Show 4 LS r r I 1 i IRON AND JUSTICE GAIN THE VICTORY teri THE question has frequently been asked why with mountains of iron and tind plenty of coal in the immediate vicinity of af pf th tho the 0 ore do not riot the people of utah and especially of iron county manufacture froni thus supplying a continual and large demand and providing labor for numerous idle hands the answer to this so far faz as it relates to iron county may bo be found in the following particulars of affairs re relating to the iron claims in the region dei del designated 1 gnat etl eli the existence of or extensive deposits of iron ore in the south gouth has been known almost from the beginning of the territory iron county was thus named because of the immense deposits of ore within its borders attempts were made in an early day with partial success to manufacture metal far more precious than gold from the raw material in that county but Bu owing towing to the magu magn magnetic due gue nature of the ore and add the lack of understanding of the process by which the different kinds of the metal in close proximity amity could be properly manipulated making fell into abeyance men of means turning their money and influence into channels which led to quicker profits profits than were promised by ay iy that branch of industry in 1874 ho however weyer weter the great western em iron company formed for the purpose of working the ores in iron county bought up the claims which had been beed held by various parties baek back to 1866 1868 when the mining district was organized there but othis this company co mcany not fiot making the he progress expected the enterprise began to dwindle and in january 1878 bishop thomas taylor beame the chief owner ownen of these various claims by from the great western co company mcany that gentleman fu furnished r his assessments and went on with the work of development devel fulfilling the law 17 and made formal application for a patent but in january 1879 one oho alien allen G campbell now commonly called MC or minority campbell campbeli ote ate attempt in t 4 eds ed m in true mining free freebooter boo ter stae style 1 to jump the these 6 claims assisted by another mining evv j i eui ekl matthew cullen and others this was done by putting gup up location notices ba the claims owned by bishop taylor the jumpers swearing ln in emphatic if inelegant terms that they were not going to see him taking up such valuable va liable country however x 1 mr ar taylor continued with his work of development and they commenced suit by protest against the issuance of the patent so that they might gain possession thinking that the bishop who had met with some financial reverses would not be able to defend they had reckoned without their host mr air taylor obtained the legal services of sutherland mcbride A bruce taylor and warren N dusenberry the case was tried at beaver before judge Em emerson erdon erion from the ath ath to the 12 th of december last and arguments were heard he ard in this city before the same judge on the and of Decet december liber lyber judge sutherland 13 peaking speaking for mr taylor nd and presley denney Denne yand and P van zile for campbell co judge En emerson ierson has now given a decision to the effect that the location of plaintiffs was not in accordance with r law aw aud and that mr lira taylors claims were not open tore to relocation location re this is a great victory for mr taylor and we congratulate him on his success there is now a probability of the opening and working of those immense deposits of iron metal manufactured from which has been pronounced by amos hother W J silver of this city and owe competent Jud f gesto be equal to that made in alry airy any auy part of the world it is true an appeal may be taken but there is not the shadow s of d a chance that the decision elsion db will be reverse dand i 1 t ignot is not agull at all nil likely that the ap appeal peal will be made except upon the hypothesis Eo po thesis that mr air taylor is not financially nanc lally a tie lle to defend his case if such an idea is entertained by the mehi mefi men who have suddenly leaped hito into t ho the possession of money it will soon be b e dissipated bishop thomas taylor I 1 la the wrong man to give up the ship when holding on to the 4 1 helm will bring him into port he will nind find what support homay ho may need and will never iet let go while he has any grip left campbell may suca succeed for awhile with the aid of a treacherous and lawless official in jumping a claim clalra to a seat but he wil wll not be able to jump the iron mines in the south nor rob the rightful owners of their hard earned property go goon on with the iron mines and asso as soon boon onas as the ores are sufficiently developed to warrant it let our capitalists put up the needful works to give lve ive employment to labor anxious for exercised exercise and supply the home market at least with the most valuable of all metals for the building up and enrichment of a country and a community RESPECT FOR LAW AND THE government THE following is clipped from droin the providence R L X morning star and shows the views of that able paper on the certificate question the star has no sympathy with mormonism niam yet jet looks at the subject from the standpoint of common