Show NO STULTIFICATION The church organ in a column and a half article attempts to prove that the Democratic House of Representatives stultified the anticentralization professions pro-fessions of the party in passing a bill making most of the local offices in Utah appointive through the President and Governor Under ordinary circumstances the point would be well taken Here in I this Territory however exists a condition con-dition of political affairs to be found nowhere else in this or any other Republic Repub-lic There is the most intense and objectionable objec-tionable form of centralization here that could possibly be devised The Democratic Demo-cratic House of Representatives only proposed to transfer the appointing power from the head of the Mormon Mor-mon Church to the head of the Nation and its Territorial representative It proposed pro-posed to temporarily invest the President and Governor with this power preparatory prepara-tory to its transition to the loyal people where it properly belongs The issue in Utah cannot ba met upon any general political principal applicable to other States or Territories There was however how-ever no stultification in attempting to destroy perm anent centralization by enemies ene-mies of the government by centering the power temporarily in the hands of its friends While destruction is no part of the regular work of fire companies it sometimes becomes necessary to blow up a building in the line of a conflagration to prevent its extension The friends of the Tucker bill proposed to do no more than that and Mr Carlisles speech at Boston was in no respect inharmonious with his record upon Utah legislation |