The Salt Lake Herald

The HELENA (Mont.) Herald, a rank anti-Mormon paper, cannot swallow the Murray outrage, which it proceeds to denounce as follows:

The issue of the certificate of election by Gov. Murray, of Utah, to Campbell, as delegate in Congress, is generally regarded as a high handed measure. Such a proceeding by a governor makes a farce of elections. Cannon received nearly ten times the vote of his competitor, and the Governor had no authority to go behind the returns. His business was simply to count the votes and give the certificate of election to the man who was elected. The fact that Cannon is a polygamist, or that polygamy is wrong or that he was otherwise disqualified, were questions not for Governor Murray, but for Congress itself. That body judges of the qualifications of its members, and if for any reason Mr. Cannon was ineligible, as delegate it was a matter for Congress to decide. If the government wishes to make war upon polygamy, it should do so by making laws against it and enforcing them, not by sending out political adventurers to Utah to perpetrate outrages upon the elective franchise that tend to degrade and destroy our free institutions. Let a law be made disfranchising polygamists and disqualifying them from holding office, if need be, but, while they have the right to vote and hold office, it is beneath the dignity of a great government to tolerate any attempt to defraud the voters of Utah by such methods as have been practiced by Gov. Murray.