Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-02-16
The New Governor Of Utah.

We are not directly interested in
the advancement of the material
interests Of the Territory of Utah !;
but as citizens of the United
States. we can never be indifferent
to the progress and development
of any State or Territory contlg-
nous to Nevada, and, with that
impression upon our minds, we
watch with jealous care everything
that affects the welfare of our
neighbors.
Nevada was once a portion of the
Territory of Utah; but Providence
in its kind destiny achieved for
Nevada independence, while Utah,
with ten times more of popula-
ton. still remains under the theo-
cratic rule of Brigham Young.
From the organization of Nevada
first as a Territory, and SUISSE
ouentlv as a State-we have watch
ed. with considerable pride, the
difference between the two coun-
tries-Utah and Nevada. The for
mer. much to its misfortune, has
been under the ban of priestcraft,
where men and women thought
only as others dictated-while the
other lived in harmony with the
natural development OF young
country, and did what was right to
be done. 1t is proper enough that
the President of the United States
should appoint his own represent
atives in the Territories, irrespec-
tive of the wishes of their inhab-
itants-because he is responsible
for the welfare of those Territories
but in conceding that much OF
right, we see many possibilities for
error creeping into Federal APP
pointments.
Senators and representatives IN
Congress urge and press the ap-
pointment of their friends to Fed
eral office. and the President, with
an enormous appointing patronage,
very naturally desires to meet any
suggestion or desire that may be
presented by the friends of his
Administration. From such sug-
gestions important appointments
are often effected, without the
Chief Executive being really re-
sponsible for results, or being
aware of their importance. In this
way only can we look upon the APP
pointment of the Hon. A. b.
Axtell to the Governorship Of Utah.
He is there now because some one
and himself desired to see him
there-and we honestly confess
that we see no other reason for
such an appointment--he is purely
an accident and not necessity.
With all the assurance of high
cock-a-lorum, that is more consist
ent with royalty than republican,
ism, he struts into Office in Utah,
and reverses the conclusions of his
predecessor, in the general tenor
and spirit of his use of Guber-
material appointments in that Ter
ritory. Governor Woods was de-
termined that no man hostile to the
spirit and genius of republicanism
should hold Federal Office in Utah
but his successor, with daring
boldness, inaugurates the very
contrary, and seeks but the most
fierce and fanatical Mormons OF
which to place high honors.
We can tell Governor Axtel
that there is no truth more certain
than this: that the man who
marches with Providence will be {
success, and the man who stands il
its path shall fall. Brigham Young
and theocracy must go to the wall
and all the AXtells in the world
cannot save him. We predict thai
Utah will soon have another Gov
ernor, and the only man in tina
position who can serve that Ter
ritory and the nation is the MAJ
who labors to see that people freed
from bondage,
HURTS HIM.-The Reno " Jour