| Show HE SHOULD MAKK MAKE it I 1 RIGHT THE journalistic criticisms to which the annual report of the governor has been subjected necessarily exercise him indisputable facts which show conclusively ely that the document contains glaring misstate ments necessarily I 1 bring the veracity of the source into question unless the misrepresentation sen senta tation tiou be attributable to ignorance the latter theory would not mend matters much as it would imply cu culpable pable carelessness in not ascertaining truths that could be easily reached what makes mr bests position less entitled to consideration than it otherwise would be is the fact that the offense committed in the annual report to the secretary of the lat interior erier nas has been several times repeated in his official documents it is probable that because the community has with almost more than exemplary patience submitted to being officially and outrageously slandered by him he be probably forgot that it is possible to reach a point when such submission would not even have the semblance ace of a virtue IV if appears that yesterday mr west in company with a number of otlie othe prominent gentlemen was at neph neahr r juab county this of itself wal wai somewhat remarkable the governor during his official career here having moved about but little among the people outside of this city however on this occasion he took a flying trip southward and at the town named attended a public meeting at which he was one oae of the speakers and is credited with making the following among other remarks there are charges made I 1 am aware that I 1 am animated with feelings of 01 malice and hate bate toward a portion tion of the people of this territory Is ia my official sets acts I 1 say here before you yon aad before my maker that I 1 have mai ice toward no BO man woman or child in utah I 1 came camb to you to administer the laws without malice toward any one with fairness to all and without prejudice I 1 assure you I 1 have and am doing RO HO to the best of my ability if I 1 differ from some of you I 1 will treat you fairly back where I 1 was born and raised men differed I 1 yet they could treat each other with fairness and without malice I 1 believe I 1 cando can do so here it matters not what they say of me I 1 can only onla do my duty to th the e whole people and do that which 1 I 1 bel believe I 1 eve is ip for the good of tile the people and T territory errit ory aud and hasten haste a the day when this T territory errit ory shall be admitted to the union i as one of the greatest of the states as she should be I 1 only mention this that I 1 may place myself aright before you on the start tola tais is not the place to discuss this matter more than this I 1 have a right to have the facts known it is worse than useless governor west to seek to lo dispose of the question to which he alluded by assuming an air of injured innocence A reply of that kind is entirely hidden by the logic of facts that ile he made serious unwarrantable aud and inexcusable misstatements oum ou M to be beyond dispute like the blood stains upon the hands bands of lady macbeth gravely misrepresentative assertions are scattered over the annual report and will not abot out they can only be covered by retraction so long 1009 as they stand the perpetrator of them must remain in the light of one who has in an official capacity perpetrated a gross injustice upon aj al people whom ai as Gover governor hor it was his duty to protect from wrong it if such public infractions of duty are to go unchallenged and rectification must indeed be remote we esteem tit as a duty based on a correct principle to protest against a wrong with a view to its correction almost as much as to refrain from in one to neglect such protection conduces to the growth cf injustice erwest makes a flagrant na Errant departure from the lindof line of gis bis official duty he be may properly expect that his actions in that respect will be analyzed and censured it is not sufficient that the gentle buatt should assert the purity of his motives and that tie he is tree free from ali the e alsin in of malice and without prejudice the cause of his misrepresentation of the majority of the people over wh he holds the position of govern governor is not so much in question as the f fact ct of it it Is not the exciting cluse cause in the breast ef mr west whether it be prejudice malic eor personal or political ulterior ino motives tives that works we toe 1 i djury to the people who are misrepresented it is ane misrepresentation itself i that works the injustice and it if ile he has had sought to treat the mormon aegle people fairly and without prejudice to the e beat pt his ability that Is not apparent to any extent in his bis report otherwise his conceptions of fair treatment are as peculiar as the objectionable doen document ment itself the allusion to the virtue of differing dif ferIn without passion or malice does not touch the question at issue a particle rhe fhe point does not hinge upon a difference of opinion every sensible properly organized person admits that it if is foolish and even wicked for one man to dislike or seek to injure another because of a difference of opinion in the present controversy fact is the element of which the people have reason to complain the governors report is made up almost entirely of materials he be alleges to be truths vey they are in a number of instances utterly untrue if there were any pos pas sivility lity of et the writer of the document being unaware that this was the case at the time he be penned the misrepresentative senta tive assertions he cannot now be ignorant upon that polio point that tact fact has entered the realm of of demonstration this being the status of the subject the way in which mr west can place himself rint right with the people he has wronged is ii by retraction |
