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Show The Governor's Resignation. ! Editor Democrat:- I see the Tribune gives Governor Murray credit for having placed his resignation in the hands of U. j N. Baskin on Monday night at the meeting meet-ing in the Walker House dining room. Now I am neither an ardent admiier, nor in any sense an enemy to His Excellency, and I have certainly no desire to strike iiray harmless blow while he may be considered to" be down,' but I am prepared to say that no such resignation was even thought of at that meeting. Indeed, I am justified in stating that the almost unanimous unani-mous feeling of those whn that meeting was that Governor Murray should be sustained in his gubernatorial position, and that his excellent administration adminis-tration here should be fully represented to the President. Furthermore, it is not a mere guess to say that Mr. Baskin himself him-self .was given definitely to understand that the meeting favored Murray's retention reten-tion in office, and hoped that the delegate dele-gate would work to that end. So far as his former resignation is concerned con-cerned there can be no doubt, but even that was not sent, I dare say, out of anv desire for retirement, but more probably as a means of establishing a showing I wtoch would reflect at least a pleasant shadow around his removal in the event of the Administration deciding that way which he had good reasons for supposing they would. 6 There is much in Mr. Murray's career as Governor of Utah which I cannot but admire, and I really do think that he has done a great deal towards bringing about a satisfactory adjustment of the political difficulties here; but candidly I do not believe he rushed anxiouslvout of office and I certainly, for one take exception to that resignation story. - Kernel. Salt Lake, March 17. |