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Show ' "1; A CHICAGO PAPER'S "ROT." ! If Governor Murray is not a sick man , ; i ; to-day, it is because he has during the ' ) i - . . six years last past become so accustomed 'I j - -u" to swallowing such nauseating doses of I :r -.. clap-trap and stomach-turning laudation I as would work a serious revolution in the system of a man unused to such medicine, medi-cine, and cause him to throw up something some-thing else besides the sponge. ; ' In the Tribune of this morning is published pub-lished a special dispatch from Chicago, ; embodying an editorial article from the j Evening Journal of that city, on the sub- -!. ject of Governor Murray's resignation, j I In the opening sentence of this article, I an imperiled nation is informed f . that "the request of President Cleve- - j land for the resignation of Governor j I Murray of Utah is a most unfortunate ! j act for the Administration and hazardous 1 j to the best interests of the whole coun- J : try!" What undiluted drivel this all is, 1 j to be sure. That Governor Murray has I j been a faithful officer, and has at all Iff times acted as his good judgment dic- 1 . ' tated for the best interests of the Terri- I j . tory. all are willing to admit, but to say, , I I in effect, that because his resignation is i ; l " asked in order that a Democrat may be . appointed to succeed him, the interests of the whole country are imperilled, is to i utter such drivel as will naturally excite ! i grave fears in the minds of all reasonable j people as to the sanity of the person who j thus expresses himself. . This great Gov- ! ernment is not going to be delivered over to the"demnition bow-wows" because r Eli II. Murray is no longer Governor of ' . Utah, and one would think that by and : by this fact would begin to dawn upon .';'! those who entertain such an idea and : . ; , .. persist in airing their distempered fan- ; " rcies in that direction. ' j ! A little further on, the article which ; ? ' . - our Republican contemporary prints with ' i such evident approval, and-which winds ! ' ' up with quite a little puff for Governor ; Murray's "ablest ally, the press, as repre- : sented by the Salt Lake Tribune," de- , ' clares that the retirement of Murray : : i "means comfort, protection and encour- ' agement. to every Mormon offender, at j j j an hour when his own sins have encom- ' I passed their own overthrow!" If the j ; Democrats of Utah thought for one ' ' I moment that there wa3 even a 4 j grain of truth in the foregoing, : I none more than they would regret the . '; ! resignation of Governor Murray. But they know the situation here; they do not believe that Murray's retirement ! means anything that even squints toward ; an advantage to Mormon offenders " against the laws, and they know j that out of a legion of men, some of whom can be found . without going outside the limits of this very Territory, President Cleveland can i select a Democrat who is just as good and ; as true and as competent a man to dis- . - ; charge the duties devolving upon the j Executive here as any to be found within ; : the ranks of the Republican party, Gov- i ' ernor Murray not excepted, j i ; . It is altogether too bad that, as the I Chicago paper puts it, the Salt Lake f Tribune should now have to "fight its I way out single-handed, without so much ' as even receiving so much reinforcement as Governor Eli II. Murray has been." ; If the President should also come to the conclusion to ask Secretary Arthur L. : Thomas to resign (which, by the way, is i not among the improbabilities, unless Mr: Thomas takes time by . the forelock and saves him the trouble of so doing); !. the Tribune would be left in a pitiable plight indeed. ; AH this talk about the country going I to the dogs because of the removal of-a ? ....Republican office-holder in ordeYthat" a i 'Democrat may ba appointed in his steady is the veriest rot that could emanate from a distempered brain, and is an insult in-sult to the intelligence of the party from ; whose ranks the new officer will be I drawn. The Democrat is even willing ; to adopt in part as its own, the glowing j encomium bestowed upon the retiring j Governor by the Tribu ne yesterday morn ing (and which was telegraphed by the i Tribune press agent to Chicago and then telegraphed back to Salt Lake at the Tribune's expense and republished in I that paper this morning) that - he (Mur- ray) goes out of office "twith a record I for integrity and perfect justice which ; wU be a crown of glory to his children" to Democrat can approvingly quote I ' that tribute to Governor Murray, and yet 1 see no reason in the wide world why just as good a man as he has proven himself to be cannot be selected from the ranks ? of the Democratic party to fill the office i he has resigned. The Democrats of Utah ; are quite willing that the experiment J I . . should be tried, in any event, and they - are ready to take all the chances in- volved. |