Show THE CANNON CAMPBELL CAMPBEL 1 CONTEST tae THE sacramento mord nord record word union which 18 is 13 generally clearheaded clear cloar headed on public questions has haa the following editorial under the above caption cc rhe the indications are that congress will refuse to admit either cannon or campbell and this as wo have before said baid seems to be the most logical and generally sound position to be taken though it would be still more just junt if the faa fa far A of cannon cannons ineligibility was ascertained course it is allowable to reject him on the ground that lie he has no certificate though that position savors too much of sharp practice for it certainly is not cannons fault that lie tie has no certificate he was unquestionably the recipient of majority of the votes in truth received nineteen of all the votes that were cast it was the plain duty of the governor of utah to give cannon a certificate the governor violated bis dut yand committed a flatly illegal act in ln giving ving the certificate to campbell w who 1 0 had been not ot elected but reject edby the voters governor murra murrays Mur rays course urse urbe in the matter was character characterized d by equal folly and presumption tion indeed and it proved him to be a most incompetent official aa As t to campbell he has no claim wha whatever er to a seat since a bogus certificate is is certainly no better than none at all it would however be scarcely dignified in congress to oust cannon on a technicality if he is not a citizen that fact will furnish famish a perfectly good and lelent ground for declaring that there has been no election but to refuse him a seaton the score of his lack of a certificate is like punishing a man for having had his pocket picked this Is the view that members of congress will take whose minds are not confused by the popular outcry against polygamy or are not themselves so pre prejudiced against the ai mormons Mor mons ras jas not to be able to see the entire disconnection of the subject of their dislikes and the tiie matter under consideration it is now generally conceded that the person who was put forward as the tivo of the fraud to which the governor lent the influence of his office and the seal of the territory 1 has hla bas haa no chance whatever of an bing ping i seated the only hope there was for him was to foist him in 0 on the claims of holding a certificate the reference of the case to a committee virtually kills killa his pretense because the equities not merely the technicalities will be now considered it will be placed beyond doubt to the committee on elections that A a campbell Campbe II was not elected and therefore that lie he ia Is not entitled to alseat a eat in a congress it will be also clearly established that hongel hon Geo goo Q cannon was elected by an overwhelming wh elming majority what then will stand in the way of his being declared entitled to the seat first that be he is alleged to bo be an alien second that he is a polygamist the first charge can and no doubt will be disprove disproved dL the second is at present no bar to a seat in t angress on gress if therefore there fores mr cannon can establish the fact of his citizenship and of this he has the clearest pi goofs there is nothing legal in the way to the recognition of his right as the delegate from utah and nothing in fact except the feeling that has been aroused against mormonism and this has no proper bearing upon the question at issue our statement that relations are no bar bai to a seat in congress may be disputed by those not familiar with the bearings of the law but it is correct nevertheless aa as a little reflection will disclose if mr cannon had bad been or could be convicted of bigamy or polygamy that could be urged against his bis admission but as it cannot be shown that he be has broken the law of xa 62 that objection is not in the way but he be has admitted and his admission has been published th that at he has married plural wives and now lives with them very true and there is no law against his living with his wives that is no of flence against any law of congress or of this territory the law ot 62 makes it a crime to marm plural wives it has haa never been in evidence in any way that mr cannon has violated that law it is not at all improbable that the matter will be referred back to the territory for a new election as intimated by the record union and in the press dispatches from washington if so it will be because certain congressmen are too much afraid of public opinion to io not act according to law and equity the lack of a formal certificate as stated is no fault of mr cannons he was elected without dou t and obtained a certified copy of the election returns showing his majority the committee on elections is authorized to determine equities of to see who was elected and BO so declare that committee goes behind the certificate which is merely evidence of a fact and examines into the fact and that is beyond all controversy that mr cannon was duly elected his hia eligibility being the same as when he served in former sessions of congress and the objections against it being refuted legally properly justly he will be entitled to the beat seat and if the absence of a certificate in a certain form is to be the sole means of preventing his admission then by the same rule rules the seat sent of every member of or congress 1 depends entirely upon the action or non action of the governor of the state wherein he was elected and this would bor boa singular endowment of one man power in a representative government which ever way the event turns it will be under all the circumstances gratifying to the people of utah because the fraud attempt attempted id has failed the conspirators have reaped nothing but Ign ignominy and the tee whole country has been made to see that in attempting to proceed against the mormons cormons Mor mons and the utah delegate the unprincipled and have been obliged to act in opposition to law jaw honor truth and common decency |