The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-12

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! naval service OF the country. by renson> OF
| wounds, disease or the expiration OF terms
of enlistment ii is respectfully recommended
| 70 bankers, merchants, manufacturers, me
| chanics, farmers and persons engaged In IN
] dustriel pursuits, TO give them the preference
| for appointment TO remuneratve SITUATIONS
| aud employments
Your friends who were so clamorously
demanding that Capt. Hobbs be turned
| down to furnish q lucrative position as q
| reward to one OF your political leuten-
| ants, who, they had every reason to be-
| leve would be more active in furIherlns
| their interests politically as well as your
| own, and as believed by many, the prt-
| vate interests OF one OF your corporate
| clients, which, Il Is claimed. desired
| change appeared to take the position
that as coal companies and their attor-
neys are not specifically mentioned In
| either OF said sections, you were not In
| cluded within the provisions thereof nor
in anywise bound thereby, While many
! Of your friends, because OF their zeal ana
| self interest In this matter may be par
| TALLY excused for the liberal construc-
tion they place upon the foregoing pro-
| visions OF the Federal statutes you can
not be Judged by the same charitable
rule You, being a lawyer. were eX-
pected TO give its provisions, which you
| had taken an oath to obey, reasonable
| construction Your conduct in trying TO
| defeat the reappointment cf Capt. Hobbs
| placed you In the attitude OF doing all In
your power TO evade. il not override. the
| law And you were also placed In the
| light OF not only trying to induce the
| President to ignore, IL not violate, the
| same law, which he. too. had taken an
| oath TO obey and enforce, but to disre-
| gard the following executive order, which,
at the time, was in full force and effect
| The attention Of the department is hereby
| called TO the provisions of tho laws giving
| nrnfarepce IN the appointment ana
| retention. The President desires that when
| ever the needs OF tho service will Justify It,
| nnd the laws will permit, preference snail pc
| given alike in appointment and retention TO
! honorably discharged veterans of the CiyH
| war who are fit and qualified to perform the
duties OF the places which they seek % or ~ are
| filling THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
| White House, January IT, 1902.
| l refer to the foregoing provisions OF
| the Federal statutes for the purpose or
inviting attention TO the fact that, as
! legal proposition. the position l have
| taken on these questions is unassailable.
The friends of Capt Hobbs, and the peo-
| pIe In general OF the State. had right
| not only to expect. but TO demand. OF you,
| even though you showed an utter disre-
| gard for the interest and welfare OF the
party OF which you claim 10 be mem
Der and the platform upon which you
| were elected Senator, that you observe
| and follow the law. which you, as United
States Senator, had taken au oath to up
| hold and obey.
What L here state is not intended to re-
| feet In any way upon your colleague
Senator Smoot. II is known TO practl-
| cally all who have taken any interest IN
| this matter that the attitude OF Senator
Smoot was The opposite to that which
you have taken. In fact. you have ex-
| pressly taken upon yourself the entire
| responsibility OF the move made 10 dis
place Capt. Hobbs. In your letter to
me of Feb TO- 1905. you say;
Whatever has been decided upon with ref
erence to Capt Hobbs. am personally per oniin re,
| (referring TO Senator Smoot and Congress
| man Howell I think l should say that they
have been in favor Of Capt. Hobbs's appoint
| mont all along.
For the alleged interference on my part
In writing to save you from the humilla-
tion Of being turned down" by the Pres
ident incurred the everlasting displeas-
ure, singly and collectively, OF the
push" which, as you are aware, consists
| Of small coterie Of would-be politicians
| who assume to speak for and dictate to
the Republican organization of this State,
| and whenever a Republican happens to
differ with this self-constituted steering
| committee" on any question pertaining TO
| the organization, no matter how unim-
portant it may be, he is. SO far as "the
| push is able, read out Of the party.
| NOt OQly 40 lue5e 6tubicLucu Stoilh 'ho
| right to dictate the policy OF the organ
ization, but few of them, some of whom
are holding important Federal positions,
have arrogated to themselves the power
and authority to communicate by "nudg-
ings" and "whisperings" TO the members
Of the party who happen also TO be mem
4 bers of the dominant church what these
pretended, self-created agents claim TO be
the Will OF the leaders" Of the church
in political matters.
When you, In compliance with their de-
mands, in the face of both the Federal
and State constitutions, which provide
that mo religious test shall be required
as a qualification for any office OF public
trust" refused TO consider the applica-
tion of w. D. Livingston for United States
District Attorney / protested against the
reasons assigned by you for the rejection
of his application,
| When 1t became known that had thus
without taking counsel" again exercised
one Of the inherent rights of AN American
citizen, the wrath of these political sat
elites of yours knew no bounds, and they
at once, through the medium of local
weekly paper with name which is pure
| ly paradoxical and which is known and
| accepted as your personal organ, entered
upon a campaign Of viliAcations slander
and abuse.
Now, Senator, II your friends persist in
| the course which It seems they have out
| lined in this matter, | shall be compelled
in order that the public may correctly
understand the origin OF this controyer-
sy, and the attitude OF each OF us from It's
inception, TO publish our entire CORE
spondence In the order in which it has
been carried oil between us In relation &c
the Office of register and that Of United
States District Attorney.
In conclusion, will say that | do not
wish tc be unders TODD as even intimatiDe
that you are personally taking part in
the campaign OF slander and viliAcatior
referred to- What I do claim Is this
that, while you may be taking no active
part In what Is being done along this line
by some Of your political confdants 1t is
apparent that you net only approve Of
but encourage them in, the course they
have taken to "get even"
AS proof that my conclusions are vel
founded and my statements more thar
justified, I have only to refer to the fact
that in the past, when members Of the
party absolutely refraiped from and re-
/ fused TO take up the personal quarrels