Show STATE PRESS COMMENTS i Dnty of the Democratic Convention The Democratic state convention whichwill be held in June should speak I out plainly on the silver question The I delegates should be stalwart silver men and should be instructed to oppose the nomination of a gold bug or the adoption adop-tion of a gold standard platform even to the extent of bolting the convention if necessary The time for compromises compro-mises is past and the Democrats of the south and west should give notice to the cuckoos that the majority of the Democratic party proposes to shape the party policy Ephraim Enterprise Two Juntas Were Needed I the church appointed a junta to carefully guard against illadvised legislation leg-islation what of i The consensus of opinion is that the last legislature needed need-ed a balance wheel The only fault is that two juntas were not appointed one for the house the other for the senate Ogden Standard Comity Government Bill The county government bill Which has been hanging fire since its passage pas-sage by the legislature ha finally been I signed by Governor Wells The one point which the governor objected to was that of paying jury fees into the county instead of the state treasury Otherwise he considered it an excellent measure and rather than sacrifice the whole measure he concluded on Tuesday Tues-day to waive his objections and sign the bill The law goes Into effect on June 5 of this year Manti Messenger Uniforms and Cubs I has been suggested that the police wear uniforms and clubs which would give the town a more city like appearance ap-pearance and let strangers know that we had officers to look after the violators vIo-lators of the law We understand that the officers in Brigham City Logan and other cities of our class wear uniforms and we see no special reason why our officers should not be uniformed Pay son Globe Mr Crltchloivs Sensation Mr Critohlows is the last sensation He has made a bad break plunged headlong into nrint without cause or justification and has descended to abuse without investigation and if he is not careful it will take him a long time to I get out of the labyrinth which he has so carelessly entered This will prove unfortunate for Mr Critchlow unless he handles himself very carefully This Is to be regretted for he has been looked look-ed unon as a bright young man but by this break he has accused his fast friends wrongfully and set a thousand tongues wagging that will be hard to silence Lehi Banner Carey Deseret Land Act The way the Carey desert land act was being manipulated in Idaho great Injury would have resulted to settlers setters A number of our people went to work on Snake river to take out water near Blackfoot and after they had constructed con-structed a canal for many miles a corporation cor-poration came in and began constructing construct-ing a canal above the Peoples canal The intent was to reclaim the land under the Carey act and the state made the usual concessions to the I company The people maintained I I could not be done for the reason that the lands had already been reclaimed and some had been located on under other land laws The assistant land commissioner at Washington E F Best has held similarly and so reported to the department of the interior His decision has just been received by Professor Pro-fessor B Cluff jr who Is interested in the matter and it Is a very thorough review of the case I may entirely change the application of the Carey land actProvo Enquirer An Ajcltator of the Worst Clans One E B Critchlow of Salt Lake has written himself down as a prevaricator and agitatorof the worst type by coming out and boldly declaring that the Mormon church leaders had organized organ-ized a junta or committee to improperly im-properly influence the state legislature and then when he Is pinned down for proofs he goes and makes the wormiest kind of a squirm out of the tight box In which he has unwittingly entrapped himself I what Mr Critchlow alleged to be a fact were true he would have been perfectly justified in raising a howl but everything transpires to show there is literally no truth in these gler assertions Brigham City Bu The State Warrants Bill The governor has vetoed the interest on state warrants bill and now the juryman and witness who Is paid instate in-state warrants must suffer a heavy discount This puts him at the mercy of noteshavers and bankers By the way our governor Is a banker is he not These warrants are not even receivable re-ceivable on taxes Surely the state ought to be compelled to take Its own paper I i is not good enough for the state why should the state issue it Logan Journal |