Show cztroA A GROSS OUTRAGE Three months ago before the late delegate election and before it was publicly talked that Mr Campbell would contest the election of Hon George Q Cannon beyond the poll it was told to ua privately that Gov orcor Murray would find a pretext for giving the certificate of clection to the liberal candidate We denied that he woula do this upon the broad ground that Murray might ba an ass bat be could not perpetrate EO grave a wrong Afterwards but before be-fore the proteit had been suggested it i waa again stated positively and by I one of Murravo intimate friend that the Governor had determined to issue the certificate to Campbell holding that Gannon was aa alien Tnis also was doubted because it wai known that Mr Cannon had been duly and regularly naturalized and the question of his citizenship passed upon favorably yeara ago bj a congressional con-gressional committee Governor Murrays conduct in this territory had forced us to regard him aa a person per-son of decidedly Email intellectual calibrea man with more beauty than brains BS his Kentucky associ rotes who knew him best had aptly stated itbut wo had never looked upon him as capable of the groe villainy of trying to deprive a whole community of ita highest political right Wo now sorrowfully admit that oar estimate oi the man was entirely en-tirely too high In the small hour of Saturday morning when honest people should have baen in their beds Eli H Murray by the grace of Rutherford B Hayes Governor of Utah was executing one of t o most heinous outrages or crimes eve perpetrated in the American repnblic The crime was nothing noth-ing lets than the tbefi so far us he was able to accomplish it of the right guaranteed by the law to the people af Utth of being a represented in Congfvss by the mn of their choice Use perpetrators of some wrongs ore entitled to tt degree of respect and consideration hut Ibis net should brand inf imy all over Kl li H Murrsv and stamp him a creature too vile for the association of honest men Tho outrage in this case is doubly gross The people of the territories ter-ritories in general 1 end of Utah in particular par-ticular have been accorded but few of thoir rights na citizens and now the taking nvfuy of the dearest of that ten is simpiy infamous Language can but feebly ripresa the contempt that honest people must feel for the hero of this net while all mast feel sorrow that such a deed can be perpetrated perpe-trated and the gniity escape pumeh ment The vagabond Chicken Charley of local notoriety is forced to work months upon the roads for wringing tee neck of a few chickens yet a governor deprives 150000 people peo-ple of a right dearer to them ban anything that gold may buy and holds uloft hs head grins at the outraged out-raged multitude and defies them to pUDitiii him It is truly a sad commentary com-mentary upon American government and the territorial system For such an act at his own home in Kentucky Governor Murray would be fortunate for-tunate if he escaped hanging io the nearest telegraph pole a kind of punishment for wrsng doing which is pretty thoroughly un derefood and extensively practiced by his countrymen Here in Utah however wo must submit to tha outrage out-rage and if we eveu protest disloyalty disloy-alty to the government is charged against us II it is disloyal to denounce de-nounce this act as a crime upon the people of Utab then are we disloyal and shall continue so to the end of our days if it is disloyal to denounce its perpetrator then mark us as per sons proud that we arc disloyal if it is disloyal to be wanting in reaiiest t for one who is capablo of this grave wrong no matter what hid poeiti nor > n-or title or pswer then are wo without I tho slightest degree of loyalty We despise Governor Murray ai a parson unfit for office and unworhy the re epect of people woo take pride in the laws and institutions of the country If ever a man was fairly elected to office George Q Cinnon was so sleeted a delegate to Congress last 9 November There has never been held on American coil an election when the law was followed more faithfully both ail to the qualifications qualifica-tions of the voters and ths conduct of the elections in generalities and da tails Everything was admitted to be regular Bud legal until this bet rat t the giving of the certificate when the highest officer in the territory disregards law decency and justice and declares Campbell the choice of the people for del gate When Governor Murray put hs name to the paper declaring that Aden G Campbell was be person being a han of the United States over tne age of 21 yeare I having the greatest number of