| Show THE TRUTH JS IS SURE TO WIN alien allen 0 campbell claims to be a democrat there is a stron strong geffort effort among the promoters of the conspiracy to tb rob utah of representation in congress those conspirators spira tors being republicans to make a party question of the dispute over the right to the seat and enlist the republicans on the campbell e I 1 side eld they ethey with their connections being in a voting majority but we notice that some strong lean lican papers are getting holdi of the true state of the ease case among them is the new york which is a leading organ gwan of the republican party ana and which has the following to say any on the utah delegate question the utah contest in the house is among the very first topics for brisk discussion the question was not settled yesterday and it is likely to cause much trouble before the seat is awarded clerk adams it appears placed cannons name on the roll of 01 mem members bers elect the ground for his action being the presentation to him of A certificate from froni the territorial secretary showing that cannon had received votes whereas campbell had only 1357 votes speaker keifer yesterday ruled that cannons name was wrongfully placed on the roll and he forbade that it should be called this is a somewhat arbitrary ruling and it is doubtful if it cabbe can ean be sustained the certificate of election tn on which campbell bases his claim dalm is a singular document the governor does not certify that campbell received the highest number of votes cast at the election for delegate but that he was the person being A citizen of the united states having the greatest number of votes etc this is ts an ingenious invasion of the law the governor having allowed himself to be first drawn into an au inq inquiry u i of cannons cannon s alleged imperfect naturalization n a ta the foregoing are editorial utterances of the time and the annexed is from comments in the same fame paper on a telegraphic account of the recent proceedings in the house the same question as to mr cannons Can nona qualifications was raised a few years yeara ago sigo in congress and after a thorough investigation decided in his favor governor murray had no right to issue a certificate of election to t 0 campbell and in view of the tile constitutional right night of the house to determine the qualifications of its members it is doubtful whether the utah court had any authority to pass uon upon that question it ia the duty of the governor to certify to the facts as are of record in the office of the secretary of state slate for the territory in this case caser the governor ignored the facts and upon the assumption that the candidate having the highest number of votes was disqualified to serve as a delegate in congress issued his fits certificate to a man who received josa low chan than one tenth of the number of votes cast for Us opponent thus the governor Govern dr has assumed to decide a question which the house alone can decide bold and rank falsehood is the chief resort of the conspirators and falsehood for a time may work its way with the multitude but give truth a little time and though it is often slower blower it is a great deal surer than its opposite and the viler the falsehood the grea greater greaten ter ten its de defeat feat when truth gets a fair hearing the facts in this case are bound to come to the top no matter how deep or murky the flood of falsehood iet let loose to drown it out the manifestation of thet the truth ruthin in this case and victory for delegate cannon are inseparable and the latter will be the inevitable consequence of the former time will try it all and prove what we bayto be correct |
