Show THI THE UTAH UTA H THE tre utah commissioners having accomplished the tho work required 0 of them by law jaw for the present pr essitt beason season are pro abent to leave leate for fon the east CU COL godfrey started two or three dayi dayt ago and anti judge carleton and beh ben ator paddock went away this morn ing and by monday governor governors 1 ramsay RY and col pettigrew wib wig ww have turned their backs on the 1 land of the setting settin eun sun thebe these i gentlemen have had h g d a somewhat I 1 difficult and delicate dell deli cite task to pert na it was waa scarcely to be ex petted that they would discharge the dutley imposed upon them by the ninth section of the JEd edmunds munds munda act without censure from one party or another when they arrived in utah it WM WU too late to take any action in regard to tho thu th august election but for ft they were werle not reasonably to ba be bl bim alm na ed the delay in their appointment and of the appropriation for fur their salaries and the expense of the novem ber her election was the cause cau q e of kneir t b ajr air re in the east until after aften af ter ten thi the utah general election eleo tion on reaching this city they expected from the current reports about this terl terni tory that all the difficulties and obstructions they would have to meet would come from the mormons cormons Mor mons lo 10 but to their surprise the obstacles placed in their way were the work of the anti antl mormon clique that has haa stirred up the trouble and occasioned casio caslo ned the coming here hero of the commission those 96 liberal LIberals did not want any november election nor any registration regis ration arrangements but protested vehemently any action by the commissioners Commissi onen and binco since then such opposition as W the commission has had to encounter has come from the same source the clUber liberals ais als opposed the action of the commissioners in regard to woman suffrage and up to the last moment tried to interfere with t the b a I 1 duing ol 01 the thel certificate to the person having the greatest number of votes a urging that the comis comais is erb era had no authority to give the power of granting it to the canvas C anaw bing aing board although the edmunds law is so clear and pointed on that subject the mormon people who han really had the most occasion to complain have said but little ju inn criticism of the commissioners and we d not now propose to say eay anything harsh in reia rela relation tion to them tiley tuey are very agreeable gentlemen and aud have endeavored we believe belits ve to aoi act within the lines of th the e dut duties es they considered to be required of them at the same came time we thinh they have stretched colne coine points beyond the limits of the law which created their office in their determination mi nation to accomplish what they understood to be the tho object they were beal sou i here to achieve namely to prevent any polygamist from taic tak ing part in the election we think they had no authority in the lavy jaw to prescribe an datil vath in it relation to polygamy they thought they had the people submitted we consider that supposing they possessed that authority the addition of tine toe words 49 49 io in the marriage relation to the language of the law which in efreb effect t shu bhul L out all ali I 1 erms connected with the practice ot of plural mar marriage lage ilage and let in all citizen who practiced practised harlotry and ful cohabitation of 0 every kind bind boutot out of the marriage relation 11 wag was not in accord with either the language or the invent of the edmunds act they considered otherwise the pe po pie submitted we believe that under the laws ot of the territory and of congress the great majority of the citizens should have had a bet ter showing in the registration offices and the tha judges of elec elee election tiow s they tool took a different view the tho th e people submitter submit tej tei and in these quiet submissions there ther 0 o was no eahl luon of anger or ill III feeling fe towards the commissioners neither Is 18 any manifested at the present time were differences of opinion which provoked no improper or ob obstructive action on the part of the mor mons sl and now we can pay kay ay perso personal naW that we are gad giad glad of the deol alcons siong rf ri the tho commissioners Commission era fra on all these points in view of the results and the I 1 cical de ibe abe election just closed taken takegi entirely out of the hands of persons whom was waa the slightest feasible charge of polygamy it was an election of mono ga mists including the tha voters the officers ficera of conducting it and the candidates it was an overwhelming defeat of the so called liberal liberals and a complete refutation of many of their clams and charges and it was pla ed beyond the power of the liberal governor to again defeat the will of the p ople express expressed cd at liberal governor to again defeat the will of the p ople express expressed cd at the ballot box or to give is certificate of clee clec election tiou to a friend and aud fellow k artiman who had not the shadow of a legal claim to its rec p tion the commissioners although their actions an t rulings have havo deprived a large jargo number of citizens male males and femal femali of the right to exercise exe raisa roisa tiie trie elective elect lve lva franchise chie chise e which we think i hey stil law fully hold bold will no go away with the kindly feelings alinga fe of a great many ot of people who expect to then theu the u n agaid la in the cham chambers bets of 4 these grand old mount mountain alm aim when duty calls them to return and with them we join in wishing each of those gentlemen a pleasant and pro ferjus winter a mer y christinas christmas and a happy new yeu yel |