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Show Two Sldes.f As Governor Wist IjnljU speech here held the Trinuneup lo"? dlrulo we think it just to give them ueh nice, In Provo the Republicans nccusec him ol nsking Congress to givo him the power to appoint ap-point nil Utah officers, lie did not tin-swcrlt tin-swcrlt but Mr. MilucrdM sijing that he nor none of the people! believed it. Tlio TributK says : "I f this was meant-to 1 adeninl Hint Gov West ever nsked Congress to givo him Ihopowcrjonppointilocal officers in Utah, oriindlicatedyrTsiirpilsed thnt'Gov. West" permlftcaY such denial to go tinclialienged in hls(ivresence, for ii manly man will lefusb avail him-iulfof him-iulfof the refuge of falsehood as llinily as he w ill refuso to rest under ii falee charge. Under his changed front toward the Mormons, Governor Wed did well to pass this specification in silence. He would hnvo dono better liodhoadmitted its truth, For it is certainly true Governor Gover-nor Westspcnt some timejn Washington Washing-ton uiging tlio passage ch The Kdmunds-Tucker Kdmunds-Tucker nct.ol 1887. of wilch tho section giingliim power to appoint tho local officers In Utah wna r pnrt as It passed the House. Ho camo homo supposing the act secure including tho power ot appointment ns speclllcd, resting in himself. When tho telegram came which indicated tho defeat of this nnrt ol tho bill in the disagreements between the two houses of Congress, Governor Wtst was much chagrined, nnd with somohcntsjfoniged the d'fcit to the Republican Senate, nnd in this he was right. Tlint hetleiiied this power there is no question; that belabored to obtain it is equally suro. It is no moro than fair to say that the Liberal party, with which ho was then co-operating, wnnted him to have it, and skated his disgust when the nectlon was stricken out tf tlio 'hill. We tliluk it would havo beon more outdid for Governor West to have told the facts in his Provo speech, nnd pleaded tho "changed condition" for forgiveness, and not allonrcd any person to enter for him a disclolmer which was meant to completely falsify tho record. |