Show IT WAS A EEMOVAI THE HEKALD no longer has any fight ft with Governor Murray The quarrel 1 S S ended the moment the gentleman was out of office and the hatchet was then and there buried We do not prorose to dig up the weapon Among his well wishers Gov Murray can rind none i 5 more sincere and more desirous forhis good than this same journal which 1 never experienced and never expressed W1 any admiration for him as Governor At the same time while THE HERALD has nothing todo with Gov Murray it does not propose that his false friends and sycophantish admirers shall pose him as a martyr to the disparagement of the people of Utah nor that they shall elevate him to the pedestal of lame in the manner of his setting out of office The effort isp ut forth to give him credit for voluntarily retiring whereas he was removed re-moved emphatically and unequivoc ally He was kicked out as much as was Chief Justice McKean a few years ago and for cause McKean used his power on the bench to override law and perpetrate gross outrages upon citizens and the community he was permitted to run along qs in his abuse of authority until i elk feeling absolutely secure in his POSiti nand is n-and in the approval of the President he went stark mad in his excessesjIl d was bounced bodily and furiously The suddenness with which lie was picked up in his wild career of judicial excesses threw the old man into bis grave Some undertook to say that McKean was not is removed for cause just as Some area are-a claiming now in regard to General Murray The last named was removed l and for cause Our Washington special f it of Thursday morning made this fact tl I plain and also explained nature of j the cause The Governors cours3 during i + S dur-ing the late ssssion of the legislature i was violently revolutionary and the ti closing act of his career as a branch of the lawmaking power of the Territory l the veto of the general appropriation I bill l was directly in the interest of r anarchy It was Judge McKcans order i 1 committing Brigham Young to prison I i t for refusing to pay alimony to a woman l which the court held was not his wife t i which brought the Chief Justice to i 1 destruction and it was Governor i Murrays veto of the appropriation bill r ii and thus depriving the gyrjrnnient of the means of maintaining itself which y rebounded and dislocated the official neck of the Executive Whatever credit ri cred-it thc is due to an official who resigns cauuit be claimed by the late Governor i There is no virtue in writing resigna tiojs which are hidden in the inner pocketsof friends and kept secret from i the appointing power and the public 4 until the incumbents are removed If such resignations could utilized noN no-N man would suffer the annoyance and 1 1 chagrin of removal for his commission i ll and resignation would bear the same 1 I i date the latter to be used to prevent 1 l it i the form being taken away by force i The facts are that the removal of j llt Gov Murray is a vindication in the eyes t of the Federal administration of the fl course of the people of Utah as represented 3 Cl J repre-sented by the late Legislature and an j unmistakable rebuke of the opposition 1ltiI to that course People will think more t f of tee ExGovernor if he and his i T friends accept the situation as it i instead i1fllt x in-stead of trying to take credit and virtue I when none can found |