Show A PUBLIC OFFICE IS A PUBLIC TRUST 1 men are born great some acquire greatness while others s have greatness thrust upon them V of the latter class there is but little to admire they are usual y undeserving and unsatisfactory they become arrogant arto gant and selfish engendered by a sense of their own importance in this regard we allude particularly to elective offices any man who expresses an indifference as to his candidacy for a public office is by that act at once unfitted for the place far better in our judgement jud gement elect an office seeker than one of 0 these goof y goody men who do not care whether they are elected or not it is the right and should be the pride of an american citizen to honorably seek to fill official station and if honored by a call from froni liis his fellow citizens to serve in a public capacity he should serve them faithfully which he most likely would do if he ha had hadan d an ambition for the place A striking illustration of this principle Js is shown in the resignation of one of the district judges in this distri dietrict ditri et ct the manto man to refer belongs to that class claas who ho had greatness thrust upon them we have bee been n wormed informed he did not care for the zahe nomination and him se if elec elected tedi gho to elected for r ila the sake of fp 8 I 1 SS S S egrel ja After beme elected electea and servila afa a few W wee weeks a 1 l apor M ti u anity ayt V 5 F for tor a few moa more m bollara than old t cahng 3 e forthe f f ellof V people Y who elected r cumor mor js r regarding the i 6 v t wy W i A i il 7 ft it s SM at y grave jh mm i fly i C A f gi ened A having rf hd hiie great n w vh to i ther yi th 7 f 4 i 0 i li 4 thanks such a course coarse in our opinion is un american and un demo cratic the mistake was made in the first instance by nominating nom i bating a mom man ako had no pride or ambition to fill the office and serve the people caring more for the prestige that might be gained than for the discharge of a public duty true patriotism does not consist of pelf or pocket this experience should be a lesson to the democrats of salt lake and elsewhere the efforts and effects of the judicial campaign of last fall are thus lost in a de degree gree the will of the voters disregarded and a nan man appointed judge j who was repudiated ty by his own party convention the judge who resigned should not again expect to receive the sup up port of the party for any official position having treated the honor conferred upon him as an such ch a trifling affair to be handed over to another to suit his own convenience he would be unworthy of recognition at the hands bands of the democracy of utah let the party hereafter nominate men inen who ho will serve out their term and discharge the onerous part of their duty with fidelity |