The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1881-03-03
THE UTAH DELEGATE
How the MOrmOns View the Late Ele
ciSiOM OF Gov Murray.
Chicago Times.

Chicago. Times.
A private letter from the Mormon
capital furnishes the following gossip
anent the congressional delegate I'M
broglio. " Although the newspapers
of the country have denounced Gov.
Murray handsomely, [ do not think
thatit will help Cannon or the
Mormons. I believe congress will turn
out both Cannon and Campbell and
order Il new election, in which event
some one-wifer will he sent to con-
gress.-may be the man, as he is pretty
nearly the only available great states
man we hare who has confined him
self to singleness in the matter Of ma
trimony. Capt. Hooper, the celegate
previous to Cannon, can not &C back on
account of his health and his business,
which demands his constant attention.
As the church is a closer corporation
than ever, there is no hope for anyone
who is nota q good saint. Congress can
not endorse the outrageous conduct of
Murray, no matter if Hayes is at the
bottom of the business, though 1 do
not think this can be so. Murray is an
ingorant, vain peacock, who is sur
rounded by few toadies, who fatter
him into the belief that he is a states
man. The mass of the Gentiles here
despise the fellow, and even his brother
officials do not hesitate to express their
contempt for his weak attempt to gain
notoriety. Campbell is big, ignorant
Irish miner, who happened to strike
it big in the Horn Silver mine, max
ing $1,000, 900 or so, and he also set up
for a statesman. He is beginning to
weaken, however, on the delegate busi-
ness since the press has disclosed the
barrenness Of his case, and expresses
sorrow that the experiment has gone
so far. The opinion prevails here that
Lawyer Mcbride, who recently beat the
church authorities for the possession of
a piece of land at Grantsville, is fight
ing the case for Campbell, and is to
take the salary as his fee in case Of
success. Campbell disguised the Gen.
tiles by his parsimony in the late dele
gate campaign. He didn't even come
to Salt Lake after his nomination., until
sometime after the election. The lib
erals were so sick of him that many re-
fused to vote. A popular man would
have obtained more votes in Salt Lake
City than he got in the whole territory.
His vote in Salt Lake county, including
the Gentle towns of Bingham, Alt.,
Sandy, and all of Big Cottonwood can
on, was only 243. Sandy only gave
MIN 2 votes, while it gave Cannon 43,
most Of whom were Gentiles.
I believe that the Mormon ques-
ton will become a live issue in nation
al politics, but do not see how the
question can be settled except by the
Mormons themselves. Its hardly
probable that law can be framed that
would put all polygamists in Jail: but
suppose such law should be enacted
and enforced, and the six OF seven
Thousand men who have more than
not prevent the fifty or sixty thousand
others from marrying in plurality as
the opportunity was offered and the in
clination felt, suppose all polygamists
and believers in the institution were
disfranchised enough Mormon voters
would be left to control the territory
politically. Martial law would not
help matters, nor the placing Of the
territory in the hands ola commission,
as Hayes and Murray suggest. Educa-
ton and time must do the work. They
may be slow, but they are already
having growing influence. 1t is rare
that a girl in Salt Lake, or any Of the
prominent towns, can be induced to
marry another woman's husband, and
it is only now and then that young
man blossoms out as a polygamist.
The higher civilization that is getting
hold of men and women is teaching
them that it costs about as much to
support one wife and the ordinary fam
lily as one man can earn. The cure Of
polyyamy must come through this chan
mel mainly, and not by penal legisla-
ton, nor persecution, nor heroic dam
phoor' measures, like that which Muir
ray Is attempting"