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Show j STILL A-WEEPING. J The Republican Tribune is consoling . ' itself by publishing extracts from Repub- ; lican newspapers in which the President's request for the resignation of Governor Murray ia characterized as "a grave blunder," and perhaps worse than that. If the Tribune really derives any solid comfort from laying before its readers the ;' messes of trash which daily aopear in its columns in regard to that matter, it is quite welcome to indulge itself therein to the full. One extract is made from the New York Mail and Express, in which it is asserted that "the virtual removal of Governor Murray of Utah, in the midst I ! of his prolonged and fearless fight for the i supremacy of Federal law and for Chris- , tian monogamy, is another illustration of ' the double-dealing and bad faith of this peculiar Administration." It will, per-5 per-5 t! haps, be all-sufficient to mention that ' this New York paper bases its con- i elusion herein almost exclusively on the wailings of that "lone journalistic f ;; representative of Christian "civilization j ' .-; and American sentiment," the Salt Lake ; 1 Tribune. But the animus of Buch ebulli- tions may appear still more clearly when it is noted that neither the Republican organ here, nor any of its party contem-; contem-; poraries, have yet given the first intimation intima-tion of a reason why. the removal of .Murray was a blander or worse, or in what manner the Territory Terri-tory of Utah is going to suffer because a Republican Executive is to be superseded by a Democrat. The nearest that any of these Republican newspapers can come to giving a ''reason" for characterizing char-acterizing the President's action as "a blunder." is the expression of a groundless ground-less fear that Murray's resignation may perhaps "delay and retard the reforms which he was so vigorously advancing" all of which is no reason at all, but simply undiluted drivel, born of the disappointment dis-appointment which results from futile efforts to keep a party friend in an office which ought to be filled by a Democrat. And that is all there is to it. |