Show rank partisanship the democratic legislature has added another disgrace to its record by refusing to confirm the appointment of john nicholson on the board of labor conciliation and arbitration simply because he voted for MoK the law provides that the governor must not appoint more than two out of the three bembers of the board from the same political party the governor appointed two supporters of W J bryan though one was a so called silver republic can and mr Nichol sona republican to many minds a man who supports bryan is no more than a democrat and is questionable if the courtn would not hold that to be the case then the law would be disregarded on the senates theory that all appointees poin tees must be supporters of the democratic national candidate but the intolerant spirit exhibited is what is more annoying than even the illegality of the senates policy the idea that a citizen of this state must subscribe himself a devotee of with all its attendant evils its contempt or the supreme court and van Bure niem as the deseret news says is enough to make one wonder whore the reasoning faculties of the senators were when they laid down their most partisan rule in the rejection of mr nicholson the governors appointee in this case was of exceptionally good qualities john Nio holson has been known to the people of the state for many years as a man of peace on a board of the kind to which he was appointed he is in every way qualified and would serve the public with rare ability but his one objection able feature in the eyes of the democratic senate was that he wisely voted for president mckaley McK the senate therefore presumed that he was a goldbug gold bug it is the same old epithet as hurled at the enquirer because this paper refused to trod anarchistic paths and remained loyal republican part yAnd today we think our action was more in the interest of the white metal than all the wildfire wild fire enthusiasm on the parac of other papers of the state in behalf of W J bryan there must bo more than one way ofa being a of free coinage who can say that senator wolcott is not a free silver man and yet he and senator carter shoup senator chandler and many others of the same class remained true to their party the sacrifice was too great for patriots to make so they thought to stoop to the level of bryan ism the senate lias however arifian to its full capacity sapa city in the rejection of the appointee named and reflected its own size to the full of the people of utah senator smoot in leading the movement has besmirched smirch ed an otherwise quite active an able record we had hardly thought him guilty of such extreme partisanship it will be well for the people of utah to guard against parti sans of his kind in the future As hebar J granac says politics like arc all right when they dont strike in with senator smoot it seems his politics has struck in and it ought to kill him politically |