The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-15
AN EVASIVE REPLY.

On Sunday morning The Tribune
printed series of letters from Judge
w. NJ. McCerty in which that eminent
jurist entered his protest to Senator
Sutherland against certain tendencies
and acts Of the Republican political ma
chine in Utah. The Judge showed in a
forcible way the hostility of that ma
chine TO old soldiers OF the Re-
public as exhibited in the person
of Major Hobbs, whom it sought
| to detach from an honorable posi-
ton, one which was secure and perma-
nent, to position that it was feared
might be abolished altogether, rs bill
| for the abolition Of the Office of Re-
ceiver in Land Offices was then pending
in Congress. 1t was the evident pur-
pose of the machine to have Its own
favorite in the permanent office and to
have the old soldier in the office that
was liable 10 be dropped. Judge Nc
Carty's denunciation Of this was both
fervid and forcible,
The Judge also entered in behalf of
Mr., Livingston Of Manti, his protest
against the acknowledgment by the ring
of the conditions assigned by the Amer
lean party as one reason for its exist
ence; that the real dividing line is as
between church favorites and those
who are not, and the favoring by the
church politicians of one or tho other
Of these factions in the party, accord
ing to the rings own good will and
pleasure. The Judge very fairly pre-
sented the proposition without stating
it in so many words, that if this divid-
ing line as between Gentiles and Nor
mons was an essential one there was no
escaping the logic of the American
party; that it is the actual line Of di-
vision in Utah, and that until the hi
erarchs abandon their control Of poll
tics through both political parties and
of civil affairs through whichever hap
pened to be i'll power, the American par
ty's reasons for existence are unan~
swerable.
Yesterday morning The Tribune, In
continuation Of its policy of giving ev
cry side hearing, printed in full Sen
ator Sutherland IS reply to Judge Nc
Carty. In one of the letters embraced
in Senator Sutherland's 's reply is one
from Judge McCarty protesting in be-
half Of the Gentiles OF the American
party against the removal Of Mr.. Thorn
a.
Sutherland is right, as it seems to us,
in insisting that there is a certain IN
consistency in this on the part of
Judge McCarty, The omission OF this
letter from Judge McCarty's statement
shows anew the inadvisability Of omit
ting from any series Of letters any ono
that is essential to the point: and it
also enforces once more the proposition
that when series Of letters is to be
printed, the letters should be printed
entire.
The other letter which Senator Suth-
erland presents, Judge McCarty includ-
ed in his series, and quite properly SO;
although it is, according to Senator
Sutherland's tacit confession by its re-
production, the strongest answer he can
make, and the one in which he takes
especial pride.
We are bound to sny, with respect to
Senator Sutherland's IS statement in gen
eral, that it does not answer at all
Judge McCarty's chief position. 1t
does not even attempt to reply, save
with sneer, to the Judges pertinent
remonstrance against the i'll treatment
Of the old soldiers. 1t does not in any
way, save in a personal tn quoque, an
swer the main position as to where is
the real dividing line in politics in
Utah RS set forth by Judge McCarty in
his. original statement-that this is the
real division and that the American
party occupies the right position with
respect to that division; and that all
parties recognize the fact that this is
the vital point Of difference in all mat
ters in this State is shown by the con-
cession on every hand that. that is the |
actual division that must everywhere |
be recognized. .
Thespegsoual reterte.by Senator Suth, 4