OCR Text |
Show A PAINFUL DUTY. J ust as soon as some of our Republican Re-publican friends can get well settled down to the conviction that, after all, Eli II. Murray's resignation of the Governorship of this Territory has not imperilled the whole interests of this great nation to any alarming extent, the Democrat will feel called upon to intimate j that there is at least one other gentleman holding on to a Federal office in Utah with a grip that would do credit to a Mormon Mor-mon Territorial official, and in whose official of-ficial shoes we think a good Democrat would show to positive and most gratifying gratify-ing advantage. We refer to Arthur L. Thomas, Secretary of the Territory. Having due regard for the feelings of one or two gentlemen whose nervous systems received such a severe shock on Wednesday last, the Democrat does not care to be the wanton cause of throwing them into such a series of conniption con-niption fits as might result from a vigorous fight- at this particular time for the removal of Mr. Thomas. In pur humble opinion, however, there are good reasons why Mr. Thomas should be given indefinite leave of absence from the position he has so long and, to him-" self at least, so profitably filled, and we believe that it will only be necessary to j make known these reasons where they will do the most good, to procure from ! the President his kindly consent to such leave of absence as is here suggested. Of course, the Democrat, does not wish to see Mr. Thomas dislocate his neck in I an effort to get his resignation to Wash- ! ington indeed he cannot very well be ! spared until the vacancy created by the j resignation of Governor Murray is filled. I But that done, the query will arise, what;! use has a Democratic Governor for I a Republican Secretary? The 2Vt-bune 2Vt-bune ,may prepare and publish a ' diagram to elucidate this" point, but we fear that some half-blind Demo crats would not even then see where the ! eternal fitness of the proposition came J in. We trust, however, that Secretary Thomas is prepared for the inevitable shock, and when it comes he will not wilt like the pedestrian upon whose unlucky un-lucky head a ton of snow is suddenly dumped from the roof of a six-story building. . |