Show FOOL OH KNAVE What a sorry spectacle SecretarMunrnT of Arizona made of himself before the House committee on territories last Wednesday Wed-nesday i One is forced to ask if the fellow it most knave or fool as he displayed elements ele-ments of both Ho appeared there as an advocate for the admission of the territory to the union as a state but ho did not want statehood unless tho Mormons were disfranchised dis-franchised Being questioned ho could give no valid reason for his objection He admitted that ho could charge nothing wrong against the Saints he coud not say that they practiced polygamy the majority I of tho gentile people wore opposed to the 1 disfranchisement of Mormons and would rote the proposition down if it were presented pre-sented to them Getting him into a corner MDBPEX had finally to say in effect that the t 3 wr only reason why he objected to the Mormons I Mor-mons having tho rights of citizenship was that they were largely Democratic that the Republicans in Arizona were in the minority I mi-nority butlf the 120 Mormon voters were denied the polls the Republicans could control the state Anything more infamous in-famous could not well be conceived Politics Poli-tics leads men to mean and contemptible actions but we do not nowrecall a more scoundrelly proposition than the ona presented pre-sented by the federal secretary of our southern neighbor Tho fact that it is scoundrelly however furnishes no guarantee that Mr Munnmb proposition will not bfl adopted in spite of tho earnest opposition of the decent people of Arizona it will certainly be adopted if Mr MciuHY and his fellow conspirators can give satisfactory assurance to the leaders of tho national Republican party 1 that the disfranchisement of the Mormons will make the s atc certainly Republican A party that will disfranchise Mormons in Idaho to overcome a Democratic majority and that will not disfranchise Mormons in Wyoming through fear of creating a Democratic Demo-cratic majority will not scruple to take the ballot away from Democratic Mormons in Arizona All the same the Arizona Republicans should recall the fellow Muitiiiy who is such un ass that he cannot find a plausible excuse for the infamy which he advocates |