| Show FORGETFUL AND HASTY the herald must have hare been taking a bath in a lethean spring or surely in its ite zeal to a decapitate the entire array I 1 of federal officials in this territory it would not have run counter to its previous ions statement as it did in im yesterday mornings issue the list of those men whom stalks the headsman ht ads 31 1 as our would fain have us believe with the dates when their terms ol of office will run out are not the same as they were a few months ago immediately after the great election aben the spoils of the democratic victory were being parceled out before the field was taker taken the list was not correct then as 88 bbown by the NEWS at the time and it to is not dot correct now but it does not agree with itself as situated sita ted very few items in the latter case even approaching correctness the herald herad notably cut off governor thomas chief justice zanes add secretary sells bells official lives by nearly halt half a year and aad in consideration of the presidents promise to appoint no successors during such life this is a matter of some little importance at least to them the political feature of the case is nothing at all to this paper pacer neither is the personnel so long as the office holders are impartial faithful and capable it matters not whether their names are brown or jones nor dor whether they y are democrats republicans populists lists or independents the political shading of any man or measure does not amount to much here at present where other things are paramount before going far and wide with a political mania following as we may say the changes of the moon in our desire to secure new in which to place the governments commissions let us see to it that sill 11 ll the fences which guard our material well being are in place and in order it did not occur to anybody to ask what mr greens political preferences were because we presume nobody oared cared particularly ticul arly the plant which we look loofe for at his hands will wid be no better because be is a democrat and no worse because he is a republican it is not a political matter at all neither as we of utah ought to look at it to is the other we have beer been the recipients ol of good bad and indifferent treatment from both democrats and republicans more of either from the latter perhaps because they have been in power longer and we have been able to find out to our complete satisfaction that it is not dot so 80 much the political principles of meu mei as the men themselves that we have to depend upon with the present officials there is but little fault to be fund there has been more or less lees friction at times with nearly all of them but we natural result of friction is eventual smoothness both sides losing so much of their rough and superfluous surface as makes it otherwise undoubtedly there will be changes sooner or later and within a twelvemonth perhaps the entire list will show new faces iu in the positions very well we will make the newcomers welcome and endeavor to instantly recognize every point of merit neither exaggerating nor discounting it because of the politics of the one in whom it appears meantime let us not hurry burry those who are here away prematurely we do it if we wanted to but the NEWS want to even if as aa our seems to think their presence is an evil it to is still better to remember the shakespearean pearean precept and retain the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of |
