Show GOVERNOR WESTS ACTIOX Because of the strenuous efforts of the few petty and unscrupulous Republicans Repub-licans to misrepresent and thereby create party prejudice and illfeeling toward the governor of the territory in his efforts to preserve the lives and property of the people of the territ ry from the ravages and devastations of the socalled industrial army constituted consti-tuted of about 1200 vagrants and irresponsible irre-sponsible men of all classes and conditions condi-tions we deem it proper to reit tate a few facts for the candid considera tlon of every fair minded citizen and property owner throughout the territory terri-tory 0 I The first intimation given of the approach ap-proach of this army was the Associated i 1 ed Press report published last Saturday Satur-day morning announcing tha the evening before they had left Sacramento Sacramen-to for Ogden Early Saturday morning I and before the governor had seen the i item in the morning papers he was I visited by the superintendent and attorney at-torney of the Rio Grande Western railway rail-way company and informed by them I that no arrangements had been made I with their attorney for the transportation I tion of any of these people over their road from Ogden to Colorado and that it would be impossible for their company com-pany to make such an arrangement because be-cause of the stringency of the laws of that state affixing a penalty of 5200 for the landing of each and every pauper in that state Immediately after Superintendent Bancroft of the Union Pacific was seen by the governor and inquiry made of liim whether any arrangements I arrange-ments had been or could be I mad by him with his company I com-pany to transport these people I from Ogden out of the territory Mr Bancioft said no such arrangement arrange-ment had been made Within the space of a few hours Mayor Baskin I P H Lannan Parley JL Williams I Judge Zane Franklin S Richards Robert Harkness and many other prominent citizens called upon the governor gov-ernor and urged upon him the danger to the people of the landing within our borders at this unfavorable time of so many unemployed and absolutely destitute and dangerous characters and requested him to take every precaution precau-tion within his power first to prevent the bringing into this territory of such an undesirable class of people second to preserve the lives and property of the people if for any reason they I should be permitted to be landed within our borders There was but one I opinion expressed and that was in the negative The governor acted wisely and promptly serving a written notice no-tice upon Judge Thomas Marshall the agent and attorney of the Southern Pacific company and upon Superintendent Superinten-dent Knapp at Ogden forbidding the company to bring the people within the territory and warning them that if they did so the company would be held i responsible for all damage that might be sustained by reason of their so doing do-ing In addition to this the governor telegraphed a most emphatic protest I to MrI Fillmore general superintendent superintend-ent of the Southern Pacific company I at San Francisco to the same effect These things were all done early in the afternoon of Saturday and later in the day Superintendent Krapp informed in-formed the governor that his company was endeavoring to arrange with the Union Pacific company for the transportation trans-portation of the army east of Ogden These negotiations continued until 3 I oclock on Sunday afternoon at which time the governor received official notification no-tification from General Superintendent Superin-tendent Bancroft that his company com-pany the Union Pacific would not carry the men or any of them out of the territory at less than full regular passenger rates which would have aggregated between 30000 and 10000 Immediately upon receipt ofthis information the governor called upon Mr Knapp at his office in Ogden and informed him that he had been officially notified by themanagement of both of the roads leading out of the territory that they could not and would not haul the train load of vagrants from Ogden unless they were paid the full fares of the company and as the proposition of the Southern Pacific was to dump this train load of starving and freezing humanity upon the people of Ogden and this territory that he again forbade his company from bringing these people within this territory and from leaving them at any point within our borders Superintendent Knapp then informed the governor that the train had already been within the territory severalhours and that the people would certainly be landed The governor replied re-plied it was but three hours previous that he Mr Knapp had told him that the tram was being held at Toano twentyseven miles west of the Utah line and that they were being held in Nevada until the matter of their transportation trans-portation could be arranged for or this matter settled satisfactorily The governor gov-ernor then demanded that the train should not be brought farther within the territory but that the people should be returned and taken back from whence theY came This Mr Knapp refused to do and the only thing that remained for the governor to do was to prevent these strangers from mixing with the people begging at the doors and committing acts of violence which certainly would