The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-06
is MURRAY MAD?

Governor Murray has finally risen
to the surface again, after being out
Of sight for some weeks. He hobs
up in Washington, not exactly Sc
reneIy, yet he bobs up all the same,
as witness in his own behalf be.
fore the Springer committee VIII Oh
has been investigating certain
charges against him as United
States Marshal OF Kentucky. In this
connection THE HERALD acknoWl-
edges its Disappointment in Gov
ernor Murray. Four years of close OBJ
servation Of the man, his habits and
peculisrities prepared US TO believe
good deal about him, but we did
not believe he was capable Of de-
scending to the depths in which he
delved during his statement on FRS
day. We knew Governor Murray
could hang around barrOom for
weeks at time as he has conspicu-
ously done in this city; we knew he
could tell blackg uard, nasty stories
with much gustO; We knew he en-
joyed the society If the street and
saloon, but We did not kno " that he
could get up before com nittee of
the House of Representative yes and
indulge in the Ian uage of
the braggart and the bully.
Governor Murray has tbs reputation
of having been brave and gallant
soldier, and al educated, refined
gentleman. All his assoc ates and
intimates claim these qualifica ions
for him, and yet we find him using
the language of the BLACKBOARD and
loa'er, and scoldlng like a fish
man. His attack on Representative
White is vile and brutal in the ex-
treme, and beneath the dignity Of
any pers1n who assumes to be a
gentleman. We know nothing of
Mr.. White or his character, and
care less, but he cannot pos
sibly be lower in the social or
ploral scale than the man who can
use the language towards him that
was uttered by Murray on Friday.
The HERALD does not want TO be-
lieve that Murray is so low as his
language and temper would ind
cate; it prefers to believe that the
charges against him have turned
his head and driven him mad for
the moment, and that his recovery
will occur when he has had time to
cool off and collect his senses. 1t
would be shocking to know that he
was in his right mind and yet
governor CT the richest and most
prosperous of the Territories.
Governor Murray's assault upon
the Mormons, and his insinuations
against individual members Of the
Mormon Church are as contemplate
as they are cowardly and disrepu>
table. a characterless newspaper
correspondent, or a disreputable
editor couldn't have been guilty of
bsser meauness. Governor Murray
knows, if he is not born and
trained idiot, that the MormOns are
not responsible either for the accu-
sations against him or for the inves-
tigation that has been insti-
tuted. He knows that they
could possibly have had nothing
to do with any Of the matters
that he is called upon to explain;
and yet he attacks them as if they
were the cause of all his troubles.
This is the trick Of the demagogue
if not of the kuave. The Mormons
are hated, without friends and
thoroughly despised; to denounce
them is popular, and to incur their
enmity something to be proud Of.
Murray, with low cunning that is
despieable, saddles blame upon the
Saints, and would make it appear
that because OF his opposition to
them they are prosecuting him.
He would blind the eye
OF the investigators and the
country 70 whatever wrong.
doing he may have been
guilty of, by manifesting violent
hatred OF the Mormon people. In
all sincerity, we ask Murray's friends
If they do not regard his course in
this respect as wicked and despic.
able in the extreme? We have too
much faith in the good sense and
foresight of the Congressional COM
mitteemen to believe his pettifog-
cling will avail. They will continue
With the inquiry as if Murray did