The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-02
had been engendered by the Senator's in
dependence. by publishing the following:

JOHNSON is acquitted because Kansas is cor
rupt The fate OF the nation depended on one
vote 1t was found and came from Kansas.
EDMUND G.. Ross, an old settler OF this state
a free state man and anti-slavery Republican,
cast that vote. II was left for the state whose
noblest citizen was JOHN BROWNING state whose
soil is hallowed all over with the blood OF men,
women and children, the state which has only
four words on its banner, Equal rights for all y
10 be betrayed and outraged by this creature
Ross He is dead-dead to honor, dead TO
liberty dead TO Kansas Let him go his own
way. balf-civilized bushwhacker would spit
in Ross face If he should dare TO speak to him
about honor; Every man in the United states
has read the news from Washington and in
stinctively felt that Ross from Kansas was a
coward and sneak. Wherever Ross lives or
travels that record will follow him!
AS showing how true is the adage that
curses come home to roost, the author OF
the above flowing sentences was recently
spoken to regarding them, and his words
were full of regret and even remorse be
cause of them. He said: "For heavens
sake don't revive those foul articles. Twas
! a youngster then and ought to have been
kicked for writing such stuff" And much
more in the same vein, al! going TO show
that men, like the leaves of the trees, have
their times to appear. to flourish, to change
and to fall, and intoxicating the sublime and
all-important lesson that we would do well
to remember what we have been and may
( be, as well as what we are.
The pressure upon Ross to resign was of
course immense, but he paid no attention to
it and served out his term, then returned
to his desk in a newspaper Office and subse-
quently to the case as a printer. 1t made
no difference to him. Having a supreme
contempt for the-to others-almighty
dollar, he also held himself rigidly
a'oof from man worshipping or office
| seeking, and having somewhat Of philo-
sophical mind, was contented wheresoever
his lot might be cast. AS Senator he was
no more and no less a citizen Of the repub-
! lie than as printer, and he was always a
man of the people in any place. The next
time he turned up in a public way was
when he was appointed governor of New
Mexico by President CLEVELAND some four
years ago. He served out his four years
term with credit, and on its expiration
/ dropped back into the printing office where
| he now is Shortly after his appointment
he received numerous congratulations from
Kansas Republicans Of the stalwart type,
such men as INGALLS,, PLUMB, PIECE, CRAw-
FORD and many others-men who to day, if
! the issues were placed before them as they
were before Ross in the Impeachment trial,
would doubtless DO as he did then rather
| than plunge the nation into a condition
Of chaos and it might be destruction by
hostility and for party purposes displacing
the chief magistrate 1t is not, therefore.
saying too much to say that the man who
previously and now works at the desk of
an editor or the case Of a compositor, just
as the exigencies or requirements Of his
| little country sheet may demand, was the
one who brought us safely through the
darkest day in or history-Who not only
did right in the face of temptations and
threats. but caused those who were most
sternly arrayed against him to subse-
quently admit that they were wrong. Such
| is the printer statesman. TIE HERALD
hopes that one of the first appointive acts
of President CLEVELAND when he again
takes his seat in the White House in 1893,
will be TO appoint EDMUND C. Ross COVER
nor of New Mexico, if that territory shall
still be out of the union; otherwise TO some
/ thing equally as good if not better.