The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-07-05
PROVO CITY.
CHAIRMAN LEFCHER.

Why is it that the Tribune cannot
disagree with any on without black
guarding him? Is it because the other
man has no newspaper to defend HIM
self with? Mr.. Jerrold R. Le tcher,
chairman of the Utah commission for
reasons best known to himself and
probably perfectly satisfactory, has re-
resigned the Craftsmanship We have
neither the right nor the disposition to
pry INTO his affairs or turn up the
reason. If it is sufficient for him 1t will
do tC~ us and ought to do for the Tri-
bune The Tribune devoted two lead
ing ~ cles to Mr. Letcher yesterday.
1t avers that he lost his temper and
ejec' Tribune reporter from a
me ? Of the commissioners. That
MAJ III re true, but even if he had
killed z lslf dozen Tribune reporters
woulC hl ave been still provocation
for tro whole 'eaders2 The Tribune
says spItelully that MIR. Letcher was at
one time q new paper reporter, but it
passes the dec nj line when it adds-he
was never firstclass one. For total
lack of dignity and for bit of male
violent spite efulness we haYe never seen
this thing surpassed, never saw it
equaled. We are not aware that Mr.
Letcher is perfectly patient mrn, but
If he is not and be and Tribune re
porter disagreed and had a little scrap
in which the Tribune man got Shot out
of the door, is that any reason the
whole force should mount the COM
missioner and the heavy man shye two
leading articles at him in one day?~
When the Tribune says it doesn t
speak by authority, as to Mr.. Letcher'S
reasons for resigning, it exhibits a bit
of delicacy which is rare indeed IN its
editorial department, and when saying
that, it should have stopped. This
thing of ascribing motives in the dark
was ever most hazardous affair. Mr..
Letcher is by no means one of
these namby psmby fellows who
either never have an opinion or they
have it coupled with so much caution
that they dare not express it. Opin-
ions differ widely as to whether the
ladies will vote this fall in Utah.
Older heads than Mr.. Letcher's have
not ss yet decided it. 1t would not be
strange if he is bit bothered over it.,
and the Tribune knows as well as we
do that this matter did not enter at all
into the matter of Mr.. Letcher's resig-
nation.
AS logician the Tribune develops
amazingly. 1t says under the law the
commission has no right to instruct
the registrars but it blames Mr.. Letch-
er because be does not want to dc this
1t even goes to the extent Of charging
that Mr.. Letcher resigns rether than
do this. Well, if that were true, we
can say that the rule among office
holders is to do wrong rather than re.
sign. UnWittingly the Tribune pays
Mr.. Letcher great compliment in this
way, but no matter what he concludes
to door does, the Tribune will find
great wrong in it. In thus bounding
Commissioner Letcber the Tribune is
paving the way of that gentleman to
place in the public estimation which
will give it, in the future, great deal
of worry.
So tar as this whole question of fe.
male voting this fall is concerned,
doubtless it will be submitted to au-
thority competent to deal with it and
the registI ars will have the decision in
time to guide their footsteps in the
coming registration. All Mr.. Letcher
or any other honest democrat cares
about is that the law be made plain.
Obedience will be easy let it be de-
termined as it may. Mr.. Letcher NAV
begin to look at it from another side
aftel ne has pitched few more Tri-
bune reporters out and broken their
necks. That sort of thing has been
known to change reportorial opinions
upon occasion. 1t may do SO in this
case.