Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-03 | Page 4 | The First Step

THE FIRST STEP STEPHE THE HE experiment of the Republican members of the bar in taking the initial step to toward toward toward to- to ward a nonpartisan judiciary will be watched with interest Saturday when six Judges are areto areto areto to be nominated for the district bench A primary was conducted by the Republican can lawyers under the guidance of a committee committee com com- ee and it required half a dozen ballots before six candidates had received the requisite majority of all aU votes cast The names of the six men which will go before the convention tomorrow were selected as being beIng be being be- be ing as nearly a representative choice of the Republican wing of the bar as it was possible possible possible pos pos- sible to obtain The committee in charge declares 95 per cent of the Republican lawyers lawyers lawyers law law- of the Third district participated How these six names will be received bythe by bythe bythe the delegates to the convention remains tobe tobe to tobe be seen If the de delegates listening to charges slate resent the that it Is a picked hand action of the bar the experiment may fare lare badly But if the delegates to the convention shall regard the recommendation of the six candidates as a bona fide effort to bring about nonpartisanship in the Judiciary then the initial step may be a attended tended with some success suc suc- cess That would be the sane view If the Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican members of the bar made mado a mistake mistake mistake mis mis- take it was a mistake of pioneering It isto is isto to be regretted that the Democratic and Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican lawyers could not have Joined inthe inthe in inthe the movement at the beginning thus laying the foundation for legislative action and a headless ballot which would take the judiciary Ju Judiciary judiciary ju- ju entirely out of politics I