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Show JUDGE GOODWIN. The deference and feneration shown that veteran editor, C. C. Goodwin, at the banquet in Salt Lake tho other evening, was beautiful beyond measure. IIo was frequently referred to and in such a joyously deferential way that his soul must havo been touched. And the Judge, in return, gave them his best, which is beyond tho words of tho writer, no said just the right thing in the right way, not in rhetorical nourishes and all-compelling all-compelling eloquence, but In that mild and charming way that Is distinctive dis-tinctive unto himself and beyond compare. com-pare. Though falling physically (and this was noted with deepest sadness by tho assemblage) Judge Goodwin's mind Is still as bright and scintillating scintillat-ing as tho morning star. There are thoso who profess to find In his present editorship of The Telegram Tele-gram (a supposedly Kearns organ) a barter of honor, but none who gazed on that hoary head and listened to the words of wisdom that fell from his lips that nght will believe that tho venerable Judge has sacrlilced ono lota of nls Independence or marred by a sale thus lato in life an escutcheon kept spotless past thrco scoro years and ten. Even those who hold to that which Judge Goodwin has op-rosed op-rosed for a quarter century with all the strength of a great mind and a Versatile pen do not bcliovc it. Those who have felt the weight of his argument argu-ment havo ever believed hlra an honorable hon-orable tighter, and the writer is ono who believes fio will dio an honorable tighter. |