Show HON HOUSTON LETCHEE THE VIRGINIAN WHO MAY BECOME A UTAH JUDGE Many Confounded Him xritli Hon Jerrold R LetcUer ot Salt Lake Something About His Record j The special in yesterdays Herald announcing thatthe Virginia delegation dele-gation in Congress is trying to have Houston Letcher appointed associate Justice of the Utah supreme court caused many to suspect that there was some error in the use of the given name as well as the locality of the party mentioned Utah has a Mr Letcher as well as Virginia and inquiry in-quiry reveals the fact that the gentlemen gentle-men are related but not closer than the fourth degree of consanguinity Mr Houston Letcher is and attorney of Lexington Va a son of the late John Letcher formerly a member of Congress and the war governorof the Old Dominion while the Utah representative repre-sentative of the nameJerrold R Letcher is the wellknown attorney journalist and allround Democratic politician of this city who traces his ancestry to the Virginia stock but comes directly from the Missouri branch by the way of a Jong residence in this far western mountain legion When the attention of the latter was called to the telegraphic item he very promptly disclaimed any judicial aspirations as-pirations and said that he had had the pleasure of meeting this Virginian at the Chicago convention of 1892 when the following plank was put in the Democratic platform We favor the early admission of all the Terri tories Jt and while they remain re-main so we hold that the officials ap pointed to administer the government of any Territory Ii S should be bona fide residents of the Territory or district in which their duties are to be performed and that while the degree of relationship would not bar him from practice before the possible judge yet he was apprehensive that a strict construction of the platform would deter the president from acceding acced-ing to the requests of the Virginia del egation |