Show WHY THE HERALD has been asked why it is opposed op-posed to Judge ZASKS return to the supreme su-preme bench of this territory We can answer the question much easier than we can understand how anybody can ask it This paper is for Utah first fast and all the time It favors everything that is for the good of this territory and is the open earnest ear-nest and honest opponent of everything that is injurious to the territory Judge ZAVE is the bitter enemy to Utah He hates Utah and her people with the mtensitj of a fanatic He delights in strife and turmoil as much as he hates peace and quiet He is a breeder of dissentions and a promoter of feuds Justice is bitter to him and mercy finds no place in his heart To torture is his pleasure and to make trouble his aim inn life For four years Judge ZAXE sat upon the bench here and those were all jears of terror not merelj to the lawbreakers law-breakers but to the entire community which was kept in a state of shock md alarm by his judicial extravagances and outrages For four years he sat there breathing hate and employing his power to oppress and persecute In those four years he turned the wheels of progress back eight jears and built a wall which hedged out millions of capital and thousands of people He struck poor Utah a blow from which she will be long years in recovering great as are her iccuperative powers Ketirmg from the bench his power was circumscribed but his nature was left nd this lattci asserted itself in its mean and vicious w aj s The gall m his heart was permitted to run the characteristic hate was exercised exer-cised as before his mania for strife ran unchecked he continued a breeder of trouble a promoter of faction a social and political firebrand There has been no peace wherever Judge ZAM has appealed When anyone reflects upon the career ofT of-T dge ZAE in this territorv both on and off the bench can he wonder that THE HFRALD should oppose the restoration to power of the man who has been the evil genius of fair Utah Can an j body wonder that TUB HtuvLD should p otest against the return of the old and ugly order of things which made this territory a scene of strife of turmoil and terror for long ears If Judge ZXE shall again go upon the bench there will be an immediate return of the old condition of things which e erj bodj looks back upon with horror as upon a hideous nightmare The possibility of his appointment has alarmed the com munitj which has for some time been en jojing comparative peace and prosperity probability of catastrophe as all true friends of the temtorj would regard his re instatement has brought the attornei sand s-and the conserv atfv e business men to the rout vu than earnest protest agunst the infliction The suggestion that ZIL may get back into office makes the w ell w ishers of the territory heartsick and the are asking thcmselv if it is worth while to work and struggle and hope for the preservation preser-vation and salvation of glorious Utah if honest well directed and piaiseworthj efforts are to be met and thwarted in this wayTHE THE HEP AID opposes Tudge 7oc because be-cause it loves Utah and because he hates Utah |