Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1889-11-22
THE USUAL DISH OF SENSl-
TONS.


1T APPEARS that Alvin Crockett
reputable citizen of Cache Coun
ty, has been arrested on a charge Of
having been connected with the al
legged murder which occurred at
Psyson in 1857. George w. Han
cock has been committed without
hail on a similar charge.
1t is perhaps unnecessary TO re-
mind our readers that the main
facts in the case are as follows:
4 young man named Jones COM
United the horrible and unnatural
crime Of incest with his mother. As
a result Of this foul deed, a child
was born. The community where
the ofense was perpetrsted were
disguised and greatly incensed
against the parties. This condition
Of moral sentiment eliminated /
in a mob surrounding the house /
where the brutal mother and son 4
lived and dispatching them. For
alleged participation in the doings
of the mob Mr.. Hancock and Mr..
Crockett have been arrested on a
charge Of murder.
As a matter Of course the act Of
the mob was Iawless, and therefore
wrong. In that respect it was on q
similar footing to like transactions
that are daily occurring in almost
every part Of the United States.
Thepublic journals furnish alum
dant proof in that regard.
Most Of the cases Of recent &C. :
cUrrence differ from the stale Pay
son affair in the fact that numbers
Of people are being lynched now-a-
days all over the Union who are
merely suspected of committing q
gross or heinoUs crimes. In the %
Jones case the guilt Of the parties >
was clear and indisputable. ~
There is still another distinction :
between the old Rayson affair and i"
many similar circumstances taking =
place at present throughout the n
country. Ia many Of those current u
cases, prisons are broken open and .
officers OF the law OverpOwered be- =
lore the obnoxious criminals can be II
dragged out and strung up or shot to m
pieces. These preliminary auxili- q
lries are all additional layless ana y
elements, tagged on to the - =
ynching proper. 1t does not APP n
ear that any Of these extra con- sy
iitions attached to the antiquated fr;
'ayson homicide. m
There Is. still another feature that ~ ~
las distinguishing aspect about it; re
modern lynching cases, even when
ggravated, are seldom traced up Sc
hat the participators may be legally y
calf with. in,
Then why is it that the Payson 50.
natter is being resurrected and gu
'Orked over? Is it because Of its nj
ncieut character? Well, not for an
lat reason exactly, notwithstand- 10
* that there is a class Of people in pa
his Territory who deal exclusively M M
| criminal antiquities. They must tb,
Ike up the dead embers Of the past, RO
ecause the live Goals Of the present me
rnish no opportunities. We are ~ ~
Nv in the last half Of November, me-
I'd Congress meets in December. pol
he anti-"MormOn'' bloody shirt Mo
ust be waved in the face of the ol
ational Legislature. Hence we :.
e in the very harvest Of sensa- a an n
ms manufactured from old and sup
tered materials, which are me
Itched, patched over with blue W.
I'd red rags, and Haunted 10y the sivC
inority political party in Utah. s sTc,
lis is the stock in trade Of the duii
siberals.'' law
We have no other idea than that n r1Gi
Is accounts Tor the resurrection OF pit
e Payson case, which is bu: as
part Of the "Liberal'' dish noi,
rotten eggs and decayed lyg.
b served for political purposes to 30
ngress and the country. Il is NOR
istituent OF the regular December we
meal upon which yTltf
country and its Legislature is oftu
at opportune intervals. 1t is a slay
nder that the nation does moi =
d its nose as protection against n "a
foul vapor which arises from the Xvi
Ie mass when it is rendered. dive
he Payson case is old enough 10 for q
ak for itself, and If it is brought pan ",
ward for political capital, we do his
see that it viii be q bonanza. II .sDe
doubtless be placed on the same Emu
iucal platter as the delectable i It
readings that have been con- and
ted in the Third District Court and
ing the last few days. kno'