Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1905-05-06
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should resign from the bench if he
wants to be a stock jobber. While
there is no law to prevent the chief
justice of the Supreme court from in
vesting in mines or in other enter
prises; while there is no law to pre-
vent any high official from so doing,
we, and most people agree with us,
believe that it is in extremely bad
taste so to do, because the very ma
ture of the engagement makes the
floating of stock look like jobbery. In
this case Judge Bartch is, or was.
one of the management. The protest.
ants; those who would reorganize the
company, say that there has been
three and half years of misman-
agement, misstatement of facts, all
kinds of promises" and the showing
made, as related by the figures of the
secretary, the son-in-law of the one
time president, G. w. Bartch, seems
to bear out the assertions. The
charge is made that the funds of the
treasury were diverted" That is
wrongfully used. These funds were
collected for the purposes set out
but it is said that the statements were
not correct; that bonds existed OF
which the buyers of stock knew moth
ing, except that Bartch had said the
company owned the several claims
absolutely" AS to the unbusiness-
like methods, the fact that no annual
meeting was held is an omission
which, if true, should be corrected,
and as to the financial statement rem
dered, we cannot but agree with the
protesting stockholders that it is a
curiosity"
Truth is Informed that a stormy
session between Bartch and well
known attorney of this city occurred
some time ago in which the latter III
formed the former that he, Bartch,
could not use his official position to
intimidate him, the attorney, and that
the judge weakened when charged
with conduct unbecoming a man in
lis position. Truth is further in
formed that unless settlement is
made of matters right soon. legal pro-
ceedings will be instituted and that
those who propose starting them will
insist upon their not being stricken
from the files nor the attorneys max
ing them being disbarred from prac-
ticing law.
III IS again reiterated that Judge
Bartch should resign from the bench.
If he is going to continue hawking
stock throughout the east and getting
into difficulties with his co-owners of
mines and mills, the sooner he gets
down from the judiciary the better.
While it may not be anything against
the integrity or the ability of a judge
of high tribunal to be sued in a
court of law, the very fact that this
is the second time, since his election
to the exalted place he occupies that
he and his sOn-in-law have been held
up to public view as being engaged
in questionable ventures and doing
questionable things, it would seem
that in justice to himself and to the
people whom he serves he should
doff his ermine and take his chances
in litigation like other men. If he is
vindicated he can go on selling mines
and mining stocks as before, because
he appears to be doing pretty well at
that. If he is defeated in the action
he will have the satisfaction of know
ing that he prevented the state from
witnessing the degradation of it's
highest judicial officer.
When Judge John A. Marshall was
elevated to the Federal bench, we are
reliably informed, he sold out at ruin
GUS prices all his holdings in mines
so that not even shadow of suspicion