| Show editorials objectionable OFFICIALS ama aman A MAX mas N has been appointed postmaster at provo and the citizens of that place without respect to party object in fact they protestant prot protest estand and have forwarded the their r protestations by telegraph to the postal department at washington they claim that the person nominated tor for the position one J G kenney ls is totally unfit unlit for it being 7 a non resi dent a man roan of bad general repute and that the duties of the office are bein being satisfactorily administered uy oy the present besent incumbent mrs birs INIC me these reasons would seem to be sufficient on their face to prevent the almost consummated change would be almost conclusive elsewhere lw but alas we have no voice and no influence in such things in utah and we fear the efficient and desired official will have to make way for the one whom nobody wants it that kind of thing were nvere only confined to post offices it would not be so bad but it reaches ancl and controls every p place lace in the gift of the government and some somo that are not the abject now being sought itz into to make all offices appointive and suppress the peoples will gui entirely and if it should succeed provo will not think that being merely dispossessed of a competent postmistress to make room for a back not is the greatest mis nils forgue in store f for or it these are strange times THE ELECTIONS THE result of the elections yesterday will be a source of surprise to nearly everybody and a genuine cause of dismay to several so confidently did the republicans rely upon recapturing New york that it seemed to be conceded to them in advance the democrats apparently patently ly lying idly and listlessly on their oars awaiting the I 1 inevitable A majority of even was claimed fo for r davenport while none of his more prominent partisans were willing to fall below but behold the miscalculations of the politician the result is quite the reverse and if hill lias has not received the immense e majority claimed for his opponent he has swept the state by sufficiently large figures to end all controversy having gained the magical trophy of success inthe in the empire 3 when the odds were nvere so greatly against him places if hill ill lii in the front rank of candidate candidates s for the succession to president cle cleve cieve ve land whom he succeeded in the gu gubernatorial ber chair of ne new v york it was in virginia however that the most interest interesting irig contest took place two sons of th the first families were op opposing osing each other for the thet governorship ip fitzhugh lee a nephew of the renowned robert E lee bein being I 1 the democratic candidate and john S wise 1 s a son of henry A wise the nire yel fire r 1 yeater leater eater ll 11 carrying the republican banner it was more like A family quarrel than a political struggle wise acting in concert with senator Af ahone mahone had been instrumental in creating ga a read yuster juster j uster party in the stare state the object of which was the rearrangement of its financial obligations on a basis ot of practically bothin nothing g on the dollar they naturally attracted the negroes and the great bulk of the tha more ignorant whites around their nucleus and the result was a fusion with the republicans public cans ans by means of which the allies captured and for several years have held the state until lately the name was dropped f from rem their organization and they came ame out da as full fledged republicans that thai seems to have sounded the death knell of both the allied hosts gen lee being neing elected by Y arr arf immense walo Wajo majority rity both he and his opponent represent so far as such h thing may be said to have extended into the present day the chivalry of the south and both are able and popular but the natives of the old oid dominion like some other people despise anything savoring of treachery hence general wise was practically defeated before the cam pain pal pai n opened in connecticut the tho democrats have made sweeping gains the I 1 same in nw new 0 jersey geisey in mississippi til y had no opposition but penns pennsylvania V iowa an and d nebraska remain unmoved in th republican column altogether it would seem that lemo bemo democratic rati g ascend E neif neri with a proviso is pretty we well weil assured throughout the country the proviso is that the republicans must vacate and tile the silent message conveyed to president Cl cleveland oveland this morning from his supporters notably those in new I 1 ork is that he must do his part an and d permit no unnecessary delay to intervene in utah ive vve we siave piave ave nothing to lose by a change and can afford to our oui peace and take things as they come increasing THE population who array themselves a against z ainest the majority of population tio n s eem seem to have that one object in view and so bent ate they upon the attainment of it and it alone that all things else eise even such details as make up lap a consistent whole are apparently lost sight ol 01 consistency is not considered logic is an unknown quantity I 1 in a the crusade common sense is too of often ten sacrificed and all efforts are blindly bent upon the consummation of a purpose without reference to io cause causs and with only a blind