Show = r MB PICKSONS REMOVAL The Republican organ is wild over the removal of Mr Dickson It also went daft r r 1 removal Governor Murray Mur-ray au dicted the overthrow of the loyal caase nd the continuance indefinitely f indefin-itely of Chu < 1 and State rule in Utah The courp overnor West had to a certain extent > rought the R 0 to its senses when i c rain was again upset by the news thai the Democratic Administration Admin-istration haJ concluded to accept the resignation of the Republican District Dis-trict Attorney who ad held his office for upwards of two years fter the inauguration inaugura-tion of a Democratic President The R 0 gives away its entire case when it admits that Western men understand that in politics the party in power has control and that it is its right to use its own friends in conducting the affairs of the Government It claims however how-ever that a frank communication should have been sent to Mr Dickson stating that his place was wanted for a Democrat in which case no one would hava had a word to say While neither Republican nor Democratic Demo-cratic ethics admit of such explanation in so many words the fact that no other reason is assigned is regarded by all sensible sen-sible persons as conclusive evidence that the removal is made for that cause This is precisely the cause of the removal of M Dickson although his selfcon stituted champion would fain make it appear that the action of the Administration Administra-tion involves causes which leave a cloud resting over the personal and official character of the gentleman removed We should judge that Mr Dickson would not elicit much comfort from such championship The allusion to Mr Fisher the agent sent here by the Department of Justice to inves tigate certain charges against the District Attorneys office based upon alleged matters relating exclusively to civil business and entirely disconnected with the prosecution of violators of the Enmunds law is as silly and absurd as I I it is unjust to Mr Dickson himself If I the charges were proven they would in I themselves have been sufficient to justify 1 his removal even if he had been a Democrat Dem-ocrat and had in all other respects conducted con-ducted his office with the honesty and efficiency with which he is credited by his political opponents op-ponents as well as by his Republican friends But the fact is Mr I Fisher has not made any report of the result of his investigation so it is impossible impos-sible that the agent who evidently came here with orders to find enough to justify the putting out of Utah officeholders office-holders could have had anything any-thing whatever to do with the removal and its attribution to that source is a reflection upon Mr Dickson not warranted by the facts and which no really sincere friend of the gentleman ordinary commonsense common-sense would for a moment entertain in connection with the subject matter The reference to Mr Lamar the Secretary of the Interior is equally ridiculous His I Department is as entirely disconnected with the Department of Justice which is under the entire supervision of Mr Garland the Attorney General as it is separate from the financial department depart-ment controlled by the Secretary of the Treasury Mr Garland is not the style of man who would tolerate any interfer enee with the duties and responsibility of his department by any other Cabinet officer and it is quite certain that the Secretary of the Interior had no pore hand in the removal of Mr Dick son than had Commissioner Sparks of the Land office or Mr Vilas of the Postoffico Department The prediction by the R 0 that hereafter there will be only a show of executing the laws in Utah is evidently fathered by the wish That it wants nothing effected hereunder here-under a Democratic Administration or at least by Democratic officials is evidenced evi-denced by its attempts to discourage its readers from expecting anything from Democrat who succeeds to any a I Federal office made vacant by the removal re-moval of o Republican It was so in the cases of Governor West and Marshal Dyer the courses of both of whom have merited and received the approbation of the unselfishly and really sincerely sin-cerely loyal people of Utah as they have bitterly disappointed the Mormons and their political ally the Republican organ of Salt Lake City If Mr Dickson believes in the sincerity of his part organ or-gan in its professions of indignation at his removal well may ho exclaim Save me from my friends The DEMOCRAT candidly admits that it is disappointed dis-appointed in the appointment of an I eastern man instead of a Utah attorney It had reason for the belief that a well known Democratic lawyer of acknowledged ledged l-edged loyality and ability would have been selected This would have been in accordance with the platform upon which the President was elected and we deprecate any and all departures from its provisions In justice to the Administration however it must be admitted ad-mitted that those he has sent here from the East have proven themselves worthy of their trusts and have discharged their duties in a manner highly acceptable to the ioyal people of the Territory Judges Powers and Henderson Governor West Messrs Webb Wallace Bowman Barnett Bar-nett have done as well for the loyal causo in Utah as could have been expected if the appointment had been made from among the residents of the Territory and the names had been submitted to the local Democracy forTE I j r Q TE = W r s t ratification There is no reason to expect ex-pect anything else from the new District Attorney He will doubtless discharge his duties as honestly and effectively as his predecessor THE DEMOCRAT will not at all events encourage en-courage him to do otherwise by condemning him in advance by the assertion that his appointment indicates the intention of the Administration to only make a showing of the execution of the law against polygamy and unlawful unlaw-ful cohabitation If however the new appointee should evince such lukewarm ness in the prosecution of these cases as to warrant the inference that he is in the slightest degree influenced in-fluenced by sympathy with the violators of the law THE DEMOCRAT will be the first to denounce him and demand his immediate removal from office It will not however anticipate the necessity neces-sity for such a course by the prediction that he will come here for any other purpose pur-pose than to insure if possible the rigid execution of the law Sufficient is the day for the evil thereof |