| Show EXIT POWERS inz announcement in the news of monday evening that the president t had bad withdrawn the nomination of orlanda W powers as judge of the first judicial district of utah was received with general satisfaction we presume that no one but those interested on the judges side of the bul lion beek beck mining suit felt the least regret at his retirement this has not been a mormon contest although the mormons cormons Mor mons will probably feel as gratified at the presidents action as any of the parties interested te the fight has been been conducted on lines independent ot of the 46 mormon question except the point wherein the judge himself f sought to fortify his bis position by making it it appear that he was the most extreme of the utah judiciary in a special enforcement of an obnoxious law the character of the nominee as represented by influential gentlemen from rom his own state was such that the president was led to see that he had mado made a mistake and had bad been deceived bo by dickinson the michigan political boas toss who urged the appointment the reasons offered for his bis rejection refection were based on his conduct before coming to utah and were so strong that the senate committee had determined upon reporting I 1 ng against h him in and the president hav having ing been made ade acquainted with this tact fac t ver very P prudently ru autly took time by the fore forelock loe I 1 and n gracefully admitted his error I 1 in the nomination by withdrawing it before adverse action could be taken by the senate if mormon influence had no part in the removal of did l mormon I 1 Powers neither animus and exploits save his head from the official guillotine imprisoning an innocent man because ne he was an apostle did not help the judges cause in the least and officials of his kind and calibre will find when their cues cases are put ut too to the test that their injustice auN and wrong towards the mor mons will not save them from impending doom the people of utah mormon and gentile members of the bar and the general 1 public will thank president cleveland el fur for relieving them of an insolent overbearing ignorant and ambitious person 1 azo figured for a brief season as an autocrat on the blanch bench and expected to sail into national favor by trimming his sails to a temporary stiff and blustery anti mormon breeze whatever kind of at judge may pe be appointed to succeed powers we are of the opinion that the change will be agreeable for noone no one can obtains lower public estimate than the judge who in order to catch a prominent romi nent mormon who had not broken broken the law ruled that a man maia can cohabit with two or more women and y yet never cohabit with them in the ordinary ordinary od Inary sense ense of the term nor even live under the same roof with either of them officials who place their dependence or er government and popular support upon their offensive partial and vindictive conduct towards a people who corthe lor the time being are the objects of lat national rational ional and pu public lie disfavor will find in the long run that t at they have laid but bat a shaky dounda foundation and built upon the sand we seldom rejoice over the discomfiture of an open enemy but we cannot refrain from joining in the general satisfaction that is felt in utah over the collapse of the unscrupulous bious rowers powers in the first judicial district |
