The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-01-12
"a SPLENDID SUBSTITUTE"

eff it prove true that it has been decided
to substitute Ex-Governor WEST for Gen
eral oCLERNAND on the Utah commission,
it will be most welcome news to the Gen
tiles of this territory. 1t will be fitting
recognition of ex Governor VESTS services
in the cause of right here and the
sentiment among all loyal men here of all
parties is that his work should be recog
nized."
"His work. What work did WEST ever
do for the people of Utah when he was the
governor? While this man WEST was the
governor of the Territory Of Utah, thanks
to the President of the United States, (his
own merits would never have placed him
there), he neglected the duties of his of
fee and ran off to Washington as the paid
lobbyist of the rule or ruin party in this
city, and labored to secure the power to ap-
point to all of the offices in our cities,
counties and territory. He not only
went on one occasion but on several
All he asked was that greater power be
given him. so far as Utah was concerned,
than that enjoyed by the kings of some of
| the powers in the old world 1t was cur
rently reported and generally believed that
King CALEB had little bird whisper in
his ear while he was in Washington the
last time during his gubernatorial incum-
bency. that if he did not return to Utah
and attend to his duties here, instead of
laboring at the capital to rob the people of
this territory of all their rights, he would
soon stop feeding from the public crib,
and as the salary Of the governor Of Utah,
small as it is, was much more than his ex
eXcellency was able to earn ii left to his
own resources, he took the hint and came
home in double-quick. We shall always
have profound reverence for King CALEB's
cheek, as he simply asked for the earth
and the fullness thereof, so far as related
to Utah We think he showed less wis
dom than Governor THOMAS, as the latter
asks for ''some federal agency to be
authorized to appoint the officials that
WEST solicited the power to name THOMAS
has more knowledge as to how the wires
can be pulled successfully than WEST had.
The present governor was i'll Washington
for many years as a page in the House of
Representatives, and in various other Pc
sitions up to capitol police, and he learned
Il IUluS VI IWO. llO hiiSW pClUCl Uudu W
ask that he be given the power to appoint.
If he did not know this personally he
learned the lesson from the failure of
WEsT's attempt. He profted by the ex-
perlence of others. Of the two methods
we confess to thinking better of VESTS
than of THOMAS, as in the one case the man
asked for what he wanted and in the other
he lacked the courage to do so and went to
work in roundabout way to arrive at the
same result.
Perhaps VESTS services that should be
rewarded, and "his work." which the
Tribune refers to which "should be recog-
nized," were the services which the eX-
governor rendered his country as member
of MoRGAN's guerrillas. Or, perhaps, his
little speech in which he told his hearers
that he was ''reverent man, but mas
much as there was no telephone communi-
cation with heaven he could not see how
the Almighty could run things on earth.
We have no doubt that there is no commu-
nication by telephone or otherwise with
anyone in heaven carried on by his ex-
excellency The man who engages in an
effort to rob the people of an entire terri
tory of all their rights, he at the same time
drawing salary as their governor, is not
apt to have much if any communication
with any place higher toan a saloon.
Or perhaps the lies which WEST told in
his annual report, to prejudice people
against that portion of our community who
are Mormons, are ''his work. that should
be recognized"
A man who will tell such an absolute un
truth, for instance, as that the articles of
Zion's Cooperative Mercantile Institution
prohibit any one who is not member of
the Mormon church from holding stock in
the corporation, is just the kind of a per
son who should be rewarded in tirst-class
style for his work, in the estimation of a
Tribune editor. The work which WEST did
is in keeping with the work which the
Tribune is doing and always has been do
ing. viz anything, whether it is lie OF
not that will rob the Mormons of the
right to select their own officers. The
! organic concern locates the services which
WEST performed in the wrong place; il
saws sWEsT'S services N the cause OF right
here.n Washington should have been sub
stituted for ''here,'' and it goes without
saving that the word robbery" should
be substituted for '.'right.n The Tribun'
continues:
l General MCCLERNAND is an old man; he ha
: always been an aggressive, obstinate and dlcta
b, toriai man. and he is either all OFF in his view
or the rest of thecommiSSlor IS; either ne shoult
q be retired or the other four. commissioners
should be, and congenial spirits like ex. Commits
!, sioner CARLTON should be called in to make /
pleasant for MCCLERNAND. But really, If Gen
o eral MCCLERNAND is right in his position thel
n there Is no occasion to go outside the Mormon
y church for commissioners Indeed, such SAINT
e as GEORGE O. CANNON, Apostles SMITH, LYMAl
n and THATCHER would be more acceptable to tn
. loyal men of Utah than such men as MCCLER
Z NARD and CARLTON, for they would do just tn
b same work in the Office and if they pleased t.
o Islander the true men here, the people of tn
Z east would accept 1t, not as coming from grav
o and wise men who were sent to Utah to be al
q unprejudiced and conservative force, but merel
as the expressions of the higher priesthood G
: the Mormon church. May the change come an
l. quickly!
j. The iberality of the mans soul VIII
o penned these words is grand; it lis mag
e nifcent; it is sublime. Well, there is on
a thing that he is pretty well up in, and tina
is his ability to arrive at the state of publ
n opinion in the east and west on all thing
e relating to the Mormons. He knows wei
o that in case he were to tell the most out
: rageous lies about CANNON, SMITH, LYMA,
t and THATCHER the falsehoods would b
e swallowed holus bolus; and he also know
well that General McCLERNAND has
: reputation at home and abroad which sue