The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-09-01
CARLETON TALKS,
And Laughs at the Alleged States
man, Pierrepont.

This forenoon a reporter of the
Chronicle had an interview with a.
B. Carleton, one of the Utah Com
mission, with the following result:
Reporter-Hsve you any objection
to make a statement for publication
in relation to the telegram pub.
lished in yesterdays Chronicle con-
corning a conversation that Ed
wards Pierrepont had with Presi-
dent Arthur at the National park ?
Mr.. CaTleton-I think, as rule,
the interviewing business is more
honored in the breach than the ob
servance. But in justice to my
associates who are absent, | WI
very cheerfully make a statement.
L have read the telegram and a
great many things of like charac-
ter that have emanated from differ
ent quarters.
Rep.-What do you think of the
statement of Mr.. Pierrepont that
great scandal has been put upon the
Republican party by the C0mmi3-
sion?
Mr.. C.-That is a good joke on
majority Of the commission. Gov.
ernoF Ramsey, of Minnesota, Ex-
Senator Paddock, of Nebraska, and
Colonel Godfrey, of Iowa, are stall
warG Republicans and honored and
distinguished men Of the patty. The
joke will certainly be apr ecjated by
the friends Of our chairman, Gov
ernOr Ramsey, q man Of eXtraordin-
arr Intelligence and universally
recognized integrity. He has been
hOnOred by his party as few men
living have been, from his youth
up. He has been a representative
in Congress from his native State Of
Pennsylvania, Governor of the Ter.
ritOry and afterwards of the State
of Minnesota, twelve years a United
States Senator, and Secretary of
War under President Hayes. The
other two Republicans are also men
of mark, and leading men of their
party. But the funniest thing in Mr..
Pierrepont'5 estate secrets of 8 ser
sational character" and which was
not published in3any Of the west
ern papers, is his statement that
such Democrats on the Commission
as Carleton and Dan Voorhees, were
regarded as the most troublesome
element in the Commission Strike
out Dan Voorhees,, who has never
been in these valleys of the noun
tains, and then it amounts to this,
That Carleton is the MachiaYellian
plotter, VINO has used Governor
Ramsey, Senator Paddock ard Col
Godfrey as tools to bring q grea
scandal on the Republican party
for the benefit of the Democracy
In this they do me honor oyermuch
In truth, the Utah Commission, il
nearly every thing that appertains
to the execution of the Edmunds
bill, have been remarkably harmon
ious. And further, L want this state
ment to go to your readers: That
since 1889 to this day, there
never has been an act of
Congress more fully and sue
cessfully executed than the Ed
munds bill by this commission.
We have excluded all polygapists
from voting and from eligibility TO
office. Among the eight or nine
hundred officers that have been
elected in Utah since we first came
here, over year ago, none of them
.are in pGlygamy. They are all ele-
gible under the act of Congress If
any who were elected last August
should turn out to be poIygamisia.
they will not receive certificates of
election.
Judge Carleton further said that
if the people believed the Ed
munds law to be a failure, Congress
should make further legislation to
reach the case. All thai the Com
mission had to do and ali they
could lawfully do, was to construe
the law fairly and execute it in &C.
cordance with that construction
Chronicle, 31st.