The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-16
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In a recent number of the Army and
Navy Journal, 1 find the following
hints to governors. The article, of
course, is really directed at the COVER
nors who were chosen by the people at
the last elections, but there is much
food for reflection in it here consider
ing the newness of our national guard ::
Good appointments will rebound to
the credit of the governors making
them, and they will result to the ad-
vantage of the political party in con-
troll. Long experience shows that no
good results from the use of patron
age and the applica ton of the princi-
pal of political selection for military
offices is a grave mistake. We are not
insisting that changes should not be
made, but that they should be made
with due elaboration and solely be-
cause better men can be found to fill
the military place at the disposal Of the
incoming executives. There should be Il
rigid application of q. few simple tests
in selecting a military officer. First
Does he understand the duties of his
position, and is he able to discharge
them efficiently and under all circun-
duties the time required for their prop
er discharge? The national guard has
had enough of mere parade soldiers in
high places; it wants no more of them.
The gravest responsibilities rest upon a
man who deals with the military arm
and no man should seek to put him
self in position imposing military du-
ties upon him unless he is equal to
them. If he has the ambition simply
to wear a uniform and turn out on
parade, let him join a volunteer fire
company or the Knights of Pythias. To
put the lives Of his fellow-citizens in
military emergency at the disposal of
fncompetency is a wrong to them, a
, wrong to the state whose high prerog-
atives should be entrusted only Ito COM
petent hands, and wrong to the ap-
pointee himself
Another thing every officer of the
national guard should bear in mind is
that he makes himself particeps GRIM
inis in all appointments when he lends
his influence in any way to secure them
| either because of a good-natured un-
| willingness to say no, or because he
wishes to stand we'll with some man
whose persistent canvaSSing may re-
suit in his appointment to a place ne
ought not to have These remarks are
| general, but every one rs welcome &c
wear the coat who finds it a fit"
Will George Gould be able to enter
the -Four Hundred? is a question thai
is now agftating that select coterie
1t is a notorious fact that. prior tt
his meeting the Prince of Wale:
abroad during his races with Dunraven
he had made several attempts to gair
the favor Of the rich and well-born o.
New York City. 1t is also we'll known
that each attempt was miserable
failure.
There We're those who believed tina
the fact that Gould had lunched witt
the prince and quarreled with Dun
raven would have its effect upon tht
upper ten of New York. But it woult
would appear that Gould is just a!
far as ever from success as he eve
was.
It certainly begun to look as though
money was no passport to society il
New York, and an exchange gives thu
following reasons for it:
4 There is no doubt that the protes
! against: the ostentatiouS displays O
wealth which found expression in Ney
i York at the last horse show and which
is as rigorous as ever. will much re
duce the scale uf rnagnificence upol
which metropolitan entertaining is t