Show A GROTESQUE SPECTACLE TX IN THIS issue will be found an account of an unaccountable scene which transpired july ad at ogden if the reader thinks th I 1 aks hf he can survive the ordeal let him read the addred of invitation directed by governor arthur LJ thomas to the carnival king and queen abeen the speech was probably composed by orlando W powers who hass has a vivid vividn 8 and flighty imagination while mr rhomas hugs the ground too close closely y to be capable of venting airy noth ingi sins 0 of his own manufacture T have tendered a cordial luvita tion to the visitors to come down to salt lake city would have ave been well enough but for the chief executive officer of this territory being in that capacity the leading J representative of the general govi of this republic to take part in the royal burlesque now in course of performance in ogden is an unlooked el for stretch let auy any one dispassionately examine the subject and ask himself whether such frivolity comports comforts com ports with the dignity of a governor of a great territory and a representative of this mammoth republic it might as well be asked whether it would be appropriate for mr thomas and his fellow officials official is to publicly engage in the delectable pastime of manufacturing fac turing mud pies or tic performance of top spinning it may ie e advanced in extenuation of the spectacle presented yesterday at ogden that it was a necessary nece smary result of the initial part of the performance in which mr thomas figured the conferring upon him ivy by alb broyal highness the rux bex of the title of duke of utah As a matter of course the one position was the other each being of a sif similar nilar character but it may inay also be asked iu in what capacity the governor of utah will next appear as an active operator it is only a week since he attended a methodist conference delivering a sermon as am if he were bishop of that sou end pleada 41 11 the presbytery of that body for the adoption option of beligio political anti t mormon resolutions chis week he figures as duke of utah ll 11 and as a burlesque actor of no mean pretensions doing homage to the carnival rex bex it is difficult to tell in what new role governor bishop duke thomas rhomas will next appe arand an anxious public will only have to wait ait in patient expectation doubtless the latest title of arthur duke of utah tickles the governor all over for he has aspirations to grasp prerogatives that be long ag oady to autocrats be being ng such as absolute monarchs princes and feudal dukes aukes wield where the masses are held eld in semi slavery to prove the eld existence stence of this proclivity one has only to point to his recommendation tion contained in his last official retort I to the secretary of the interior that the power to elect all county officers in utah be taken from the people and they be made appointive IY some federal authority 1 the Ve federal federal deral authority author ty referred to was of f course arthur duke of utah this has been demonstrated by the will bill for an act now pending in the senate of which he disingenuously claimed to have heard nothing while in washington to create him A more than feudal duke of this territory reverting again to the scene at ogden it may be well for our waders readers to take a teaspoonful of sal al soda before perusing the account of f it to prevent nausea otherwise such ruch conditions may arise from the contemplation of the picture as may necessitate the administration of copious doses of sun cholera mixture it was to be expected that many ordinary and some extra excia binary ordinary people would catch the Par arnival parcival spirit and fall prone at the feet of the counterfeit present jaent of royalty but to behold the e chief executive of the territory in that prostrate con was almost beyond intel gent conception but of coursens cour seas 1 there are wide diversities of indi visuals vi duals there will always be a wide disparity of views in relation to what constitutes true dignity and eg regarding arding the eternal fitness of things taken as a whole the entire ex hibit shows a tendency toward the frivolous and unsubstantial that is 3 ot t promising such manifestations W popular bent will draw the line angly between the light minded the solid we trust that ie visitors as visitors will receive a kindly and cordial welcome but so far as participating in the frivolous Iriv olous burlesque now being baini enacted is concerned the propriety of it does not appear to us to be a matter ot question had the invitation tendered to the strangers been of the usual character devoid of the grotesque absurdities associated with it no dignity would have been lost and the visitors could have been as kindly and hospitably entertained As it is let them be treated with all jue consideration and all needful steps be taken for their comfort during their sojourn in our beautiful city all this could have been better done however apart from the conditions of a gigantic joke |