The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-06
SCHOOL COMMISSIONER.
AN INDIGNANT CITIZEN REPLIES TO
THE TRIBUNE.
Scandalous Attack Made BY the Re-
publican Organ Upon the Supreme
Court-A Bit of History.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 8, 1894.
To the Editor of The Herald:
There is a point where forbearance
ceases to be virtue, and in my opin-
ion that point has been reached in
dealing with the scurrillous and libel
lous publications of the Tribune. Peo-
pie have been accustomed to it's daily
abuse of everything and everybody
that do not happen to agree with its
peculiar mode of thought, and it is
now expected that everybody in office
in Utah belonging to the Democratic
party is open to its low down and vul-
gar abuse. But when l saw the pa
per Sunday morning and found in it
a hbeilous cartoon upon the supreme
court, l concluded it was time atten-
ton was called to the course of this
indecent and libellous sheet.
me cartoon is one libellouS as a
matter of law. The sole object of it
is to cast reflection upon the court and
to treat it with contempt.
If the next grand jury here does not
bring the proprietors of this outrage to
justice, then just and indignant peo-
pie will know the reason.
There must be some method by which
such character aSsasSins as have pre-
sided IN the Tribune Sanctum for the
last ten years can be brought to JUS
tlce. am more amazed at this attack
of the organ of vulgarity and Republic
canlsm when / consider the occasion
for it.
On the 31st day. of August. the su-
preme court, being in session, appoin-
ted a commissioner of schools. a re-
porter of the court and a. receiver for
the church property
AS to the commissioner of schools
the previous incumbent, Judge Bore
man. resigned about a month ago, and
told the writer of this in Salt Lake
city on the day the court met that he
came down and had been to see the
members of the court to make sure his
successor was appointed and his resig-
nation was accepted. 1 am also told
by two members of the court that he
did call to see them to urge
action in the matter. So much
for the school commissioner I
DEFY the Tribune to point out any
particular in which Prof. Lewis is not
eminently qualified for the position to
which he has been appointed
Now as to the receiver of the church
1t is generally conceded by
decent people that of right all of this
property must be ultimately returned
to the church, as the personal proper
ty has already been. Could anything
be more appropriate then than that the
supreme court, sitting as a court of
equity, should place some one in charge
of this property who has the interests
of the church and the protection of
the property at heart. If true, as stated
that the new receiver will render his
services gratis, will even the Tribune
pretend that such an appointment
should not have been made. But let the
f-r1t h hn 4nI n iy,r ri 70 HI ftar
P. H. Lannan will not deny that before
the appointment of Colonel Winder he
went to Chief Merritt and demanded
to know why any change should be
made.
The great Lannan, the late autocrat
Of the entire territory, from whom the
governor, the late supreme court and.
every one else in office while Republic
cans had control, received inspiration!
Imagine, if you can, the great Lannan,
the grand puffed toad of Republican,
ism in the library last Friday morning
making his demands on the chief JUS
tice and on the supreme court through
him, and also imagine, if you can, the
wrath with which he quit
ted the library after being told by the
chief justice in language not less forci-
BILE than polite that it was none of his
ID business.
The fact is that the Tribune is as it
has ever been from the great Lannan
DOWN to the little Goodwin-a'bsolutely
wild with rage because the courts
should show some little consideration
for the Mormon people.
1t has not been twelve months since
It's columns were filed with abuse of
The Mormons and of every man who
gave the Mormons credit for the least
virtue and sincerity.
The vindictiveness of the Tribune
towards Judge King is timply because
ne is a Mormon, and against Chief
Justice Merritt and Judge Smith
S founded on no other reason than
hat they long ago made UP their
minds that the Mormons were entitled
20 the same rights and privileges as
,ther people if they lived in the same
way. The hatred of the Mormons by
he Tribune is no less violent today
han it was one, two or ten years ago. |
t is now posing as the organ of Re-
Of Utah, yet 1 undertake !
o say that it will fight the most Illus |
rious Republican in Utah for the nom
nation as Delegate in Congress. 1t |
will fight Frank J. Cannon for no
,ther reason than that he is a Mormon, !
md yet every man in Utah knows that |
cannon practically created the Repub- |
lean party in Utah. Gle should not be |
-ery proud of the job.
But to return to the next crime of the |
upreme court. 1t is, that they re-