Show NOT yot DONE YET ALTHOUGH the excitement throughout 0 the country occasioned by the 0 outrage perpetrated by a territorial Gover norin taking the position of an autocrat and trying to nullify the ballots of nearly the whole voting population has to some extent subsided influential journals still refer to it in terms of condemnation we clip two or three more extracts that 0 our ur readers may bo be posted on the opinions of the press the washington post of jan says further on this subject under the caption off with his head will mr hayes permit the outrage on civil liberty recently perpetrated by governor murray of utah to pass will this tills man who has trampled the laws under his feet and clearly violated his official oath be permitted to hold the office which lie he has thus disgraced in refusing to certify to the election of cannon as delegate to congress when cannon was conceded chave fourteenths of all the votes cast governor murray was guilty of a gross violation of the law in certifying to the election of campbell who as be he and all tile the world knew was not elected governor murray put his signature to a lie and so far as he be was aule able dis franchised tile the people of utah since tile the JW pod in announcing the decision of murray took occasion to speak of it as the occasion demanded d althe the press of the country has voiced ced public opinion and it is a fact warth corth recording to the credit of t the h I 1 a press and the public that mur rays act finds neither defence nor apology blinded by indice having his wrath inflamed against the mormons cormons Mor mons this weak minded fanatic las as undertaken to elect a delegate for the people of utah in so iso doing he has rendered himself a fit subject for impeachment but as he 18 is too small game ganda for fora a great outlay of candle mr air hayes should dispose of him by tile the immediate ier iet removal noval of his official head it is sald said sai bai d by some of murrays Mur rays friends that the question of can religion or Irrell gion glon has nothing to do with this decision that is not true I 1 the utah gentiles openly assert that cannon was refused the certificate because he is a mormon the shallow falsehood that cannon had not been naturalized will not stand in the face of the positive evidence of his naturalization which ia contal contained fied in the records of the court in utah A transcript cr t of the record of his naturalize aliza mp tion was sent to his cita years ago and is now a part of the records of congress mr cannon will vill be seated as delegate in the next congress the house will not so disgrace itself as to exclude a man so fairly and overwhelmingly elected but justice demands the removal of the officer who has attempted this wanton outrage on oil the rights of the peo people pie uie of a territory from ohp philadelphia times which we have previously cited we take another extract or two cc the action of governor murray of utah in rejecting all the votes cast for the mormon apostle george Q cannon for delegate to congress and certifying mr A G campbell as elected lias has all the fhe flavor of a louisiana or a maine returning board and the new house should consider and decide the quest question ibn with uncommon care there can be na possible partisan ii interest lu 11 evolved in the dispute as delegates have no votes and ore powerless in congress and the house can afford to be entirely honest ili in 4 disposing of ot the contest the times gives a history of the ca case cond condemns emna the action of the governor in unmeasured term terms sas sag as an attempt to hold hoid an election himself to reverse the will of the people 11 it goes on onto ito discuss the pow er of the house of representatives to regulate its own membership and says in conclusion t c whether mr cannon should be excluded from the house because of his practice of polygamy Js 14 a very grave question an and 4 it should be decided in accordance with a well considered policy polley of the government in treating g with organized ests thus far polygamy has been teen tolerated for many years in disregard of our laws there is but one way to overthrow it and that iq 14 by exe eluding the poly polygamist gadist from every official ial lal position tion from congressman to juror and constable andun andon and until til that policy shall be resolutely enforced mr cannon is no bopre ineligible to 6 a seat in congress because of unlawful polygamy than would be maw mand man y others jor gor for tor lor unlawful unlawful gambli gambling n gg adultery and ind co corruption of the ballot lot ap the new yew aw york times has a long leader le aderon on the main maln points of this question quest ign ibn and coming from tile the chief organ orgal a of we the party to which mr murray belongs it ia is significant and rind valuable after giving the particulars of the election the protest and the reply with the action of the governor the times presents the following powerful argument i it will be seen thi then en that the argument of mr campbell rests chiefly upon two propositions first that the functions of the governor are not purely ministerial in the matter of issuing a certificate of election and second that the vitiation of the ballots cast for a candidate who received the tho highest number of votes elects the candidate wha received the next highest vote iota nut but as lome iome of the incidental parts of the th contestant plea comprises points ta raised in the struggle which is constantly going on in utah these are interesting in the act of the territorial le legislature giva giving