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Show JUDICIAL PAJRTISANSIIIP- On cfat'urday morning, Tho Tribune directed attention to the partisan OUl cry Of t he SmOut organ that Repojb Mean partv men only must be elected as unices. The orL'an in U mated verj Mr-ugly thnt the partisan need oi indues who were active Retmblicans 0 :i that the paftv should be "Sua tained" in case of any action in the court, an. I the partv interests looked after judicially. There was an evidont malice and vindirti veness in thu editorial edi-torial that told it own story. Vesterdav morning, the organ returned re-turned to the charge with a rambling mixed up lot of stuff that had nothing whatever to do with tho :-'. It be gnn with the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and pursued pur-sued its theme bark ward to the times of Mocs. It claimed that Moses waft wa-ft ere.it sir.ner. and thai lie went "to a grave that no man shall know," and further, the organ had the alleced quo-tatiou quo-tatiou that m see "walked with God' Tt would hp a little difficult to find in the scripture nnv authority for these Quotations: as applied to Moses; but iu anv one who is so anxious to get on the inside of the Enoch order, the "walked" quotation mu.'ht be excused. In referring to the Supreme Court, the organ intimatvs very olainlv that, according to its understanding, the judges of the court divided on party lines on the insular cases and ou the income tax cases. This will be news to the American public, and also it will be news to learn that either ol those cases was at any time a political Question. The organ is of the opinion that every judge "radiates a constant in-flufnro in-flufnro in favor of the political party of which hp is g member." If that is true of the political judges with which tho organ is acquainted, then it. ie certainly time that the judges on the bench in this district should be changed, for a judge who "consciously "conscious-ly or unconsciously radiates a con-taut, influence, in favor of the political party of which he is a member" is a mighty dangerous nidge to have on the bench. Finally, the organ considers that The Tribune occupies 8 "hypocritical attitude" in speaking for judges unbiased un-biased by political prejudice and uninfluenced un-influenced hv machine bossship. It is perhaps natural for the organ to im-ftgine im-ftgine that anv one who does not accept ac-cept the Federal bunch yoke is a desperate des-perate hvpocrite. And set. we can insure in-sure that very bad authority on every question of morals and good Conduct, that there are thousands of people equally "hypocritical" with The Tribune Trib-une on this question; for the masses of the American people, in Utah as else where, desire above everything else to have impartial judges, men on the bneu who are learned in the law, and able and courageous in their independent independ-ent exposition f it. It is probably true, as has been often suggested, that the views of the Smoot organ arc utterly ut-terly depraved on these, as on most, questions, that it .Iocs not believe ID ttte honesty or courage of anybody, nor in the independence Of anv man; that it believe? every one acts solely on selfish and interested motives, and that such a thinrr as altruism, renunciation, self -abnegation, and personal sacrifice for others, are all to be relegated to the realms of romance, without, their having any practical application in life. Such a sordid, groveling disposition disposi-tion as that would naturally be inclined in-clined to think that anv one who speaks for courage, honesty, good faith, and nonparf isanship op the bpnch is hypocritical: for since the organ or-gan does not believe In maolv courage, cour-age, candor, and good fith, it is im-poi-sjiiio for it to cqneeive that anv on1 else either possesses those qualities or believes-in them. But what a stigma tho organ thus attaches at-taches to the pidges on the bench and to the candidates that are to be nominated nom-inated in the Republican Third Oi-trict Oi-trict Judicial Convention I They are t,o be Republicans first, to take care of the party interests, both personally and on the bench, and must "radiate a constant influence in favor of the party ot which they aro members,'' and be partisans always; for so the organ states, and so its false citations urge. It is an astonishing case of moral darkness of mental obsession in the interest of partisanship and political politi-cal bias in judicial servire If the voters of this district should reallv take to heart the villainous homilies of the organ in this matter, thes would place the candidates' nominal nomi-nal ftd under such a cloud- that their election would be quite impossible. The on Is- chance for the election of the nominees of the Republican district judiciul convention is for the convention conven-tion itself and the nominees to abso lutelv repudiate the virions and partisan par-tisan pleas made in their favor, in ad vanre. bv the organ of the Federal bunch. |
