Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-03-18
A CHICAGO PAPERS "ROT."

If Governor Murray is not a sick ma
to-day, it is because he has during th
, six years last past become SO accustome
: to swallowing such nauseating doses {
clap-trap and stomach-turning laudatio
as would work serious revolution in th
system of a man unused to such medi
cine, and cause him to throw up some
thing else besides the sponge.
In the Tribune of this morning is pub
lished special dispatch from Chicago
embodying an editorial article from th'
Ecensng Journal of that city, on the sub
ject of Governor Murray's resignation
In the opening sentence of this article
that "the request of President Cleve
land for the resignation of Governor
Murray Of Utah is a most unfortunate
act for the Administration and hazardous
to the best interests of the whole coun-
try" What undiluted drivel this all is,
to be sure. That Governor Murray has
been faithful officer, and has at all
times acted as his good judgment die
tated for the best interests of the Terri
tory: all are willing to admit, but to say,
in effect, that because his resignation is
asked in order that Democrat may be
appointed to succeed him, the interests
of the whole country are imperilled, is to
utter such drivel as will naturally excite
grave fears in the minds of all reasonable
people as to the sanity of the person who
thus expresses himself. This great Gov
ernment is not going to be delivered over
to the 'demnition bow-wows" because
Eli FL. Murray is no longer Governor of
Utah, and one would think that by and
by this fact would begin to dawn upon
those who entertain such an idea and
persist in airing their distempered fam
cies in that direction.
A little further on, the article which
our Republican contemporary prints with
such evident approval, and which winds
up with quite little puff for Governor
Murray's "ablest ally, the press, as repre-
sented by the Salt Lake Tribune" de-
clares that the retirement of Murray
means comfort, protection and encour-
agement. to every Mormon offender, at
an hour when his own sins have encom-
passed their own overthrow" If the
Democrats of Utah thought for one
moment that there was even a
grain OF truth in the foregoing,
none more than they would regret the
resignation of Governor Murray. But
they know the situation here; they do
not believe that Murravs retirement |
means anything that even squints toward |
an advantage to Mormon offenders |
against the laws, and they know |
that out of a legion of men,
some of whom can be found |
without going outside the limits of this
very Territory, President Cleveland can
select Democrat who is just as good and
as true and as competent man to dis
charge the duties deyolving upon the
Executive here as any to be found within
the ranks of the Republican party, Gov
ernor Murray not excepted.
1t is altogether too bad that, as the
Chicago paper puts it, the Salt Lake
Tribune should now have to eight its
way out single-handed, without so much
as even receiving so much reinforcement
as Governor Eli H. Murray has been"
II the President should also come to the
conclusion to ask Secretary Arthur L.
Thomas to resign (Which, by the way, is
lot among the improbabilities, unless
Mr.. Thomas takes time by the forelock
md saves him the trouble of so doing), |
he Tribune would be left in pitiablel
blight indeed.
All this talk about the country going
o the dogs because of the removal of a .
Republican office-holder in order that a
Democrat may be appointed in his stead,
s the veriest rot that could emanate
rom distempered brain, and is an in
ult to the intelligence of the party from
whose ranks the new officer will be
rawn. The DEMOCRAT is even willing
o adopt in part as its own, the glowing
ncomium bestowed upon the retiring
Governor by the Tribune yesterday MORN !,
lg (and which was telegraphed by the
ribune press agent to Chicago and then ..
elegraphed back to Salt Lake at the vi
ribme's expense and republished in II
lat paper this morning) that he (Mur- Il
W goes out of Office with a record =
'r integrity and perfect justice which "
NIL be crown of glory to his children" d
the DEMOCRAT can approvingly quote d.
lat tribute to Governor Murray, and yet
ee no reason in the wide world why lust Is
5 good man as he has proven himself az
} be cannot be selected from the ranks :,
the Democratic party to fill the office :
e has resigned. The Democrats of Utah
re quite willing that the experiment Y
lould be tried, in any event, and they la