have followed but for his prompt action On Sunday afternoon after receiving Mr Knapps answer an injunction suit was brought against the railway CQmpany by direction of his excellency i excel-lency on the part of the territory the county of W ber and the city of Ogden and the papers served before the train arrived to Testrain the landing ofi these people and after ahearing Monday Mon-day afternoon it was developed by the evidence of the commander in charge of ttielriaustrlal army and roth ers jvho testified In that action that the army was notohly composed of a large number of criminals jail bird i u and professional crooks but also of professional tramps and men who were and had been habitually unemployed Chief Justice Merritt and Associate Justice Miner issued a perpetual injunction in-junction restraining the railway company com-pany from unloading these peOple from their cars and from permitting them to remain in the territory Application was made to stay the execution and the judges promptly denied de-nied it The writ was served Monday night at 1030 but yesterday the company com-pany absolutely refused to obey the orders of the court either in taking the men out of the territory over its own road or in arranging transportation transporta-tion for them over any other line Superintendent Knapp told the governor gover-nor that his company had brought the army from Sacramento to Ogden for 600 or 50 cents for each passenger and that they would not be taken back I to Sacramento for less than 535 each or some 42000 I As an instance of the class of people I composing the army the one who died on Monday was promptly identified by Marshal Brigham as being an x convict con-vict who was released from our penitentiary peni-tentiary only three months ago Quite a number of others were identified by Attorney Kimball of Ogden as exjail birds in that city It was estimated by one prominent member the army that at least 400 of the number were men who would not accept employment if it were offered to them The question confronting the governor gover-nor was simply this Will I be doing my duty to the people of this territory if I permit 1200 exconvicts and vagrants vag-rants to be landed in the second city of the territory and within thirty seven miles of the capital city by a soulless corporation when no means whatever had been provided or were in contemplation for transportation out of the territory To this question there could be but one answer and that was in the negative Acting upon this the governor directed the militia companies to be centered at Ogden and also the I police of Salt Lake city who had been kindly tendered by Mayor Baskm to assist in this territorial matter for it is certainly of as much importance to the people of Salt Lake city as it is or could be to the citiens of Ogden and such volunteer forces as were hastily placed at his command to restrain these people in certain limits within which they could accept and receive ample food and provisions pro-visions for their comfort until some arrangement ar-rangement could be made for them to proceed eastward or westward And now these same Republican howlers some of whom were the first to urge vigorous action by the executiveare denouncing him for his manly and courageous conduct and seeking to create bitter feelings against him The governor has not so far taken nor does he seek to take any harsh measures meas-ures towards these people but on the contrary he has shown them every consideration con-sideration but insists that while we have so many unemployed worthy i and needy workmen in our own borders who together with their I wives and children are suffering I for the necessaries of life that he will not permit the inhuman conspiracy con-spiracy entered into by the Southern Pacific company and the authorities of the State of California to I be carried into effect and 200 more I hungry mouths and naked bodies to be a charge upon the people He says that a court of competent jurisdiction has declared that it was unlawful to bring these men into the territory It was over my protest And I now demand of you that you obey the injunction in-junction of the court and take these people out of the territory If this be any hardship to a thousand men who have voluntarily put themselves in this position is it not better that the hardship hard-ship should come upon them than that they should be permitted to come here and devour the substance which our citizens might otherwise give to the worthy poor of our own numbers seeing see-ing that it is an agreement which the I people of Utah have not commenced I but which the Southern Pacific company com-pany and the state of California have been guilty of and if our governor should fail to exert his utmost power I to prevent the turning loose of these I men on our community at this time he I would be justly censured by our people of all classes I It is a duty and ought to be a great I i pleasure of every citizen of the territory terri-tory and officer ot the court to i strengthen the governor in his patriotic patriot-ic and courageous course and to do all I within their power and within the limits lim-its of the law to aid in the enforcement i and execution of the order of the court I i Any other policy than this no matter i for what reason it will be should be condemned in the harshest terms |