Show THE commissions FAIRNESS everything which has of late years been done by the utah commini lon finds favor la in the eyes of our cross crone grained next door t that body its ita of line been the subject of a dozen or more defensive articles which bristled like quills upon the fretful porcupine re to dr Groves 9 interview at washington it makes haste to yut put in ilk a general denial t everything ne be said and to clinch the opposition thereto with that never failing but awfully ugly epithet liar but what are the facts it is in evidence that salt bait lake city was lumped jumped together and given nine members because as a whole it had a liberal majority whereas bad it been jividen up luto into districts each electing by baitt itt elf alfas as Is the case elsewhere the liberals would not have chosen all the mem members bene as is well known As it was liberal voters got all the representation i while the opposition got no representation at ai all I 1 fust as the boosts designed should bu be the case came the same thing on a proportionately smaller scale was done at ogden anu and yet there be those to oot not only champion the injustice but apply low names to those who hold it up to the execration it is deserves mention Is made of the fact that the democrita Demo crata had quite two thirds of the last legislature chico is true but the point sought to be mude made thereby that the commission did its work fairly considering that it was fifthe fifths republican and with one exception unanimously and radically liberal miscarries in the light of a full consideration it is in only a question of arithmetic and we will turn to the rule of proportions in the I lint ast election for the legislature the democrats had bad more than twice as many votes as the liberals and the democrats and republicans combined nearly three times as many at the last election they beat the liberals more than four J to one yet out of one fourth of the votes the arrangement was such that the liberals got at least one onet bird third of the members il and of the whole number represented the two thirds antl anti liberal majority stood for four fifths of the entire populations this in ii fair unimpeachably unqualifiedly fair from a strictly liberal standpoint As to the assertion that dr groves to la a believer in polygamy we know not nor does it matter whether he is or not it seems a little singular however evert that bat a man aman so thoroughly conjugal fn an his bis temperament should be a con firmed armed |