The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-14
Says to Mind Own Business.

Let me suggest to you (and the ad-
vice is as free as salvation) that perhaps
if you would attend to the duties of your
own office little more diligently and
poke a somewhat obtrusive nose into
other peoples affairs little less fire.
Quently you might escape a good deal of
unpleasant criticism, as ninety-nine out
OF every one hundred judges in the United
States do escape it.
you have seen fit, apropos of moth
ing whatever apparently to review some
what deliberately some incidents of my
political career, and sometimes you have
spoken with reasonable accuracy and
sometimes you, have drawn upon your i'm
agination or the imaginatiO of others
L do not regard 1t as important to dis
cuss these matters with you. No doubt
l have made many mistakes. but If all
the true things you say were tenfold
worse and all the false things you say
were true, I should regard them COM
bined as trivial things compared with the
fact that / have sometimes been foolish
In my estimate of men, and l once gave
your candidacy for the nomination to the
supreme bench my earnest and loyal sup
port (Which you apparently accepted
gratefully upon the theory that you were
by training, learning and judicial poise
Of mind fit to be judge.
Discusses Coal Gases.
while 1 do not care to enter into any
controversy with you about these mat
tiers, one thing you have said / shall
not pass over. You intimate that in some
OF the appointments 1 have favored
have sought to serve the interests of
clients. Such an insinuation is outrage
ously false, and judge, used to consider
ing the force of evidence, who would
make it upon the flimsy grounds you
also insinuate, is beneath contempt. You
have exhibited extreme senstiveness to
criticism directed against yourself per-
sonaiiy; yet you an, are es SO wanting In de-
who may be equally sensitive that you
suggest a corrupt and indefensible rea-
son for his acts, without the slightest
foundation for so doing Your reasons
seem to be that the firm of which / have
been a member has had among its eli
ents certain coal companies which have
been interested in the purchase of coal
lands.
81 have been in the somewhat active
practice of my profession in this state
for twenty-three years, and l have tried
and argued many cases before you per-
sonally. Have you ever seen or have you
ever heard of any reason during that
time to suspect that 1 have been guilty
of any dishonOrable or unprofesSional con-
duct? I do not believe you can say you
have. And yet you would sweep away
with one foul breath OF unjust suspicion
the honest effort of lifetime to uphold
the ideals of a profession, whose honor
is as dear to me as my life.
Denies Appearing for Company.
- lou nave SdlO IIldI L nave represented
these coal companies in the land office
1t is not a matter of any consequence
whether that be true or not but the
slightest inquiry of the various men who
have been members of the firm from time
to time-Judge John A. Marshall. Judge
Hardness, Judge Howat, Mr.. Bradley Mr.
Van Colt or Mr. AllisOn-would have
shown you that the firm, nor any MEM
Der of it, has ever represented any coal
company in any land matter whatever
nor has advised with reference t.
such matter, nor even appeared in the
land department. except upon one single
occasion some years ago when | person
ally went before the register and receiver
in response to a subpoena which had been
served upon an officer of the p. V. Coal
company, directing him TO produce all the
books of the company for inspection in
a proceeding to which the coal company
was not a party and argued that che
register and receiver had no power TO
issue such a writ, a position which the
secretary of the interior in another CASE.
and at q later date, himself upheld
$50 far as | am concerned I have no
reason to expect that / shall pursue this
controversy with you any further 1t is
not a pleasing thing for the people of
this state TO see their prospective chief
Justice and their senator engaged I'm an
undignified and unseemIy dispute of this
character. but the quarrel is of your
seeking, not mine.
GEO. SUTHERLAND"
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