Show JUDICIAL MORAL COURAGE mop MORAL AL courage is rare quality and those who possess and exhibit it ia trying places always gain the respect of the ho honorable and generally triumph in the end judge sandford showed that he possessed that admirable endowment during his official career in utah and eminently so 00 at its close he dared to do what he thought WB was light in the face of a 9 strong popular mentin ment against the Mb naiona 1 in this he onty only ad the tee law as ae it in 1 dealt out la in other places he was not mot bitter violent and partial because a deafen dant was a Mo mormon and he be did nt not insist upun that extrajudicial extra judicial d demand nd for a promise which was born of fanaticism and invented by anti mormonism for this he be was hated by the violent enemies of the people of utah and misjudged by those who receive their information on utah affairs from cowardly malign ers era and persistent libelers Ube lera but ibis made no difference to his bis judicial course and his sentences mandof many of them se severe vere w were m yet tempered with a little dash of mercy when the defendant appeared for the first time in that position and plead guilty to the charge against him those who find fault with his course in this respect manifest a mah malignant gnant heart and a disposition to cruelty and vengeance that ought not to influence any civilized human being and certainly ought not to prevail in the execution of the law his closing letter to the attorney general has won judge sandford adford Sa marsy many friends frienda and admirers fram both political par ties it was a spirited yet passionless rejo rejoinder inde to the indiscreet authoritative and authoritative letter from washington and manifested the same moral courage that he exhibited ott on th the bench benh and it has attracted more public attention than any official correspondence which has been published for a long time the washington correspondent of the new york times sent to his paper a long account of the particulars of judge Sand fordIs removal with wath the full text of the correspondence and among other comments the following were added the startling discovery that the president has a liel policy ricy for the judiciary has not yet apparently attracted attention out of utah judge sandford was wae not dot accused of falling short of or of exceeding the laws the bar of the territory and of the countr country will naturally wonder whether the president win will have a R policy 11 for judge zane that will be superior to the law will the president make a policy for judge zane that that will expose the judge and the president to impeachment it has struck some of the utah people that the president by his removal of judge balndford Band ford and the appointment of judge zane to carry out a 44 policy 22 has gug suggested Vested that the courts may be made dangerous and despi despicable caNe as the creatures of an executive instead of the administrators of the law it Is not forgotten that attorney general miller has been spoken of in the presidents Vs home paper the utterances of which are taken as semiofficial semi official on an many matters as likely to be nominated to the vacant place on the supreme court bench how will the nomination strike the lawyers of the senate in the light of the letter explaining to judge sandford his removal in order to make a place for a man who can be depended on to carry out a policy from the bench the suggestion that the president can properly dictate a policy for the supreme court of utah may be followed before long by the appointment of somebody who will consent to the dictation of a policy 1 for the supreme court of the united states if the president may dictate a policy for the utah court there does not seem to be any ant good reason why he should not run the supreme court at washington niton to carry out a more extensive policy the question is the same and it would appear that if he has any policy he wishes to impose upon tha supreme court he could not do better than to appoint mr miller to fill judge matthews place as he has so gracefully acquiesced ced in the presidents dictation of a policy Is for the chief justice in utah judge sandford did not leave his place on the bench without sending a parting word to the president it was not an impudent or an ugly letter in its ite language the i dent has not yet seen fit to give it out at the white house so it is reproduced here in order to give the newspaper reading public an opportunity to see labat sort of a reply a removed judge may make here follows the closing response made by judge jude dand which seems to have made a big hit bit on the public mind as no doubt it did in the quarters for which it was intended the omaha republican having undertaken te reply to the remarks of the omaha herald on this matter a portion of which we reproduced in these columns th herald thus responds respond the republican undertakes to justify harrisons removal of chief justice sandford from the utah bench by asserting that cleveland removed zane the feeble excuse wont won it stand when its falsity is shown zane was not dot removed he was allowed to serve out his time and retire neither has the st louis pos postoffice post office ce fight anything to do with the case the point at issue is has the executive arm of the government the right to dictate to the judicial arm a political polky policy j of course the president cannot be under the impression that cleveland removed chief justice zane but that idea is entertained by a great many papers that endorsed bifro his reappointment which they looked loofe erf upon in the lighton a vindication 11 judge zane was not removed or interfered with by president cleveland but served out his full term A little moral al courage e to t 0 stand aa t nd up foe fo justice and right without fear of the clamors of the unjust and unmerciful will be found a much better recommendation to the respect of those whose opinion is valuable than any yield yielding ing to the dictates of the malevolent and in the world to come tt will contribute to the glory of its possessor when the eternal judge decides the future fete fate of all |