The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-06

Brooklyn, Oct. 5.-The following letter
from Judge Gaynor, declining the nomi-
nation for the office of judge of the
court of appeals, was made public this
evening:
,,, brooklyn, N. Y, Oct s. 1894.
10 Hon. j. w. Hinckley:
,,o, Dear sir-The reasons which 1 pub
llcly assign for not wishing to become
me fne nominee for governor precludes me
from accepting another place on the
ticket, as may be seen by recurring TO
them, and | am, therefore, constrained
10 decline the nomination for judge of
the court OF appeals, as grateful as 1
feel for it, and as much as should like
10 nold a place of SO much usefulness
rms would suffice, but I feel impelled to
say more L am not without feel
ing ing ana cannot refrain from acknowledge
ing vibration of pain that organiza tons,
aVoWedly working unselfishly for high
polltical methods and for better govern-
menu, should affirma lively refuse to en-
acceptance or refusal It is now nearly
nve years ago that 1 openly objected as
an Individual citizen to political methods
Mlilcn l deemed low. base and unmanly
ana to official acts which deemed heart
less crimes, involving, as they did, spolia-
ton to the peoples hard earned money
Ior the enrichment of a few who fol-
lowed politics as a trade and made pub
lie officials their mere tools. I felt fhat
mad right to speak, for in the face
OF gross wrongs to the people among
Whom lived, had sat silent for fif.
teen years, but, Furthermore, from an
impulse. which 1 cannot define or a rea-
son which is too inscrutiable to assign.
l round 1, myself unable to sit silent lon
ger The history of the four years
OF eIIort which ensued by ap-
peal to courts and public opinion.
!, cannot now even summarize, but in
TINS hour in which my name is being
tossed back and forth by contending poll
tlcaI factions. and in which I have broken
asunder the bonds of my perplexity and
seen my duty clear, I beg to say, in justice
to myself. and I trust with due mildness
and without any cgotism, that through
out 1t all l was never helped in money
or Otherwise by any politician or political
organization or faction whatever. and
that if in the end l finally prevailed. it
was solely because the people, honest and
unselfish, understood me, and recognized
that at all events l was trying to do
right. Owing nothing, therefore, to poll
me!nbering that whatever little I have
done to lift the government up, was done
as a private citizen. 1 do not value any
office so highly as to wish to achieve it
against the opposition of those whom I
had supposed would be my friends. If
thought the withdrawal of my name would
injure Senator Hills canvass. I would
try to see some way to allow it to re-
main, for his recent development in the
national Senate places him with the fore
most public men of his day. Between
him and his opponent, he should, and I
trust will prevail.
Though this letter takes me away from
promotion in the line of nv taste, I
keeps me in line with my past / write
it to the hurt of no man, but in justice
to all men, to truth and myself TO
thine own self be true, and il must follow
as the night the day, thou canst not then
be false TO any man.
"W. J. GAYNOR."