The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-08
GOVERNOR THOMAS LIBERAL RECON-,
MENDATI0NS.

proposition this is, and 1t shows very
plainly that ARTHUR L. THOMAS, the author
of such an un-American sentiment, is not
the governor of the people of Utah, but, on
the contrary, is the enemy to the great ma
jority of them, whose chief executive he is
supposed to be; that his own words prove
that he is not the governor of the people
but is a "solid" member of the Liberal
party in this territory, which party has for
years tried to take away from the people
every vestige Of the rights of local self
government.
THE HERALD desires to place the Ian
guage of "our' governor ,,Cby the grace of
the appointment of the President and to the
sorrow of the majority of the people he is
supposed to govern), in a little clearer
light: 1--WE have secured the appointment
If the probate judges in Utah, and now ask
all of the other county officers to be ap
pointed from the minority of the popula-
tion.n This is truly Liberal beyond ques-
t&on. just as the man or men who stop you
on the highway and take your property are
liberal, and in no other way.
To steal the government of this fair ter
ritory has been the aim and object and the
constant labor of the Liberal party for
years. That party has sent men to Con-
gress to work to this end. II has left moth
iEg within its power undone that would
tend to bring about condition of absolute
political bondage for the great majority Of
the people in Utah.
Governor THOMAS may tell the world of the
bondage he and his followers wish to stamp
out in Utah, AMI may edeavor to show that
he is a patriot and desires to emancipate
those who are in bondage; and he may
cover up his plans of political robbery
by words without his true intentions being
exposed, but he can't deceive those who
are on the ground and who are able to see
through his little game. Governor WEST
labored to secure the power to appoint all
of the officers which Governor THOMAS
wants some federal agency authorized to
do" but the same result is ID be ac-
complished. One man had the cour-
age to admit his longing to become
a "dictator;" the other lacks that
courage, but tries in a cunning way
to arrive at the same position. Cur So
called governor knows as well as any man
in Utah that there are many counties in
the territory where it would require some
energetic scratching to get a sufficient
number Of persons, outside of the Peoples
party, to even fill the county offices, and
yet he has the supreme gall and magni-
ficently sublime cheek to ask that these few
individuals be given the reins of the county
government and have the expenditure of
the peoples taxes. The magnificence, the
grandeur, the sublimity of some mems
cheek are beyond the language of most
poor, weak mortals to express!
No man having decent regard for the
rights of others will fail to admit that the
people should select the officers who are to
have the expenditure of their taxes; that
"our'' governor has no such regard goes
without saying. His recommendation is
in perfect harmony with the efforts OF the
Liberal party in trying to secure legis-
latiye commission for Utah while claiming
to revere the sacred principles upon which
our government is founded, that found
ton being that ''all free government is the
right in the people to participate in their
legislative councils" and is denied by none
save Liberals.
THE HERALD accuses Governor ARTHUR L.
THOMAS of engaging in the warfare Of the
so-called Liberal party to rob the majority
of the citizens of our territory of every
right shat is dear to all Americans, and
also, while protesting love and reverence
for the institutions of our country, of IN
blushingly favoring the violation of the
foundation upon which our free institu-
tions stand, in his zeal to aid the political
party OF which he is member-yes, very
active and earnest one.
That their own soiled exteriors may not
be too conspicuous, it has always been a
favorite way with the Liberals todivert at
tention by throwing mud at others, and one
of the most fcrcible illustrations of this
kind is seen in Governor THOMAS strained
and far-fetched attempt, by repeating what
someone says, that those withdrawing from
the Mormon church have been oppressed.
THE HERALD is at the defiance of ARTHUR
L. THOMAS or any member of his self-styled
Liberal party, TO point to one single act Of
the legislatures, county courts or city gov
ernments, where any attempt has been
made to deprive an individual of any right,
civil. religious or political. Governor
THOMAS KNOWS ludb INC oOSGCA4OhI VI OhC
apostate Mormons, "that they were made
to pay taxes on. a larger proportionate as
sessment than their neighbors," is an alb
solute falsehood, and he adds neither
strength to his report nor respect to him
self by repeating it. He is in the same
position when he repeats the falsehood
''that they were deprived Of the mesn' OF
obtaining livelihood, etc, etc, etc"
We wish his excellency had gone on and
given some Of the ''etc., etc, etc, in de
tail, as the showing would, without doubt,
have been of piece with the two he has
given, viz, absolutely false and without
foundation in fact.
As Governor THOMAS has been hand and
glove with the party which has rob bed the
women of Utah of the right to vote; that
has made the trial by "a jury of your
peersn one by jury of your enemies; that
has made the probate judges appointive by
the President of the United States; it is
matter of self protection, inasmuch as he
now advocates the taking away Of all
county offices from the people, that he
should throw little mud to obscure peo-
ple,s vision. We suggest in all good faith
that when the governor next attempts to
cover his illiberal tracks, he be more care
f,,i In the selection of material with which
10 do it.
Once more THE HERALD asks its readers