The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-10
WE LONG FOR BELL.

Every once in while the church or
gun gets irrcslstibly comic. And 1t adds
10 the fun TO see that concern puz'
element over the hilarity which en-
sues, as though it should say,
'Where s the jokel'
An instance OF this humor with a
deadly earnest intent was shown last
night, when it undertook to claim that
the arrest of Bell in Kansas City was
worrying The Tribune. Why, bless the
void where the News heart ought TO
he, Tho Tribune rejoices in the arrest
of Bell 1t wants all the light posi-
BILE on the transaction which Bell is
supposed to know about. And The
Tribune is the only paper in town that
docs want the light turned fully on
If Bell can sound note of truth, let
that note be sounded. Give him ample
opportunity to tell all he knows and
all he thinks.
The truth is, the more the political
couspirators and their confederate
crooks do in this matter, the more they
expose their own hands. Perhaps we
shall get peep behind the scenes
some day which will reveal the true
business instead Of only the show that
the stage managers set for the pubic
eye. There was once n pccp-holc con
spiracy here, where the church (pay-
ing the expenses of its filthy plot from
tbc, city treasury set immora! traps
for the unwary. hoping TO disgrace
Federal oticialdom here with the eX-
pected revelations. But that conspira"
cy. like another conspirator here, re.
vealed nothing. There are symptoms
Of deeper depth in the present case
than the bunko game on the McWhirt-
ers. We hope TO get at the bottom of
it some day.
In the meantime, the official con-
spirators arc using the county treas
ury to get the money TO carry out their
plots, and as the pricstly conspirators
before used the city's public money to
put up a Job on the Federal officials,
that utterly failed in working out as
| expected, so Will it be in the present
case. The official gang are doing
their utmost to persuade the public
that their game will work all right
this time, without fail. Possibly so,
and yet, things that are now hidden
may be revealed, to their discontinue
and dismay. 1t is quite within the
possibilities that the whole plot, from
it's inception through all its ramIfca-
tions, may be fully laid bare TO public
view.
But Bell OF course, Bell. We hope
he may be brought here without de
! lay, and that he may tell all he knows
without reserve Even if he tells LOT
of things he doesn u know, it may be
Just as we'll. But our ears are aching
for the clatter of that Bell. He must
be heard, and the sooner the better
| And when he arrives (may there be
no delay!D we trust that the official
conspirators may hasten the Sheets
examination and trial, with all the
light that Bell can shed on the case
Let us get on with the proof, and see
precisely what that proof is AS fol-
The Tribune, we reItcrate that we arc
glad Bell is caught, We hope that he
will be brought here speedily; and that
the whole truth may be shown up
without fear or favor, and with no de
lay. If there is anything wrong, le,
that wrong be righted, and the guilty
punished But we advise the public
not to keep its eyes too stcadfastly il
one special direction in the hope oI
seeing the guilty one. There is more
than one point of the compass, and a
to persons possibly guilty. let the at
tention not be fixed too exclusively ol
one person, for "there are others