Show OFF THE TRACK A Government Official Censures the Herald But Hits Wide The following appears in Friday mornings Tribune the lines fully explaining the subject Eds Tribune THE HERALD in its strictures upon U S Marshal Ireland for the use which he permits of the Federal court room has evidently taken hold of o subject too large for ita handling hand-ling I sent to that paper for obvious reasons the enclosed communication and for equally obvious reasons the publication pub-lication of it was refused Will you give it space and thus afford to the I independent in-dependent HERALD men an opportunity to deny the facts or admitting them to either defend or cansure the misuse oj public property complained of ZERA SNOW The subject is not one of very great importance THE HERALD having merely asserted that the court house was a place in which favoritism should not be shown and giving what it considered ample reasons for that position Nor does this paper now see wherein where-in it said anything which it needs to retract or by which it cannot safely be bound Mr Snows oommunication to THE HERALD was refused publication public-ation for various reasons but because of its not appearing the gentleman ironically refers tour our independence that is a rather broad gauge and sweeping attitude for any one to assumeto say or even intimate that a newspaper is not sincere in its professions because be-cause it refuses to print a letter from one or its readers With all due respect to Mr Snow acknowledging acknowl-edging that as a lawyer he ranks among the best in Utah he has certainly cer-tainly in this particular instance gone wide of the mark and his reflections re-flections upon THE HERALD are not the least of the blunders which he has perpetrated For instance in attempting to defend the action of Marshal Ireland In permitting the meeting in the place and under the circumstances referred tOJ he says I myself thought it hard last fall while out on the Van Zile Caine canvass can-vass that at Cedar City JudgeHoge and myself were denied the use of the public schoolhouse there in which to hold a Liberal meeting though a number of taxpayers tax-payers requested and two of the trustees ionsentedto such use Bishop Arthur the third trustee proved to bo a host in himself and by a rule in mathematics which you seem to think belongs to Gov Murray only handsome majority the Bishop against two laymen ws cast against us and we were obliged to give up an advertised meeting at that place and in Washington we were compelled to resort to the Presbyterian schoolhouse I am quite satisfied that this I strong ma joritywasright and I recant my historical histori-cal opinion There is here a desperate attempt at satire which would be severe but for the fact that the premises are woefully weak The gentleman resorts re-sorts tp the arjumentum ad homi iem to support a position which he I does not maintain even by such tactics tics He says in substance that because i be-cause Tan Zile and himself were excluded from the use 01 a certain schoolhouse at a certain time Marshal Mar-shal Ireland has a right to let the seat of justice in this district to apolitical a-political party for political purposes Will the gentleman stop long enough in his career or denunciation to consider two things iirst that exclusion from a schoolhouse involves in-volves no political consequences and second that the government does not pay the rent on public buildings here or elsewhere in order that one party may be favored therein as against any other V If Mr Snow or anybody else can show that this latter proposition is in correct cor-rect and that the fact that his oratory ora-tory was not permitted to wake the echoes of a Cedar City schoolhouse is a justification for the marshals conduct he will have a moat respectful re-spectful hearing But words are not always proof satire is not satisfaction satisfac-tion in all cases and the tact that a wrong may have oeen done in some slight particular par-ticular in some other place does not justify a greater and more inexcusable wrong being done here The question is not as the gentleman gentle-man states it but as THE HERALD states it Has the marshal as custodian cus-todian of the court house aright to permit a political party to convert it into a hustings |