The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-27
THE MEN AND THEIR WORK.

1t is difficult to conceive of a more con-
temptible mode of procedure than that
which ex-Chief Justice ZANE and his
friends have adopted in their efforts to
have the gentleman named re-instated.
Scrubs and blackguards would employ such
methods, but gentlemen never. In the
first place they secretly and cowardly assail
the gentleman who now occupies the place.
They can make no direct charge against
him, for to do so would involve demand
for proof to which they could not respond
Chief Justice SANDFoRD's course on
the bench has been so upright, so fair, so
just and so far above criticism, that he
cannot be attacked specifically, hence he is
assailed by such meaningless accusations
as that he is not severe enough in pronounc-
ing judgment against convicted persons,
and that he is not competent-which is
humorous IN the light Of the history of Utah
judges. Having endeavored without mate
rial at hand to cast discredit upon the chief
justice, ZANE is lauded as the one man pos
sessing all the qualifications for the office
and it is represented that he is the choice
of the faction in whose interest the
administration is supposed to order and
manipulate things in this territory. This
claim is a bald and brazen lie, as those
who penned it are aware. A very large
proportion of the non-Mormons are openly
and avowedly opposed to Judge ZANE. The
conservative Gentiles, almost without ex-
ception, object to his appointment, for they
realize that with him on the bench the
reign of terror from which the territory is
happily escaping would be resumed, and
the march of progress upon which
Utah is proceeding would be
at once stayed. Only the radicals,
the fire-eaters, those who like strife and
turmoil, and who have little or no interest
in the welfare of the community, desire the
return of the fanatic judge to the bench
which he occupied with so much discredit
to those who put and kept him there and
so much material injury to the territory.
An honest canvass would show that the
great majo : of the non-Mormons
are earnestly and intelligently opposed to
the reinstatement of Judge ZANE. Yet
ZANE and associates are trying to make it
appear that he is the choice of the Gentle
community, and an effort is made to de
ceive and mislead the President into
doing the great wrong of inficting
the territory with this nomination.
Then, what can be thought of the dirty
trick of using the Associated Press to cir
culate direct falsehoods to help along the
scheme? If Judge ZANE were the honora-
BILE, upright gentleman who should be
chief justice Of this territory, he would
not only not accept an Office procured by
fraud, misrepresentation and lying, but
would denounce the methods of those who
are doing this disreputable work in his be-
half A man worthy of the office would
not take the place obtained in the way and
by the means employed by ZAEE's workers.
THE HERALD does not believe any change
will be made. We cannot bring ourselves
to think that President HARRISON will be
induced to perpetrate the great outrage
upon this long-afiicted community. Our
only object in referring to the matter now
is to call attention to the kind Of men ZANE
is employing and the character of the work
they are doing.