The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-19
IT WAS A REMOVAL.

THE HERALD no longer has any fight
with Governor Murray. The quarrel
. ended the moment the gentleman was
out of Office, and the Ratchet was then
and there buried. We do not pror ose
to dig up the weapon. Among his well
wishers Gov. Murray can ind none
more sincere and more DESTROYS for.his
good than this same journal which
never experienced and never expressed
any admiration for him as Governor.
At the same time, while THE HERALD
has nothing to do with Gov. Murray, it
does not propose that his false friends
and sycophantish admirers shall pose
him as martyr to the disparagement
of the people of Utah, nor that they
shall elevate him to the pedestal
Of tame in the manner of his
getting out of Office. The effort
lisp ut forth to give him credit for
voluntarily retiring, whereas he was re-
moved, emphatically and unequivoc-
ally. He was kicked out as much as
was Chief Justice Mexican a few years
ago, and for cause, Mexican used his
power on the bench TO override law and
peEpetrate gross outrages upon
citizens and the community; he
was permitted TO run along
in his abuse of authority, until
feeling absolutely secure in his position
and in the approval of the President.
he went stark mad in his excuses; and
was bounced bodily and furiously. The
suddenness with which he was picked
up in his wild career of judicial excuses,
threw the old man into his grave. Some
undertook to say that Mexican was not
removed for cause, just as some are
claiming now in regard to General
Murray. The last named was removed,
and for cause. Our Washington special
of Thursday morning made this fact
plain, and also explained the nature of
the cause. The Governor course dur
ing the late session of the legislature
was violently revolutionary, and the
closing act of his career as branch OF
the law-making power of the Territory
the veto of the general appropriation
bill, was directly in the interest Of
anarchy. 1t was Judge McKean's order
committing Brigham Young to prison
for refusing to pay alimony to woman
which the court held was not his wife,
which brought the Chief Justice to
destruction, and it was Governor
Murray's veto of the appropriation bill
and thus depriying the g>vernment OF
the means of maintaining itself which
rehounded and dislocated the official
neck OF the Executive. Whatever cred
it the.e is due to an official who resigns
cannot be claimed by the late Cove nor
There is no virtue in writing "resigna-
tons" which are hidden in the inner
pockets of friends, and kept secret from
the appointing power and the public
until the incumbents are removed. If
such designations could be utilized, no
man would suffer the annoyance and
chagrin of removal, for his commission
and resignation would bear the same
date, the latter to be used TO prevent
the form being taken away by force.
The facts are, that the removal OF
Gov. Murray is vindication in the eyes
of the Federal administration, of the
course of the people of Utah as repre-
sented by the late Legislature, and an
unmistakable rebuke of the opposition
to that course. People viii think more
of the Ex-Governor If he and his
friends accept the situation as it i, in
stead of trying to take credit and virtue
when none can be found.