The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-23
LEARNING THE TRUTH.

q private letter from gentleman In
Washington who is familiar with pub
lie men, and who it may be stated is
not a Mormon lobbyist" and has
only the concern in the people of Utah
of a disinterested onlooker, writes last
Wednesday, upon learning that Gov
ernor Murray had been removed:
Cleveland is heartily disguised with
Murray. For months, after his in
auguration the President thought Muir
ray was the right man in the right
place; even up to the Beginning
of this year I know that Cleveland
entertained a high regard for your
Governor, and did not contemplate his
removal The sending of troops to
Utah in the early part of December was
the first thing to open the Presidents
eyes. the newspapers quite generally
declared there was no occasion for SOL
diers there, and the perfect quiet which
prevailed also demonstrated this. The
investigations which Cleveland insti-
tuted and the Information which he
obtained, convinced him that he
had been deceived in regard to the stu
alton out there. Since then the Presi-
dent has been watching things more
closely, and to-day is well informed in
rcgaRi to affairs in Utah, and takes
great interest in all that is going on.
see it is said that MurraY's resignation
was requested because of his many
vstoes. These doubtless had much to
do with the removal, but the deception
practiced upon the government in re-
gard to the necessity for troops was
the beginning of the end Of Muir
rayism in Utah. Unless l am
much mistaken there will soon be
other important changes in your Fed
eral force. The President is handi-
capped at present, and has TO move
slowly. on account of the fight in the
Senate, but that cannot last long; the
Senators have about talked themselves
out on the matter, and many of them
are Disguised, and sorry that the bust
ness ever came up. That changes out
there are on the tapis is certain, but
nobody can say how much of improve
ments they will be. The President has
been most unfortunate in many of
his appointments to Territorial offices,
and he may send you no better
men than he gives to some of the other
Territories. However, l judge from
what 1 read in the papers, that he will
find it difficult to make worse selections
than his predecessors have sent you"
And yet we viii be told that Murray
was not removed for cause; that he has
done nothing which does not meet the
hearty approval of the administration,
and that whoever may succeed Murray
or other officials to be removed, will be
instructed 10 pursue the course
marked ont and followed by
those who have been running
things in their own sensational and de-
structive way for the past eighteen
months. Nobody here to-day can say
who will be tbs next Governor of Utah,
but every man of intelligence is willing
to gamble that street fight or quarrel
between deputy marshal and citizen
will not induce His Excellency to ask |
for troops and batteries to preserve the |
peace. The next Governor will not make
a requisitlon for soldiers to escort |
prisoner to the city when that prisoner
can be brought safely by the weakest
deputy in the Marsha's force; nor will
Murray's successor, to revenge him
self on the Legislature for refusing to
bow down to him and violate Terri
torial law in order to give his friends
three or four badly paid offices, prevent
the passage of needed laws and kill the
appropriation bill, depriying witnesses,
jurors, clerks of courts, pubic institu-
tons and schools of money for two
years. 1t was Murray's acts in pursu-
anee of his policy which caused bis re-
moYal, and his successor will not follow
his unworthy example.