The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-12
TALKS TURKEY TO DELEGATION
Writes Letter Telling of Political
Conditions in State.

Hobbs had received a dispatch from one
| of you gentlemen advising him that a
! change in the office of register of the
| United States land office at Salt Lake
| City had been decided upon and recon-
mendatiOnS to that effect are to be made
this day to the president. AT an early
| hour this morning | telegraphed Sena-
| tor Sutherland as follows:
" Kindly defer action appointment reg
| lister. Interest Utah delegation. Welfare
| Republican party Utah demand it. This
| day mail important information. Rush.
| Deliver message to senator personally
MY reason for taking so deep an in
terest in this matter and again address
| ing you on the subject-having heretofore
written to both Senator Sm0Ot and Sen
ator Sutherland in regard to the conteni-
| plated change-iS the Importance and the
far-reaching effect and consequences to
the Republican party of this state that
| must inevitably follow should such a
change me made.
Appeals for Veteran.
'Now, gentlemen at the risk of being
considered impertinent and ObtruSive in
this matter, | shall again invite your
attention to some matters which must,
| because of your manifold duties, have
been overlooked by you. AS | stated in
my communications to you above referred
10, Ii has been the pride and boast of the
Republican party from Abraham Lincoln $
first administration to the present time,
| champion of the surviving Union soldiers
and the guardian of the widows and or
phans OF those who persisted on the bat
! tlefield
During the early part of the war Pres
1dent Lincoln announced and promulgated
the policy that IN the civil departments
OF the government in the appointments
| to office and the giving Of employment
| therein preference should be given to
those who became disabled in war. One
he had made up his mind that the
! families of those who had fallen and
those disabled in the service, their quail
ficatiOns being equal. should always have
congress passed a resolution to the same
effect, that those disabled in the mill
tary service of the country, wherever
qualified, ought to have a preference over
others
And a plank has been inserted in every
Republican platform from that time down
to the present announcing the same prin-
ciple and pledging the Republican party
TO the strictest adherence to it.
That Utah Plank.
in the national Republican platform
upon which you gentlemen were elected
to office and upon which Theodore Roose-
velt became president of the United
States q refer to the platform of 1900
which was re-affirmed by the local Re-
publican organization at Ogden in 1902
the following emphatic declaration APP
pears:
The nation owes a debt of profound
gratitude 10 the soldiers and sailors who
have fought. its battles, and ii is the
governments duty TO provide for the sur
vivors, and for the widows and orphans
Of those who have fallen in the coun-
try's wars. The pension laws, founded In
this just sentiment should be liberal, and
should be literally administered. and
preference should be given, wherever
practicable, with respect to employment
in the public service, to soldiers and
sailors, and to their widows end or
phans'
Il take it that if Mr.. Hobbs were a
Democrat instead of q Republican, with
his war record and the long service rem
low holds, he could not be sidetracked
without a violation of the foregoing
pledges and promises.
I'm addition to what ! have already
said in my former correspondence and
have above stated, / respectfuIiv insist
that for the following reasons Mr. Hobbs
ought not to suffer the indienity and be
ilg3iit by being in a measure re
pudiated by the government which he
las so long, faithfully and so we'll served
and by the party to which he has always
gwen his faithful and unbroken allegI-
ance. through failing of reappontment:
First-Such an act would be Viola
ton of the promises made by the Re
publican party in it's declaration of prin-
ciploS 20 eighty millions Of people
Second-The president of the United
States would he led into doing that which
the platform upon which he was elected
declares that he will not do and vio-
lating rule which he upon numerous
occasions has gone upon record as de-
claring shall be faithfully and sacredly
kept.
'Third-It cannot be denied that Mr.
Hobbs is the best qualified and most eff
ticient applicant for the position.
FQurth-A great, powerful and influ-
entail journal of this city which repre-
of from eight to fifteen thousand intel
ligent voters of this state. IS per cent of
whom are Republicans, and the influence
Of which Is felt politically In the adioin-
ing states and territories, is daily MAX
ing and repeating the charge that you
gentlemen have neither the intention nor
the desire to present Republicanism or
Republican principles and have no regard
whatever for party pledges or the plat
Should this change be made. IL will fur
nish indisputable evidence that these
sweeping charges in some RESPECTS are
not entirely grOundless.
Keep Sacred Pledges.
Therefore. I ask of you to do that
which every American citizen, be he a
member OF the Republican party or some
other party. is entitled to demand at
your hdndS, namely That you Keep the
most sacred pledge and doctrine of the
Republican party which YOU. by becom-
ing candidates and accepting offices have
announced you would keep. Even though
you are willing TO take the risk your
selves, I again, as a citizen and as a
Republican-one who believes that party
pledges are just as sacred. even more
so. as individual promises, for in the one
case the violation of personal oblga-
tion affects but very few people, while
the violation of a principle BY a party
in power affects many and sven sayors
of national dishonor-that soft do not
make this contemplated change and
thereby bring odium upon he Republican
party TO which we all owe so much
II do not desire TO be abrupt or of
fensivs in this matter and If what I
have said appears to be in any way dis
courteous or dictatorial, I do not mean
II so; and my blunt way, If 1t can be
called so. OF stating the foregoing propo-,
sitions is due to the intense feeling that
have In this matter and the apprehen-
sion that a great political mistake as
well as an injustice, Is about to be done:
and a desire to avoid the just criticism
that viii be poured so iavish1y and so
scathingly upon your heads personally
and upon the Republican party general