The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-04

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! Oh here that Senator Spooner re-
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! II Hartman Mr.. Spooner declines
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washington. March 3-Senator Spooner
has written q letter to Governor David
son Of Wisconsin rendering his resigna-
t,on as a senator of the United States,
N take effect May ! next. The letter was
dated yesterday. but the fact that such
q letter had been written or, that Mr.
snooner contemplated resigning did not
become known in the senate until late
,odav. when It created great surprise
and the Wisconsin senator at once found
himself the subject Of many anxious in
--1iries To all these he replied that his
mind was fully made up He had found
he said. that to continue in his present
position would require sacrifice on his
mart that he could not justify himself in
making IN reply to questions he said
he would resume the practice of law, but
declined 10 say whether he would be To-
Gated in Wisconsin. He did say, however,
that he would continue to be a citizen of
that state as long as he lives.
Vice President Fairbanks was one of
the few public men TO be made acQuaint-
ed with AIr. SpOOner's plans before he
wrote his letter. The knowledge came to
him through the personal confidence of
The senator but the letter made no Of
fetal communication on the subject to
anyone The law does not require that
resiguing senator should do more than
Mr.. SpO0ner has done, but some senators
who have resigned have given notice to
the senate.
Spooner's Letter.
Senator spooner in his letter to the gov
4 hereby resign the office of senator
Of the United States from Wisconsin.
This resignation to take effect on the
first day of May. 1907.
formula suffices, but l cannot bring my
self to surrender the trust with which
Wisconsin has so long and so highly hon
cred me by a curt sentence which in
eludes not one word either of explanation
or of gratitude.
"On the 4th day of March I shall have
served in all sixteen years as a senator.
This Is a long time for one neither will
ing nor financially able permanently to
abandon it. 20 take up his profession. II
has been taken from mine. for I have not
thought il compatible With the susl and
uninterrupted discharge of public duty
10 pursue H. and | have therefore, dur
ing my service. with two or three trifling
exceptions. purely local, absolutely alb
stained therefrom.
Always Intended to Retire.
For years private duty has plainly de-
manded Of me an early return to the
practice Of my profession and 1 have new
er, since I first took the oath of Office.
wavered In the determination to retire
on the expiration of my present term,
March 3 1901 / might well content nv
self with a public declaration OF my pur-
pose so to retire, if it were not for a like
declaration made on a former and similar
occasion. and what followed it, In the
year 1870 announced through the press
0Fe. my signature to the Republicans of
mined to retire from public life at the
expiration OF the term ending March.
VIC unless ] should deem it my duty to
resign earlier. ] Justified the announce
ment upon the ground that the people
and those who might aspire to the office
were entitled seasOnably to know from
ne that / would not accept A reelection
Despite that declaration, circumstances
With which the people are familiar
seemed to make il my duty to accept a
reelection, preferred as it was in a man
and finer honor than any which / had
ever dreamed would come to me: one. in
ueed, which ought to satisfy the pride
ead ambition OF any man. A similar
declaration by me at this time. however
strongly phrased. would. I am persuaded.
prove unavailing TO withdraw my name
from consideration during the next two
years. as did that which I so publicly
ana unreservedly made in 1900
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