The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-08
THE HERALD WAS RIGHT.

The organ of the mileage grabbers
and fee f1ends will have additional
cause for wailing today. But gnashing
of teeth, which has been its indulgence
for some days past, will be of no avail
on this occasion. In another column of
The Herald today will be found a
series of questions propounded by the
Grand Jury in reference to the county
clerk and county selectmen, with the
answers of the court which have sent
CONSERVATION into the camp Of the
mileage extortionists and their journal
istic apologist and defender.
The exposures made in The Herald
have had their effect, SO far as to lead
to a proper investigation, and the &C
ton taken in the District court should
lead to disagreement of Illegally OBJ
tanned mileage, and a back-down on
the part of the organ of the selectmen
and county attorney.
That organ informs a wondering
public that the failure of the firm from
| which the furniture fer the county and
city building, school board, and other
officers was obtained, gives the county
''the upper hand" much stronger
than" ever and that nothing could
be more opportune than that failure
for the county's case. How that will
work is not explained. but it is ex-
pected that the public will take it all
in without question.
There is one thing against that
credulity. The organ of the mileage
grabbers has endeavored to put a
false face on the whole proceedings,
for the purpose of diverting attention
from the exorbitant charges of the
selectmen and county attorney which
have been exposed by The Herald.
The facts we brought to light
not only made the greedy grabbers
savage, but provoked their organ irto
malicious lying against The Herald,
which it keeps UP even now. When
ever the unpleasant facts unearthed
by The Herald concerning the county
authorities appear in print, the organ
goes into a plrenzy and resorts to its
usual vilification and malicious false
hood.
If the failure of the furniture firm
in Chicago will facilitate the recovery
of any money improperly appropriated
for furnishing the city and county
building and other public offices, The
Herald will be as greatly pleased as
any paper or person in this county. 1t
has done it's part, from the very first,
in exposing the furniture scandal and
giving to the public all the facts in the
case, dfscounting its malignant con-
temporary. which has championed the
cause Of the mileage eNtortionists and
their legal apologist and abetter
But The Herald sees no reason why
the prosecution of alleged boodlers
who are out of office, should cover UP
or condone the excessive charges and
Illegal actions Of the present incum-
bents. 1t is the latter which has so
enraged their organ, and we presume
it will now spit its spite on the court
and grand jury, and call the report of
the proceedings against them a spicy
editorial" a sort of writing of which
that organ may tryuthfully plead mot
guilty"
The course of The Herald has been
partly vindicated by those court pro-
ceedings, and will be more fully vindi-
Gated when the mileage graIbbers and
fee fends are compelled to recover
into the county treasury their i'll
gotten gains. And that vindfcation
is 'fbody blow to the organ that
has championed their unrighteous cause
and abused The Herald for telling the
truth.
Right will come uppermost and JUS
tice will be done, and it is not i'm
probable that when every deed of the
exortionists is brought to light. there
will be some criminal indictments that
will cause further weeping and wall
ing among them, and more gnashing of
teeth by their abusive and unprin-
cipled organ.