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Show Confirmed. By the dispatches, it will be seen that C. C Crowe has been confirmed secretary of Utah and J. B. McKean chief justice, in place of S.A. Mann and C: C. Wilson, the present incumbents. The Elko Independent has the following on these appointments, appoint-ments, which we quote as an expression expres-sion from a democratic editor and a neighbor, without, however, assuming any responsibility for what he says : Political Rewards and Punishments. Punish-ments. The Crowe who was confirmed the other day as secretary of Utah, was a bitter rebel, holding a commission as captain and afterwards as colonel in the confederate army throughout through-out the war. He displaces the Mann whom Thomas Fitch had appointed, but couldn't preserve. If the Maun had been a Crowe, and had "fired upon the flag" on a four year's stretch, he might still have been an officeholder; office-holder; but if the -'rowe had been a Mann, loyally wrestling with tbeiebels in the State of Nevida during the same period, he wouldu't now have been a Territorial Secretary. As the African logician said, in such a case "there you is;" but in such other case, "where is you ?" |