The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-25

and with all communication from out
side denied him? OF his being finally
discharged because there was no case
against him and emerging from the
IbaStile broken down in spirits, under
mined On health, ruined in fortune,
with the brand OF social damnation
stamped upon his honest brow, and all
for what? Because ne was mot only q
Mormon. but at the head of a. commune
ty of MormOns, and when vindictive-
ness holds sway 1t is leaders more than
laymen who are sought out for ex-
amples. The judge who ordered
the arrest, the officer who executed
the order and all the auxiiiaries to the
infamy were in this case, as in nearly
every other similar one, straight Re-
publicanS; one of these has been sew
eral times highly honored by the peo-
pie. AS an executive officer during the
reign of terror he pronounced Nor
mons inferior TO negroes and boosted
that he had secured a jury that could.
convict Jesus Christ. Those who sought
to modify conditions somewhat and
whose expressions regarding the Nor
mons were at least not so violent or
blasphemous, were Democrats. One of
these, Mr.. Reed, of Lewiston, in the
constitutional convention, did all ne
could to have the odious test oath left
out of the state constitution, but was
overcome by the Republicans on every
proposition; AMI, 81 NICELY enough, in
the late campaign, he was treated with
contempt by some of the people he had
sought to befriend, the Westinghouse,
which had been secured for him to
speak in, having been denied him at
the time arranged for and agreed upon
in order that the same officer, who
was so ready and willing to recrucify
the Savior, might himself hold forth
therei Is this one of the reasons why
Mr. Anderson is a Republican? Or, at
least, has not the other state of facts
something to do with his migration
from Idaho? If the latter is the case,
it is nothing to his discredit; If the for
mer, it is very much the other way.
All that has been communicated
regarding the Anderson case has not
yet been published. 1t is sta
ted upon apparently good author
ity that he holds, or until lately
has held, a clerical position of
some kind under or connected with an
Idaho court and has been performing
some of the duties thereof at his Frisco
residence. Is this true? 1t comes very
straight, and if by any chance there
should be a mistake it would be as we'll
for Mr.. Anderson to show it to be such
will be heard-the rooms Of the Utah
commission-and restrain his manifest
disposition to pour out the walls of his
wrath upon those who are not respon-
sible and except in a certain perfume
tory way not concerned in the outcome
of his case. AS a. rule, the use of vile
names evinces either an abandoned dis
position, a lack Of the instincts of a
gentleman, or an inability to adopt
any other refuge; and it is all the more
ineXcusable in one who aspires to one
of the most responsible and dignifed
positions the people of this territory
have ever had it in their power to be-
stow. If he is qualified, that fact will
appear and he will get the place; if
not, it will be denied him, and that is
ali there is Of it. A good many people
are of the opinion that Beaver county
would have ADLER and more fitting
representation if DR.. John Ward Chris
tan sat in the convention instead of
Mr.. Anderson, and these are not all, I
take it, to be found among those who
voted that way; but however that may
be, nothing but a plain case of ineligi-
bility will keep the latter gentleman
out and put the former one in, and
with suc1 a showing fully made who
mas the temerity to say it should be
otherwise?
believe The Herald has been both
cred enough regarding this matter. and
1t, like most Of its readers, will doubt
less be willing to let the subject find
its solution at the place appointed
thereIor. S. A. KENNER.