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Show Annivunuiry. N-'W U th w inti-r nf nir ilUe.mlont, Ma.lo ,K,i liout liy ihlaBiu i'Smh;hii. W hen eh.MiL-iint tho text of iho K i fill b.ii-1 n.-t ulmve, w tiieel'ully tHk ell our hat to us oonvul a portrait por-trait ol Shake.tpeaio a.s wo enulJ Iind, and humbly craved hist pardon. "W'o should likoto roniindtho reader that one year m Judi;o Melvean was removal from tho ohinf juatioe-slup juatioe-slup of Clah." "Suiekeli down isitli tho middoniK'M of a ihutulerhi'lt; tu though tho red 'hut angor of Jovti had been poured upon his otlendtug head. It is necessary for us to roeall tho confusion and wkle-nproad anguish which this tyrannical act of to pros ident pixlueevl." 8,-areely had the startling intelli-gauee intelli-gauee been flleil across tho wires, tthm tho snow tanki ol Little Col Ion wood, as if in vago at llio gioat in dignity otleml tho inwirruptibU, loosed their hold on tho hillsides and madly dashed down the guleheti, carrying car-rying to destruction 4 number of unottendiiig minora' cabins, ami sweeping into eternity three honest sons of toil. This was but a fore-ruuner fore-ruuner of what wo might expect if the great wrong was not immediately repaired aud Judge MeKean ro iuBlatexl. Faithfully did wo laUir to this eud. Loud were our petitions to tho offending power at Washington, Washing-ton, but without avail. The man in the While Housu closed his ears lo appeals and ubbornly refused to bend the kuee to our guardian spirit. What followed? A luckless youth, riding his horse through tha atretts, was struck by lightning. A man at Sandy '' fooled" with a gun aud has only throe lingers on his right hand. A cigar store in Salt Lake, unable to withsUud the blow struck at American Ameri-can liberty, failed, and the creditors gut nothing ou tho dollar. Casualty alter casualty occurred. Smelters were closed, hoys and men were drowned, a young man fell oil a mustang and broke his arm, people dud and were actually buried, and the autumn came. Then this great wrong showed itself beyond the con-j fines of Utah, and in other lands than America. The llerzegovm.ms learned that MeKean had been re- 1 movtd and they saw that their lib.vty Wis gone. The Servians trembled as they read the new?, and where ar; they no.v? The Thorn a? son dynamite machine is directly ai'ribuiable t' the removal of McKcau. Smiads-j Urdly scoundrel prrsists in cutimg' the direct eable simply because he realizes that McKean cannot punish him. Only hut week a little child in , the loth Ward, was on tho point of swallowing some concentrated lye; but who could have expected otherwise? other-wise? McKean was removed. Ltsl week an Ogden doctor extracted from a Junctionite a tape worm twenty-six feet in length. Does anyone suppose that worm would have dared to grow o long had not we bjen deprived of McKean? We might recall hundreds, hund-reds, even thousands of instanced of a similar nature, for which Presideut Grant is responsible in his tyrannical removal of our while-souled judge. A few days ago we received a letter from a man at , Woods' Cross, who said: "My cow ! fell down on the ice last night and broke her leg. I charge this to Grant on account of his removal of McKean." Mc-Kean." t A gentlemen from Ophir telegraphs on toe 15th: "Had Grant permitted McKean to remain in office, this sad aitiir would not have occurred." A miner in Bingham, writes: "The vein has 'petered.' Do you think McKean's removal had anything to do with it ?" Mrs. Belknap says: "The general and I would have been pure as the snow had the president not iguomini ously removed McKean." An East Temple street bootblack exclaims: "My spit has dried in my mouth since McKean was removed." Scores of communications like the above are received by us daily, and they go to prove how widespread has been the terrible destruction re suiting from tho official decapitation of the eminent jurist. It is awful to contemplate, and while we all unite with the republican convention and weep at the Btory of McKean's wrongs, let Brother Lyford -pas; around the hat. |
