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Show f which such reform may 1". flerured. From my observation in this state, th 3 rift regulation of the fia'.o n evil has ben more effective than absolute por-Mbitlon. por-Mbitlon. 1 ia:r tijc ciinctmt-nt of a .-tnf law ebbing every Mi!oon at 7:f i o'clock each evening, and enforcing such closing for twelve hour.;, and during the entire day of Sundays nad election days. I'pou this I think no (..10 can c?rnplain. unions it bo the saloonkeeper him if If, whoso reveuiie would doubtless b? vonuwhat curtailed hy such a law. The man who favor tin- open saloon l as an r final chance with the one who dve not. The views of each are accepted for an equal division of time, except J that the prohibitionist has his inning duilng the evening an! night, while j his opponent has the advantage fit the I more cheerful hour. of the day. I oh- I ject to permitting any person to ap-I pear as the martyr of the vl-ws of any other person, but surely there can be no reasonable objection to thus limiting lim-iting the h;ur for the sale of liquor to the same hours generally enjoye.l by the gioeer or the dry goods merchant. mer-chant. "I also note your suggestion that the advocacy of state wide prohibition lequlres political and personal cour-fige. cour-fige. and will probably be claimed to b undemocratic. As I view it. it Ij not a question of courage at all, but simply sim-ply a matter of individual judgment as to what method will most likely produce the greatest amount of temperance tem-perance reform. And I am absolute, ly unconcerned as to whether it will be claimed to be undemocratic, because, be-cause, in matter.? of social rights, every ev-ery citizen Is entitled to his own conviction, con-viction, and ought not to bp confined by the political views or wishes of party convention. "I sholl not attend the convention at Provo; indeed. I have not participated par-ticipated in Democratic affairs for some considerable time. 1 never approved ap-proved oi the national leadershio of Mr. Ilryan, and ns such approval practically prac-tically has been made the exclusive test of fellowship among Iiemcrrats during the last few years, I have naturally been compelled to accept lh.- loneliness of independence, and have chosen to voie accord 'izly. ?id-d. at the present time. I am in hearty accord with Mr. Roosevelt M his declaration dec-laration that party association is of less importance to the average American Am-erican citizen, than the question whether selt-lmposed parly bosses, by means of oflicial graft and crimes against the election laws, shall be permuted per-muted to continue in power, by slm ply holding the party emblem ns a club over the head of the individual voter. , "I shall be wholly content to aid in getting honest men in office, irrn-specive irrn-specive of party affiliation With such men we shall have enforcement of law, and at present, enforcement or law is vastly more important than enactment en-actment of any further law. "With kind personal regards, I remain, re-main, yours very truly. (Signed) I1KXRY H. ROLAPP." JUDGE ROLAPP IS AN INDEPENDENT Has Been Mentioned for Supreme Judge on the Democratic Ticket. But .He Has Views of His Own Which May Not Be in Accord With Those of the Party Leaders. t .1 1 h 1 0 H. H. Rolapp Is being urged to allow his name to be presented for the offico of a justice of the supreme court, before the Democratic state convention, con-vention, which meets in Provo tomorrow, tomor-row, and several papers, including the Salt Iike dallies, have mentioned him as the prospective nominee, but the Judge seemiuglv Is not even in a receptive condition, as, when approached ap-proached by a Standard representative this morning, he said he was not exactly ex-actly In harmony with many of the leaders of the party in the state, iu fact, he had Just made reply to a letter let-ter received from Uncle Jesse Knight of Provo, In which he made plain his IKisitlon on several poiuts of difference differ-ence and in which he placed himself I suarely outside the pale of party politics by declaring for freedom of thought and independence of action, unhampered by the fear of party rebuke re-buke or discipline. The Judge alo went on record in favor of regulation of the 11'iuor trafJc as promising greater practical good than has so lar been obtained from any attempt lo euforcc prohibitory laws. The letter of Judge Rolapp, which promises to be accepted as voicing the views of thousands of Democrats In Ftah, may prove to bo to Democracy Democ-racy In this state what Roosevelt's ullerauces have been to Republican ism in Ihe east a call for a broader conception of citizenship than is to be found when party leaders do all the thinking and the rank and file follow blindly. The letter is deemed to be of such importance by the Standard Stand-ard that it is published in full, as follows: fol-lows: I "Ogden. Sept. 12tli," 11H0. "Hon. Jesse Knight, Provo, L'tah. My Dear Mr. Knight: Yours of the loth inst.. to hand. As a general rule. 1 very much doubt that private business busi-ness Is Improved by either being fostered fos-tered or directed by the government. J but at the same time I am willing to confess that of late very many good I reasons have been presented for the establishment of a Public Utilities commission In the state of Utah. "As to the matter of dtate-wide ppi. hlbltion, 1 have come lo the conclusion conclu-sion that such a condition is ideal, rather than practical. The object of any remedial law is not to announce an Idealistic desire, but to prevent a specific evil, and. Insofar as any law fails to accomplish such purpose, )t Is valueless. I am an ardent advocate advo-cate of temperance, and from my travels trav-els throughout Ihe state, am convinced convinc-ed that temperance retorra is favored by an overwhelming majority of our fellow citizens. It Is, therefore, sini ply a question of the best method by |