from Utah to Kentucky It is the honor of Kentucky aa personified in Gov Murray who is now visiting Louisville Louis-ville which is at stake Moet simpleminded simple-minded people have supposed that the Orapbell Cannon contest would be settled onprinciples of equity and justice not on tbe honor of the state from which Governor Murray went ap a Gentile stalwart to the scene of his perilous labors So while Utah ia tranquil even phlegmatic Ken lucky is perturbed Louisville is fighting the twin relic at long range If epithets will destroy polygamy that peculiar institution is doomed Certainly no ordinary or even extraordinary ex-traordinary custom can long sustain itself without serious damage undei so furious a cannonading na that which the Louisville CourierJournal directs at tbe twin relio of barbarism The editor haejeuddenly awakened to a lively sense of the exceeding sinfulness sinful-ness of the sin of the Mormons and he demands that preachers in the pulpits and women by their firesides and the people in their daily walks shall rise up and decree that the lewd spectacle which makes a Jardin Mabille of an American territory which shocks even while it amuses the passerby which blots the glory of our setting sun shall be obliterated even though it be through fire and Bwcrdl And to all Ibis fine writing tbe local organ of the Cannon party only responds with the remark that the author of so much rhetorio and fire is either corrupt or crazy To the mildmannered antiCampbellite the glory of Kentucky and the implied im-plied pledge to the gallant young Kentuckian who accepted office as men go to danger and death are aa nothing It is no wonder that Louisville Louis-ville it excited There are dark hints of a political plot being concealed beneath this furious anJ wholly unexpected tumult in Kentucky It H reported that Governor Murray would like to be a member of Girliclda cabinet and that inspired by a desire to distinguish distin-guish bimelf and possibly prompted by some Kentucky Mephistopheles he gave to Campbell tho certificate which he refused to Cannon This done be hastened home was taken in charge by the editor the Courter Journal and now calmly awaits the reward of his courage Sooner or later everything in this happy land gets into politics But who would have thought that the evil practices of a community whose lend spectacle specta-cle to quote the burning words of our Louisville contemporary blots the glory of our letting sun could have been used to hoist a man into a cabinet position Commissioner Le Duo has fondly hoped that garden seeds and tea plants might do aa much for him But here is a man who is believed to build his airy fabric of political preferment upon a single action Let us think better ot him Let us believe that only a holy rage against the institution of polygamy prompts the Louisville editor to launcn tbo thunderbolts of his wrath into tne distant city of the Mormons But to quote from one oi Secretary Evartss good etnrite affidavits are not lobsters No amount of tirade against the evil of polygamy and the wickedness of HIP Mormons can elect a man alter tiia votes me coot and counted Ve are prepared to admit that Utah ia the Jirdm Mabilta of the West aud that the monstrosities of that wietohed territory hint tho glory of cur setting eun and that the Mormon Church is imply a brothel with a sham Bible aud a tall bleeple Let us concede all this and much more which the Louisville edilor charges against the Mormons hut none of these things can elect Mr Campbell who bad a very email minority of all the votes cast at the late election Tbe gallant young Kentuckian who happens to be Governor oS Utah gave the certificate of election to Campbell because Cannon Can-non ia s polygamist and is said to be unnaturalized It is tbe business of the House Representatives to decide I whether these are facts and whether they are disqualifications for admission admis-sion to the Housn And there is no law which gives to a defeated candidate I candi-date for office the place from which tho successful candidate has been excluded ex-cluded by reason of his own personal disqualification This is common eence although it may not wipe out the blot which dims the glory of our getting sunNclV York limes 25th |