The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-12
HE APPEALS FOR HOBBS.
Justice McCarty's First Protest
Against Machine Methods.


Feb l. 1s06.-Hon. George Sutherland,
| United States Senator. Washington. d.
! C.: Dear Senator-A week or ten DAYS
| ago 1 learned that there is a move on foot
/ TO have Hon. Frank D. Hobbs, register
| OF the land office, sidetracked, when his
! present term of office expires, and the
/ position given to E. ID. r. Thompson. at
! tOrney-at-law of this city At first I
treated the matter lightly believing that
while such a change might possibly be
contemplated by our representatives at
/ Washington, / did not think such a thing
at all probable However, / learned later
that many of Mr. Hobbs friends are very
apprehensive and think it quite probable
that he might fail of reappointment.
Mr.. Hobbs is not only a gentleman in
all that the term implies, but. during his
| incumbency of that office. he has shown
himself to be a faithful and efficient
public servant, and is kind courteous and
obhging to all with whom he comes in
contact and is an officer against whom
not one word of just criticism has ever
been or can be uttered. Furthermore. he
is and always has been 4 Staunch Snd
loyal Republican, locally and nationally,
and is IN full and perfect accord with the
policies Of the present administrations His
claim to party recognition from purely
party standpoint are second to none
who have been or will be mentioned for
the office he now holds.
Besides. he has other claims on his
party as an organization, and against the
American. people as a whole-clams
which find and touch a responsive cord
in at least the breast of every person who
makes any pretense of being a Republi-
can and who is not at heat an migrate
refer TO the services rendered the nation
by the old veteran VINO in 1862 when
only is years of age, in answer to his
cOuntrys call, at the time of its greatest
need. enlisted in the Union army. was ia
ken a prisoner and incarcerated in Libby
prison.
Crippled for Life.
"The misery and sufferings endured by
him and other Union soldiers, no pen or
tongue has ever been able to property
portray or describe. Suffice it to say
that the privatiOns and cruelties of the
southern prison pen rendered Mir. Hobbs
a cripple for life, and, as YOU are aware
he requires the assistance of two cfutehes
when moving and walking about. His
disability practically Intermediates him
from earning q livelihood for himself and
family unless the government. for which
he risked his life and in whose service
he became manned and crippled for life.
gives him an opportunity to do so by fur
nishing him with some position of the
character he now holds and for which
he is pre-eminentlg fitted and in every
respect competent and qualified, and
which he has so long filled with honor
and credit to himself and to the entire
satisfaction of the public and the ap-
ington. d. g.
IF Mr. Hobbs were a man in the prime
of life. his physical strength and vitality
uhimpaired in any way. the case would
be entirely different. But for this true
and tried veteran. who is the very per
sonificatiUn of the highest type of Amer
lean manhood. TO be turned out Of office
and thrown upon the cold charity of the
world with practically no means of sup
port for himself and those defendant up
on him. In order that the office may be
given to one who Is in the very prime of
life. possessing all his physical and men
tai powers unimpaired. and who is en-
gagged in a profession that will yield him
an income much greater than the salary
of the office referred to, provided he
gives such profession his time and prop
err attention, seems TO me would be an
act of basest insratitude ON the part
of the government, and would give the
lie to much of our boosted sOlicitude for
the peace and welfare of the old war
veterans and make of our professions of
gratitude to them for the patriotic SER
vices rendered and the sacrifices made by
them In defense of our common country