Show TALKS TURKEY TO DELEGATION Writes Letter Telling of Political Conditions in State February 6 To tile the Utah Delegation Senator Sena Senator tot tor Sutherland and Congressman HOwell Washington D C Gentlemen J learned too kite Idle lo to you that eVening by wire that Captain Hobbs had received a dispatch froth from one of you gentlemen advising him that a change in the office of cit register of the tue United States land office at Salt Lake City had been decided arid and recommendations recommendatIon to that effect are to be ha made this day to the president At an early hour this morning I Sena Senator Senator tor Sutherland as follows Kindly defer action appointment reg ister Interest Utah delegation Welfare Republican party Utah demand It This day mail important information Rush Deliver message to senator personally My reason foi taking so deep deCo an hn ill ift terest in this mattel mattei and again address addressing ing you on the subject having heretofore written to both Senator Smoot and Sen Seli Senator ator Sutherland in regard to the contemplated plated change is the importance and the effect and consequences to the Republican party of this state that must inevitably follow should such a change me made Appeals for Veteran Now gentlemen at the risk of being considered impertinent and obtrusive In Inthis Inthis this matter I shall again invite your attention to some matters which must because of your manifold duties have been by you As I stated In my communications to you above referred to it has been the pride and boast of the Republican party from Abraham first administration to the present time that it has been the special friend triO and champion of the surviving Union soldiers and the guardian of the widows and or orphans orphans of those who perished on the bat battlefield During the early part of the war Pres Ires President ident Lincoln announced and promulgated the policy that in the civil departments of the government in the appointments to office and the giving of employment therein preference should be given to those who became disabled In war One df Of his biographers sa says s sHe He had made up his mind that the families of those who had fallen fahien arid and those disabled in the Service their being equal should always have havea a preference About that time congress passed a resolution to tim the same effect that those disabled In the mill mili military tary service of the country Wherever qualified ought to have havy a preference over others a plank has been inserted in every Republican platform from that time down downto to the present announcing the same prin principle principle ciple and pledging the Republican party to the strictest adherence to it That Utah Plank In the national Republican platform upon which you gentlemen Were elected to office and upon Which Theodore Roose Roosevelt volt velt became president Of the United States I refer to the platform of 1900 which was reaffirmed by the local Re Republican publican organization at Ogden in 1902 the following emphatic declaration ap tip appears pears I The nation owes a debt of prOfound gratitude to the soldiers and sailors who have fought its battles ana it is tile the governments duty to provide for the sun sur survivors ivors and for the widows and orphans of those who hove have fallen in lii the Joun irys wars The pension laws founded In Inthis inthis this just sentiment should be liberal arid and should be liberally administered and should be given wherever practicable with respect to jn hi tIle the nubile service to soldiers sailors and to their widows and or orphans plums 1 take it that if Mr Hobbs were a instead df Of a with wilh his liis war record and the long service ten ren dered the government in the he lie lienow now holds he could rot not be lie sidetracked without a violation of the foregoing pledges and promises In addition to What I have already said m in my former correspondence tad and have abo above e stated I insist that for the following reasons Mr Hobbs Hobba ought not to suffer the indignity and be humiliated by being In a measure re by the government which he ho lias hitt so long faithfully arid and so well Weli served and by the tue party to which he has always given his faithful and unbroken allegiance ance through failing of reappointment First Such an act would be a viola thin tion of tile the promises made by the Ke Re patty party in itt its declaration of prin principles to eighty millions of people Second The president of the United States would Le he led into doing that which the platform upon which he was elected declares that hO will not do and ond via vio hating lating a rule which he Upon numerous occasions has gone Upon as de do declaring daring claring shall be and sacredly kent Third It cannot be denied that Mr Hobbs Is the best qualified and most ef applicant for the position Fourth FoUrthA A great powerful and influential journal of this city which represents rents the sentiments generally speaking of from eight to fifteen thousand intel voters of this state 93 95 per cent of whom are Republicans rind and the influence of which is felt politically in iii the adjoin lag ing states and territories is daily mak ing and repeating the charge that you have neither the intention nor northe northe the desire to present Republicanism of tiP Republican principles and ana have ho regard whatever for party pledges or the pUtt plat platform form upon which you were elected Should this change be made It will ivill fur furnish nish indisputable evidence that these sweeping charges In lii sortie some respects are not entirely groundless keep Sacred Pledges Therefore I ask of you to do that which every American citizen be he a member of the Republican party or some other Is In entitled to demand at your hands namely that you keep the most niost pledge and doctrine of the Republican party which you von by liy becom lug Ing candidates and accepting offices have announced you y u would keep Even though you are willing lo to take the risk your yourselves yourselves selves I again as a citizen arid as a Republican one who hio believes that party pledges tire just as sacred even mote more so as Individual promises for In iii the one case the Violation of a personal obliga obligation tion affects aff ets but very few people while whilo the violation of a prinCiple bV h a In power affects many and ren savor of national dishonor thai JM esl do nut make this contemplated and thereby bring odium Upon Ml Ii Republican party to which we nil all oue Irire ao uro much I do riot not desire to bd hal abrupt or of in this matter matte and if what I have said appears to be lie Jn In ally way ills dis discourteous courteous or dictatorial I do not It po so mind and my blunt way way if it can be called so of cit stating the foregoing propositions is due to the Intense feeling that I have in this matter anti and the apprehension sion sian that a great political mistake as its aswell well at an an Injustice Is about to bo be donS done and a desire lesire td tO avoid the just criticism kiM that will be Poured so lavishly and so sosea scathingly sea thingly upon your heads personally and the th Republican party general ly in this state If such a change s made Hoping that you may regard this in the spirit in which it is written 1 am very respectfully yours W M MCARTY N B I hay have written tills this on my own o responsibility and without consulting Mr Hobbs therefore if it can in itt no way benefit him I do not wish you to be in against him bV by what I said |