stagger ino ins t galt gait alt to the effect maintained A it is is said that wd as a community are a long way behind our neighbors in all material respects our moral standard being nil as against their own full fuli f uli all measure in support of this they bring forth the tattered and nd torn figment of inferior population claiming that with its superior perlor nu advantages salt lake should have a population twice as large at least as is the case showing in anis connection and repeatedly how bow denver which was settled late later occupies that position on the census rolls with reference tous tons to us and then they proceed to denounce each and every measure having a tendency to swell our number and place us where they claim we ought to have pave been iong long ag ago ngo go it if great grea t numbers are so much a desideratum it would be wise for fon fo r them and justice to us to take into consideration the means by which it can b reached other critics might have done so but these particular people have iong long since shown that they are not critics critis merely fault inders having ulterior purposes in view and as such are not in possession of a high class of wisdom nor disposed to 10 do lo even evenhanded handed justice when the other thing will answer their nefarious purposes better how is the population of a state a territory or a city to be increased we know ok 0 but two ways by natural production and by immigration the bior mormons cormons Mor Alor mons have all along encouraged and do still encourage botti born plans they pay as much attention to that branch of political economy as to any other perhaps more than any other they not only believe in the promotion of one but both and have to that end not merely theorized and speculated but adopted practical measures by encouraging cou raging marriage and domes domesticity tic tie t they found the means of increase in our midst and by subscribing to the perpetual emigration fund and sending means individually to friends and relatives in other countries is have provided the means fori for nany many thou thousands to migrate to this country settle down permanently and help to develop its resources the results of such action are visible our cities and towns have increased in population steadily and solidly with but a very slight accession from irom the ranks of those nv who ho come here to censure and do it but would remain to praise if it they spoke honestly and candidly and what do they say IV while hile hiie calling us tc task for not being greater numerically than we are they at the same time unqualifiedly and without stint denounce the very means by which we are endeavoring to proceed to the situation which ahil they claim we ought to occupy they ridicule the large families customary in utah bold up their hands bands in holy horror at the prolific propagation of our race by means of plural or single marriage denot denounce thee our immigrating scheme as a fraud want laws passed to prevent the importation bf mormons cormons Mor mons and andin in almost lne ine same breath brand us as ai reactionaries anti antl progress and all that is productive of retrogression in and retardation of tile the state because our numbers increase so slowly Is not cot tais this a truthful statement of their position in the premises and ours and does it not again anh and still more fully illustrate what we have so often charged and proved tuat they are totally unwilling to be reconciled and would nind find fault even if the commonest kind ind of common sense were against them and their propositions atwould it would see i bo so b o if facts mean what they usually import if logic is all thad that the term implies one would think there was enough to find had fault with in the social attitude of those who obstruct the increase of our race by means of destruction before and after birth elsewhere to give our detainers retainers defa deta iners steady employ employment employee me n t without having lo 10 come to utah t to have a lafile file to gnaw go to you are not wise NO LOBBYISTS tue the THE tun marmon corruption fund for use in congress is to be bigger than ever this winter it Js to be said in their favor however that the mormon lob b fists are never neven women phila A bics the above means more than the mere satire which it contains and its it entire untruthfulness would lead tae casual reader to suppose the mormons cormons Mor mons know nothing of any corruption fund and have no stock whatever in any corruption agency but if they had bad they would certainly send senci none of the opposite sex to washington or engage en age any already there to transact business neis for tor them it would be an outlay for us in any event and aud our I 1 people are not noted for attempts to secure favorable results b by eitner either the purchase of men or the dishonor of women no wo we want justice and will use every honorable means to gain it but the practices so prevalent in highly moral washington are not bv by us considered honorable honorah hono rab and therefore not to be used under any circumstances the christian union that pious publication which rarely falls to get in some slur at mormonism 11 comments as follows on the recent B ristle epistle of tie cie first presidency the answer answer to all this from a gentile