The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-29
JUDICIAL PARTIsANsHIP.


as Judges The organ intimated very
strongly that the partisan need OF
indpes who were active Republicans
was that the patty should be 'sus
tanned - in case of any action in the
court, and the party interests looked
after iudicially. There was an evident
malice and vindictiveness in the edl-
torial that told its own story.
Yesterday morning. the organ re-
turned to the charge with rambling
mixedu lot of stuff that had nothing
whatever to do with the case. 1t be
gan with the Justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States, and pur-
sued It's theme backward to the times
Of Moses 1t claimed that Moses was
a great sinner. and that he went ''to
grave that no man shall know" and
further. the organ had the alleged quo
| tation that Moses walked with God"
| II would be little difficult TO find in
! the scripture any authority for these
quotations as applied to Moses; but in
anv one who is so anxious to get on
the inside of the Enoch order, the
"walked - quotation might be excused,
| In referring to the Supreme Court,
the organ intimates very plainly that,
according to its understanding, the
Judges Of the court divided on party
! lines on the insular cases and on the
income tax cases. This will be news
to the American public. and also II
will be news to learn that either Of
those cases was at any time political
question.
The organ is of the opinion that
every Judge Graduates constant in.
fuence in favor of the political
party Of which he is a member - Ii
that Is true Of the political Judges with
which the organ is acquainted, then 1t
is certainly time that the judges on the
bench in this district should be
changed, for Judge who Conscious
~ or unconsciously radiates a constant
influence in favor of the political party
of which he is member is a mighty
dangerous Judge to have on tho bench.
Finally, the organ considers that
The Tribune occupies hypocritical
attitude in speaking for Judges un'
biased by political prejudice and un-
influenced by machine bossship. 1t is
perhaps natural for the organ to i'm
agine that any one who does not ac-.
cept the Federal bunch yoke is a des-
perate hypocrite, And vet we can as
sure that very bad authority on every
question Of morals and good conduct,
that there are thousands of people
equally "hypocritical' with The Trib-
une on this question: for the masses
of the American people. in Utah as elso
where, desire above everything else to
have impartial Judges, men on the
bench who are learned in the law, and
able and courageous in their independ.
ent exposition of it. 1t is probably
true, as has been often suggested, that
the views of the Smoot organ are Mt
terly depraved on these, AS on most,
questions. that it does not believe in
the honesty or courage of anybody, nor
in the independence OF. any man; that
1t believes every one acts solely on
selfish and interested motives, and that
self'abnegation, and personal sacrifice
for others, are all to be relegated to
the realms Of romance, without their
having any practical application in
life. Such sordid, groveling DISPOSE
tion as that would naturally be in
clined to think that any one who
speaks for courage, honesty, good
faith, and uonpartisa nship on the
bench is hypocritical: for since the or
gan does not believe in manly cour-
age, candor, and good faith, it is i'm
possible for 1T to conceive that any one
else either possesses those qualities or
believes in them,
But what stigma the organ thus at
taches TO the Judges on the bench and
to the candidates that are TO be nom
mated in the Republican Third Dis
trict Judicial Convention. They are to
be Republicans first, to take care of
the party interests, both personally
and on the bench, and must "radiate a
constant influence in favor of the party
Of which they are MEMBERS and be
partlsans always; for SO the organ
states, and so its false citations urge.
1t is an astonishing case of moral
darkness and of mental obsession in
the interest Of partisanship and politi-
cal bias in judicial service
II the voters Of this district should
really take TO heart the villanous
homilies of the organ in this matter,
plo h. i.t
mated under such a cloud that their
election would be quite impossible The
only chance for the election of the
nominees of the Republican district
judicial convention is for the conven.
tion itself and the nominees TO abso.
lutely repudiate the vicious and par
tisan pleas made in their favor, in ad-
vance. by the organ of the Federal
bunch. ----