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Show m THE JPOLORT AS .D .IS THI B caiiiE. m e-'-" " " i gt GovERNon Thomas, noted U m doubledealing mixed with suatf- m ty.ras aid $500 bythoChamttr B orCommcrre to go Xti Wasliingfcn m nnd push the interests of a poJHc m buiWIngfor this city and the seting j5 nparPof.a portion of Fort Do'glas WF Beservatlon for a public park. ' p, ?he money was accepted aid the I? mission undertaken with theonder- K standing thaMr. Thomas ffas not E to takenny partisan jnotitlcjl stand, S lth elates cf the commuiity being W repVCTcnted in tbo membership of fj, th Chsmber. Ono classof memben- fj of that organization would bo di- S- francliited in tbe cveat cf tho pas- sare of certain pending congression- ' si ieiislation.- lieforubegubernatorial ngentof 4 t,,e tlsamber of Commerce left for f Washington he said bo did not In- ;. lc,l(1 to take ny position eiUier for j- orgainit the measure in question. fi, Ho reiterated the. statement in 7 Washington to Hon. John T. 1 Caine. While making tiiose professions to the Delegate from Dtah he was, at the same lime, sneabingly, se- h retlyt and hypocritically giving f" the weight of his Influence, and in v'ew of his S300 mission the x Influence of Uie Chamber of Com- niee towards pushing thedlsfran-I thedlsfran-I chisement bill. He expressed hiru- ".selfunqualifledly on the subject to members of the Committee on Ter- r ritorIes"tho liad tho bill under I ' consideration. I Au allegation to tbe effect that Mr. Thomas had acted thus and '-betrayed a trust" re- posed In him by the Chamber of J Commerce was scouted Jn certain ,quirtersas a monstrous fabrication, out of harmony with his whole m "honorable" career. I The charge iias, however, been fullyanj. unequivocally provcd.and .-OJie same. source from which eman- nted the denial that the Governor J -cculJbe guilty ufsuch conduct is Jiow engaged in the sublime labor 01 snowing Uiat tbe perfidious be- - yal of a trust, and the ue of 1 -money, paid for another purpose, to cut tbo political throats ot some, of v-the men who contributed it, and -acting with unmitigated deceit, Is -highly honorable. This is not the Mrayitisjut, but precisely what it Amounts to. J 'Asa consequence, those who are icxpresiing themselves openly on the subject without distinction as to rcrry evince Ineffable digust. Ko one lias a single word of commendation commenda-tion for Mr. Thomas. But while the latter has suffered an inestimable inestim-able depreciation In the opinion of zsmj-- 1MBB people who favor straightforward work, the apologists for his course, especially in view of their former ezpreisions'ln the' opposite direc-tlon,'havo direc-tlon,'havo gone so far down as to be almost invisible to the naked eye from a moral and consistent stand-point. stand-point. i ' |