voles r he knew ha wad certifying to a fake hood and causing the great teal of 9 f the territory to ba atuchtd to 110 po5 i I i tive untruth There were for Georg i 1 Q Cannon 1S5G5 votes and for Allen I r G Campbell 1857 The reader will t r fail to understand in the light ol I f these figures the correct eEIj of which i r 1 1 Governor Murray admits wherein I J I t j Mr Campbell bad the greatest num f t V J J I her of votes Governor Ifuray by o I IL 1 kind of jugglery without the claim r I A 1 even to fipeoiousneao assumes that J > Mr Cannon is an alien he then assumes that Mr Cannon is a polyg assist and cannot becamo a cltitizen and finally assumes that the above being facts the eighteen and odd thousand votes cast for MV Gannon were thrown for a person ineligible and therefore void It is unnecessary 10 even discuss the matter b the tint place it has boon shown time and egaia taRt the Governor had no lawful powers in tie premises except to issue the eertificata to tie perBom having the highest number of votes as ppeari OB the fLue of the rsturaa I There it 5 not an hsnest lawyer in Salt Lake but BO interpret ths statute and Indeed if they were aH ts say to the contrary it coald net alter the fact The law is there and the declaration declara-tion is ona Of the plainest to bo found in the book Again if the Governor has be rigfrt to go behind the returns be certainly has no right to tit as a judicial afficsr and pass npon the legality of Mr I C < BOns aaturabzitisn Still mere presHinpluens ii ko when ha las after declaring that CAnnon is not n citizen that ke Cannon cannot become one by reasta of his alleged practice ef polypuuy So far as Murray as Congress ai the world are concerned Mr Cannon baa violated vio-lated no law and the Governor only exposes his ignorance and displays wicked prejadica when he assumes that Cannon ia a polygamist t Suppose Sup-pose that we BKsald assert that Gov ernsr Murray wore one of the multitudinous multi-tudinous Kentuskjr Jyncherff would it be lawful for a sheriff to hang him without n hearing Tho cases are precisely analogous As a matter of fact George Q Oinnon was duly aaturalizad as he alleges The record of that naturalization exists and has been examined by Governer Murray It is possible that bjr reason of the negligence or ignorance of the federal judge or clerk of the cert in which lbs naturalization ccsurrtd there May be some technical irregularity irregu-larity in the record but if go it ought not to aflect the ciliesn It would not with an official who had respect for the rilnt tnd outsida of Utah a lawyer who would raise tae question would ba bused as a pettifogger Unfortunately Un-fortunately things are diflerect here Lawyers may do here what they would fcluah to think ef in i ether phver The whole and plain truth of this matter ii i that the plot was a deliberate and villainous scheme concocted con-cocted by Murray aad his evilmiadeE advisari ts keep Mr Cannon out of Congress The Governor has been tbe most active of tha conspirators in the plot and has nor dno all ho can to carry it i into execution Long before the election Murray was known to ba bunting for some pretext for dousing do-using the certiicate to Cannon Before Be-fore uay protest was fried Campbell was boasting in saloons and other such places frequented by him that the Governor waa going to give him too certificate It was published in the papers that Campbell Will to get the certificate though the gentleman gentle-man had not written his protest nor was it known upon what ground ks would claim to represent the people who had repudiated him at the pails Too protest the answer the citation of authorities and the brio argu meats were all so sou in waste of time words and paper The executive mind had been made up to the perpetration ef Ike deviltry and thaso other things were vail attempts tempta to cover up the crime asd lido by mystification possible tbo too visible mark of gross iaftmy i fie cannot think this great wrong will be permitted to succeed The Governsra Act bs placed Mr Can non in the position of eontestait and as contests are slow in reaching a deciji i n when enemies are in sight some time may elapse before tbe hearing In tho meantime Mr Campbell Camp-bell may succeed in drawing few thousand dollars from the treasury while misrepresenting the peepla in whore eyes he is forever disgraced But when the hearing does come there can be na dobtl as to the result The American Congress will sever approve this great outraa aor legal ice the theft t of a territory Cannon must finally get his scat and when be does the infamy will be branded deeper in the shallow brow of Bli H Murray 0 |