ng the right of su suffrage arrage to women has been considered ly by the non mormon population of the Teni territory tory as an expedient to fortify in their present position the mormon majority campbell urges in a b his protest that this act is e it attempts to confer the privilege by a special act and on easier terms of qualification than those required by existing general laws applicable to the other sex thus violating the rule of uniformity bat Con congress grossi grossl r i r v which has the right to annul any statute of any territorial Legi negi legislature has ilot riot exercised its ts functions in fil this particular case and it if must appear that Campb elPs position is i untenable able abie when w hen he assumes that the women Is vote included in the cast east for cannon canned was ille 1116 gal and void but assuming that the mormon vote is illegal how does dois Mr campbell CampbelI propose to tw prove that it was wag nil uil nil all vast rast ast for nor ina can nona there is no system cm of regi registry sti 7 in utah by bychich which it can be bb asce rt tallied for whom any an sini single e pei pel persons cast it may be a 4 assumed tsume IV that the women voted for cannon but this is mere moro assumption Another phase of the woman suffrage question in ili this 9 case is found in the ther plea that there thele were wre more women who voted for there were men that lb ib is 19 toyd to say I 1 as suming that the votes th iho tho mormon moi mon women w om were illegal and that they were alf all 11 cast for Can cannon nori norl the deduction deduct fori iori of these illegal votes from the total d of those cast etor for cannon would leave him with fed fewer legal votes th than campbell campbeli Camp beIl bell when we C consider 0 lidid er an th that t cannon lad had 18 votes and campbell campbeli Calda had only 1357 this proposition seems a bold boid one F furthermore urther more as a there 1 1 is and nothing 7 in the returns of wa th e local canvassers to th prove that there whre were luo ino moore re women s v votes 0 t es cas cast east t f for 6 r C cannon an n 0 ri than thau there are legal votes in ini the 06 whole territory it is not easy to see eee what possible bIg bearing this assertion can have on the case if there should bea bez contest in the house of representatives mr campbells Camp beirs assertion would not be of the least avail unless accompanied by jpy evidence bub but after all governor murray murra i is right in issuing the certificate to campbell campbeli rather than cannon if he be has power to ga behind the te returns turns and if the vitiation of the votes cast nor for the tha highest candidate elects the candidate next below him the tha governor may grant a certificate on evidence which may be ly thrown out by the house bf jbf be re I 1 presenta tives I 1 lin fin in this instance however hox hoi yeter it is a difficult to sees where the governor finds his au dhority his certificate to a ai minority candidate even admitting i i the irregularity of the tho poll of the vote cast for cannon there is whatever in the returns ic turns from the canvassers to show any fatal defeet defect or irregularity rand fand andia if lere there were the law under i the governor acts simply says that 0 be he and the secretary shall unseal and examine the returns returns and jur nish to tb each person iia havink tha the highest number of votes dorany territorial office a certificate ore lees leej 1 tion 12 there is nothing there to warrant tile the governor in admitting extrinsic evidence going to coshow show the tha disqualification or ineligibility i athe candidate having 1 he the hight faigh est estt number of votes it is hisa 1 business b ness to give gi the tho certificate to the person who whoa a on om th therace a faco faeo odthe of the returns to pe elected and sead end th we wee c to the house of representatives for redress dr ess 1 then again Is na principle in law hits or equity which gives toa person receiving the th e smaller auril ter ler ber of votes for the 4 the of votes is subsequently proved to le disqualified the house of representatives presenta tives has repeated repeatedly y decided that tho the unseating ofa A sitting mem ber does not necessarily give his seat to the contestant it would bo absurd to say that campbell who recel necel received sed a moiety of all tiie the votes cast mst in utah is elected be because causel causer the opposing who had a arual alual majority of A is ineligible rhe Ta the whole business smacks of tion and ana pettifogging polygamy v my i 1 in utah ia is offensive sive siye to fhe the moral sense of every true american it is becoming more and y v tio to the ridvan advancing cing eing generation gerle gelfo ration nation 1 of mormons cormons Mor mons but polygamy can never be extirpated in any 1 I unnatural raming straining st of the principles of our form of gov government tern ment 11 the arguments argumenti strictures for murrays Mur rays removal which haye have come from the leading journals of of his own party ought to be juffe elent to operate even upon his dull duli brain andhor and show him the immensity of his blunder and the depth of his folly ArTom afi cial clai with ordinary sensitiveness siti veness fo to lignor and less under linder y i the dominion of inordinate vanity vaulty than the object of tah almost uni versal condemnation would at once anter resign the pogi position tion for ba haa that proven himself unfit he minoti j that kind of ofa a ent jm tr portugal wants to makepeace b la eho ehm eto e to vt tween tw cen con england and aad the boers 1 M j ass ird |