The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-13
NOT EFFECTIVE IN UTAH.

1t appears that President Roosevelt
has found il necessary to put check
upon the enthusiastic but obnoxious In
trusion in local politics in different
parts of Che country OF his appointees
to Federal office He has, accordingly,
ordered that "No person In the eseen-
tive civil service shall use his official au
thority or influence for the purpose of
interfering with an election or affecting
tho result thereof. Persons who by
the provision OF these rules are in the
competitive classified service. while re-
tanning the right 10 vote as they please
and to express privately their opinions
on all political subjects, shall take no
active part in political management OF
in political campaigns.
This order is transmitted throughout
tho internal revenue service in the
Coast Civil Service district by c. Ia.
Snyders secretary Twelfth United
States Civil Service district, comprising
California. Oregon. Idahc. Utah, Ne
vada, Washington, Montana, and Ari'
iona.
Somewhat to his dismay. Internal
Revenue Collector Callister OF the col"
lection district comprising Utah. Idaho,
and Montana, has received a copy OF
this order. No doubt It was Intended ee
a personal hint TO him TO be n little
less free and energetic IN bossing local
politics In Utah than he has been for
some time past, On second Thought,
however, and remembering the combina-
tion between tho President and the adult
tereus and lccherous priesthood that con-
trolls politics here, he will no doubt take
heart and fortify himself behind Presi-
don't Joseph +, Smiths bulwarks and
set the order at defiance, II IN not III
the least 30 he expected that an order
of this kind should he obeyed IN Utah;
for Utah IS tho exception on all mat
ters of this kind and upon many other
matters besides, Utah is a law unto
itself, separate from the Republic at
large, and running on limos entirely dit
ferent from those followed by other
communities If President Roosevelt
had Collector Callister in mind at all
In issuiug this order, il was no doubt
to remember that he was the conspicu-
ous exception against whom the order
should not be enforced. The law-defy-
ing, adulterous priesthood will doubt
less be able TO set at naught any such
order as this from President Roosevelt,
and give Collector Callister complete
liberty OF action, as heretofore. So 1t
is not in the least TO be expected that
this amendment OF civil service order
No. ] will have any effect in Utah.
II is we'll known here that the ''Fed
eral bunch,H 80 called, is the cat 's-Naw
of the priesthood, the active agency
through which the church controls the
politics and civil affairs of Utah. The
machinery through which this is done pri-
marily, of course, is the church organiza-
tion, including the seventies, presidents
of stakes. ward bishops, their counsel
ors. and the block teachers. The Mormon
church is organized perfectly to serve
all purposes not only of the church, but
of the double political machine which
the church controls; on the one hand
the Democratic activity and on the
other the Republican activity. 1t IS
quite immaterial TO the church through
which agency it works as q matter of
principle, but as a matter Of conven-
ience and timeliness to ft the occasion
il chooses the one or the other as may
best suit its purpose, for victory or for
defeat. In well-organized institution
like this, fortified by the friendship and
alliance of the President of the United
States, it is not for one moment to be
expected that the least attention will be
paid to any such an order as this, either
by Mr. Callister or by any other of the
Federal officials in this State.