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Show THE FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS Tho appointment by President Roosevelt of William Spry as United States marshal to succeed Ben D. Heywood had the effect of a bombshell among tho anti-Mormon curbstone politicians pol-iticians and their organ, the Salt Lake Tribune. The aforesaid curbstone politicians pol-iticians held little meetings hero and there and breathed slaughter and utter ut-ter destruction to the president because be-cause their man, Ben, had ben let out and a Mormon, tho only Mormon In forty years, had been appointed United Unit-ed States marshal for Utah. It was, they said, an unpardonable outrage. They would not stand It, they would appeal to Granny Burrows over In Washington and Freddy Dubois and have the cousmmatlon of the outrage stopped. They knew that the senate would not confirm the appointment If Burrows and Dubois told them not to do so. Tho organ of the malcontents and tho malcontents themselves havo averred time and again that they had no objection to Senator Smoot because be-cause ho Is a Mormon. It was only because he held a high ofllco In tho 1 Mormon church. Why do they object to Mr. Spry? He holds no ofllco and never held any ofllce In tho church to which ho belongs. He Is simply a common or garden Mormon that's all. Tho chief objection of those people to Spry Is that he Is a Mormon. There I is, however, another reason why tho ' Tribune and tho gang It represents didn't want Mr. Spry appointed. It shows that the Utah senators aro not ' , without Influence In Washington and It shows that tho Trlbuno and Its gang r aro not only absolutely without in- ' " fluenco at the capital, but confirms i what most people knew before that ' ex-Senator Kearns Is dlsplsed by President Roosevelt and the older and , most Influential members of tho sen- ate. That's what hurts tho Tribune. ji The appointment of Mr. Spry does not as the Tribune would havo us be- ' Hove, weaken Senator Smoot, on the (contrary, It strengthens his case. 'jjf As a matter of fact Senator Bur- rows called on President Roosevelt . and protested against the appointment I V. of Mr. Spry, when he knew the Utah f i iJt senators had decided to recommend him and before tho president had sent In his name, Mr. Burrows received re-ceived no comfort from tho president. In effect ho was told to mind his own business and leavo Utah's affairs to Utah's representatives In congress. That's why Burrows and Dubois said they would not oppose tho confirmation confirma-tion of Mr. Spry. What a meddlesomo old granny Burrows is! And why shouldn't Spry bo United States marshal. Ho has all tho qualifications quali-fications necessary for tho place, and from a political standpoint ho has more claims to recognition than most members of tho party. For -many years In fair weather and foul he stuck to tho Republican party. Even tho silver craze, when 95 per cent of tho Republicans of half a dozen of theso western states voted tho Democratic Demo-cratic national ticket, did not touch Spry. On tho contrary, ho was a leader of what were then called tho McKlnley Republicans and was chairman chair-man of tho straight Republican convention con-vention In the sliver crazo year. Ho was a member of tho legislature and an ardent Republican worker. In the presidential election of 1904 Mr. Spry accepted tho state chairman of his party when few men would take it becauso tho Republican outlook out-look in this stato at that time was not overbrlght. There was tho Tribune Trib-une fighting tho party. There were Federal officeholders llko United States Marshal Heywood and United States District Attorney Lippmnn fighting the party which was giving them bread and butter, and which common decency would have compelled com-pelled them to support. Spry was there, however, and, against unusual difficulties under his chairmanship tho stato was carried for tho Republicans. United States Marshal Heywood was one of tho most actlvo of tho bolters, worked against tho Republican party and helped to endanger that party losing to tho Democrats. Whut earthly earth-ly reason has he and his frltu.3 to expect that a party he fought openly and virulently should retain him In office? of-fice? He was, on tho contrary, oxced- Ingly lucky to havo been allowed to servo till tho end of the term for which ho was appointed. Both Chief Justice Bartch ana Justice Jus-tice McCarty refused to ondorso Mr. Spry for United States marshal. Both said they favored tho rotontlon of Mr. Heywood, tho bolter, although both were elected as straight Republicans. i & There will bo moro weeping and gnashing of teeth in tho Tribune ofllco of-llco before long. A register and a receiver of tho land ofllco will bo appointed ap-pointed very soon. They will both bo Gentiles, but not of tho Trlbuno branu, and woo of woes Colonel Nelson will lose the Federal office of statistician ho has held from a time to which tho memory of man runneth not. Colonel Tatlock will bo his successor. Tho Trlbuno doesn't llko Tatlock tho least little bit. Then Joey Llppman's turn will como In a few months when probably prob-ably H. E. Booth or Bennor X. Smith will step Into tho ofllco of United States district attorney. J As far as known only two sub-pocnacs sub-pocnacs for witnesses to glvo further testimony against Senator Smoot havo been heard of. One Is for Frederick Fred-erick Y. Smith, a leador In tho Jo-sephito Jo-sephito branch of tho Mormon church and tho other for Professor Wolfe who has been in tho public eye for a fow weeks as a "reformed Mormon." |