| Show GOVERNOR MURRAY the prominent features of governor Murray 8 career in utah recalled by the tows news of big bia death will be vividly it by many but the retrospection will afford little pleasure plea eure to the majority of them it was a period of 0 the history of 0 our comman ity fraught with much that was pain ful emu ana distracting at the timo time and that can be recalled with neither pleasure plea eure nor profits profit except perhaps for the purposes of present or future guidance Conditi conditions which prevailed in utah while ell bit H murray was wa governor made it almost inevitable that men should misjudge each other but even under those mose conditions men who stood opposite him on questions of politics and religion saw caw end and admired many excellent qualities which be displayed he was of aristocratic southern blood and training raining sod aad had corresponding lueas ideas of honor and chivalry with which his course wap in n the main consistent the NEWS at the ioime time opposed and cannot now endorse certain of his official acte act but bat is glad to let disturb lag ing recollections of them be burled with the bygones by gones he bad a brave and generous nature and in his bis social relations with his fol fellow men was all that any of them could ask after he left utah and found himself no longer a central figure in the arena areas of its B conflicts be grew extremely kindly in his bis feelings towards those whose wishes and interests he bad at times opposed and on many occasions during recent years it appeared imps sible for him to do too much in the way of hospitality i to make all things plessa pleasant ot for those among his big old opponents whom he met in his western home he was proud of his bis acquaintance with lead leading I 1 lag cormons mormons Mor mons and with a princely hand band and bearing showed that it was his big pleasure to extend to every courtesy which the high breeding of a southern gentleman of the old school could suggest death comes sooner or later to all men and the constantly recurring visits of the dark messenger are successive admonitions that the good and not the bad the love and not the hate bate in human nature are to be cherished and remembered so lot let it be in the death of the brave and zealous ken bucklan tucklan who formerly governed utah while altube citizens of the new state star join in the sentiment peaceful be b u in rest I 1 |
