Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-04-19
VILE ISLANDERS REFUIED.

low level FOR frequent attention.
Occasionally we deem It necessary
to reply, bus always feel after doing
80 that we have performed . dis
agreeable duty anu banded words
with a blackguand.
The article 10 which we now refer
is in relation TO the confirmation, by
the United States Senate, OF i. II.
Parsons As Marshal for Utah. The
clique which has been frying TO
secure this position for 4 person
more likely 20 bsc0me its tool, is
fairly wild vita rage over She defeat
OF its vile ami contemplate work.
Affidavits which were either utter
ly false or wide exagEeratious were
secretly obtained and sent 70 WASH
ington, to blacken the character Of
Mr.. Parsons and aid in the scheme
70 Dust Him. But investigation, or
dered from the capital, disclosed the
nature OF tine attack made upon him.
and showed that il was prompted
by personal animasiLy Is well as 4
desire to accomplish the purpose we
have ininiicateL.
The consequence Is that one OF The
chief plotters h1s lost his own official
head, and the object OF his assault
has gainej a signal victory. Hence
the vile trade which is INDUCED in
this morning by the organ and
abettor Of the defeated clique.
1t is charged that there is san ar
rangement between Mr.. Parsons
and certain men high ia authority
in the Mormon Church, by
which the men Of p-omiueuce, Al
least, in that Church are to be ex-
empted from arrest 4 little calm
reflection viii show to any intclli-
gent person that this is rs childish
as it IS malicious. If there are men
'high in authority'' or without any
authority, in or out Of the .sAior-
mon" Church VINO are guilty Of
violating the law, il IS not the
business of the Marshal 10 arrest
them until n charge has been pre-
ferred and a warrant Issued aud
placed in his hands. The Marshal
is not the public prosecutor, nor the
grand jury, nor q court.
The Tribune admits that this pre-
sumption Of official maIfvasance
-''eannot be established by absolute
proof, " but ia stiles its meanucss by
stating that ''the guilty ones in the /
Mormon Church are not being
punIsheI.'' II it is true that
any guilty oues' are "not
being punished" cannot the
fa5ricator OF these charges see
that the blame lies at some other
door than the Aiarshal's? And is not /
this iusiRuation a covert Tribune |
thrust a some other official or Of |
ficials? II not, its folly is only ex-
ceeded by its petty malice.
The Tribune says, Marshal Par
sons confirmation was opposed by 4
afildavits charging him with gross 4
immortality" hut she proceeded to 1
get counter afIiLavits 10 show that /
the first were not trIe.'' That. OF 4
course, is simply awful The proper
thing for the Marshal TO DO. un-
doubtediy, was 10 let the lying
affidavits perform their intended |
work aud permit the clique that |
was sneaking after his official foot
gear to put its tool in his place. To ]
circumvent his INSCRIPTIONS foes [
is, in their eyes, an unparioaable /
sin.
And now we come to some
thing more specific. The Trysais
says:
zone woman who had made an
affidavit. later made a s. ,1uE ari Iayit
asserting that she did not read the
contents % the first one. The secret |
Of her counter affidavit was that she
had married a son Of Charles w. PEN
rose Of the DEsEEEr NEWS, aud when
reproached for making the counter
affidavit, she as good rs admitted that
il was in the interest Of her own
people thas she did IT, IfIhat pointed
70 anything direct, II pointed 10 The
fact that an arrangement lad been I
made between Marshal Parsons and
c. W. Penrose, and on account Of the
Church and through the influence Of
Penrosa the counter AFFIDAVIT. was
forced from this poor woman"
Ifthes was any sense OF shame in
the author and suggester Of the fore
going falseho7is, when he thinks Of
his own unGerhand but now useless
work, he should wear a perpetual
blooi-red blush. 1t is fact that one
Of the false or exaggerated afiLavits
was signed by a lady married
to a son Of c. ". Penrose:
that she was persuaded into ]
signing it by a personal enemy Of q
the AlarShal's; that she did not read
it; that it turned out to be an
statement OF an occur
renee over i've years ago; which did
not involve ''gross immortality, Z
and which would never have been {
mentioned bat for strong pressure q
and Importantly; that when the
purPort and object Of the paper were :
she made another ani-
davit as 10 the circumstances under
which she was induced to sign the
former statement; that she did so
without being ''forced, = or sfnfiu- e
snced, " or being "under Stress, q
and without any intent $50 carry A P
,alse impzeasion'' or do ANYTHING a
else than set a crooked matter f
straight. a
The villainOus insinuatiJn that '
AN arrangement had been made :
between Marshal Parsons and CIV.
'en.ose" in any way relating to :,
his matter is utterly false ami ali Of
piece with the rest Of this shame- 81
al garment Of SANDER. It is Alto Oh
sether worthy Of the Salt Lake p
TabHRe aud Characteristic Of is
'entlemanly method Of conducting
journalistic courtesies. in
The undersigned, 50 far as he il
emembers, never had bat two NJ
with Marshal Parsons h