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Show o the candidates for judges Is a better id remedy for In Jim! Ice on the bench I), than the recall, although we ran see c no danger In the recall. Hut now about federal judges appointed for life by tie president, and about 'hom '.lie i- greatest complulnt Is made? The peo-a. peo-a. pie can elect them and therefore they s- cinnot recall them. The remeJy for I- this Is to have the president name tin ii candidates long enough before their o appointment for their record to be-n be-n come known and for the people to I- make objection to the candidates, e The people should know who re com mends them, and hardly any president , would appoint a man whom the people strongly objected to. I'sually, how-r how-r ever, few people except the politick r fr'enls of the cjndidute know he Is to s he appointed. The people generally f knev nothing about It until the man I appointed and It Is too late to object. ' into the solid South. If e are I Judge other stales by Utah, we woul i ray Roosevelt Is growing In strengtl ft.r no one can deny that this is th 1 tase here. Hlythe says the supporters of Itoosi velt are divided Into three tiassei First, those who are his followers b du.e they have a personal alinin lion for him .Hid would folio hit wherever he led. Second, those wh M'ach themselves to the new party I aopen of securing some personal bei ellt Iroio It and neither know r car specially what Is principles art Third, and by far the largest cln those who know and understand pre gresslve principles and sould vole fo i progressive candidate, no matte who he was. lie finds these voter In the stores an 1 factories, on tin railways and among the worklni classes generally. In a recent speech Woolrow Wllsoi had :he following to say about the re call: "It Is the last word that mikes mo men shrink. Let no man deceive him relf by the falla -y that anybody pro pnss to substitute direct leglslatlor by the people or a dlrec. reference o laws votej la the legislature by tin vole of the people for representative : government. The Initiative is i melius of recapturing the seat of leg Islatlve authority on beh ilf of the peo pie themselves; the referendum Is means of seeing to It that uniepreseii tative measures are not put upon tin statute book, but are checked by be lug subml ted to the vote of the peo pie. When you come to the recall tht pi i .icl jiU- Is that ir nu administrative 0 ilcer for e will begin with an ad uilnlstratlve oflicer - Is so corrupt ot so uuwlre as to be doing things thil me likelv to en I to all sor of mis chief In the future. It will be possible by n process prescribed by the law li gel rid of that oflicer before the end of his term. I don't see how any man who Is grounded in the traditions o( American affairs, particularly us hey derive their origin from New KngUnd, can find and v ill I objection to the He-call He-call of administrative ol fleers. It Is another matter when It comes to the Judiciary. I myself have never been In lavor of the recall of Judges not t.ia some ju-lgea haven't deserved to be tecalled that Isn't the point. Hut because that Is treating the symptoms irsie.id of the diseise. The disease Me deeper and somet lines It Is very, very vlruleti. and very dangerous. There have been courts In the CnHed States that were controlled by private interests. There have been Supreme court In our State at vhlch men without with-out privilege could no gel Justice. There have been corrupt judges. There have been controlled Judges. There have been Judgts who actel as other men's servants and not a the servhts of the public. And there can be no moral objection to removing such men Iroiu public service. You f.-ei. a' I feel, that the Judiciary process pro-cess Is the ul.lmate safeguard of the things we want to bold stable la this count! y. Hut suppose that the safeguard safe-guard Is corrupted. Would you remedy It bv recalling the Judges? You wouldn't be cutting deep enough. Where you wan to go Is to the process by which Judge are pick-id pick-id out- Anl when you get there you le.td to the moral of this whole dls-rtissioii. dls-rtissioii. because the nioril of It all Is Ihat the people of the I'nlted State have suspected tin II their suspicion hnre been Justified by all sorts of suu-itanMnl suu-itanMnl and unanswerable evidence, Ihat. in place alter place, at turning im'nt after turning point. In the his-lory his-lory tf this coun rv. we hive been ontroltel by private understanding ind not by the public Interest, and that Influence which were Improper, f not coirupt, have determined every-hlng every-hlng from the making of laws to he 1 imlnlstrstlon of Justice." We believe, with Wllon. that died di-ed primaries by which the people ather than a convention too oiten ontrolled by special In erests. select EDITORIAL NOTES. Somebody ho must have been read lug the Herald Republican or the Publisher's Pub-lisher's Tress bulletins had an article in last week's Chronicle stating that Roosevelt's strength was waning and thi-r. tho people were coming bark to Ta.L If one want 4 to get an Impartial Impar-tial opinion of Die progress of the ran piign, he should read the article ty Ltmuel Hlythe, In the Saturday hvening Post. The Post is a lion-I'. lion-I'. ilsau paper and ll sen' Hlythe irom t o Pacific to the Atlantic coast to ae up the political situation and tell jiut how thing were going. He says to can nee no signs ilia. Roosevelt's I 'tengih la waning or that any considerable con-siderable number are going link to Tsft. He thinks there are very fe sUtes sure Tor Tail, mining I'tah as one and possibly Vermont an I Riiode Isljlid. He thinks Roosevelt will get tremendous vote, but the chancer are all In favor of Wilson, lie only need to hold the vote I try an got and he la surely elected. There Is thorough thor-ough union among the Demo rats and -evea Roosevelt I not likely to break |