The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-14
Following is the text of Senator Suth-
erland's reply to Judge McCarty:
IAN Open Letter to Judge William
M. McCarty.

Hon. William NJ McCarty: Sir-I have
never believed that a newspaper cOntro-
VerSy is a satisfactory method of eluci-
dating the truth, and / have no intention
now of engaging in one with you. 1t
would seem that your aim all along has
been to place me in an unpleasant light
before the public. and you no doubt think
you have succeeded. However that may
be, you have with certainty advertised
your own utter unfitness to occupy a jul
dicial office. You are a justice-sOon to
become the chief justice-of the highest
court of this state. You are bound to con-
duct yourself with such dignified regard
for the traditions of your high office that
through YOU. If the thinking people OF
this state are satisfied with your atti-
tude, ii must be because they delight IN
the spectacle of a justice of their supreme
court becoming a common purVeyor of
gossip and scandal and cheap sensation
alism. and that they rejoice in hehOlding
the chambers of their most exalted tri-
bunal occupied by one who spends his
time in unseemly political controversy,
in scoding advocacy of the claims of
some applicants for office. and in bad
tempered opposition to others; who, with
out excuse or provocatlon writes insult
ing letters and then in violation of the
ordinary rule which obtains among gen.
tlemen that private correspondence is sa-
cred, publishes them with no apparent
reason, unless II be to crafty his own or
some other persons mallce or to give HIM
self nOtoriety; and finally, who cOnfesses
with naive but humiliating ignorance of
the depths to which he thereby drags his
high position. that he comes and goes
like any errand boy at the beck and call OF
a newspaper editor, to consider the edi-
torials which he may choose to write
Inconsistency Is Alleged.
by your own showing, you have never
been content TO cOnfine yourself to the
important duties of your ONCE, but YOU
have arrOgantly demanded the right to
direct and regulate the appointment OF the
officers of the United States in the state
of Utah, and you cannot agree even with
yourself as to the reasons which justify
their selection. You pretend TO have
great regard for that provision of the
state constitution which fOrbids the i'm
position of a religious test, and in your
letter written to me with reference to
Livingston declare that the proposition
to appoint man to Office because he Is
Gentle is subVersiYe of the constitu-
ton and opposed to the basic principles
of the government. And yet, only
few weeks previous, you wrote the fol-
lowing letter to me with regard to the
Salt Lake postmastership, which you curl
Cusly enough omitted TO publish along
with your other letters. and which in
view Of your having published the re-
mainder of the correspondence, L feel at
I" December %, 1906.
Hon George Sutherland. United States
Senator, Washington, d. c.: Dear Senator
AS you no doubt are aware, an effort is
being made by small coterie of politi-
clans to have ]. Z. Eldredge succeed the
Hon A L. Thomas as postmaster of this
city.
least 80 per cent of the straight Gentle
Republicans of this city in saying that
no greater calamity could possibly befall
the Republican party of this city than for
it's representatives at Washington, ID. G,
to permit a change in that office at this
time. change such as the one referred
to- should IT be made, would be regarded
and characterized by the GENTLE Repub-
licanS generally as well as by many of
the Mormon Republicans as a political
outrage. | am credlbiy informed that
some of the representative members of
the American" party have expressed
hope that Governor Thomas will fail of
reappolntment and the office be given to
some Mormon, as it would have ten
dency. so they claim, to drive many Ger
tile Republicans, who are friends and adj
mirers of Governor Thomas, into the
American" party. 1t is unnecessary for
me to state that the change is not asked
for in the interest of the public, because
it must be conceded that more efficient
or faithful officer. and one who would
give better satisfaction cannot be found
Governor Thomas has always been a
faithful and jealous party worker and
tower u surfing III III the VI SdAizdtioIl. dIlG
no reason can. be assigned why he should
be displaced in the interest of Mr. e.
dredge, or, for that matter, any other Re
publican. Therefore, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
publican. Therefore. in the interest of
equity and fair dealing in party politics
as well as in the interest of the I.epub-
lican party of this state, ] desire to go or
record as being unalterably opposed to
any change being made.
This is not q confidential communica
ton You may make whatever use of il
you may deem proper as it is writer
wholly upon nv own instance and respon
sibility, unsolicited by and without the
knowledge of Governor Thomas.
Wishing you a merry Christmas and