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Show WILLIAM H. DICKSON. United States Prosecuting Attorney Dickson has resigned. Mr. Dickson has been an honest, energetic and efficient officer, and very greatly the superior of his predecessors in office. He has vindicated vindi-cated the law in Utah as it was never vindicated before, and to him, perhaps, more than to all others,, is owing the check that has been put upon polygamy, j Polygamy and unlawful cohabitation have not been suppressed in Utah, and will not be for a long time to come, no matter what measures may be adopted for their extirpation. The first great thing to do was to check its spread, and this was done to a very considerable con-siderable extent by . Mr. Dickson. In the work which he thus accomplished there must be associated with his name that of his worthy assistant, Mr. Varian, and that of Judge Zane. In some of the cases which Mr. Dickson prosecuted he at times became somewhat more ardent than could have been wished, but when all things are considered, especially the intense partisan 'feeling which exists in Utah, a feeling that at times approaches malignant hatred, perhaps this ardor was but natural, and that it was not greater than it was is to the credit of Mr. Dick-l Dick-l son. He was cordially disliked by the ! great majority of the people of Utah, but this dislike came from the fact that he was earnestly and successfully assaulting their illegal practices. The people of Utah will never hold Mr. Dickson in contempt con-tempt as they do, and rightly, the major-it' major-it' of his predecessors. We hope his successor will in all respects be his equal, yet we cannot but think that it will be long before we see his like again in Utah. |