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Show THE INTERVIEW. A special to the Tribune says that Delegate Caine has had an interview with the President on the Utah question. The interview apparently related to the recent excitement in this city, and it is probable that Mr. Caine went to the President to present what may be termed the Mormon side of the matter. If .Mr. Caine only presented the dispatch of Mayor Sharp, the President must have gotten a very vivid idea of the situation in Utah, something like the view that astronomers get of the farthest stars on rainy and cloudy nights. That dispatch should have beenprinted as a Prang prize card and given to little . Sunday school boys as a reward of merit for having emulated the example of Washington. Wash-ington. There has been no danger of insurrection insurrec-tion in Utah, in the technical sense of that word, but there has been danger of riot in Utah, and the state of the public mind in Utah was such for a few days that any fortuitous circumstance might have precipitated a riot. That state of mind has passed away to a very considerable consid-erable extent, but it passed away as quickly as it did because the Government sent a battery to Fort Douglas and held the troops along the lines of the Union Pacific Railway and those in California in readiness to start for Utah at any moment. It brought people of both parties to their senses, and caused them to think. It is safe to say that it will be some time before be-fore the public mind in Utah will be in such an excited condition as it was in ten days ago. It appears from the dispatch that Mr. Caine made some request of the President, Presi-dent, which was refused. It seems that charges of some nature have been made either against Mr. Caine or .his church. If this is so, would it not be well for the accusers to confront Mr. Caine before the President? and if Mr. Caine, or any one of his political faith, has made charges against any Federal official in Utah to have Mr. Caine confront them? The ex parte, charges do not amount to much where there is no probability of those making them ever confronting those against whom they are made. Anybody can make an ex parte charge, and if there is no chance to refute it, it will necessarily necessar-ily stand self-confessed, no matter how untrue or how much evidence in reply the accused might have to offer if given an opportunity. We are inclined to think that an investigation, at Washington, of the charges of the one and the other parties in Utah would be a good thing. We trust that the Governor or Delegate, or both, will insist upon it. |