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Show THE COUNTY JUDGESHIP Ye3terday we mentioned in a casual way the substitution of Judge DaBen-berry DaBen-berry for Judge Jones on the bench ot the probate court. "We recur to the matter today to eav that while Judge Jones is personally a clever gentleman, popular, accomplished accom-plished and able, yet the substitution is very acceptable "to the masses of the people. It indicates that at last the idea has entered the presidential mind that a Utah democrat is, perhaps, as trustworthy as a Utah republican. That we have as good men here in the democratic party as the best of the republicans. re-publicans. While the democrats of Utah do not believe that office holding is the only reputable business in life, yet they do relish, now and then, a bit of an office. We are very sure that the appointment of a new probate judge will not weaken the popular respect re-spect for the president, neither will it lessen the democracy's chance of recovering re-covering its lost prestige in this city. The only thing of wnich we have to complain in this connection is the unreasonable un-reasonable delay in this matter. For Judge Jones, the retiring officer, we have only the kindliest personal regard. re-gard. He is a good citizen and abundantly abund-antly able to Keep his head above water until another republican administration admin-istration comes along or until he is hopefully converted to the democratic faith. For this latter- we have very excellently grounded hopes. Judge Dusenberry feels so overwhelmingly over-whelmingly under obligations to the Enquirer for his nomination and appointment ap-pointment that he is at present speechless speech-less and we can get but little out of him on the BubjecL. However, with , all this In plain sight we do not believe that the paper mentioned will be abla to clutcn al! the patronage nor to absolutely abso-lutely direct Judge Dasenberry's public pub-lic policy to any considerable or dangerous dan-gerous extent. |