The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-01
PULLING FOR ZANE.

MILLER. is here with r. w. TRACY pfesI-
dent of the First National bank of Spring
field. H.. urging the appointment Of Judge
CHARLES S. ZANE as chief justice Of Utah,
the position he held under Arthur They
called on the President to-day and presented
a petition signed by over 1000 Gentle resi-
dents of the territory. Judge ZANE was
Senator CULLoN's law partner at the time
the latter was elected governor of Illinois.
The Mormons will probably make a strong
fight against Judge ZANE's reappointment,
for during the time he presided over Utah
he sent scores of polygamists to the peni-
Tertiary"
II is presumed that the handful of ad-
mirers of Judge ZANE-there being about
handful of men not yet disguised by him
will find encouragement if not comfort in
the above. But we suggest to them the
wisdom of not permitting their spirits to
become too iubiant over this dispatch. If
they will read the words carefully and in
calmness they will find in the lines nothing
noon which they can base a reasonable
hope. They will not discover therein any
thing suggestive of vacancy in the of
fee of chief Justice and they must all
know that there cannot be two chief
justices for one territory at the same time.
Judge SANFORD still occupies the position,
and SO far as we have been able to learn
he is content to continue for a season: at
least, he has not proposed to please his
enemies and disappoint his friends by
making a vacancy for ZANE or anybody
else TO fill.
In tlis connection it may not be out
Of place to mention certain things
that have bearing on the chief Justice
ship. 1t has been published at regular in
tervals. and on reliable authority from
Trustworthy sources" and SO on, tina t
Chief Justice SANFORD has resigned.
Now. THE HERALD is not in Judge SAND
FoRD's confidence, but we have the same
opportunities which others enjoy of ascer-
tanning when designations of federal Off
GERS ara sent to the President, and thus
are enabled to say with pOsitiveness that if
Judge SANDFoRD has resigned, he has don
so within very few hours. We can
further say that we don't believe he con
templates or that he has contemplated re
signing.
Another thing may be mentioned here
with propriety. We have heard a good
deal about 'charges" against Judge SAND
FORD, men and newspapers both declaring
that the gentleman could hot stand up un-
der the presentation filed against him.
Just what the charges were could not be
ascertained, but thorough search developed
the fact that no accusation against the
Judge has been lodged with the President,
with the encouragement or in any Of
the departments of government. The news
papers and the individuals that have been
saving so much about him, and telling about
the charges and accusations which he
would have to face have never had the
courage to allege anything against the gen
tleman where they might be called upon to
prove it. Judge SANDFORD's record IS alb
solutely clean with the admins ration, as
it has been on the bench, and no man has
had the hariihooi or impudence to say a
word against him to the powers that be.
All this talk alb out charges, therefore, may
be set down as so much ignorant or mali
cious lying.
There cannot be much comfort for the
friends Of ZANE or the enemies Of SAND
FORD in these revelations; nor in the words
OF President HARRISON to a gentleman
who was asking for a iUdgeship for
friend. The President said he would re
move no territorial Judge whose record was
clean, and against whom there were no
charges of wrong-doing; that he did not re
gard the judges as political officers, and
that the law intended that the judges should
serve at leas5 one full term of four years
HARRISON further said that it would be in
sufficient to cause a removal to present
general accusations against a judge, al
leging incompetency, disqualification, and
50 on: that specific charges must
be presented by responsible parties, and
not only this, but the charges must be
proven to the complete satisfaction of the
President. Those who are opposed to
SANFORD and in favor of ZANE may get
all the consolation there is in this state
ment of the Presidents position.
But leaving Judge SANFORD out of
the case entirely, what hope is there for
Judge ZANE! The least possible His rec
ord on the bench is anything but creditable,
and President HARRISON knows all about
that record. The President is ac-
quainted with ZANE'S outrage
Gus ADMINISTRATION of the law, knows
Of his infamous rulings on the bench, is
familiar with his ebullitions of hate and
manifestations of prejudice, and is aware
of the terrorizing practiced by him which
paralyzed the industries of Utah, and kept
the entire community on the verge of dis
tract on Knowing all this, can enc con
,.eive it possible that the President viii re
store Judge ZANE TO power, and place him
in position to restore the awful state of af-
fairs which heinaugurated and maintained.
To suggest this IS to reflect on General
HARRIsoN's intelligence, and to charge him
with narrow -mindness, with mean and un-
worthy preiudices, and with dccp-seated
enmity toward the Utah community: in
short, to make him as mean and hateful as
ZANE has shown himself to DE. Nothing in
President HARRIsoN's career iustiiies any
such vicious imputatiOn. Nothing that he
has said or done warrants one in saying
that he is disposed to do otherwise than
right, or that he hates Utah 50 much as to
desire the persecution Of her people and
the destruction of her material prosperity.
THE HERALD has too much confidence in
the fairness, the sense of Justice and the
desire to do the best of President HARRI-
son, to think it possible that he viii intict
fair Utah with man who has for years
manifested, if he has not openly confessed,
venomous hate for the territory and its