Show THE JUDICIARY AN ai anonymous writer over the name of an honest democrat published a letter in last mondays tribune in which he undertook to boom the two republican republic adi dates for district judges street and ritchie and slur the ate democratic caridi candidates dates worrell norrell and cherry this writer calls himself an honest democrat but is ashamed to back his state statements meats with his identity but desires to make the public think he is 61 hones honest an honest man never shirks from bearing the responsibility of his hia words by the assumption of a fals name whenever any man comes before the public with the self im imposed posed cognomen cognon cog nomen en of honest you can bet ten to one he is a rascal and a coward whenever a man rushes into the papers to attack the character or reputation of such nies men as ai A 0 norrell and A N cherry it is well that he should hide hi hia true name honest democrat is no democrat at an all but evidently a partisan he talks about a nonpartisan non partisan judiciary but seems to overlook that the present judges astl strict aud Bi we WM ip io the offices they hol as 0 aap by js pa partisan they were VM now bated this flik summer asya ral gilady pa partisan ti 4 e conventi tm AU all boxi partisan 1 st 6 it ship i i aai a 4 general election is au 10 rot thee ba issa lct way any ar 09 judidA 17 5 awa 4 put two active politicians ici an on the bench if they had desired anon a nonpartisan judicial ticket why did they not invite a few democratic lawyers to participate in their convention ven tion and why did they not pul at least one democrat on their ticket this talk of nonpartisan non partisan judges comes with bad grace after what was done by the two republican judicial conventions I 1 honest democrat says street and ritchie have been tried and give satisfaction to the bar will he or any of their friends tell us what they have done since since on the bench that exhibits any ability if holding a matter under advise ment for months or until after election day is a qualification for a nonpartisan non partisan judge then one of the above named gentle gentlemen men must be nonpartisan non partisan the tribune writer makes a false assertion when he says judge norrell 1 1 never tried a case in utah and an honest man should not resort to falsehood to boom his pet candidates for this high office but even if his assertion were true how many people ever heard of judges street and ritchie being trial judges the former had a partner who was the lawyer of the firm and the latter had a brother who kept up the reputation of that 1 firm honest democrat is evidently sore because e he sees danger of defeat to a certain judge who he feels might be of advantage to him in his legal lega business the facts are and that is what hurts the tribune writer the democratic candidates are in every way better qualified to fill the office of district i judges than either of the republicans named vote for norrell and cherry and we will have an able |