point of view is plain and aud simple if it the cormons mormons havea nave a revelation from god requiring of those who are above abose reproach to enter into polygamous ous oas marriages under the awful penalty of damnation they should not take up their residence on od territory which belongs to a people who have a revelation which forbids polygamous the man who himsel himself under obligation to have the jerks has no right to come into my parlor to enjoy his bis religious gibus spasms the writer evidently intended to convey the idea that the territory of utah belonged to the united states when the latter day saints took up their residence here which is not correct for f or it wasat that time mexican soil and the latter day saints helped belpedio to secure it to the united states by conquest nor was it true that the people of this lation nation had taen any revelation forbidding poly polygamous ganious marriages A special and prescriptive law has been passed by mormon gisla tors tor for the purpose of en trapping this pe people p e which inay may be considered as a r revelation ii ion lon but it ilas lias no more the semblance of a revelation from god nor is it calculated to tead tend any more to morality than if issued by satan himself it this is the strongest argument which the theological writers of the christian union can produce a against alast an order of niarra gc divinely commanded dud observed anciently by men of god whose memory they pretend to revere they would show better taste and obtain more credit for consistency by letting the subject alone eno ero FROM t a communication published elsewhere it will be seen that lyman leavitt one of the brethren indicted in arizona for poly polygamy amy and util ulli unlawful adf ul cohabitation has been acquitted no credit however for this result is to be ac corded to the judge before whom lie he was tried for it he could have had his hla his hia way he would have been convicted whether guilty or innocent Our 0 ur correspondent does not state which judge the trial triai was had before but the synopsis given of the cham charge e to the gra grand ad jury sounds wonderfully like the notorious sumner howard whose removal from the bench he be has so uniformly disgraced nyada was a piece of tardy j ustice justice for which the tho people of arizona doubtless feel duly grateful the jurymen juryman who ignored the the outrageous charge of the court and chose to be governed by statute law in the case instead of tha that enacted by the arrogant judge for the he t L occasion are de deierling serling serring of credit for lor their f fairness and firmness their action evinced that they had llad minds of their own and did not propose t to 0 surrender their own intelligence an and d the discretion which belongs to jurymen juryman at the dictum of a artisan partisan P judge how different their thein action to that of some of the junies juries made to order in this district that for instance in the case of aurelius miner ulner whose verdict was contrary not onay to the law lav and the evidence but the positive instructions of the court honor to that arizona jury tile the sacramento eee bee says of the white cottony cushion scale th the c ravages of which are viewed with such apprehension in that state there should be ao no attempt to disguise 11 guise the fact that the di of thi this z formidable past is a hobt serious danzer danger dane dana er unless lue tue most must prompt and radical measures are taken for its extermination wherever it appears the insect will be very apt to solve the fruit problem in a way that will make a f further ur consideration of freight I 1 rates unnecessary uni the fruit growers of eve every r y count county should band together an and d em employ inspectors to enforce the destruction or cleansing of infested trebs trees the enemy llis flies on the wings of f the w in cland cooperative ac tion a against it Is necess necessary arv the salvation of property worth millions of dollars and the preservation of what has promised to become the greatest industry in the state is involved in this matter let it be remembered that no vineyard or orchard cl of any any description is safa from this fearful tearful pest which thrives on the eucalyptus even it kills every tree orvine or vine that it attacks unless remedies are promptly applied it has recently appeared at and numerous other localities cali ties in the wine districts and is nol not unlikely to spread through the whole state the organ of the french population of mexico the trait d union publishes the following the year in the church of district of treves there isa stone tablet that contains the following inscription in german when easter shall lail tall on st marks day and st anthony shall chant us the gloria on whitsuntide and st john shall present himself to us on the day of corpus christl christi the earth will wil I 1 r resound C s aund with vit yit 11 cries of anguish now in 1886 easter comes exactly on st marks day the twenty fifth of april whitsuntide tails falls on st anthonys day the of june and corpus christi christ comes on Joans St da day dav the twenty twenty fourth of june so we shall shail soon see sec if the sad prophecy is to be realized the vital statistics of 1884 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