The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-04
BY ALL MEANS, A GRAND JURY!

The City Council at its recent ses.
sion called upon the court to order the
Impaneliag of grand jury For long
time The Tribune has insisted that u
grand jury was needed in this region
Many things arc going on here and
have been going ON that need the at,
tention of such a powerful body as
the grand jury. When once impaneled,
a grand Jury is it's own guide and di'
rector IL may be impaneled for some
particular purpose, but when impaneled
1t can inquire into any wrongdoing that
may be brought to its attention. If the
county or district attorney is not doing
hls duty the grand jury may report a
true bill against him. 1t NAV even
indlct the Judge on the bench. And so,
since there is so much for grand Jury
TO do, The Tribune has been insistent
Tor a long time past that a grand jury
should be impaneled 1t urges with all
the power and earncstncss that it pos,
sesses the impeachment of such body.
1t knows that there is ample work for
grand jury to do, and we would be
glad indeed to see a grand jury i'm
pancled to do that work.
On the other hand. it appears that
the wrongdoers are trembling at the
mere mention of such thing as a grand
jury. Our old friend Booth, in his
whistle organ yesterday morning,
came out IN fiat opposition. We are
always glad to see Mr. Booth cut his
capers in public. He is "such an awful
ass, You know The ass Of Aesop we
mean; not the ass of Apuleius, for the
latter was fat and most merry little
beast, that obtained compensations The
ass of Aesop, however, was simply
donkey, and Aesop tells about some Of
his stupidities, a noteworthy one being
where the ass. Jealous of his master s
love for lap dog, undertook to climb
into the masters lap and invite the
and caresses which the lapdog
habitually received. That is so like
our friend Booth that it would be casy
to found claim of prophetic wisdom
upon the coincidence for Aesop. Not
only is Booth an ass in himself, but he
is the cause of asininity in others, as
where, according to his own report, he
induced some fellow donkey III Wash
ngton to denounce The Tribune as Can
irresponsible, scurrilous, lying sheet,
of belief If any donkey
n Washington ever made such a report
as that Of The Tribune his donkeyhood
would be apparent on the face of it:
but 1T is not well to charge anyone with
such an exhibition of asininity merely
Upon Booth IS word.
The wrongdoers, no doubt, are now in
1ismay, as they always have been, at
he very suggestion of the impeachment |
IF a grand jury. That is the last thing |
IN earth that they want, They know
hat The Tribune has been clamorlng
Tor grand jury for a good while past,
md that it is well prepared with ma
5erial to present to such body upon
is being impaneled.
But what has the particular gang of |
which Booth is the head been doing
hat it so breads the impaneling of a |
grand luryE There Is an old story cur |
-ent in Washington that while Van
5uren was President his son, "Prince
John," having made an impassoned |
speech in court for client Of his, went |
10 the lunch counter and there met |
4 man who was full of wrath at the
speech John had just delivered, Ad- |
iressing John, the dIsgruntled one de-
nanded to know it man could do any
thing so low, so mean, so scandalous, so
utterly vile that John Van Buren, would
not defend him in court? John looked
him over coolly and said "I don t
know. What you been doin ~ And
so we are inclined to repeat on this
occasion the query of young Van Buren,
What have Booth and his gang been
doing that they so much dread the i'm
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