| Show I Mr Fatal Defect AD Mr Ir Frank K of Salt Lake II HAD employed ed better Judgment in the selection se selection so- so lection of oC his 1 paternal parent he would by now doubtless be th the the- appointee to the United States circuit Judgeship for the eighth circuit He possesses every qualification qualification cation for tor the tho post except one ne whose hose lack I proved fatal He is not a son of Senator Stone of ot Missouri to whose offspring the appointment appointment appointment ap ap- ap- ap has gone In Missouri when one wishes to employ a figure of ot speech to describe a secretive in individual individual individual in- in one remarks that he sucks eggs an operation always alwn's conducted in rigid se seclusion so- so since it is not a 0 pretty or a n. fashionable fashionable fashionable fashion fashion- able performance But If Itis js said o of Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Stone by wise Missourians to whom he has endeared himself under the sobriquet of oC Gumshoe Bill that he not only onh sucks eggs ggs with rare care and discretion but that its his native cunning invariably Impels him to hide the shells and thus conceal the evidence ot of if his crime Our Utah Democrats have hae lost through the he years ears o of exclusion from enjoyable power ho tho finesse they once enjoyed It behooves them hem to study such masters of or the tho art of ot practical politics aa ns Senator Stone and the theother theother theother other war-horses war of ot Democracy who ooze 80 o quietly quiet through the White House and the tho executive departments that none nono knows wh whence nce the they came nor whither they goeth Even the tho abnormally early riser falls to discover discover dis dis- dis cover the Missouri statesman at hit his customary customary custo custo- mary occupation of ot landing patronage for tor fort torI forIt It t is rum rumored red that he stays up all night for fear some officeholder might die and he hear of or it too late to get the vacant Job for fora a Missouri constituent None the less disappointment over tho failure of the President to appoint Mr Neb Neb- eker to the circuit bench will by no means be confined to his Democratic supporters who wh labored valiantly in his behalf In Inthis Inthis this community where Mr 1 ability is known and hrs Ms character respected respected- there will be general regret The effort to secure hI his appointment was prompted not by himself himself him him- self but b by Influential members of his party party party par par- ty who recognized hIs hia fitness for It Tho President of the United States among all an his manifold and varied powers none more Important than the selection selection t tion ion of ot members o of the federal judiciary Their authority is vast and their tenure is for life unless malfeasance advises their dismissal ills dis ml missal and that can ho accomplished only after impeachment by Congress Only the best material available should be used and Utah is in a position to know that Mr Wilson Wil YH son Eon would have made no mistake e had he listened to those who urged the tho claims of this able Utah lawyer lawer Though President Wilsons s latest suggestions suggestions sug sug- g a as to labor legislation are diminIshing diminishing dimin dimin- hIs hia popularity with the unions one reflects that a Pre President with more more- than two months of of ot one term to serve and four years of ot another need not permit the popularity question to ruffle ruttle his slumbers Everybody seems to know precisely the sort of ot legislation the forthcoming Legislature Legislature Legislature Legis Legis- lature will enact except the members of that body who will pass the laws and the Governor who must pass s upon them mm A. A I |
