The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-21
DISTRICT JUDICIAL CAMPAIGN.
Time Cor the Republican Candidates
TO File Their withdrawal.

to File Their withdrawal.
tAThe time is now ripe for the with
1eSawal of Snyder. Thompson and Fer
guson from the race III this judicial
district They still have a chance to
save themselves from being the three
men who were defeated in a district
Republican by about 1000 majority.
They viii be defeated. Nothing short of
a miracle would save them, and mira
cles are not campaign stock in Utah
this year. They would mark them
selves as men Of good judgment if
they should new withdraw People
would say they had shown unusual
consideration in the welfare of the
community, and would be disposed to
reward them hereafter
1t is hardly possible that they can
win. The party flute that could call
Geddes a patriot and could press for
ward the claims OF Glen Miller as a
fit legislator. has not been able to say
a word in their defense. The Argus
has endorsed only one. The organ of
6Nhe Silver King gang in Park City is
Nhe only paper thar can say any good
of them, and it, of course, has a mo-
tive. The Labor World is the last
paper to open up on the luckless trio.
L is mon partisan, not neutral. in
hammer and tOngs. Here is the edi
tOrial in its last issue:
Happily the class of hide-bound parti-
sans who pride themselves upon voting
their party ticket straight" clingine to
the theory that it would be good policy
10 vote for yellow dog if nominated nv
their party, rather than scratch the ticl-
Ell, is rapidly diminishing. However. if
any voters OF that stripe affiliate with INC
Republican party in this region il viii
be interesting Sf113Nr in nh
10 watch their expression of counIenanCe
when swallowing the three candidates
nominated by their party for judges Of
this judicial district.
1t should be borne in mind that these
VIII really be the most important rnapis-
tracies OF the state, as far as the volume
n ard character of duties Will be concerned
Many lett called upon to offer themselves
as candidates for these positions bf high
honor and responsibility but who Wore
chosen None other than Barlow Fer
guson, y. D. X. Thompson and w! / Snv-
deri As one crestfallen Republican, r.
marked when he heard the ticket an
nounced: The three of them boiled into
AAhe wouldn't make decent justice of the
v The party organs have nearly all treat
ed the nominations with silent contpuDt
notwlthstandlns the ridiclue OF the op-
position press. The Tribune While pre-
serving a discreet silence editor:allv In
Ats local columns characterized The nor1t
nations as "a surprise and disappoint-
Summit county delegates for having
brought about the shameful result .b8
persistent swapping of votes and floor ma
nipulationS' The Argus drew ~, -
imagination sufficiently TO put y, = sooJ
word for Thompson. giving Ferguson ana
Snyder deliberate Snub and therein,
emphasizing its disgust with their choice.
AS Tor the vast majority OF Republican
voters, they denounce their judicial fickef
in unstinted terms and will refl,sa 70 slI,oN
port it at the polls
named by the Republicans is rendered
more striking when compared with The
candidates chosen by the Democrats CON
YeDion-Ogden Hiles, Andrew j4ovyat and
lie Grande Goung-three leading members
of the territorial bar, men of ripe oyuer-
fence, high standing in theip profession
and in every way fitted to grace the
bench with honor, dignity and Justice In
reference TO the Democratic nominations
the Tribune Rep.l said editotally:
=" The candidates nominated yesterday
by the Democrats for district judges
are gentlemen above reproacA. They all
are experienced in their professions. They
all, by the force of their OWN intellects
s,h6ve acquired regulations hs eminent
lawyers. They stand out without a sus-
picion before their fellow men Al least
two of the three have that character of
mind which men inSIinctNely understand
as fitting them for the bench and they
have so lived, so handled their professio,1
and have so rIoved in 1lsir walk before
man that all men who know them would
without hesitation, submit tneir property
or their lives to their Adjudication with
a perfect certainty in advance tina; their
cause would be heard with 4 singieness
OF purpose to do justice; that they would
be intelligently heard by meq who have
prepared themselves by a profound in
vestigation of the law 10 Judge Intelli-
gently and justly We congratulate the
Democracy on its nominatlonst for district
judges, and this is absolutely sincere.
Notwithstanding the groCesGUb spectacle
which would be presented by khe appeaI-
ing of case decided by eith6r of Them
to be heard i'll review by tie residen,
Democratic candidate for the supreme
bench
"As a matter of fact. while ills ALWAYS
wrong to vote for men you know 70 he
unfit for Office, even II their names have
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