The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-05
MURRAY'S MIDDLE!
The He-Langtry of the Rockies,
Appears Before the Springer
Committee,
And Says He Didn't Do 1t,
And that His AccuSerS are Real
Mean Things.
The Committee Is Still
Alive.
And Says He Didn't Do 1t,
Murray Investigated.

ray ~ IduJ3 dppCdIel U6IOI0 CpClES
er's committee to-day, to answer 8
charge made against him by Repre-
sentative White, of Kentucky,
Henry Dsven, an ex>deputy mar
shall, and G K. Chase. These
charges were in substance that
Governor Murrsy, while United
States msrshsl for the district OF
Kentucky collected illegal fees,
and made illegal charges for
guards and for transportation
of prisoners. He said in his answer
to-day, "EYery accusation here
attempted to be made is eight years
old. Every one of them l denoun-
ced and disproved at that time,
openly and publicly, 30 far as they
in any way reflected on me, upon
nv disco cry of Deven's dishonesty
aud my doubts arising as to some
charges made by him and another
deputy in accounts against the
government, I without any re-
quest, OF my own account, and
without any obligation except my
own wish To DO go, Immediately ID
1876 deposited in the trea ury
money enough to secure the govern
ment in every item, about which l
felt any uncertainty. I threw Opea
my Office and books and papers in
it, when the charges were made, 10
the district attorney and the Demo~
cratic newspapers to examine aud
investigate the affairs of my office
and all charges against me. 1he
paper which first published these
things stated editOrially after full
investigation, that it been deceived,
and had done ME great Unjust &c,
and wss satisfied there was M
truth in the charges. The offic al
report of the district attorney il
8 conclusive defense of me as to
every accusation then known to me,
and Attorney General Taft Ia pIS-
sence of my counsel in answer TO
my earnest demand for an inves>
tigatiOn if there was any accusation
against me, asserted that there were
none and could be none. During my
term IS governor OF Utah, George
O. Cannon, q Mormon ruler, eaid
mere to Ex-Governor Wood,
one Ct my predecessors in that
office. that he had taken the scalp OF
every objectionable Governor in
Utah, and that he proposed to have
Governor Murrsy's; and now in
1884, some one whose name is not
yet revealed has misled this COM
mittee or its chairman with a false
intimation that there was q rich
field for investigation in Kentucky
in 1876. After everybody has been
heard It appears there is not one
word by White or by anyone who
pretends to have any personal
knowledge TO prove any fact which
will even tend to support one of
these accusation George @. Can
non, a 80 called apostle Of the Nor
mon hierarchy. A NJ Gibson,
whose name is only too we'll
known here, j. D. While,
whose name alone is enough
and Henry Dsven, a knave of a
lower grade and less prominence.
birds of foul omen and birds of i'll
cmen. all with Chase for Aeolian at
tschment, and aided by the moral
support O, the Mormon church,
through the presence here Of Caine,
now Mormon delegate in Congress,
are actors in this scene Ga Mon
day, January 2lst, 1884, Hon. Mr..
Springer, chairman Of this commit
lee, reported to the house q resolu-
ton for authority to incur certain
exoenses IN prosecuting IN investi-
cation Of the expenditures IN the
department of Justice. John D.
White, having the floor, yielded to
him to advocate the resolution, and
took advantage Of his position as a
mem Ter Of the House, and of the
tact that a statement from him as a
Republican might be taken as an
admission against member of his
party to make, in my abb
'sence, as his testimony shows,
without any personal knowledge
or any proof, coarse and brutal at
tack on me, such as no one has any
claim to be considered O gentleman
could ever be justified in making,
except from personal knowledge or
most convincing evidence. In that
speech he maliciously made state
nents which he knew were false,
and without pretense Of truth, and
under the guise of q member of
Congress, INDUCED in base and COW
ardIy personal enmity against me,
while l was at my post attending 10
my Official duties in Utah. In this
he served the lawless element in
Utah as he served the moonshinets
in Kentucky in 1876. He is a per-
son with whom no gentleman csn
have any relation, wholly devoid OF
moral sensibility and irresponsible
personally, morally or intellectually,
Where his real nature is known his
praise is an injury, abuse by him
an honor. but his utterances in
the House of Representatives Of
the country have some weight,
which they never could have among
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