The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-19
COMPLETELY INDICATED.

Can any sane person see in the ar
rest Of Hayken, with all the sensational
and theatrical display attending it,
in his illegal treatment or in the TIRES
indictments found, or in all of the pro-
ceedings leading up to this denouement
any justification for the excessive
charges made by the present selectmen
for per diem and mileage?
If the peregrinations and perform
ances of the county attorney. with the
appropriations made to him under Pc
culiar tactics for obvious reasons"
should result in cinching the boodlers
if there are any, or in saving the coun-
ty some money by the Reputation of
warrants long since issued. will all that
make the large appropriations by the
selectmen for their own emolument
either reasonable or commemorate?
If their claims have been extortion-
ate if they have worked hard to put
in as many days fees and as much
mileage as possible, if they have run
up expenses as high as they could, so
as to make their places as profitable as
the public would permit without raising
in irrepressible indignation, is that
made all serene and correct by the SEN
sation sprung on the community by the
arrest of man induced to come here
as a witness?
Why these questions? some readers
may inquire. The answer is, that is
the position taken by the Salt Lake
Tribune with its accustomed logic. It
says:
1.-THE attitude of these county of
ficials has been admirable throughout
all the trying ordeal. Hunted with fury
and venom they have relied upon the
strength of their case and the public
sense of justice for their vindication.
That vindication has come
Why certainly. What can be clearer?
They have had their claims for mile
age and per diem exposed, month by
month, until the taxpayers understand
they are using their offices primarily
for personal emolument, piling sup the
charges to a hight never before known,
and the publica ton of their official do
ings is described as being hunted with
fury and venom" But their organ
thinks their attitude has been admira-
bic throughout And because the
county attorney seems to have succeed
ed by spy-work in trapping an agent
for the furniture firm which had deal
ings with the former county officials,
that makes the present county officials
worthy TO be Congratulated" by the
Tribune and supplies them with thor
ough ''vindication."
Has any Of their mileage been for run
ming down furniture boodlers? Has the
diligent drawing of their per diem expe-
dited the inquiry or baited the trap for
Hayken? If not where is the vindfca-
ton and why has their attitude been
admirable" during the trying ordeal"
of multiplying mileage and figuring up
for themselves four dollar fees a day?
The disgraceful squabbles with the
county clerk. the Gripping Of the sher-
ifs department, the squabble over the
care of the insane the mingling of Of
fetal and party influence, all the scan
dals that have made the county aourt
a derision and a blunder-shop in the
eyes of the taxpayers, are not trans
formed into subjects for congratulation
because the county attorney, it is
thought, has caught a furniture agent
in a trap. That is Salt Lake Tribune
logic with vengeance!