The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-03

make victims of such unsophisticated
teuderfeet,' as certain newspapers
claim they were. as was Salt Lake.
Some of the cities they visited arc in
, Tested by bunco men and gambling
sharks, an element Salt Lake is com
parativclv free from.
These moneyed Foreigners probably
had the same propensities for booze and
scarlet women thoy are said to have
had III Salt Lake. it is known that
they were high flyers here. And it is
little bit embarrassing to the enemies
of the Chief of Police TO explain how
all these things were paid for out Of
those ten $1,000 bills and yet make it
possible TO be buncoed out OF $4,000
in q poker game in Salt Lake City!
The fact Of the matter is, the McWhir.
ters and those who have been speaking
for them have been doing 2 lot Of tall
lying about this affair and The Tribune
believes when the matter is sifted thor
oughly that it Will show there was not
even remote cause for charging that
Chief Sheets, or any member OF the
police department, acted ignobly in this
matter.
The entire thing seems limsy from
beginning TO end. On one occasion,
when one Of the MGWhirteTs was talk
ing about his ill-luck to an o6icer OF the
department, ne stated that four days
before he saw couple of men at the
sauitarium whom he recognized as those
who had victjmized him. When the
officer asked why he made no effort 10
capture the men or advise the police
department he stated that. 'the time is
not ripe yet. Chief of Police Sheets
insisted on putting detective on the
case who would be instructed to follow
him, and in this manner secure sight
of the bunco men, but McWhirter would
not have il so.
Let Public Lock Calmly.
Let the public look calmly at this
case. There is not blaclleg who ever
worked his nefanous trade IN salt Lake
who is not a bitter foe to the present
head Of the police department. a rev
only remain in Salt Lake, They would
have been driven out of town along
with Inc hund of others who ope-
rated here under the Norris admins
tratiou did they Lot conclude to pur-
sue honest trades or remain lpactlYe.
There is no open gambling in Salt Lake
and has not been for more than eight
months. There may be here and thore
some poker games conducted far from
public knowledge, bat the harm coming
from these is infnitesimal compared
with the outrageous robbery by tin
eye of Mayor Morris and former Chief
of Police William J, Lynch.
The public has not forgotten how
the saudban"crs aud footpads terrorlzed
Salt Lake before George Sheets be,
came chief of police. Neither has the
public forgotten that the taking of
life under the Morris administration
was monthly affair, George Sheets
and his co-laborers have driven the
gamblers from Salt Lake, and sand.
baggers TO their covers, and scores OF
law breakers to prison and to the penl-
tentiary. They hate him. Those that
remain would do anything TO force
him out Of the department. Many Of
the stories that are circulated IN dis
paragemept 10 Chief Sheets are traced
directly to those whom he has offended.
One Of his active opponents IS gam
bier whose business Chief Sheets broke
up Another is a man whom the chief
dismissed as jailer because of incom-
petence or worse.
Other Elements Against Chief.
But there is another element against
the chief, and it is only fair that the
public reflect on its motives.
The Salt Lake Herald for political
reasons and for personal reasons IS the
chief's opponent The malicious work
now being done in an attempt to
smirch his name is said to be from the
pen OF Benjamin Roberts, whose father
is a notorious and self.confessed law"
breaker.
The dirty work for the Deseret News
IS that Of son Of the apostle editor,
who is an unyieldipg enemy of Chief
Sheets and has been for wears.
The Smoot organ s animus IS the
daily grind of young tool Of the hle-
garchy named Bourne. That these Ie-
porters are acting under instructions is
not questioned, hut the public has
right 20 take into consideration whether
or uot their minds have been biased by
the knowledge that political advantage
would come to, them, and to their par,
ties from anything showing that might
prove embarrassing 10 the present adj
Some Of ths most malicious work that
has been done in this case that has
come to the attention OF The Tribune
is that OF the Chief Deputy United
States Marshal, Lucian II. Smyth. A
few weeks ago Smyth called at the edi-
torial rooms Of The Tribune and begged
the suppression of the fact that he
occupied box. at one Of the theaters
with bevy OF the city's cypyians. He
was very much exercised, admitted its
truth, but said rs wanted TO be decent
The story was not published, although
mis- political work has been vicious and
In q number Of instances.
One of his first acts of dccency
(using the term as he apparently IN
derstands it, but which has different
10 al others who arc rot
in his class, be appeared at meet
ing of Smoot Republicans IN his pre-
cinct Monday night and circulated the
libel that George Sheets had gone to
loan agent IN this city with the re-
quest that this agent place $4,000 for
him as an investment. He made other
charges and gave as his authority in
some cases Soloman Kimball. whom
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