Show ON MURRAYS EXIT ELI MURRAY M urray has at last been forced to resign the office of governor of utah and it Is very faint flattery to sa say y eat thab whoever may be chosen achis as his successor will be a better governor than he ever dreamed of being indeed ell eli should never have got the appointment in the first place helas he was practically forced out of the office of united states marshal of kentucky because his accounts ace were unsatisfactory and that should have ended his official career but the fraudulent hayes was then serving mr tiddens Til dens term in the white house and he was easily persuaded to make murray governor bernoi of utah probably on the theory that the mormons cormons were wicked people who ought to b be e scourged urged it that was his view he carried it out most successfully for governor murray never missed an opportunity op ort unity during his term of office to barass harass and anger a majority of the people of the territory he will claim in the future as he has claimed in the past that this was cessare ne in order to make polygamy odious but it must be borne in mi mind nd that he has had no part in the enforcement of the edmunds law and that when it was enacted he and his followers in salt lake city denounced it as a sham and a fraud hence it is clear that governor murrays Mur rays actions and utterances only produce irritation without affording relief certainly the mormons cormons neither liked nor respected him and they had no reason to repose confidence in his honesty or im impartiality p attral denver news bews the writer of the foregoing fore eoin must have been acquainted with the late unlamented and knew whereof he wrote quite different Is it with the following published as au an editorial note in the butte miner it could scarcely be farther from the truth than ills s and sounds very much as if written by y the crusaders in this city in a whose compositions truth cuts no figure the president has made a mistake in asking for the resignation of eli H murray as governor of utah governor murray is a republican it is true but he was filling a position peculiar unto to itself and into which does not enter he has tor for years been upholding the dignity of the united states in a section where a majority of tile the inhabitants have only contempt for it he has been engaged in a great work was performing it manfully ani and honorably and should have been permitted to complete it the gentiles of utah justify feel outraged and wronged the worst feature of the act is that it indicates a chanse change of policy upon the part of the administration in reference to the mormons cormons Mor mons this will encourage the polygamists and the enemies of the government in utah and will fill the toyal loyal portion of the population of the territory with dismay |