The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-02-01
KENTUCKY AGAINST UTAH.


Louisville, KY, should be divided
into two parties on the latest phase
Of the Mormon question has not yet
been made clear. Nevertheless, this
seems to be the case. In the absence
of any exciting political topic, and
while the spring races are too far dis
tant to iDhame the minds of men,
the propIiety and expediency of Gov.
MurTsy's action ia giving the ceItifi.
cate of election to Campbell, who
was not elected delegate, rather than
to Cannon, who was elected, excites
the people OF the good city o! Louis
vile. This is a more burning ques-
ton in Kentucky than the compost
tion OF GAIield's cabinet is else
where. II serves to bridge over the
dull space which intervenes betWixt
the presidential election and the ln-
coming ots new administration. The
Courier Journal leads the van of what
We may call the Campbellites, and
the Post espouses the cause OF the
Cannonites. The first-named journal
appeals TO the public with frightful
aud blood .cuTdling array of adjec-
tives, and the Post responds with
sarcasm, saying, among other harj
things, tina: its competitor is "either
corrupt or crazy"
The heat OF this conflict is inexplic.
able Only by the fact that Governor
Murray is a KentuCkian. 1t must
be assumed, then, that Kentucky |
should stand by Murray, right or
wrong. Indeed, the Journal,
in one of its tremendous, double
loaded, and highly volcanic editorial
articles, says thst when Governor
Murray was escorted by his fellow
citizens to the railway train which
was TO take him to Utah, where
they knew danger, perhaps death,
wss to be faced, they meant, as Ken
to cay TO Il Kentuckisn,
We are with yol,' and they will be
with him to the end of the war;"
And these gallant Kentpckians, we
are further told, are proud that the
traditions OF the past will live again
u the person OF this young Kentuck-
an, who can neither be bought nor
pulled" This is the reason why the
eat of war has been transferred from
Utah to Kentucky. 1t is the honor
# Kentucky az personified in Gov.
Murray, who is now visiting Louis
nile, which is st stske. Most simple
minded people have supposed that
he Campbell Cannon contest would
,e settled on principles of equity and
ustice, not OF the honor OF the state
ron which Governor Murray went,
Is ''Gentile stslRart," to the scene
# his perilous labors. So, while Utah
) tranquil, even phlegmatic, Ken
ucky is perturbed. Louisville is
lighting "the twin relic" at long
ange.
If epithets will destroy polygamy,
hat peculiar institution is doomed.
Certainly, no ordinary, or even ex.
custom can long sustain
tself without serious damage undel
10 furious a canHonadipg as that
which the Louisville Courier-JourndL
directs at the twin relic of barbsrism.
The editor has, suddenly awakened TO
/ lively sense of the exceeding sinful.
hess OF the sin of the Mormons, and
le demands that preachers in the
lulpits, and women by their iresides,
Ind the people In their daily walks,
hall rise up and "decree that the {
ewd spectacle which makes a Jsrdin
Msbille Of an American territory,
which shocks, even while it smuses,
he passer.by, which blots the glory
If our setting sun, shall be obliterated,
,ven though it be through fire and
IWordl" And 20 all this fine writing
he local organ OF the Cannon party
)nly responds with the remark that
he author OF so much rhetoric and
ire is either corrupt or crazy. To
he mild-mannered anti-Campbellite ]
be glory of Kentucky and the i'm
,lied pledge to the gallant young
who accepted Office as
men 90 to danger and death, are as
1t is no wonder that Louis-
lille ia excited.
There are dark hints OF a political s
,lot being concealed beneath this
urious ant wholly unexpected tumult
u Kentucky. 1t is reported that
Governor Murray would like to be q
member OF GArfeld's Cabinet, and
hat. iuspired by a desire to distin.
.uish himself, AMI possibly prompted
" some Kentucky Mephistopheles,
lie gave to Campbell the certificate
VhIch be refused to Cannon. This
lone, he FASTENED home, was taken
n charge by the editor OF the Courier
IolIrnGL. and now calmly awaits the !
eward of his courage. Boomer or
alter. everything il this happy land
,ets into politics. But who would
rave thought that the evil practices
# a community whose leWd spects- ,
lie, to quote the burning words of
'ur Louisville contemporary, "blots &
be glory of our setting sum-" could
rave been used 10 hoist man into q
,abiuet position? Commissioner LIE
Duo has fondly hoped that garden {
eeds and tea plants might do as
much for him. But here Is a man {
pho ia believed to bnild his airy fabric