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Show For Governor OF ; UTAH TERRITORY, Samuel A. Merritt. PERVERSION. It is a sorrowful sight to see a man who is moulded in the image of his Maker so hent upon evil and wrong-doing that inwardly in-wardly he is as Satan. But there are such cases. The editor of the Tribune 13 such j an ona. In the Tribune of this morning this Game innividaal makes many false charges and insinuations. He says there is a rumor about the streets that the editor ed-itor of the Democrat has secured the control con-trol of the stock of this paper, and that it is to be mj.de an acceptable organ to the moderate Mormons. Possibly there may be such a rumor, but everything connected con-nected with the rumor is falsa. The Tribune Tri-bune puts it as a rumor, but in using this rumor tiu Tribune is trying to make political poli-tical capital out of a popular prejudice, for it knows that the cry that anything is Mormon is the surest way in which to raise up a barrier of prejudice against a person or thing. It is a gallant method of warfare and serves well to show how much of principle those who use it have. The Tribuneia so fond of falsehood and . perversion that truth and rectitude are to it as calomel. Indulging this love. of' falsehood and perversion, it attempts to make the Democrat say that-flie Federal officials in Utah are abnot. "We have said it before andesay it again, that of all the Republican Federal officials in Utah- we think there are only three - worthy of retention. These three are - ' Chief Justice Zane, United States Prose cuting Attorney Dickson (assuming that he will be permitted to withdraw his resignation) and United States Marshal Ireland. We trust that the Tribune in its wild rage will not charge that we desire de-sire the retention of the above officials for the purpose of conciliating the "mod- i crate Mormons." Thesa three gentlemen gentle-men have done their duty well and honestly and faithfully, and they deserve the confidence of the Government. The Tribune says the Democrat goes out of its "way to make a malicious and untrue comparison between the Federal officials and those who back them here and the Government at Washington." The Democrat did no such thing, and that assertion by the Tribune is but another an-other falsehood and perversion by the Tribune. It obtained this falsehood and perversion from this : The people of Utah would do well to remember that the Federal officials in Utah are not the Government, and that if they doubt the desire of the local Federal officials to see peaoe and happiness reign in Utah, they have no reason in the world to doubt the keen and ardent desire of the Government, Govern-ment, at Washington to see this Utah problem, prob-lem, quickly, equitably and peacef nil; settled. The construction which the Tribune 'Uge"' seeks to make out of this is not po.ssibly there, for it was immediately preceded by this: The people of Utah seem more disinclined . I tnan ever to voluntarily render obedience to , ' I the law, and the consequence of this disin- ' clination can only bo to make the final set tlement of the Utah question harder for v them. If they would but thro themselves 'l upon the meroy of the General Government they might ba sure of receiving the consideration consid-eration and clemency they would thereby RBK. And that which the Tribune quotes was followed by this : If they would but act for themselves and follow the dictates of their own hearts and reason, they would seek at Washington a speedy and satisfactory solution of the Utah question. . We ask the Tribune whether or not there is a problem in Utah ? Within a month we heard a Government official in this Territory say that the Utah problem )is a bigger question than the majority of paople think it, and that he had talked with no one yet who fully comprehended it or who could suggest a solution for it. It may be as well to remark that this same gentleman has conversed very often i with the editor of the Tribune. ' Now, when did we say anything about i officers from Washington coming here and not insisting on a rigid enforcement .of the law ? In its admiration and adulation adu-lation for certain Federal officials in Utah, i the Tribune seems to have the idea that these sa me officials have more weight in i and authority over Utah matters " than the President and Cabinet, (l and that . the President and Cab-J- inet are confined to the same h means for solving the Utah problem that r the officials here are. The officials here S1 are compelled to enforce the laws as they u find them, no matter what their desires as I to settling this problem may be. It is not : the same with the President and Con gress. If the President and Congress were of the opinion lhat,4he problem t could be solved by any particular method, c it is in their power to make that method j law. Of course if such a law did not if suit the ideas of the Tribune it would be treason. There is one statement that the Tribune 5 makes that we think is actually the case. Id It pays: fr ' Of the polyganiists' in-the Territory he L, knows that not one per cent, have been con- i convicted. - . .? e U " We think that is the case, and we think lei the other ninety-nine per cent, should be J made to obay the law. But the moral effect of punishing this, say, one per cent in has been most salutary, and it plainly shows that if the Government would bat u increase the Courts here, and furnish the Prosecuting Attorney ample assistance, ' the solution of the polygamy, question . - . i - - - would be accomplished at no distant day. The Tribune makes another statement, of which we know nothing and of which we are certain it knows nothing. The statement state-ment is this:" If he knows the fact he knows that more polygamous marriages were celebrated in a single day in the Logan temple week before last than there have been polygamists thus far convicted under the Edmunds law. If the editor of the Tribune were asked how he knows this (asserted) fact,, no doubt he would seize a Mormon weapon in defense of his assertion, and "decline to answer." Now, if what the editor of the Tribune asserts is true, why does he not go before the Grand Jury and have these same people who formed polygamous polyga-mous marriages last week in the Logan temple indicted? Let the great American Ameri-can go and tell the officers of the . law of , these things, and if he does not, let him confess himself a falsifier for the purpose of making political capital and venting his spleen. For him to lock these secrets se-crets within his bosom is for him to do the Government a most grievous wrong. The wonderful secrets which all Republicans Repub-licans possess is something truly appalling. ap-palling. Let's see, didn't Chauncey M. Depew have a terrible secret about Andrew An-drew Johnson ? |