| Show WANTS WANT TO BE MORE THAN A KING A dispatch from washington D C which will be found in another at iother part of this thia paper states that governor rhomas has filed his I 1 annual report and that it contains a number of allegations and recommendations ions which to say the least are very peculiar not peculiar however to the governor his manner of dealing with the people whom he desires to co rule witti with autocratic awer Is well known and his bis adroit method of dodging round the truth while prete ding to t ad vance it is quite familiar to the utah public what he means by I 1 meaningless words of double meaning may be difficult for ordinary mortals to un der stand but the meaning of his hip double dealing ani cunning perversions is very easy to fathom the object and intent and explanation of all his scheming and misrepresentation and tricks of speech are to be seen in the closing paragraph of the dispatch which gives a brief epitome of his report governor Governo thomas wants wanta to have the power to appoint all the local and petty officers that areano of right should be elected by the people to achieve the purpose of his ambition he would utterly destroy the last remnant of local self government in this territory the control of tw it y five counties he be says gays w v u ud d be bein in the hands bands of men loy tj to the government it would be etu equally ally in the hands of one mau man arthur L thomas who is loyal first last and all the time to himself if any other people than the MorA cormons mormons Mor mons ions were thus proposed to be made a prey go co a plotting politician of small calibre belarge but large greed the attempt would raise such a storm of indignation throughout the land that its author althof would be glad to beat a hasty retreat and hide his diminished head from the public gaze and the general execration the impudence of his proposition ought to arouse all who look upon it and cause his bald assert assertions ious and intentional misrepresentations to be viewed with strong suspicion while his open effort to grasp more than monarchial power should elicit universal disgust when the full report reaches us we will be able to point out more definitely the errors which the governor designs to promulgate in aid of his own selfish designs arid and we will now leave the matter until the complete document comes to hand but the end he has in view ought not to be lost sight of by the press of tho alio country when commenting on the matters set forth in the dispatch from the national capital |
