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


cited wherein you urged members OF
The Judiciary to take an active part II
party politics. And no man in this
State has been more ardent or irrepres
sible In his demands that the judiciary
become active party workers than your
self. Neither is there any man In the
State who has received so much benefit
from the work done by the members
Of the Judiciary as you have received
Now, do not wish to be understood as
even intimating that l have any re-
grots whatever for what / have done
for you and iii your behalf in tho past
Under the samo or similar clrcum-
the same for any other political asso'
ciate who occupied the same high stand
ing in my estimation that you did.
My position is this: That you, hnv-
ing been the recipient and beneficiary
of much of what you term my activity
in politics il this State, are estopped
from now criticisIng, much less de-
along this line. The fact is, it is not
any pernicious activity on my part i'll
party politics that has aroused your ire,
rs we'll as that of other members of the
machine, but my refusal to act at all
in some matters and an obstinate de-
termination on my part to bo guided
aud controlled by my own Judgment IN
dictates of the machine.
Personlly, J. am in favor of members
of the Judiciary having as little to do
as they consistently can with party poll
tics, but it seems under the present re-
gime that Judge or judicial officer, or,
Tor that matter, any other person who
claims to be Republican, who fails to
comply with every demand made upon
him by the machine is not only marked
40 lofA ha
for political honors or preferment, but
be is, if possible, to be read out of the
Republican party.
Of course, realize that my own fate
politically, or that of any other indi-
vidual or number Of individuals, is of
but little or no Importance to the pub
lie, only so far as it may involve
principles; but whenever the machine
marks any man for defeat because of
his manhood and independence, and is
permitted to succeed in its nefarious
work. then the fate Of the individual
becomes in some respects matter OF
public concern.
You seem to reap great satisfaction
by the publication of a letter that |
wrote indorsing Governor Thomas for
reappointment as Postmaster for this
city. The reason why L voluntarily gave
the Governor an Endorsement was that
knew that the only reason that could
be urged why the Governor should be
displaced was that he Is q Gentle, and
the only reason why Mr. Eldredge should
be appointed was that he is q Nor
mon, admitting that the claims of both
on the Republican party were equal;
and the letter was written with the In
tentlon of conveying that view without
giving those features too much promi
nece. But, Senator, am willing TO ac-
cept and adopt the construction that you
give the letter. With that construc-
ton, all that can be said is that | used
the only argument which appeared to
appeal to or have any effect upon you
in favor Of Mr., Thomas, namely, that
You had decided upon a division of the
Federal offices between the Gentiles
ard the members OF the Mormon
church, and that this Office according
TO that division should 60 to GEN
tile,
You complain because l have made
public what you term private corre-
spondencc The letters I wrote you in
regard to Capt Hobbs he was entitled
10 have filed, with the balance Of his
Endorsements, with the Secretary of the
Interior. 1t was not private CORE
spondenee, and was never so intended
Nor did you so regard it, because, in
ihe answer you made 10 my second let
ter, you in effect invited me to give
it TO the press, and when / failed to
20 80 you sent copy of il to your
friends here in the city who for weeks
were industriously circulating and read
ing it ''on the quiet and, in order !
that the entire State might get the
benefit of it, one of them went to n
reported of the Salt Lake Herald and
requested him TO obtain copies Of my
letters and publish the entire CORE !
spondence.
Your explanation of your connection
with the coal company is both evasive |
and childish, because it is matter !
OF public knowledge that the firm of
which You were the senior member was
The regularly retained counsel for this |
corporation, and it was but recently an
:nounced in the daily press of this city |
that. because of the relation Of attor-
ney and client which existed between |
Your hrm and the coal company that |
You withdrew from and severed your |
relations with the firm,
. You say that ii would seem that nv |
aim all along has been to place YOU in |
an unpleasant light before the public.
Such has not been my intention. What
II have done is to prevent YOU and those
who speak for you, including the ma
ichIne organ, from placing me in an IN
pleasant and wrong light before the |
pubic. For two years your whisper
ing brigade has been at work trying to |
lnculcate the virus of religious preju.
dice in the minds Of the people Of this
State against me, and have had moth.
ing TO say, and would have continued ,
10 remain silent had they not gone to
the extent of attacking my private !
character. and, as l have heretofore said. |
my integrity, as judicial officer.
| deprecate as much as YOU or snv |
other man the fact that the conditions
which obtain here are such that mem, |
bers of the Judiciary have been brought |
INTO active politics. 1t is not their !
sholee ,h that they take part in politics to
man for Office or going with candidates
for Congress and fha limited Statas c. |