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Show WEST IX FOB, IT. Do what he may, discharge hi s duties to the last, fainteet obligation, eteer as close to the law as may be, yet the republican papers, led by the great liberal Tribune of Salt Lake, will hold Governor West up to derision and scorn thereby, as they believe, tbey are contributing, to the defeat of the party in the near future. In order to accomplish this they would and are putting the country to the hazard of falling into the hands of the anarchists for good and all. Shame, shame upon them. Saturday last the industrials appropriated a train without leave, over the protests of the employes of the railroad, unlawfully navigated it, ran it off the tracks in the Provo yards, were ordered away by the United States authority, refused to leave but continued to labor to replace the engine en-gine with the declared purpose of proceeding pro-ceeding on their unlawful journey. The sheriff of the county joined the U. S. marshal in demanding their dispersal, dis-persal, they still refuse and dare the officers to interfere with them. The sheriff calls upon the bystanders, summons sum-mons deputies and all that, but such are the sympathies of the people with the com tnon wealers that they laugh our faithful officers to scorn and utterly ut-terly refuse to obey. Added to all this, they say to the officers you dare not attempt to force us to assist in the arrest of these men. Then and not till then, they apply to the governor. That officer responds and iu the only legal way open to him by sending the state troops to restore the authority of law. This is done and the property is rescued res-cued from the unlawful hands which bad appropriated it and restored it to the hands of its legal and unquestioned uiu'iikcd. " Fortius lie is held hp to the scorn, of whom? plainly the unlawful mob, the men who have subverted the law and who are found in unlawful possession of the property ot another. "What, pray, can the Tribune and other republican papers savV How can they justify themselves in thus giving aid and comfort to the very people who are defying all law? Will their conservative con-servative patrons approve of tnis cause? Do the business men and property owners who support them approve? These have the greatest stake in the country and are more interested in sustaing the law than any others. When the moment for calm, second thought comes, even the very men who contravened the law Saturday in refusing re-fusing to obey the officers or to assist in arresting the wealers will be thor-. thor-. oughly ashamed of their unlawful acts. Governor West need not be alarmed in the slightest. The phrensy passes with the moments and then the cool, wary, law-abiding men of both parties will rejoice with The Dispatch that Utah happened to have a governor, who. knowing the law at the same time had the nerve to enforce it, and that her escutcheon Is not to be soiled by the charge that her officers surrendered to the mob ere a single shot had been fired. Instead of blame, Governor 'Vest is richly entitled to warmest praise. He obeyed his oath or office rather than listen to the howling of the nob, oi to the still small voice of pity, which was sounding in his own heart, for the misguided men who had been led into placing themselves in an tagonism to the government, by woes which while they do not justify, are yet many and grievous. We are sure tLat law-abiding Utah will stand by West or any other man who stands by his duty, albeit, he may outrage ever beutiment of his own heart, in the discharge dis-charge of his sworn duty. |