The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-23
THE REWARD OF HONESTY.

The REWARD OF HONESTY.
During the session of the legislature
that ended yesterday, four members of
the upper house were conspicuous for
their ability. their honesty and their in
dependence. 1t seems one Of the iron
les Of fate that these men. the best in
the senate by the longest kind of odds
should be singled out for a bitter per-
sOnal attack by the newspaper that
purports to represent the party OF
their allegiance. This is the reward Of
the four senators who have at all times
performed the duties of their office with
sole regard to the fulflIment. in spirit
and in letter of their oaths.
Love, Benner Y. Smith. Lawrence
and Park are the senators. Their one
fault is that they have been indepen-
dent They have placed their state
ahead of their party, or. rather. ahead
of the coterie of smal-bore politicians
now in control of their party in this
state. If Senators Love. Lawrence.
Smith and Park had been willing to
sacrifice their personal convictions.
their self-respect. and play the lackey
TO the pry-Callister-Hun combination,
they would never have been made the
objects of an editorial attack such as
the one published yesterday morning.
Joseph. speaker of the house, played
approval of the machine and the con-
tempt of every decent citizen of the
state. In due season the machine will
run over Joseph, and there will be no
expressions of regret from anybody.
The official mouthpiece Of Spry, Cal
lister and Hull that praises him now,
will find abundant Justification for any
later disaster that may be visited upon
him. And the public generally will re-
joice with an exceeding great joy.
It does seem to US that when Spry,
Callister and Hull permitted their paper
TO say that Joseph is the peer of any
man in the senate, i'm or out of the
quad they permitted the most savage
attack upon the senate that could pos
sibly have been conceived. Some of
those senators were voting and work
ing, all four of the quad" senators
We're. at least. for the Republican tick
ct when Harry Joseph was working for.
and betting all the money he could
raise, on the election of a Democratic
candidate for mayor of Salt Lake City,
Arthur F. Barnes.
If Spry and Callister and Hull regard
IT as an offense to break party ties.
Joseph is a far worse offender than any
of the senators they attack. For Jo-
seph tried TO encompass the defeat of
regularly nominated Republican can
didate, the choice of the entire Repub-
Hean party; Love, Smith Lawrence
and Park have only refused to submit
TO intolerable dictation from a small
and unsavOry faction Of the party.
To compare Joseph with almost any
member of the senate. and especially
with the quad" members. is like com
pairing a jimpson weed with an oak
tree. The senate rejected the nominal
ton OF Joseph To membership on the
Industrial board of the state Industrial
school because he has abundantly DEM
onstrated his unfitness to serve the
people in that capacity or any other.
So far as the quad" senators are re-
sponsible for his rejection, they are en-
titled to credit, but at least six of their
fellow senators should share the credit
with them, for a majority voted against
Joseph.
Now we come to what is described as
the ..intolerable insolence" of the senate
in sending to Governor Cutler a writ
ten request for his reasons for return
ing the names Of W. D. Candland and
William J. Lynch for positions on the
state land board after both names had
been rejected. To the unbiased reader
it will seem that the "intolerable inso-
Ience'' was committed by the governor.
If the chief executive has any intelli-
gence at all he knew quite well why
Lynch and CandIand were rejected. Yet
he had the amazing effrontery to re-
submit their names without explana-
ton CT any kind.
We recall no record of a similar piece
of fmpudence- on the part of a chief