sense and republican principles the article was published before news hews of the actual perpetration of the outrage hadre had reached acl ed the east at the election in utah vember delegate cannon was re chosen to a seat in congress but gov murray has thus far refused to give him a certificate and it is said mid will decide to today day wh whether ether he will will wili give it to him at all or not A little more than a year jago ago prest hayes suddenly began to manifest great interest in the mormon question and instead of re appointing Gov Emery who in a quiet unostentatious way llad aad done more than either of his predecessors to check polygamy and make the mormons cormons respect the government of the united states sent out to salt bait lake city the present governor who was expected to represent a more pronounced and aggressive policy the few gentiles in the territory received him with open arms but very little has been heard from him since he has simply been powerless now itow in the tho last weeks of president haless administration in order we suppose to justify his appointment he seems to contemplate usurping the functions of congress and attempting 1 to pass on the turns and qualifications of a delegate in congress it is none of govi murrays Mur rays business even if mr air 10 OcL ni 1 ia nix nil y on if ie ho h igl L CL aa QA ev everybody e knows a plurality of wives Th the house eHouse of represent tives bythe constitution of tm tate united states is made the sole judge of this matter and that is we tribunal before which the question must be tried it is just such contempt of law as this that has made united states officials in utah powerless for good in the past anu and and we hoped that the severe rebuke administered by the supreme court of the united states to judge mckean would prove a lesson to all federal officials who might follow him we have no sympathy whatever with mormonism we desire to seg see it destroyed root and branch and it ift is because illegal acts acta in the name of the united states government only establish the institution more and more firmly that weare we are aro so earnest in entering our prot protes eai bat fc against them the star is right on the subject of nion Alor mon mou contempt for officials who have no respect for the laws which they swear to uphold we cannot but treat with scorn beom and derision the pretended veneration of those persons for the laws of our country 11 about which they prate sp so much when hen they assail the mon mor mons a as 9 lawbreakers there as is just j list one statute which the latter day saints haye not considered as binding upon them as other laws of the land and this because it was specially framed a against ginst what the they regard as can an asta establishment lis ils ament of re rell reil 1 gion in their conformity nonconformity non to that statute they y hava have not nol acted in th the espirit spirit of lawlessness and land rebellion for the simple reason that they did not consider it valid it does not affect this particular point to say that the constitutionality bality and validity of the law have been passed u upon on by bv the highest j judicial authority ty the fact remains that the people I 1 here who ave entered I 1 i jO blural family relations did s so under religious convictions conIct lons jons and with the firm impression that the law against C it was unconstitutional mandof many of them having contracted those marriages previous to chepas the passage of that law the essence of crime is in the intent and if it be argued or conceded that these people w were er e mistaken it must mus also be acano acknowledged N 1 aged that their in intentions 1 1 were not in the nature of wilful 1 in a subordination to recognized d and un disputed enactments and authority yet they are continually accused of lawlessness and chattoo that too by persons who do not hesitate for s moment to violate a law local or national when it stands in the way of their schemes some of the most corrupt scoundrels living endowed with a little brief authority have been the loudest to proclaim that the mormons cormons Mor mons were lawbreakers and in the case under consideration the otric official ial lal who has hag wilfully broken the law of congress prescribing his duty in the premises and violated his oath of office just to gratify his personal animosity carry out his par part of an infamous conspiracy and help to seat a person of his own party not elected by the people anu and who by baso so doing has committed one of the highest political crimes has hag made it his business whenever he had bad the opportunity to accuse the mormons cormons Mor mons whom he has now attempted to defraud of being lawbreakers law breakers and rebels against the government how much respect can the people of thi this s territory feel for officials imposed upon them by arbitrary aut authority honay horAy who make it the business of their brief career to vilify abuse and misrepresent them branding them as opposed to the government simply because some of them have ignored ig norad a disputed statute when those officials show by their acts as in this instance that they care nothing for law when it stands in the way of their own owl ends and purposes if the government of the united states desires that