The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-15
CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT NO. 4.

For weeks past the committees OF the
grand jury have been prying into certain
public offices, and during all that time
there have been in circulation dark hints OF
an impending bombshell. 1t has been sur
missed that there were to be numerous in
dictments of public officials, and that con-
sternation would be struck into the hearts
of many persons prominent IN the com
munity. In fact, there has long been an
undercurrent of SCARE and sensation,
and everybody has grown eager to learn
lust what the inquisitors had discovered
that should give rise to all these hints and
threats.
Well, the bomb has been exploded; the
sensation has developed, and the mystery
been unraveled. 1t all appears in this issue
of THE HERALD, coming in the form OF
report made by the grand jury to the Judge
of the Third district court. And what
slashing and crushing document it is! 1t
strikes right and left, up and down, and
sideways, banging away at everybody and
everything in sight and at good many
persons who long since joined the great
majority on the other shore. United
States marshals, ex- and present,
deputies and hogs, turkeys, potatoes
and teams come in for 1olts ana
assaults; county courts, past and present,
are hauled over the Goals; city council OF
ancient and modern times are brought up
standing; federal, county and city otf1clals
are literally chopped into mincemeat and
the bits scattered broadcast; even private
citizens are dragged in and "churned up"
in most ferocious style. 1t is presumed
that the inquisitors imagine they have not
left grease spot.
And after all this blow and buster, what
does the report amount to! Simply
partisan statement, carefully ar
ranged by the pronounced political
and religious enemies Of the
party in power, and promulgated for poll
teal effect at home and abroad. 1t has
been cleverly timed, so as to follow the
other ser sations created by the organiza-
ton to which the inquisitors owe allegiance,
and seems to be part of the programme
arranged by the Liberal managers. 1t may
appropriately be called Liberal campaign
document No. 40 the other three having
been issued in their regular order.
THE HERALD does not apologize for Off
cial wrong doing, nor does it defend NAL
feasance in office. If the federal, county
or CITY officials who are charged in this re-
port with violating their trusts are guilty,
this paper will deeply regret the fact OF
the fall from the high position of honesty.
integrity and uprightness in which they
have so long been held by the community;
but it will say, punish them as they de-
serve. The grand jury report, however,
must not be accepted as proof OF guilt
Rather should that report be read and con-
sidered in the light of the gentlemen who
make it and the times-the former being
rank partisans opposed to the officials as
sailed, and the community being engaged
in a spirited political campaign. Our con-
fidence in the officials attacked Is such that
we believe that all their transactions de-
nounced as crooked or criminal can be ex-
planned 10 the entire satisfaction of the fair
and intelligent public, and we believe that
such explanation will be certainly and
promptly forthcoming The matter as
suredly will not be permitted to rest with
this report, the officials owing it to them
selves as well as to the community whose
servants they are, to make such showing
as will relieve them from even the slight
suspicion which the inquisitors' statement
will put upan them in the minds of those
who are not familiar with the motives &C
tuating men in these days.