Show A duay OF OFFICE HOLDING judge horats resignation of the agh high position of district judge for utah having gone into effect and the governor having made a happy and appointment ito to flu fill the vacancy thus created the NEWS takes the liberty of expressing is a thought upon the obligations of office bolding which it is hoped will not be considered personal in soy offensive ofle nelve sense we hold that a man who has accepted nomination to public office whose election his friends and well wishers have given of their time and meson to bring about and for whom a majority of the voters have cast their ballots is under a moral contract with the people to perform the duties of the position to which he be has baa been chosen until the end of his ble term to not a trust to be trifled with to be accepted today and handed banded back tomorrow to be considered a makeshift or a plaything which may be rejected or abandoned the moment something else Js Is offered ofle red american communities have a right to expect better tt treatment estment at the hands of those whom bom they honor with nomination mind and election to places of trust and profit and while no bond may be exacted requiring that the loan candidate didato observe all the terms terme of the obligation which is a assumed when he accepts the nomination domination in attori there to is nevertheless an implied contract or pledge which with all honorable men to is as binding us a bond it will bo be a sad day for goon officeholders office holders when confidence in their intention to accept rod and retain the positions for which they are named shall ue lie shaken and destro destroyer yeo for then conventions vent ions will become a farce cam a mockery and elections a delusion Ju slola we prefer to make no to politics antho in abe discussion discus Bion of this ques tion and yet such allusion in the case came in point can hardly be emitted omitted in addition to the discourtesy shown to his big own party judge howat howal by his bis resignation offers a deliberate affront to hundreds of fair minded men of the opposition who were so BO far above narrow as an to work and vote for bin bia success as against their own bartys nominees nomine ee without their aid he be and his bis colleagues could sever have been elected and surely in political history no higher compliment was ever paid than to him in november last with all respect to judge howat we cannot but feel that the community has baa a just grievance against him but it may be asked shall a man be required to remain io 10 a minor position when greater honors donors and advantages our answer would be that no office la this free land is forced upon roy any marl man if he be doe stilt expect to ff fill 11 it he it accept it at all and this applies particularly to an elective office supposing jing there were no provision for filling vacancies in such offices except by a new election is ie there roy any conceivable personal pe motive that would justify the incumbent il i forcing that tremendous trouble anil and expense upon his bis that there Is a provision for filling vacancies by appointment alters the case on only ly in its minor aspect for the people having said by their own that they want a certain man lu in a certain office his abandonment of the trust accepted makes it obligatory that some other man perhaps one whom the people would not have elected or whom they do not know receive the piece at the hands of one man main instead of at the hands of the majority of the whole community the compensation attached to the judgeship is low but it has not been reduced any since the nominations for the various places were made last fall it if a candidate could afford to accept then he ought to be able to occupy now to decline after election because a better pros of profit makes its appearance to is to us the motive of all every circumstance present and prospective ought to have been considered before the acceptance of the nomination having been accepted nothing but bui th most extreme necessity neoe should be deemed a sufficient cause for rello quisling quis bing it the nims has ever had bad the highest admiration of judge howat as all a cut citi zeu zen and an attorney it hailed his big election ejection as a triumph of judicial fitness over mere partisanship and honea for much good from his success but a conception of public auty has required the forego foregoing irig criticism of abts recent action fotioo which however is to he be taken in a general sod and not a personal sense nor or do we desire that judge street shall feel affronted at any allusion t ti the manner of hid bid selection he la in to bo be congratulated upon his appold t went ment and we sincerely believe from all that we can bear that no other name that had bad been mentioned for the place has met with so large a measure ol of public favor as hie bie |