Show FROM BAD TO WORSE ex delegate rawlins raw una occupies a very unenviable position view it from whatever standpoint we may he first manifests an irascibility of temper which leads him aim into a deed of at rash new then at tile the solicitation or of per friends explains that he daunt diunt do it at all his hie resignation had a goo good d cord attached to it and that he be aud and the governor vernor have fixed it all up he now informs loose who are misleading some few people of the territory regarding this thie matter that hat it stands the we as though no resignation had been mailed in this thia he is i eminently right as on questions ques tiona of law he is ia much more likely to be in any case than are his would be custodians haniuk sent a resignation ignation to the clerk of the house the he document mailed governor wits waa simply a matter of ceremony its ito reception or non nun reception could not and did nut not figure in the least leaah because addressed addre esea to one who had bud no control over it one way or another it woul i have been perfectly proper in the governor vernor to return a missive unopened to the writer at the lattery latter s re quee tasa as a matter ot courtesy but to to 10 it any legal consequence to in too absurd tu to talk about A delegates is extraneous and superior to 10 that of the governor or of the territory which elects elect him whim and to say the inferior regulates the superior is to place the thing created above its creator in other words a condition of things which for the sake of pastime is permitted in farce comedy and opera blufie but not in statecraft utah has now no delegate in the fifty third congress lt may be that she will not have OLO at all or having one have nim dim by improper means a scandal to us in eliher either event which m erht easily have been avoided it to la pom possible lible that partisanship may override accomplished fact sand for merely partisan san ends the law controlling the case be set aside we have already heard board such expressions as that it is b better ater to be represented thus thu than not at all those who really think so have no breadth of view beyond the lines or of their party and no just juet coD conception caption of affairs within such lines lineah it if carried out oat it means mean the setting aside of prece dento the overturning of rules the way 9 0 of f faction lem as against the properly aly constituted methods established ry y the peoples consent and approval what party could stand long under sueh such arbitrary exercise or of superior animal force what party would deserve to stand long under such circumstances cum stances mr jkr RAW says now he did not dign but only notified the clerk that he be bad done so what did he be notify the clerk of oft that he had bad resigned resigned what ahto official position it if he did not resign why say BAY so to the clerk and if he did resign why say now that he did not resign why notify the clerk inless it was intended that such notice was to td be received by him as an indication of the senders sender Is intention in the premises I 1 esto to be duly acted upon as an such we know mr rawlins is not a man who Is addicted to addressing idle eom corn to any one least of all to so those who hold official station with which be is brought into immediate ined late contact and which by the force of circumstances could only look upon his communications as meaning all aal that they convey he is not the man to trifle in such a way with an official as sending a useless purpose lew and objectless note to the clerk would be no his note meant exactly what he be himself sad it meant while the impulse under which it was sent was yet upon him the reasons which influenced me to resign PY 1 I concluded to resign reason 1661 1 I laid down the off office icely these are the expressions used and to say that he be does not or did not know that the way to resign to is to file a written statement to that effect with the clerk to is such an insult so as the friends from whom he ought to ask to be saved may offer him the NEWS will not do so thris this papers position on this subject two has not changed mr rawlins made a ini mistake stake in resigning under such circumstances he has made a blunder in permitting himself to be inveigled into an attempt to resign the JM while his reported intimation that some of his washington friends may have committed a crime against the laws of the united states to out cut on the effe crof what he had done is sig ft would seem the worst explanation so as to the letter that never came camei 12 that could be made we regret very much the proceeding jim in chief and all of its out growths and now propose to let matters shape themselves without farther concern on our part fort feeling assured that we have done neither more nor less than what circumstances and our sense of duty required red of us |