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Show ' Open Letter to Justice W. M. McCarty To Justice "W. M. McCarty of the Supremo Court: As you have made Truth the excuse for your tirade i against Senator Sutherland and the I Republican party and as open letters have become fashionable, Truth has decided to write you an open letter, In your open letter to Senator Sutherland Suth-erland you charge Truth with waging wag-ing a campaign of falsehood, slander and abuse against you and further charge In substanco , that Senator Sutherland controls Truth and that It was at his Instance that tho alleged campaign of falsehood, slander and abuse against you was waged. Truth absolutely denies that It ever pub- lished anything about you that was ' j not true. Truth never at i any tlmo slandered or abused you. Tho truth often hurts and you are evidently writhing under Its stings. Wo further say In the most positive posi-tive manner that Mr. Sutherland never had any Interest In or con- " trol or this paper in any manner or I form whatsoever. Ho never at any tlmo requested tho publication of any ) articlo In Truth, about yourself or I anyone elso or about any public mat- I ter, ho' never even suggested that any articlo of any kind whatsoever should bo published in Truth, ho never at any timo even suggested what the policy of Truth should bo on any 1 subject whatsoever. Ho was novor at f any timo consulted by Truth or any one connected with it about anything that ever appeared In tho paper or that tho editor contemplated publlsh-i publlsh-i ' ing. The editor of Truth alono con- 1 trols and directs tho paper and Its 1 I j policies and seeks no advice or dlrec- JJ L tion from any one whoever ho be. ' Numbers of people havo attempted to . cajolo, bribe and intimidate Truth, 1 but havo never yet succeeded. j First among those was one of the I Kearns managers, tho man who : f brought you out of tho sago brush where you belong, tho man to whom you owe your nomination and elec- H' tion. When you were "legging" for Bi tho nomination for tho Supreme 1 bench, this manager of yours and the H gang to which you then and now be- tt long, who own you body and soul, It such a thing as tho latter exists in you, timo and again requested Truth to espouso your cause and boom you for tho position for which you wished to draw the salary. This manager of yours wrote articles filled with tho most fulsome praiso of you and your alleged abilities as a jurist ana brought them to tho ofTlco of Truth with requests for their publication. Tho requests were not complied with which partly explains your vindict-Iveness vindict-Iveness towards Truth. You are a person of that calibre and a worthy member of a gang that trios to injure thoso it can't control. You pretended friend for Mr. Sutherland Suth-erland while you wero playing Into tho hands of his political enemies, your letters, which you havo published, pub-lished, wero written to Mr. Sutherland at tho Instance and with the assistance assist-ance of your gang. You haven't the ability to write even such crude fill-minatlons fill-minatlons yourself. When tho tlmo camo that tho gang decided it might hurt Senator Sutherland and further their nefarious schemes you threw oft tho mask of friendship and assumed the rolo of 'an open enemy and in do- jng so you put forward Truth's alleged ibuso of you as an excuso for attack-ng attack-ng Mr. Sutherland. Now as a mater mat-er of fact Truth had said scarcely inythlng about you while your correspondence corres-pondence with Mr. Sutherland was ;oing on for many months before. Truth gavo you very'llttlo of its spaco sinco August, 1904, when it ex-)oscd ex-)oscd your pernicious activity In polices, poli-ces, when you, an agent of tho gang, nasqueraded as a harmonlzer of Republicans Re-publicans and while occupying a seat n tho District bench received monoy rom tho gang to expend In tho effort :o nomlnato tools of the gang for the egislaturo in order to prevent tho Section of Mr. Sutherland to the pnlted States senate. Truth's expose of you then was pretty complete and since then you havo justified tho cs-Imato cs-Imato that Truth made of you at that lme. By your own late confessions you aro a ward heeler and pot house politician and you say you aro not ashamed of It. Judge McCarty, you probably don't know It, it could not bo expected you would, becauso your association with gentlemen has been very limited, but among gentlemen a person who publishes pub-lishes prlvato corresponenco without tho consent of tho other party to tho correspondence is called a scrub and treated as such and a person who under such circumstances publishes a part of a corrcspondonco omitting tho part which would place his correspondents corres-pondents position fairly Is tho quintessence quint-essence of r irub. You pose as a Republican, as a harmonlzer, har-monlzer, working In tho interest of