Show THE PKE WKK EXEGU rIfE Our beloved governor by tho grace of the President of tho United States ranc to the great disgust of the majority of tho people whom ho is supposed to govern has once more made a report and as usual it is in keeping with the efforts that this small smiled individaal has made in the past There is not a man in Utah that has done more to injure the people he draws a salary for governing than Anrnuu L THOMAS Ho has as little regard for the truth as tho average rabid antiMormon and that is so little that it is infinitesimal and almost beyond the power of the ordinary mortal to discover Wq cannot devote much attention to tho I report this morning as 1 we have as yetis yet-is a few items that came by the wire from Washington but i the document Is a wolV filled with distorted and false statements about the people as that portion which has come to hand then will AKTEUR have surpassed sur-passed his former efforts in the line of misrepresentation Tho governor says that political and ofllctal I Mormonism deals It evasions and meaningless words of double meaning hypocritical pretenses preten-ses and false assertions Its attitude toward I polygamy is delusive ia the list degree I knows there has been no change on the subject but seeks t convey the impression that there has been The above statement is false and no ono knew it better than the diminutive official who has sucked the almost government teat alost his entire life Prominent church officials the governor states have declared the church does not grant permits to cntor polygamy and the nominal head of tho church has announced that polygamous polyg-amous marriages do not now take place What prominent church ofilcials have declared de-clared in this respect is true and that is what makes his excellency mad Tho i nominal head of the church That is rood coming from a man like THOMAS He is one of the fellows who have maintained I for years that tho power of the head of the Mormon church i supreme in all things I There Is an old story that a certain class of individuals should be in the possession 1 of good memories and we respectfully suggest sug-gest to Mr THOMAS that he refresh his own a little AitTiiuu L THOMAS has lived long I enough in Utah to know some little of tho government or tho Mormon church that he has some information on the subject is proven by the ability that he has shown in the past in distorting facts concerning tho church Ho knows thatthero is no nominal nomi-nal head to the Mormon church and his reference to it is simply made to throw distrust I dis-trust on the plain honest statement of tho head oftho church THOMAS is nice specimen humanity t refer to hypocritical pretenses and false assertions assertons Concerning hypocrisy it might be well to refresh his excellencys memory Only a few months ago he was in Washington and in answer to a question told Delegate CAIXK that ho was not in favor of tho bill i to disfranchise the Mormons and then he told PUCD DUBOI and other that he was in favor of tha measure when his double dealing came toiigut tnis man who accuses ethers of hypocrisy whined like a whipped cur and said that Mr CAIKE had no business busi-ness to repeat a confidential communication ton but did not complain of Dunois Perhaps Per-haps tho governor does not think It is hypocritical hypo-critical to tell absolute falsehoods and in that event ho is excusable THOMAS is cno of the worst enemies Utah has over had and his work against the people peo-ple has ever been in the dark and of tho twofaced kind He is just the kind of a person to attack others a in that way he hopes to divert attention from himself THE HEIIALD has always had the most suo promo contempt for AETHUR L THOMAS on account of his utter lack of those qualities which go to make up a man and the longer we live the more his actions prove that we I have not been mistaken in our estimate of h excellency We shall await with interest the full text of the report from which the I above false statements are taken I |