The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-01
WILL TRY AGAIN.

The proposition 20 permit the Terri
tories to elect their governors will
again be brought before Congress next
! winter, but we doubt that it will be &C.
ceded to. Nobody has been able to pre-
sent an argument against this reason
able re9u st; all admit that it would be
just and proper. and only fair to the
people who are so unfortunate as to
live in Territory; but those in control
viii not consent because it would in
volve the loss of a few places that can
be filed by the political buns, plugs
and hangers-on of influential men,.
Presidents and Congressman would not
know what to do with7such useless per
sons as Governor Murray and others
who might De mentioned if it were not
for the Federal offices in he Territories.
In these latter good many played-out
fellows who have claims on the party in
power, or who must be fed and clothed
by friends or relatives of influence are
disposed of.
The infamy of the system becomes
apparent when one considers the char
acter of the average Territorial gov
ernor, and understands how little he
has in sympathy with the people whose
CHIEF executive officer he is. Here in
Utah we have a governor who has no
more interest in Utah than the tourist
who arrives by the evening train, and
departs by the morning express: Mur-
ray would not stop here twenty-four
hours after the arrival of his successor |
if he waited even the coming of the lat
ter; there is nothing to keep him here
except the salary, other things which
he enjoys being as plentiful elsewhere
as insSalt Lake. He is antagonistic in
thought, association, and effort 10 nine
tenths of the people, and his mean |
ability is employed to their injury and
detriment. 1t is as ridiculous as it is
and unrepubIican that such
a man should be governor of a Terri
tory. OF course Utah suffers worse
than the other dependencies, the rule
having been to send the specially scrub
by men to this place as Federal
officials. When we have had decent
man it has seemed to be the
result of mistake, and a mat
'er of regret on the part
II the appointing powers. But while
Utah has long been recognized as the
ground for the most odorous
If the political offal, the other Terri
cries are similarly afflicted only in less
legree. The evil is so great ana so
,eenly felt, that, of all the Federal
'ficials in all the Territories. we do not
'elieve one would be elected to the I
flee he holds if the matter were left
o the votes of the.people.
When the system of filling the Terri
orial offices by appointment from
was devised, it was not
18th view to providing places for per I
ons who could not take care of them
elves, but to help the dependeac In
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heir infancy. the general government
aging the salaries OF certain officials;
ut assistance of this kind is very in. E
lrious, as it is accompanied by such
ross evils. I The Territories wou'd
neeFfully pay their governors sal
mes II they could select their execu-
YES and in the case ofiUtah, much IT
loney would be saved by the transac- |
on. cFa lyifs'T ms |
oome OF the Territorial papers are urg- r
z combined effort on the part of the
to induce Congress to be just a
TINS matter, and at least permit the
opie OF me dependencies to elect their
reTnors. -A q 1N& tlhit
Catarrh Of the Bladder.
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