Show CARPET COMFORT ONCE in a while an editor strikes j a correct view in treating upon a question with which the mor montare mon aare are associated the gentleman occupying that distinction in connection with the rome N Y sentinel has done that very thing in relation to governor thom apro position for a political financial bonanza and autocracy in utah he speaks sneaks thus of his recommendation for centralization and carpetbag carpet bag i ule lule it has baa remained for governor thomas of utah to propose what he regards as a solution of the mormon question he thinks that once their political Oli power is destroyed in the k territory mormonism will disappear after much study of the elective offices in the she troublesome territory he has concluded that about half the county officers should be appointed by federal authorities instead of being elected it is in probable enough that thew these ideas of the utah governor fall like honeyed words word 18 on the federal al authority or authorities who would have the appointments to make and a hungry and thirsty army of office seekers will straightway hope for the speedy working of the scheme it may appear strange to some that any full fledged politician should consent to be appeased by a county office in utah but governor thomas has doubtless figured on those offices worth having on account of the salaries andrealla and really the office seeker is not as am particular as he appears at first sight the man who went to washington for the position of clerk of the house of representatives and when he lost that sra gradually dually descended in bis is demands till he reached the bedrock of a common messenger is a type of the average officeholder office holder 11 A proposal or recommendation to change from a process of electing public effi officers cers to be entrusted with the transaction of business for the people to appointing them by some federal agency is so strongly suggestive of political jobbery and so pronouncedly anti republic can that anybody ought to understand the Ic honeyed words as well as the editor of the sentinel the latter concludes his article by intimating that serious doubts ought to exist as to the reliability of the persons who would fill the local offices in question providing governor thomas plan should be adopted such a doubt may well exist it has a solid foundation |