sion and homage which some leopla affect to think the one thing needful in utah it must at least be represented by officials who can claim the thi e respect of honorable men As it is while we venerate the institutions of our country ive we despise most of the men who from time to time tithe are forced upon us as rulers in violation of the very fundamental princia principles les ies of democratic republicanism MORE OPINIONS OF THE PRESS WE publish ta day a few moro more moro more extracts from our exchanges on the subject of the blunder fraud sworn falsehood or whatever the public please to call it perpetrated b by v the governor of ot aiau uta u the legal position taken by these journals is impregnable in kb one who hai has attempted to justify the governors course haryet has yet yeb done so on the claim that he was sustained by the law it is only on the ground of expediency that any edfort effort is ma made de to endorse the steal there are not wanting either persons or papers who would countenance any unlawful measure in order to acet each teach the mormons cormons Mor mons as they phrase it submission to the laws that is they would justify the violation of one law to enforce submission to another they would ride roughshod rough shod over a constitutional provision and a congressional statute both founded on the very foundation principles of human rights in orde r to inspire respect for a an n en enactment framed against a ceremony claimed by some to be religious and by others to be non reli rell but which is not essentially criminal and can only be made so by law this however is not the sentiment of the country As the true nature of the governors offense offence becomes bomea better understood its enormity is appreciated and bitto bitter r opponents of mormonism on ohl general principles utterly condemn the erime crimp by which the p person voted against by almost the entire population of a territory is 18 placed by the arbitrary edict of one man in the position he fhe would have oce occa occupied pied if voted for by the people no just man or woman in the union made acquainted with the truth of this matter can sustain an act by which one individual assumes to reverse the legal vote of a whole community it is too much in the nature of absolute monarchy to be endorsed by the citizens of a republic no matter how much they may be divided by party politics most of the papers from which we quote are of the same party as the official whose course t they hey so vigorously bously condemn under the caption of governor I 1 murray A blunder the sacramento record union a strong and able republican paper and an opponent of mormonism has the following in in its issue of A jan 1 behave we have already commented on the fhe grave gra vo blunder made by gover goyer nor nur murray ray nay in utah in issuing a cert ceri falcate a t 0 of election to congress to the minority candidate but the question is so serious a one that it cannot be dismissed without further consideration we have shown that governor murray had no authority to inquire into cannons ell eligibility Y and that in doing so he at once violated the plain letter of the law and usurped the constitutional prerogative re 0 of congress apart from these considerations however his course is utterly wrong and indefensible fen sible for even supposing that he ha hai I 1 1 been empowered to declare cannon ineligible that authority could not have justified him in issuing the certificate to campbell there are few points in american political law more thoroughly settled than this our courts have repeatedly and almost uniformly held that the ineligibility of a majority candidate does not elect the minority candidate there is moreover one celebrated case in point which we should have supposed a republican governor could not have forgotten I 1 we vve refer to that of Cron inthe oregon elector the electoral commission adjudicated that case and in line with the position here stated the republican counsel had taken this ground and their view was accepted by the commission in this state there have been several decisions by the supreme court to the same e effect and in fact it maybe said that american law has taken this stand asa as a finality the justice of the position is we consider undeniable in every political contest it must be held that the majority not only vote jor for the candidate who receives their sut sul suffrage orage but against the candidate who is defeated should the majority candidate therefore be shown to have been ineligible it is impossible that th the e minority candidate should be entitled to the office since it is clear that he was rejected by the majority in such a case the only tenable conclusion is is that there has been a failure to elect and it becomes necessary supposing the course possible as it baynot may liot always be to boid bold a anew new election governor murray consequently has committed a twofold fol foi derror error he has usurped the prerogative of congress in undertaking to pass upon the qualifications of an elected delegate to that bod body yand and he has ha issued his certificate in contravention traven tion of the established law in i the gem wem ematz sen sea A M flagrant case ease lof lot of lawlessness in an executive officer has in fact seldom oh occurred por |