| Show VOICES FROM THE TILE PEOPLE I 1 some further about t the call for primaries IAin arles EDITOR HE HAin in view of the severity of your strictures upon what I 1 had bad to eay say in your columns yesterday I 1 trust that you wil lafford me space for a word vord or two in reply 1 after stating that you believe in al lowing a decent and proper latitude to reasonable discussions pf all public question sand therefore publish mine which implies that what I 1 had to say was within the latitude of decent and iv d reasonable discussion you cast a per personal slur which I 1 would not nolice were it not for another feature of ot tho remark you say tho the communication ni to which we refer is signed i T 11 and those acquainted with local circumstances will have no hesitancy in determining that the writer tg is lawyer N tanner certainly not mr air editor 1 it was not designed that they should had I 1 designed to conceal my identity r would have used some other letter or name but in view of the fact that you were not aware of iny design was not the the disclosure of my identity a breach of confidence on your part you accuse me also of neglect in to ascertain that tho tile call for primaries waa was published as ati quick 1 tek as the county central committee could do so and act in harmony with tho the territorial committee but in this you are quite mistaken I 1 neglected to to ascertain no fact respecting this mater it waa wal not necessary for them to await he file call of the territorial committee the law provides for an election to be held on the first monday in august and it wan was the duty of tho committee to call a convention aa as they did they were the judges as to the time necessary for the leopin to call their primaries marles and they could have given their notice a week or ur a month sooner if they had wished a ake did not wait for the call oj of the t lie territorial committee and I 1 advill that other cotin counties ties followed A ex ample if our committee were not apprised of their lights i in tho premises 1 r c 1 and really supposed they should 1 i await the action of or the territorial com attee then their failure to 1 gye e earlier notice is explain eq you 8 eay y alo I 1 cannot see the tho utility of the for formal m al call 1 I 1 fok toi the primaries marles because tife mails malls cannot copies of it to all parts of the county in time for availability anil anti add that if I 1 had taken pains to inquire I 1 would have learned that the ca call I 1 I 1 wae promptly forwarded to every precinct in reply to this I 1 confess mr editor ohp even with the luat of your jum luminous inous a am still in the dak da k sai at lo 10 the utility of a notice which d coee des nut flut reach tho the party to be ve notified until after the day upon which he ia re quiren by the notice to perform an act if the committee commit teo sent noticed notices by other means than through the presa press they did well hut blit the press notice having been riven given what was there to prompt the inquiry whether tho the commit teo had given notice in some other way I 1 am not disposed to follow you through your holo editorial but will pass by tho remainder of your comments together with your arguments against rotation in ollice it aud d in favor of ot buo ouo ionian man holding a number of offices 1 I believe they furnish a answer to themselves the presumption was that the committee knew they need not awatt awalt the call of tho the territorial corn com cittee and that htiu th notice ll 11 rough the press would be of no avail out side of ogden bof if as you anti inti in ti mate they acted under the impression slon that they should await the call of the territorial committee they of all and no person ia is more willing to accept the explanation than myself july N TANNER JR st jacobs oil Is the antidote to by what it is caused |
