Show MORE POLITICAL JUGGLERY A herald special which appears in this issue gives inadi information b to the effect that the secretary of arizona a mr murphy is in washington urging upon the house committee on territories the advisability of insisting upon arizona being admitted to the union only on condition that a claibe dis franchising the cormons mormons Mor mons be embodied in her constitution this impudent and atrocious demand is made in the face of several facts which indicate beyond question that such an publia an proceeding is opposed to the will of the people of arizona here are the points 1 mr smith the delegate to congress from ar aric zona representing his cons titu ency most emphatically 0 op poses any such disfranchise ment meat clause in the constitution 2 the arizona legislature passe pass an anti mormon religious tee 1 oath law which was in the direct direction io of disfranchisement subsequently the statute being invidious p ri aleZ ath tive five and unjust was repe repealed tb people thus showed through the legislative representatives their re pug nance to anything in the line of disfranchisement on religious grounds 3 mr murphy ad bitted in answer to mr mansur that if a proposal to adopt a disfranchisement clause in the constitution of the proposed state were submitted to the people it would be voted down consequently those who favor it request that congress shall deprive the people of the right to adopt their own constitution the eff effrontery montery of the demand when combined with the admission is almost sublime in its unscrupulous disregard of the fundamental principle of popular government basw based on the will of the governed about all these political jobs there is a distinct peculiarity it is this nearly all of the leading operators are either federal officials or ex officials af the same class take for instance this same mr murphy with the hibernian potato flavor to his name he is a federal secretary then there is our double dealing governor thomas who is operating the disfranchisement business in the capacity of agent for the salt lake chamber of commerce which pays him for his work also the dashing ex southern rebel guerilla officer ex governor and agent of the chamber of commerce caleb W west then there to is robert N baskin an ex federal official some W of whose professed friends are anxious to see retire to his old home in ohio to end his day s chewing the cud of disappointment it seems to be the case with many men that when they once take a draught of the sweets of office they are never satisfied except when they are operating the dipping process those who are out of office wish to get in those who are in expect to get out in the event of federal tits being annihilated by the official fields being clothed with the mantle of statehood their only hope in that event to is to lay a foundation for future reward by a present recourse to the disreputable process process of political j jugglery lery |