Show A THICK AiD BAD FAITH As to the nomination of Arthur Brown it was unexpected and wIll I strike the people something in the nature of a trick and had faith Mr Brown deserves nothng from the Republican Re-publican party Such is the comment of the Salt Lake Tribune on the nomination of Mr Arthur Brown by the Rfpuhlican legislative caucus for United States senator These caucus nominations make it certain who will be Utahs senators so that anything we may say it will be impossible for any one to charge is for some concealed political purpose That Mr Browns nomination was not unexpected by his friends is certain cer-tain they have had no doubting since it was definitely known that the legislature islature was Republican How then can his nomination be called atrick It was a party caucus that nominated < him arid the proceedings to judge rom the accounts In the daily press 0 1 were fair and without any suspicion of trickery But there is another charge which it made directly against the members of the caucus It is that of bad faith The charge implies that they were pledged to some other candidate and broke their pledge Is this so It is a matter in whIchthe public are interested inter-ested for these legislators are pUblic servants and the election of United States senators an act of vital pUb importance Legislators should keep their pledges although they may have been made in private and those who took part in the caucus that nominated nominat-ed Mr Brown should be held up to no greater execration if they should break the caucus pledge than for breaking a private pledge if they gave any If that caucus was guilty of bad faith towards whom are the legislators guilty No doubt every candidate and perhaps some whose names have been more or less connected with the nominations for senators the past week or two had high hopes and great expectations I ex-pectations but high hopes and great i expectations are not pledges neither Is a seeming encouragement Assuming for arguments sake that Mr Browns nomination was procured by a trick and bad faith was it any more of a trick and bad faith than to get memberselect to the legislature to privately pledge themselves them-selves to certain candidates before they could possibly know who would and who would not be candidates for senators sena-tors One thing is made plain the perniciousness of the present system of making senatorial nominations |