The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-12-20
THE GOVERNORSHIP.
A Suggestion that the Peoples Party
Act.
William Jennings the Man.

last Saturday, HERALD in regard
to there being some public action
taken as to the successor of our
present Governor.
/ 1t is presumed that no show OF
argument against an expression OF
interest can be made; neither can
the right of choice be successfully
denied; petition and remonstrance
are privileges that none can gain
say, and the best proof that change
is desirable is exhibited by the facts
that the Governors who have hith-
erto been appointed for the Terri.
tory have with but one eXceptiOn)
been strangers, and as rule pos
sessed of ideas so thoroughly ants
American as to lose sight of the
duties growing out of their position
they have assumed the despOtic
role; they have essayed to be rulers
instead of servants, and made them
selves the standard of unerring
right, to the utter exclusion of their
peers!
| IhO OhO OACCDUlOh w do OOtC1hO
Young. He was the choice of the
people, as well as the appOintee of
the government, and the work of his
administration will endure. When
political exigency seemed to sug-
gest his removal, in his non-ohicial
capacity he so moulded the common
charter of Utah, that insignificanee
may be written upon the record of
all his successors. Consider his
travels throughout the Territory,
ponder this In connection with the
unfagging energy Of his associates
in the founding of colonies and re-
demption IF the desert, and then
ask how many of the governors
since have traversed the Territory;
ask what they know of its people,
their labors,s enterprises or needs;
from whence comes official claim
upon the suffrages or sympathies of
| what is often termed by their TIA
ducers the finest Territory Of the
nation? Where among all the plot
ters and libeling crowd will you
find one who tracked his unwelcome
way across the desert plains? Where
is there one who made a ditch or
canal, or opened farm, or planted
a tree to make of Utah a pleasure
and delight.
We are told, however, that they
have given wealth by the opening
of mines, but who made mining
possible in an inhospitable cline?
Look at the majority of those who
pose as enemies of the people, and |
single out the few who are really
creators of wealth; take away the
merchant who adds nothing to the
value of his wares, the banker, the
broker and the laws er; take away
the office-holder and the office
seeker, the brOken-dOwn politician
and the adventurer; take away the
parSOn and the publican, and the
panderer, and from the few remaiC-
ing you may gather some of the
productive and creative element,
some real, genuine citizenship, but
it will be very small indeed; the
masses Of the people are those
whose in ereStS are those jeOpar-
died by these hucksters and Jug
lers of the ring representing Utah's
Against all this the masses have
right to protest, and their Dlotest
should be pondered by their SER
wants in Washington, whO.e edicts
are In no sense the labored assump-
tIOns of crowned and grinding
kings. But it is said there will be |
no advantage in suggestion or petit
ton; probably not, but yet, who
knows? Even the unjust judge
granted the request of his suppliant
because of her opportunities and
the old maxim is "Ask not-have
noti' 1t is asked whether SuggeS-
ton, nomination or petition is not
in such matters? 1t may be
On the surface, but the querist must c
be but little initiated In the work.
ings of the silent forces of political
life if he assumes that no party
pressure is brought to bear through
delegates and other wire working
channels in regard to app0inteeS
throughout our cOuntry's wide
domain!
One thing is sure, the petition of
the people only could be once re-
jected. They, however, are used to
this; they asked for So commission"
and received commissioners; and it q
is not improbable that in asking n
sfor bread again they may receive a 8
StOne," or that in asking "for fish i,
they may receive a serpent" but n
the right and duty Of the hour ap- f
pears to be-tO ask! n
The query is presented, "who 7
shall do the asking?" Surely with y
a professed "People's Party" every Fl
where intact throughout Utah, such 4
a que ton might be considered O
5uperfuous; yet the party may f
have concluded that local elections 7
are all that claim their attention. &
If it is thus dead to the call of a
necessity, oblivion should be its i,
epitaph and its grave made so deep i
IS to be beyond the power of any 8
II
Every city. town, village and pre- o
,inct should be canvassed by the q
Peoples party at once, and every Q,
eligible name should appear on their is
petition setting forth their griev- n
ances, referring the executive to the n
of local self-government Is
md popular sovereignty, and sug- re