| Show WHAT AN APOLOGIST time since the chief organ of the political conspirators in its rage caused by the refusal of the utah commission to permit a committee of political authorities to usurp their office and perform their functions made use of a characteristic expression it asserted se arted that the committee had bad infinitely tuse inse mereat more at stake inthe in the matter in controversy than the commission we took occasion to state that the latter bad their honor their oaths of office and their duty while the stake of the committee was the seizure of the reins of local government that they might despoil the people and override their rights then came the explanation that it was material interests sor or possessions that were referred to coupled with the statement that with the exception of mr thomas not one of the commissioners had bad a dollars interest here the helped the organ of the conspirators out by causing AU an examination of the assessment asses roll on which it was found that the names of three of the most prominent members of the committee ot political authorities 0 J hollister william H dickson and C W bennett were conspicuous for their absence As an evidence of large material interest this discovery was not overwhelmingly powerful but nearly everything is susceptible of explanation after all this might be one of the most potent pointers to the existence of substantial interests in a given section of any country that could be produced providing these particular instances turned out oat to be of an exceedingly exceptional character and so it beeme for explanation is given and by it we are submerged and must bow our devoted head and accept of the rebuke it adminis tiie the statement comee corned through Ms his organ that col hollister is a member ot of a firm tarm that is paying out more ban per mouth month a great portion of which is to labor it is also asserted that we are aware of the fact thus giving us credit for more information than we possess assess and we modestly repudiate ae the compliment rhe point made we presume Is that mr hollister is through the medium of the firm alluded to indirectly a payer of taxes the explanation la in reference to mr dickson to is simply awful he sought to make a home but was driven from it by mormon brutes the tact that the prosecuting attorney bas ived here continuo cont continuously nuo asly for years with the exception of a week or two spent in san franciseo Francise Of and still lives here is sufficient evidence of the quality of that statement ot of the reason why way he hasso has BO material interest at stake |
