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Show I The Bearing of Judge McCarty's Letter The open letter of Judge McCarty, published in the Tribune and Herald last Sunday, has cause" very much comment during the week. Some assert as-sert that the publication was indiscreet, inasmuch as one holding the exalted office of supreme judge should not be drawn into a newspaper controversy. contro-versy. The answer to that is that no set rules I govern in a case like that; the provocation and B the temperament of the man assailed are what I govern. The charge of offensive partisanship is point-" fl less, because if the effort of a man to retain an B old man and an old veteran in office is offensive H partisanship, then not to be offensive is to sur-B sur-B render one's honest convictions. The letter is fl directed to Senator Sutherland. If it had no fur-fl fur-fl ther bearing, then we should call it merely a per-B per-B sonal matter between a judge and a senator, and B that It would have been better to withhold it, oven i by doing so the judge believed it would be do. B ing himself a wrong. But the letter in part is an B arraignment bf the system that has ruled here, fl in offensive form, ever since Reed Smoot dictated fl who should be candidates two years ago, and by B tho unscrupulous use of the machine which by B ecclesiastical power held in hands, carried through 8 the election. And this machine did not stop with fl the election. It has been running ever since and B is fast prostituting the politics of tho state. And B so intolerant is it that it will not accept a passive B allegiance to the party it assumes to represent; fl tno Individual must endorse the machine and fl everything its chauffeur does, or be read out of fl tho party. B Some months ago some of the stokers who fl oil this machine and keep its bright works pol- B ished, gave out that Judge McCarty was to be fl downed so soon as his term oxplres. And when fl asked what his offense was, the answer came that fl his politics were such that he could not be B trusted. Think of that! What a giveaway it is. B Think how low the morals of a party leader must fl bo to sink to that point. It means one of two fl things: Either something dishonest was wanted S r tho speaker had no idea of the sanctity of a fl supreme judge's place, and believed that a judge fl was governed in his decisions more by his politics B than by either his oath or his high sense of duty. And this in the face of the fact that the judge has been a consistent member of the party, which the machine now controls, all his life. No wonder the judge was incered; no wonder that a man of his positive nature determined to strike back. The letter should be of great use at this time to Gentile Gen-tile Republicans. They can see by it that they are permitted to remain in the party by sufferance; suffer-ance; that if one of them dares to assert his Independence Inde-pendence of the machine, he will be at once read out, and the serious part Is that he will be read out by men who only a very few years ago know no more about the principles of the two great parties than a Piute knows of Sanscrit. It is to such a pass that Utah has come. In politics it is simply a case of a master and his slaves. "While the slaves may go up and make responses to the voting machine, the master really casts every vote. This year it is to be for Republican candidates. Next year it will possibly be for the Democratic candidates, .and the people, like dumb animals, are used to further the schemes of an Institution that is, in itself, a despotism, and whose mission is to overthrow free government from the earth and substitute an Asiatic despotism. Is it any wonder that from every side real Americans are crying out against tho monstiv. 3 wrong and demanding that it shall be done away With? |