Show I t 11 X THE SUCCE3SOB I V 1 OF coursewexcannot tell who will be lift made Governor of Utah There is more Ib than one bidder for the place Col S t A Slerritt of this city has been more 11 frequently mentioned in connection 1 a with the office He is known to bs a rB i candidate and he has good advocates I tlt here and influential backers in Washington lit Wash-ington The majority class of the peo fi i pie of the Territory can have no voice HII in the matter of selecting their Executive ti s < Exec-utive they expect none and will therefore there-fore make no effort to bj heard as tote to-te their choiceit being admitted and accepted t tit j l I cepted by them that their request in i I the premises would be without avail gll We believe that Col Merritt would be A f as acceptable to the masses of the peo 1 pieJxith Mormon and Genfale as any 1 local man who standsany chance oft i of-t getting the place THEHEKALD year ago urged the apppintment of Col Merritt = and hassince received many assurances ythat his nomination 1 > nom-ination would be satisfactory 1 I to many inBuental men of both classes n the community The Colonel is an old citizen of the Territory thoroughly thor-oughly familiar with the people and understands he wants and necessities of Utah lie is not a radical and it is not believed he stands in fear of the rule or rain clique which dominates and subordinates sub-ordinates so many 67 the Federal officials reducing them to the condition con-dition of slaves to irresponsible and reckless masters The gentleman can afford to bj independent and free and his long residence here and noting of the roeks upon which so many have been wrecked it is thought would enable en-able him to successfully main fain his 11jerty and avoid the shoals upon which his predecessors have gone to their ruin Of the local men who have been thought to stand in the line of the Presidential lightning Col Merrill is and has been the choice of THE HERALD The experience of the Territory however how-ever with the present Administration is no i encouraging to the hoi tb at a citu > n of Utah will be made Governor But one officer in the gift of the President has been given to a Utah man and in that case the nominee fills the bill of a basin fide resident only by a stretch of the real facts We fear the governorship I like the offices of register receiver associate as-sociate justice and surveyorgeneral tie only places filled by President 0 eveland will be conferred upon somebody some-body from abroad whose on1 j o jcct incoming in-coming here is the salary A very few days will solve the conundrum and put the matter at rest Whoever the appointee may be he should look carefully over the situation situa-tion and take warning from the past We interpret the removal of Governor Murray as a notice to his successor that the administration has at last concluded that the people of Utah have I rights which the Federal Government I will respect to mean that the Territory Terri-tory will not be turned over to a handful I hand-ful of reckless irresponsible adventurers adventur-ers holding Federal commissions and backed by the Federal Government to be despoiled and plundered to mean that the community and the individuals individu-als of which it is composed must be protected in their persons property and rights as a commonwealth and as private pri-vate citizens If Murrays sncccssor shall prove wise he will accept the removal re-moval of his predecessor as notice that he mustbe Governor of the people and not of a faction merely if he wonld retain re-tAin the office and receive the commen tlation and support of the administration tion |