Morning journal and courier., 1880-10-12

Ohio will elect twenty and Indiana thirteen. In Ohio the Democrats have eleven and the Republicans nine seats, and in Indiana the Democrats hold six, the Republicans six and the Greenbaekers one member The Repubi- cans expect to make gains in both States, especially in Ohio.
 Good judges who are on the ground are ot the opinion that to-day Ohio will give Re publican majority of between 10000 and 10000. MT. Richard Smith, of the Cincin- nati GGsette, estimates the Republican major ity at 2O,OOO MT. Murat Halsted, of the Commercial, claims 25,O0O Republican ma- jority; Judge Taft claims IS, GOO Republican majority Chairman Nash claims 10000 Re- publican majority John 0. Keller, of the Cleveland HerGld, claims 5000 Republican majority; Gov. Foster claims 10000 Repub- lican majority; Senator Carran, who has canvassed the State, claims 16, 900 Repubi- can majority, and w. W. Armstrong; editor of the Cleveland Plai7e Deazer, Democratic organ, comedies 5000 Republican majority.
 The Nihilists have been rather quiet for some time, but 1t seems that they are by nc means soothed or subdued. They have given Mehkof opportunity to show what he could do, but now they warn him of their dissatis faction. The new Nihilist paper whosel ap pearance in St. Petersburg was recently no ticed, tells the world that his reforms are not honest. He is, says ''The Will of the Peo. ple,'' an Asiatic diplomatist, who knows how to blind society by cunning he has, in the significant folk-saying, a fox's tail and 8 wolf's teeth. Under his ministry of the in, terior the third section has an even extended activity. Writers and priests are employed as spies. In June GA persons were sent to SiberiaS by administrative order without trial July IA there were 83 dispatched thith- CT, and 80 of these were from Moscow, also without trial, and by administrative order. ''The Will of the People, makes no definite threats, but it leaves it unmistakable that the revolutionists are not placated with the small sop that has been offered them.
 The annual report of Governor Murray, ot Utah, to the Secretary of the Interior con- tains some remarks concerning the Mormons and their practices which ought to have more effect in rousing the people of the United States than they will have He says of Utah 'tShe preserves the shadow but not the sub stance of government.' There has not beer that thrifty growth her valleys, mines and situation entitle her to. Az 1t is Utah car never be American and in accord with peo pie whose highest allegiance is to the flag oi the United States; and as long as Utah is al lowed to remain with her present practices organization and laws, it cannot be said tha! this government deals out equal and exact jus tice to all it's citizens Congress" says Gov ernor Murray, passed in 1862 law forbid ding polygamy and prescribing penalties This law is approved by the entire law-abid ing and well-thinking people of the United States from Maine to Texas. It has been ad judged by the Supreme Court to be constitu tiona1 and yet the government for years ha permitted the law to be ruthlessly thrus l aside and others to be enacted that practi l cally obstruct the statute so as to make i | impossible to convict under it, and allow the Territory to be governed in such a way as tc put premium on crime, and further permit l the guilty ones to be sent to the Legislature and to Congress, and to be paid for theil record and services out of the Treasury O.
 the United States.' Why, the governor per l tinently asks, should the government of tht | United States allow one of it's citizens to bt sentenced to the penitentiary, say in New York, for violating law of Congress, ant l allow another in Utah to go unwhipped il
 
 1 be promoted to office as premium for hi | crime? He thinks that Congress should either let the Mormons have full swing l and make Utah an independent polyga nous State, a thing apart from thu
 stwicked people" of the United States, i l should at once make it possible to execute the laws already passed He concludes al | follows:
 Sheer justice to the thousands of children l yet to be born with illegitimacy as theil l birthmark under this illegal and indecent system mercy to the first and only wife | when Iustful or religiously fanatical husbands l thrust them aside for new and fresher com
 panions respect for it's own laws, equal anc l exact justice to all, these and more make l plaintive demands of Congress for speedy l and sure adjustment of the wrongs, the ter l mination of contentious that curse this good
 ly land, and must continue to do so unti
 proper legislation brings relief. Time vii not prove the remedy. It is revela ! tion (so called) against statute law l If the United States proposes that Utah and several other of it's territories
 soon to be overspread by emigration are to be governed by revelation, well and good. If however, it proposes in the future, as in the | past, to govern by laws of Congress, apph cable for all the people, then it is all wrong
 If Congress is right, if the Supreme Cour I is right, if the President is right, if the peo
 pie of the United States are right on thil l question, then this idea here persisted in Ii wrong as it tends to, it has been claimed
 and does practically, unite Church and State, enslave this people, and constitute them law 1 breakers.
 The apathy of the good men and womer | of this country concerning the Latter Day Saints and their beastly and criminal prac tices is astonishing and very saddening. Il was long ago time that they walked to theil l duty in this matter. Little will be done unti | they do