Show s MR RECORD T REASON the advocates ot o JJ j jr P H r election to Use tiie United States senate persist in r Ue eon con L his ide qualifications for the office Although Alt ou h their u the eed i Hi been before briore the public more or less JesS notoriously n for a numbers number f C L al at although though he must mut think he be is 15 fitted for the job ob in spite sp e of nu to sly gills his hla reasons for the ambition he avows not one on valid has h s been bee advanced why Mr Salisbury even aspire aspI to the place pla he Party Put l alone alee sometimes give a man a right to expect reward t claim c m on ott this basis is denied by the men of his own o n part party who wh uni ar the thep 5 p g best judges judt ju of them High personal character even if yoked with m cre ability might justify a 8 hope of election n but b t it has bas not b been en suggested ih that t either etther character or r ability would warrant candidacy Liberality lIt public spirit and aed great business capacity ape age sometimes factors in th distil distri distribution f button of public honor but If Jf these were considered Salisbury could not flot nope hope for a single sinde vote TIle The Herald has searched the record diligently for an explanation of the claims advanced in behalf It has found nothing in his private and personal Ier onal career r that could possibly account for his jils prominence either in the counsels of ol his party or in parceling out offices to the faithful In 1st bia rela rota relations with the t public he be has but one one matter of record that could eo ld Be he eon ld rt and that is the attempt made by the United States S ates government to recover money secured by Salisbury on mail man contracts It is true that the money was never ne r recovered It is 15 also true that the case cue was wu never tried on its merits and that the absence ab e ce of 0 witnesses wl led li to the dismissal dl al of the case so that hat Mr Ir Salisbury is entitled to the benefit of any doubt that may arise arl e as all to the facts set forth in the governments complaint The Herald does not pretend to pass upon the merits of f the ease case but bat it sub subS S mite that this record ree nl of Itself lt el is 18 the only thing in Mr S career as a aI I public servant by which his fitness for the may b be judged If U his services to the government as a mail mati contractor were such as to prove the biB honesty oo and show ebow that he is a man who would suffer personal loss rather than see Bee the government ov wronged then he has a right to be judged solely in on n ls ds merits as s man m n 1 of If It on oa the other te ti Is even a suspicion SU p B tha thai h fall d to is perform his is hr full lutr as a Jf if he atthe at the B of ibe e to i public lublic tf tc he was willing to sacrifice the public welfare To lO his liis own advantage thou then it to 1 blear elem beyond cavil that O 0 J T Salisbury would do in the senate s Bate aate ex cx exactly what he lie did in IR his capacity as a mail mall carrier That ii the fair alternative and it remains for or IB Republican R P J gl law i ito to determine e whether they want O 0 J T Salisbury Sall ry the th Stat Star star reute r t e matt mati S to serve them as O 0 J T Salisbury United States Stat S senator from Utah a |