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Show j UTAH'S SUPREME COURT The Supremo Court of Utah as at , present constituted Is not any great credit to the state, some even call It ; a disgrace. One of its members lias i gained a "reputation," being mixed up in very shady mining stock-jobbing ', transactions and lending his name and : the prestige of the office he holds for the purpose of foisting on the public worthless mining stock or at least mining stock of very doubtful value. Numerous Instances tending very strongly to show that such is the case have already been brought to light and exposed more or less in the public press. It is now said that Chief Justice Jus-tice Bartch is just at present interesting inter-esting himself in alleged mines In a neighboring state. A movement is on I foot for the more stringent onforce- ' ment of post ofTlce laws with a view of : preventing the malls from being used for promoting the sale of fake mines and the like. The Kearns crowd of knockers and grafters have at least one redeeming quality. They fight to the last ditch. They always are beaten but they fight to tho death. Tho Tribune and the gang has opposed every Federal appointment ap-pointment that has been made for the ; past two years. Their opposition counted for nothing, but they continue to oppose not only the appointments . t hut. their confirmation by iho senate. They protest, trumy up charges and J, make endless turmoil only to bo f( beaten and made ridiculous. As usual J they opposed tho nomination of H. ? E. Dooth for United States district nt- l t torney and having failed in provent- j Ing his appointment arc now bending all their energies to prevent his con- flrmatlon. One of the prime movers ft ' In theso schemes Is no less a person al ' ago than tho very erudlto (?) and ! , debonair justice of tho supreme court, tho Hon. W. M. McCarty: McCarty, of course, owes his election to both the district and tho supremo flenches i i to tho Kearns gang of which ho has f from its inception been a member, and a subservient tool. Ho has been i " faithful to his boss and In that has I the advantage of tho chief justice who S has the facility of changing his coat ' as often as he thinks ft- Jb prudent to do so. Pro-Mormon to tho extent of seeking political favors from tho head of the church, ante-Mormon, pro-Kearns, pro-Kearns, antc-Kcarns and pro-Kearns again aro a few of tho political antics of the chief justice. McCarty, how-over, how-over, has been reasonably faithful to his boss all along,, notwithstanding that at times ho has flirted with tho opposition, but ho was only fooling them in order' to make his nomination and election sure. All the legal learning learn-ing that both aro possessed of might bo contained In ono very small head. It's a good thing for litigants and attorneys at-torneys that there Is ono lawyer on tho supremo bench and that he Is honest and upright. In years gono by 13. B. Crltchlow found the endorsement of Rev. It. G. McNieco very efficacious in procuring him a Federal appointment. That was when Benjamin Harrison was president of the United States and the recommendation of tho Presbyterian divine counted for moro than all other endorsements combined; that was the Mire when Prebyterian church Influ-3iico Influ-3iico was worth having. In the late contest for tho appointment of United States district attorney Mr. Crltchlow Crltch-low had the endorsement of Mr. McNieco Mc-Nieco and others of the Prebyterian hierarchy but they were of little valne. Times have changed. 12 kt Chief Justice Bartch had his picture and a write-up In the Telegram tho other day. Ho must bo a good canvasser can-vasser who Induced tho judge to pay flOO for the "courtesy." Ex-Senator Kearns Is In hot pursuit of tho phantom that ho will again be chosen "to misrepresent this state in tho United States senate. He hopes that his "American" party will this fall carry Salt Lake, Weber, Summit, Carbon, Juab and Tooele counties and that two years hence his party will elect sufficient members of tho legislature legis-lature to make him a senator. Tho business men of Salt Lake much deprecate the course of tho Tribune in dally sending to tho east 2000 bopies of the paper filled with libels on Utah, libels so gross that they seriously se-riously Injure tho business Interests of this city and state. But tho thing is likely to go on for some time, tho paper having contracted to furnish tho women's clubs who aro fighting Sen-ntor Sen-ntor Smoot with that number of copies of tho sheet for threo years, only on-ly about half of which period has expired. ex-pired. It's a vild thing for a newspaper news-paper to work harm to its homo town and to the people who support It. The Tribune a while ago gavo away books and maps as Inducements for people to subscribe for tho paper. Then It went Into tho music business, but now has descended from literature and has gono into the dish trade as a competitor with some of Its advertisers. adver-tisers. Thoy say Mr. Kearns waxes very eloquent when dlscantlng on tho merits of tho dishes which aro exclusively exclu-sively of the "American" brand. It is expected that in tho near future washers, wringers and clothes pegs will bo added to the Inducements to take tho Tribune. . M The county commissioners suit! enough mado a botch in the refunding of $350,000 of county bonds. Tho bonds were drawing 5 per cent Interest but were refunded on a basis of 41 per cent Interest and on tho payment of i cash premium of ?8,9G0. Rollins & Sons of Chicago being tho purchasers. A number of tho bids wero a good deal better than tho ono accepted.. The Society for Savings of Cleveland, Ohio, offered to tako tho bonds at 4 per cent Interest, a saving of per cent In Interest for 20 years as compared com-pared with Rollins' bid which would iggregato In tho 20 years ?2G,2G0. Deducting De-ducting from this tho ?8,9G0 premium paid by Rollins would leave a net difference differ-ence against tho county of f 17,300. The commissioners evidently wanted to got hold of tho cash premium of $S9G0 which thoy calculate Is worth to the county 5 per cent Interest per annum for 20 years, but oven taking It on that basis, which is falaclous, however, would still leave a balanco of ?8,340 igalnst tho county. Commissioners Miller and Mackay aro to blame for the very unbustness like transaction. Mr. Wilson, it is said, objected to it. The present county board has not been a success in any way. More's the pity for the Republican party, but tho truth must bo told, |