tho party. You aro nothing of tho kind. On tho contrary for years you havo been doing your utmost to disrupt dis-rupt tho republican party in tho Interest In-terest of Tom Kearns' "American" party and that is tho sole and only object of your recent fulminatlons against Senator Sutherland. You aro a political trickster. In Salt Lake you poso as a champion of tho Gentiles Gen-tiles and took upon yourself tho task of seeing that tho Gentiles got their proper share of federal patronage. In Sanpete you play tho rolo of a champion cham-pion of tho Mormons and urgo Mormons Mor-mons for federal patronage. There hasn't been a dirty political scheme In this stato for years that you have not been In. If you didn't -got in "on tho ground floor" you poked your nose In afterwards. Your lovo for tho republican re-publican parly Is circumscribed by th" salary you draw as an office holder One Illustration of tho "American" party's ownership of you Is tho efforts you made to havo ox-United States Marshal Hoywood and ex-United States District Attorney Lippman retained re-tained in ofilco. Failing In that you with consummato assuranco and tho supremo confldenco of ignoranco assume as-sume not only to adviso but to dictate to tho representatives of tho stato In congress whom they should select for Federal appointments. According to your own confession you "butted In" without tho knowledge of either Postmaster Thomas or Capt. Hobbs. These gentlemen aro no doubt very proud of you as a champion. Capt. Hobbs, whom you in substanco set forth as a poor fellow, a cripple who needs to bo taken caro of as a public chavky. Capt. Hobbs Is a comparatively compara-tively wealthy man. He has held lucrative lu-crative positions under tho United States government almost continually for over thirty-two years, and in ad dition ho has a pension of $75 a H month. Capt. Hobbs is a gentleman H Tor whom wo havo tho greatest re- H spect, but their aro other old soldiers H hero who haven't been favored with H any government position and who aro H not by any means so nicely fixed fi- H nanclally as Capt. Hobbs. H Your sollcltudo for Capt. Hobbs Is H hypocritical rot, on tho samo plan as H your anxiety that Major Brccdcn's H side of tho unpleasantness you wan- M tonly and maliciously brought to him H should bo properly presented to tho M public. You telephoned to the Trlb- H uno to send a reporter to interview H Major Brecdcn in order to give the M major an opportunity to say some- H thing that your owner, the Tribune, M could and would and did purposely M distort, thereby doing Major Brecdcn M a griovous wrong. That's ono of tho M many devious ways of political trick- M sters, of whom you aro a shining ex- fl jmplo. M You said in ono or your letters that M a small coterlo of politicians was M making an effort to havo J. U. Eld- M redge, Jr., appointed postmaster at M Salt Lako City, when you knew that M Mr. Eldrcdgo was endorsed by a great M many of tho most influential men in fl tho party both Mormon and Gentile. M "particularly tho latter. That state- M -ncnt of yours was made in tho letter fl you withheld from publication. M In tho second epistle, published in jJ tho dally papers you admit that you M are a political trickster, that you, H whllo occupying n position of justlco H of tho Supremo court, wero pernl- ,H clously activo in politics, but that you rl could not bo retained in ofilco unless you did thoso rcprehonsiblo things. fl Senator Sutherland and tho republl- H can machine you say forced you to do t thoso things and then by way of ell- BH max you say you aro not ashamed of H It. That's about tho limit of perfidy. H It needs no comment. .H Judge McCarty, you 'have demon- H strated that you aro totally unfit to jH occupy a seat on tho Supreme bench. H By your own conrosslon, you and your ,'H nssoctate Chief Justlco Bartch, aro the H lackeys of ono of tho editors of tho .H Tribune, who Is a lackey of ox-Senator jjH Kearns. You revise editorials for tho paper and consult with tho editor fl about cases pending in your court. B Tho bar has no confidence in either :H you or In your fellow trickster, tho ifl chief justice, and the public has ! H nejtlipr respect for or confidence in H you. You ought to tender your rcslg- H nation forthwith, and enter Into a political partnership" with Chief Jus-H Jus-H tlco Dartch. H You hnvo been playing a double H game. You have i)rctondeil to be n 1 republican when In reality you are H ono of Tom Kearns' "Americans." You H havo been a spy and a traitor. You H havo n right to bo a Kearns' "Amcrl- H can," but no right to bo a spy and a H traitor. Your arroganco is unbounded. You were the. "ward boss" down in M the sago brush country where you M canio from and you have gono on the H rocks by thinking you could boss things at tho capital of the stato and M at (he capital of tho nation ns you M bossed them in Sanpete. H o |