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Show AN IMPORTANT DECISION. We published, yesterday, tho decision decis-ion of Associate Justice Kmerson upon the right of tho Territorial Legislature to elect the proper olTicera for the Territory, Ter-ritory, and in which lio declared tho official commission of tho Governor to any person was nothing more nor less than an "evidence of his title" to hold that ofliee. We claim no extra legal intelligence for our oft-repented assertion of th's position for wo are not lawyers, but we have taken the only common-sense view that could be taken that tho people are the source of all law in a republican government. gov-ernment. It has been the curse of I'tah to bo saddled, now and again, with grossly incompetent men in the unices of Governor and Chief Justice; men who have been sent here only to fill ofSco as a reward for some personal service to the Administration that appointed them. Our present Governor is professionally profession-ally nothing but a polititl "ollic-e-holdcr," and if he were removed to-d:iv to-d:iv u-w cnnld he do? Absolutely nothing btit wait like Micawber for "something toturn up." For many years he has known nothing but slump speaking and holding olHce and the one position hai always alternated al-ternated with tho other'and been tho sequence of the other. Such a man is utterly incompetent of taking a broad and expansive view of the po- , ,litical rights of the people. He conies 1 ihcre impressed with tho idea that j President Grant not the republic whom he serves wants to create j trouble in I' tab, and wherever lie can do anything that will make confusion there ho is in tVio spirit of iliis mission. From the day of his arrival up to the present hour, if there is a tingle oflicial act of Gov-1 ernor Woods' that beats not uu-: Imistakably that interpretation, we 'shall he hannv tn learn it. President Grant, some time ago, expressed his intention of selecting t'ne majority of the Federal Territorial odicers from the Territory where they were to ofliciate, and thereby recognized recog-nized the better qualifications of such men to strangers; but he lias utterly disregarded his own avowal of right to ward j I'tah. There is not a man holding a Federal oftiee here to-day who has not been sent into the Territory Terri-tory by ilia oflicial appointment, and no man among them more notably an appointee i'or past services than Governor Gov-ernor Wools. Hi c.unc here purely for oiiiee. lie ;;ad no interest in the welfare of the people, and iu the progress pro-gress and dt.velnpment of the Territory. Terri-tory. He cime here like an Austrian Gesler, and is never happy but when he can sbo'.v his right to rule. So destitute des-titute has be been oi ull intercut in the Territory that he had been ready at any moment to leave it mid go anywhere any-where for a bigger salary. The same with the Chief Justice a biggi;ralary will take liiui anywhere. j Let the public mark it: from this jtime the "King" Federal oli'ieials will all be after Judge Finerson. lie dares to be independent and avoids them. Their organ in this city will go for him, and the attacks will bo from their own pens under the protection pro-tection of the editorial "we." If our morning co tem. has not something to-day from them we tluill be much out ot" our calculation. |