The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-25
The Recent Fight for the
Marshalship.
MR.. POWERS AND HIS RECORD.
The Alleged Mormon Lobby-Mr. Bas-
kin's Misrepresentation
Uneventful Week.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. April 10, 1856.

was a severe one. There were three
Acknowledgment, Dyer and War
field. Each thought he had a sure
thing. Each thought that the backing
he had was something that President
Cleveland could not afford to overlook.
The betting-f anyways level money.
One day it would be Warheld, sure; an
other, Mcqueen; another, Dyer; an
other, Mr.. Patrick Lannan; another
an eastern man. Mr.. Warfield had
been here for months; rounded up all
the influence he could bring to bear
upon the President IN his behalf. Mr..
Dyer worked like a beaver. Mr.. Nc
Queen, although by no means heavily
backed by prominent pnblic men, never
gave mp hope of being appointed to the
Office until the name of Frank II. Dyer
was sent in. Mr.. Dyer certainly put in
good work. He succeeded in getting
the endorsement of the whole Missis-
sippi delegation, and on the Saturday
before the nomination was sent to the
Senate said delegation, in some five or
six carriages, drove TO the White House
and recommended Mr.. Dyer for the
Marshalship of Utah. There recon-
mendation had the desired effect. Mr..
Dyer received the nomination. and will
be confirmed within a very few days.
By those who know here he is consider
ed an upright, independent man, q
man that will run his office. not for tie
amount of money he will make out OF
it, nor the opinion of those who are
supposed to look on, but in a spirit OF
justice and humanity. In this respect
he will be a great improvement upon
the person he succeeds, and q credit to
the administration as q Democratic
official.
One of the worst appointments ever
made by President Cleveland was that
of Orlando w. Powers as associate
justice of the Territory of Utah. He
never ought TO have been appointed to
anything, Don Dickinson's recon-
mendation TO the contrary notwith-
standing. have known from the first
week set foot in Washington that the
nomination of Powers could not be
confirmed, so that the withdrawal OF
his name was no surprise to me. When
his case was reached by the Judiciary
Committee of the Senate his nomlna-
ton was unanimously rejected. The
charges against him were too sweeping
for anything. The only point was how
to let the President, who had made the
nomination, out of an unpleasant posi-
ton. Accordingly. Senator Pugh was
deputed TO visit the White House, see
the President, and explain the action
.F ~, I. -.
very first opportunity he sent 4 mes
nomination. The Michigan delegation
now feel satisfied. Don Dickinson, who
assumes to be the boss of Michigan
state, has, even in this small affair, re-
ceiyrd very black eye. His endorse
ments Tor Office will have very little
weight with the President in the future.
In word, he is in very bad odor with
the present administration. / have
watched Powers career from the first
day he arrived in the Territory of
Utah. From the start he assumed
virtue that he did not possess. He
talked learEedly of the law, and glibly
OF morality, but when thoroughly
''sized. up" it was very apparent that
he understood very little Of law and
cared less about morality. His ad-
dress to the several grand iuries
which have come under his tongue ia
Utah are the most hypocritical har-
angues that were ever launched upon
a torbearing public. He prated about |
the observance of law, and the neces-
sity OF morality, until one would have !
thought that he was a lawyer and a |
saint, while the fact remain, as the re-
cords before the Senate committee show.
that he Is man of no character at all: !
that as married man the less said the |
better. and that as lawyer some of his |
professional acts will not bear the light |
OF day What Mr.. Powers will do in I
the future, have no means of know
ing. In any case he has left a mark in |
I Ian that VIII not easily be forgotten. |
have heard him spoken of in this city /
with the utmost contempt. more es-
pecially by one man who happened to |
be witness-and one of the experts
In the recent Eureka-Beck mining suit. /
The cheek he displayed in that case Is
SAID TO have been something awful. l
Finally, he gave the decision to be /
Eureka company and the ore to the |
Beck company, which is rather a disap-
pointing termination. TO the parties Of
the first part.
A successor to Judge Powers is freely
talked OF here. Already many names
are mentioned IN connection with the
ofhce. In a short time a nomination.
Will be made BY the President. and this
time scarcely think he will make a
A man of character will he
sent TO fill the vacant judgeship, and bv
and by his associates viii be Democrats
instead Of Republicans. It not to be
expected that the men who have recent
y been appointed to Office in Utah can
work harmoniously with men who are
opposed to them. The Re
oublicans who are now in. Office win
work for effect, but their efforts will
wall nothing in the end. The situa-
ion of affairs in Utah is pretty well
in Washington. Both al the
apitol and the White House. and every
lie that IS launched upon Utah and her
'eople is not swallowed unchallenged
am aware, OF course. that a good deal
as been said about the Tremendous
iormon lobbyethat is supposed to be in
Washington. 1t is seriously believed
q fact, that the Mormon corruption
ind here is something immense. As
ertlons Of this kind have been freely
lade in one or two New York daiIies Of
tie. but l would like TO meet the first