Show mr livingston explains his remarks at zion Z K utah adv cato cate utah tan jan 31 1 I have just received thi this weeks advocate I 1 want to assure you of u my appreciation of 0 I 1 your fair way of gh gl ing what data ata you had hud with re reference forence to the alleged statements made by roe me at bait salt lake city before the tho judiciary c committee of tho the senate of course I 1 be subjected to tho se areat condemnation it those reports gano eon enon a substantial elindor of what I 1 really said isaid I 1 have ao far as its I 1 hiow never been considered ungrateful and I 1 would forfeit most any profit rather than libel my many kind friend friends and follow fellow ouk of carbon cou county sity any fair minded person mil ill conclude conc ludo by comparing the apoita i of the papera papers aa as published by ou that tit least one of them Is beclouded in Us its determination of i what lint I 1 bald said I 1 take the closing sen tence of your pertaining to the matter r as is in n invitation to roe ine to ghe tny my version therefore I 1 gladly advance the tile following aa as an acou accurate rute nhat occurred in ronno tion with the alleged statement inimical to carbon county I 1 wits by several ot of tho the members of the senate judiciary coin com lattice a to the advisability of abol ashing the of district attorney atto ruey I 1 told themas them 1 I 1 told the judiciary committee when inn ln cited to it that for several private reasons I 1 should probably probe bly not run for attorney gain again consequently I 1 did not want ann my remarks to bo be consider cd ed us its being impelled by ino tives speaking of conditions us they had existed idour in our district for tho the past two years I 1 said wo had bad thieo counties ia ita which gentlemen beld tho the office of county attorney at torno who are not of the bar of tho court ind and that it was wits f frequently re necess necessity iry for ino ine to attend the prAl preliminary examinations and even draw papers for certain county attorneys attorn eye when questioned by mr whitmore aa as to tho tile number of acquittals quit quItt tole als that had been made mado in cacti each county I 1 said I 1 1 could not answer from memory but that in lit thero there had been but one acquit itil in two wo years that in carbon county thero had been t inre tho tito character of the cases v ore moro vicious edthe nd the number of crimea crimes greater and nna the number who boro ore not apprehended ext excessive lo selve owing to tho the county being frequented by a transient bletl element ent made up of the scum of tho the ca I 1 who gano the off leers much t and the tile citizens enuch I 1 also spoke of the co the other counties but did not speak of dt orand grand county ns as the bobbera bobbers Bob bers roost boost county but eald said that its proximity to the robbers Kob bera boost gave tho tile residents some trouble I 1 did not sy tho tile tran transient blent element in to car bon county could not bo be dealt with by tho tile county attorney nor did I 1 mention hh hn naino name adversely la in any regard but on tho the contrary contra ryo in speaking of the for the ensuing two year yen I 1 menti mentioned oneil the fact that an un experienced member of the bur bar bud had awu elected in carbon county and further in tills this connection mr hatch and myself both spoke favorably of the present county ut attorney torney of carbon county and tho the governor and anum a number berof of the members of tho the denute were furnished with a list of county attorneys orneys of the oie state in which mr F rye was indicated as a member of the barot barof bar ot our supreme court besides that I 1 mentioned tho the fact before tha judiciary committee that in our there ore probably pio bably boven seven or eight lawyers of jollity to represent tho state tate in its prosecutions either as distri etor as its county attorneys but that in other councel there were no attorneys at lit all to be bo SIL Cured for the positions of county attorney owing I 1 ng to the fact that tile o oven ON on at tho the maximum would bo be no ito inducement du cement to the attorneys to accept the loftlee and that some of them would not accept that of district attorney of course I 1 talked about many othur other features fea turea relating minting to the district tit ot torney but as they do not seem to hav have bava reported I 1 need not mention them here I 1 SM see no reason why any of my friends or other honest citizen of carbon county can take ony any of my iny remarks as applying to them certainly they will not object to us alv speaking aking of tho the conditions which we all know exist 1 if wo ine wore ore oil all to not only speak but act with reference refo ronco to beso icso conditions the work of all till our ofil corI woul diore lve and it would m fuorry surprise Burp riso to mo me shou lyl uny any of my trends conchill concU cone ill they fonio L within the as above set forth 4 respondent or 1 milder phrase 9 nato nate the cla on robbing other 1 wise laars carbon i sho at 1100 language this corn com atnia prominence iven to the garbled stion I 1 shall hall over oberre rora ver very sincerely WM D lil q |