Show PREMATURE PETITIONS ITS IN the early stages of the assault made upon JRe Ile celver dyer and his big attorneys which resulted in ta the investigation vesti gation before an examiner and made the matter so notorious we intimated strongly that there was a political plot at the bottom of the whole affair the attack was followed by the thrusting into prom indence of the names of such gentlemen as ex chief justice zane W H dickson and others as suggested candidates for federal offices in this territory it was necessary in the estimation of certain I 1 active politicians that some steps should be taken before the ath of march t to secure radical changes in the complexion of officials in utah hen hence the attack upon the marshal rather than the receiver as it was ably anticipated that the raising of a furore against him might also detrimentally affect the judiciary officers by this means it was in all probability hoped that the president with his executive broom would make ft A clean sweep of all incumbents of 0 federal offices during the course of the examination counsel for wa to respondents offered to introduce evidence to the effect that the pretense on the part of the school trw trash tees to protect the fund derived irow fro taking a large amount of property from a church was a mere 00 face affair that it was not tho motive which inspired them but the whole busi business new was the result of a political conspiracy that certain interested parties had bad raised a fund r for the purpose of conducting opera kopew eions for the attainment of the ob object in view judge harkness declined to allow the introduction of mony of that kind if he had it ft 16 more than likely the whole plot pl would have been unearthed and brought to light 7 it is next to impossible however r to keep the real motives of the wb ive politicians under cover the true inwardness of their aims bubble up so that they become cloo to the gaze of the observant on 0 looker we ventured to remark this much some time since this p diction has been verified some wb sooner than was anticipated it I 1 comes in the shape of the of petitions for the instalment installment rf of ja certain citizens into federal abick ip this territory among the carigo nan are those of the gentlemen sag gug jj in the same connect connection tion bea becot r the inauguration of the a attack of f the trustees led on by ex cb justice zane upon the marshal jj rather than the receiver and btty 1210 attorneys those petitions it appears WOO widely circulated yeste yesterday iday A aate hab N tone was given to the dIVO on account of the notorious SOO asep d gilson taking a conspicuous 9 1 7 active part in forwarding the itt tekeste of the candidates sana sam 10 generally on handed hand on occasions occasiOn that hat sort he is looking out for foi chaum ages and is holding his dish right side up in the hope of catch hig political scraps scrape as they fall from h tables of the higher prospective there theft to is a somewhat striking feature ur regarding this movement it would seem from scanning the fames mes seeing that they are almost delusively those of former incur ants of official positions that the 40 active tive politicians who are seeking ta w rule or ruin rain the territory axe are rather her short of timber otherwise why should there be such deep to reinstate ex officials Is the h liberal Ij iberal party short of brains or what is the matter have these Put lemen who have been thus prominently brought forward in the estimation of their friends a life I 1 leace upon federal offices cei in this territory or at least one that will while the national party to which they profess to be attached is in Q power there appears to be a superficial anxiety to put judge zane and E 4 A ireland back into positions which they hey formerly occupied the anti mormon momon J journal of awa 18 city makes a strong objection to the flatter latter forcibly expressed on the ground of his general smallness sma Uness it P him a peculiar compliment by abing that he was a good officer J but t that he be was altogether too pen OUS this reminds one of a re k made by a person who was upon the quality of aa acquaintance he said he would be a very good fellow vese S he not such an infernal rascal the ra remark of our contemporary h reference to mr ireland is JUBe Sell nerous erous because disingenuous it t has a double meaning each the opposite of the other it should not be forgotten by that journal that if these geee two gentlemen are placed c in office it might possibly re autt in a 4 trust in a small way in treib and split wood a reele toft ty of executive and judicial cefres ce eeles fAes as it were so it might be presumed we should imagine wit certain observations which made by judge powers on nn the wr question at the opening of the at i nation alon into the conduct of the hal rather than the receiver Ee celver all d his attorneys when the Oct alef justice made certain ions to the alleged thorl won of mr vegetable products by byer the e office seekers e 8 te Is at fever heat the political awl te is boiling bailing the sc ramblers for office we are numerous it is not improbable that as the work goes bravely on the active politicians will be getting their hands into each others hair in the meantime let them not have their hopes exalted too high it is an anold old saying theres many a slip twixt the cup and the up |