The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-01-09
4 GROSS OUTRAGE.

delegate SleCtlCI, Buu DolOIe IL HAs
publicly talked that MIR. Campbell
would contest the election Of Hon.
George Q. Cannon beyond the polls,
It was told &c us privately that Gov
erEor Murray would find q pretsZl
for giving the certificate of election
10 the liberal candidate. We denied
that he would do this. upon the
broad ground that Murray might be
an ass, but be could not perpetrste so
grave a wrong. Afterwards. but bs-
fore the protest had been suggested,
it Was again stated positively, and by
one of Murray's intimate friends,
that the Governor had determined to
Issue the certificate to Campbell,
holding that Cannon WAS an alien.
This also was doubted, because it was
known that Mr.. Cannon had been
duly and regularly naturalized, and
the question Of bis citizenship passed
upon favorAbly years ago BY con-
gressionaI committee. Governor
Murray's conduct in this territory
had forced us to regard him az q per
son OF decidedly small intellectual
calibre-a man with more beauty
than brains, ss his Kentucky ascot
Rtes who knew him best had aptly
stated is--but we had never looked
upon him as capable of the gross
yillAiny Of trying to deprive Whols
community Of its highest political
right. We now soromfully admit
that our estimate of the man was en-.
tirely too high. In the small hours
Of Saturday morning, Wnen honest
people should have bssn 10 their
beds, Eli q. Murray, by the grace OF
Rutherford B. Hayes GovernF OF
Utah, was executing one of t-e most
heinOus 0utIages or crimes ever
perpetrased IL the American
repablic. The crime was moth
ing less than the theft,
so far as be was able to accomplish 1t,
of the right guaranteed by the laws
to the people Of Utah of being a
represented in OougEes5 by the man
of their choice. The perpetrators Of
some wrongs are entitled 10 n degree
Of respect and consideration, bat ibis
act should brand infamy al over eli
II. Murray, and stamp him q creature
too vile Tor the association Of honest
men. The outrage il this case is
donbly gross. The people of the ter
ritories in general and OF Utah in par
ticular, have been accorded but few
Of their rights as citizens, and now
tbs taking away Of the dearest Of that
feR is Simply Infamous. Language
can bat leebly express the contempt
that honest people must feel for the
hero of this act, while all must feel
sorrow that SUCH q deed can be perPe
tIated and the gajIty escape punish
ment. The vagsbond Chicken
Charley" of local nOtoriety, is forced
to work months upon the roads for
Wringing the necks of few chickens,
yet governor depriyes 10000 peo-
pie of right dearer to them than
anything that gold msy buy, and
holds aloft his head, gins at the cut
Tsged multitude and defes them to
punish him. Il is truly sad COM
mentary upon American government
and the territorial system. For such |
an act at bis own home in Kentucky
Governor Murray would be for
tunate If he escaped hsHgiuR
10 the nearss! telegraph pole, |
3 kind of punishment for wrsng-
doing which is pretty thoroughly IN
derstood and extensively prscnced by
mis- countrymen. Here in Utah,
however, We must submit to the out
rage, and If we even protest, disloy-
atty 10 the government is charged
sgainst Us. II 1t is disloyal to de-
nounce TINS act as a crime upon the |
people of Utah, then are We disloy al,
and shall continue so to the end OF
our days; il it is disloysl to dsnounce
It's perpetralur, then mark Us as per-
sons proud that We are disloyal; If it
Is disloyal to be wanting in respect
for one who is capable Of this grave
wrong, no matter what ais positisn
or title or power, thsn are We without
the slightest degree Of loyalty. We
iespise Governor Murray as q person
unfit for Office and unworthy the re-
Ipect of people VINO take pride in the
avs and institutions OF the country.
Il ever a man was fairly elected to
)fiOe George Q. Cannon wss SO
Elected q delegate to Congress last
November. There has never been
leld on American soil an election
when the law was followed more
both as to the quslificA-
ions of the voters and tbs conduct Of
he elections, in generalues and de.
ails. Everything was admitted to
De regular snd legal, until
his last set, the giving of
he certificate, when the highes!
'f6csr in the territory disregsrds laE,
snd justice and declares
Campbell the choice of the people for
delegate. When Governor Murray
put his name to the paper declaring
hat "Aile0 g. Campbell was toe
oeTson, being q citizen OF the Uaited
States over the sgs of q year,,
having the g-satsst number OF Votes"
be knew be Was certifying to s. false-
lood, and csusing ths great seal of
be territory to be attached to : posi-
i've untruth. There were for George
:. Cannon Is, SOS votes and for Allen |
]. Campbell 1857. The reader will