Show ONLY AN importation AN intimation from washington wash agton to the effect that president harri son would probably depart from the rule followed in relation to other territories in the matter of the selection of residents to fill federal positions in utah has created almost a tornado among the political in triggers tri guers in this loc locality allty under ordinary conditions the appointment of residents is eminently proper and just circumstances very frequently alter cases the lines which divide classes here are drawn more strongly than in any other part of the republic those who are hunting for the offices belong to the group that have been aptly designated active politicians who have kept utah in a state of constant ferment on account of the ra bibity of their processes and the excesses of which they have been guilty their course is naturally of a character to bring the government into disrepute because of the harshness and illegality of the measures they institute or favor they are seldom if ever consistent with their professions the scramble in which they are now engaged after the offices is no exception in this regard they profess to be animated with a desire to see the policy tending to the operation of home rule established this is the reason why they have practically saved the president the trouble of making nominations his prescribed part of the pro gramme being merely an ampro approval of their suggestions in unison with this professed home rule regime ex chief justice zane to is being boomed 1 for rein re in ln statement in his old position the question is how much of home rule is there in a nomination of that kind the gentleman named came here with his carpet satchel as a federal official appointed by the late president arthur and served his bis term he but recently left his bis office having been supplanted by another H how ow mu much c h of the tex tendency iden c y to home rule is there in the movement i for his rei reinstatement n statement swing seeing that judge zane came here as a federal official imported and the present effort is simply to perpetuate the incumbency of the importation with a break of only a few months the difference between an appointment of that kind so far as res identical ident ial qualification is concerned and the appointment of a person now residing outside of the territory is so fine as scarcely to be discernible to the naked eye yet those howlers bowlers for the selection of residents are scraping the territory with a fine tooth comb so to speak in order to get the signatures of people who probably never investigated the subject in point for a moment with regard to its justice or consistency that a showing may be made at washington favorable to the gentleman whom certain active poll poli seeking to foist upon the people against the will of the overwhelming wh elming maw mass of them there is a cogent reason for this extra effort for the reappoint appoint re jentof ment of an imported federal official it is well understood by the whole community who have given attention to the subject that the recent inquiry into the conduct of receiver or rather marshal dyer and his attorneys was a mere political plot it was instituted for the purpose of securing the removal of the marshal and ancl if possible by implicating the entire bench beach of the territorial supreme court assure the removal of the judges also and thus effect almost a clean sweep of federal officials to make way for the nominees of the political clique who have disturbed the peace of this territory for years A fund was raised for that purpose th the e school trustees being mere figure heads in the matter and judge zane the chief active operator notwithstanding the utter failure of the proceedings from every standpoints standpoint it appears to tobe be necessary in the estimation of the active politicians tic ians who raised the fund to carry on the project that the principal and most active agent of the scheme should be rewarded for the part he took in connection with it if the reward were to be commensurate with the absurdity of the figure he cut in the affair it would be positively prodigious this attempt to reward judge zane ie an insult to the president whom the schemers seek to make the conduit through whom they would fain convey the wages of those who are used for the consummation of their plots another idea connected with the matter is that it is the reverse of complimentary to the chief magistrate to intimate by this local action regarding the reinstatement instatement re of judge zane that he is under the necessity of falling back bach upon nominations made by the late president arthur which would imply that he is incompetent to originate them himself besides this it to is an insult to all people who wish to see a proper and impartial enforcement of the laws to seek to return a man to office who outrageously departed from the spirit and letter of the statutes a fact that can be proved without difficulty by the record he arbitrarily ejected from the panel of a grand jury three non mormon citizens of this territory because they declined to perform an unconstitutional and therefore illegal act and then filled the vacancies thus created by open veni venire process reprocess the position taken by those three expelled jurors was afterwards justified by the supreme coutt of the united states which decided that judge zane imprisoned a host of men without color or authority of the law resulting necessarily in a wholesale jail delivery does the administration desire a repetition of such outrages does the chief executive wish unparalleled wrongs perpetrated by authorities of his appointment if so then president harrison can cabbut but yield to the importunities of certain political schemers of this territory and reinstate in office an imported official whose past record shows the likelihood of a repetition of cruelties cruel ties having scarcely a parallel in the 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