The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-16

bon County Land company to cover the
loans, signed by Hiram f, Booth as
president and entered OF record IN lhc
recorder S office of Carbon county.
The original papers in this case were
filed March ), 1907. There have been
amended complaints and stlpulatlonS
filed from time to time. the last one
giving the Carbon County Land com
pany until July l, 1909, to file testl'
mony.
People Seek Information
Now, what the people want to know
is, why is there delay in this cases
Why is 1T continued from time to tlme'
Is Hiram L, Booth, United States at
torney, former president of the Carbon
County Land company, afraid to nave
the case come to trial? Is Fred A.
Maynard, who came here especially TO
aid this United States attorney, AFRAID
to have the case come TO trial.
If there was fraud in securing the
lands for the Carbon County Land COM
pany, why should the trial of the case
be delayed because the United States
district attorney for Utah was prcsl-
dent of the Carbon County Land com
pany? 1T has got to point where IL
is time to fish or cut bait. These spe-
cial attorneys from Washington arc
nearing the end of salary, for the Tart
administration appears 10 DC ulli'lSh'
from that of Roosevelt.
Other Features in Case,
There is one feature in connection with
this casc-which may be taken as a
sample-and is worth considering by
those in charge of the department of
Justice IT is the practice of the de
partment to appoint a special assistant
who gees forth from state-say Mich
igan-to conduct the prosecution IN
some remote jurisdiction. He is select.
cd not so much for well-known legal
ability AS to please some political IN
huence from his state (Which may want
to get rid OF him) and goes out to new
fields, prejudiced against all and regard
ing most all as guilty, even before
charges are preferred.
The bar of the locality to which he
NAV be sent is at once placed in autag-
onism. Even the local United States
district attorney regards him at least
with Indifference, and aids him with
left-handed efforts. This special at
torney may take his family, and per
haps can secure a place for Ca rising
SON. on the party journal which is
bound to back up all he does.
Chiefs Disseminate News.
The ''newsD Of his work is given
out only through this favored channel
conceding that he does work-and
well-planned campaign Of boosting
and Dragging is carried on TO create
"an effect' on the chief officers at
the capital lie does not affiliate with
any of the members of the local bar,
however strong and able they may be;
he is unknown to even the best of them
and carries himself as one above and
beyond to be out of danger of being
Htouched. He pays no local taxes,
perhaps lives in and to himself and
throws a cloak Of mystery about all his
movements, in the hope that thus Will
give color to some impression of
| ability.
In the conduct of the special cases
TO which he may have been assigned,
lacking in knowledge of men and the
customs of the people among whom he
must operate, he is forced to depend on
employees in other departments whose
influence is frustrated by his own lack
of even ordinary sense.
In long examinations of witnesses IN
any given case he founders through
masses of ''notcs on facts totally
| uncomprehended by him, and is a foot
| ball at the mercy Of well-trained coun-
sci for the defense. AS a result, mass
of testimony is accumulated foreign TO
the real issues and serving only to fill
| up much needed space In the vaults oil
| the court.
Patience Administration Exhausted.
After exhausting the patience of one
| administration, this special attorney
| comes TO report to a succeeding one
whose good favor has been secured by
one or two local campaign speeches and
tons of star chamber advice given to the
powers who run things for the party,
and do the country at the same time,
! and when the real condition is exam