The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-22
SOW LET rs HAVE JUSTICE.

now LET IS HAVE JUSTICE.
Tho second grand jury At Okmulgoo has In
dictcd Governor Robertson nnd his bank com-
missioner, Fred Dennis. This has been accom-
ulahcd after nu Of tho facts have been public
property for moro than year, after one grand
inry had performed iS duties aud was dIsqunli-
Tod by political trckory which startled tho
state.
For this service Of uuqucsuoucd public Inn
port ono man, Mr.. James Hepburn, tho okmul-
gee county prosecutor, deserves commentator
end tho thanks OF tho state.
by his unfaltorng attachment 10 duty, his
nnswcrying honesty, his Scotch determination
tn follow where duty led, Hepburn ovcrcome all
obstacles conducted himself throughout ns an
ideal public official, ana succeeded In bringing
a. tho bar OF Justice two mon who ought to
have long ago seized their frequent opportuul-
tlcs TO clear Themselves ana thus permit tho
enuro state to avoid tho opproblum which now
fells upon IT,
As 20 whether Robertson ana Dennis are
EuIliy or not jury Of their peers must say.
40 ono has any right 10 anticipate tho verdict
OF such tribunal. Both men, providing one
bf them can be discovered and apprchcudcd, arc
entitled to their day In court to faco their
eusers and bo heard in II court OF competent
Jurisdiction for their cause
II Is n fact that both have earned. justly. tho
suspicious OF all right-thnking men. Governor
Robertson was given tho very opportunity an
Innocent man would seize when the last egIs-
lature brought impeachment charges against
him on the particular charge standing in the
tndictment. II In n notorious fact that he
bnusted tho authority ana influence OF his Of
nce to avoid tho opportunity TO prove his in
lnocence. That 42-42 vote will ever stand IN
oklahoma history ms dark blot upon the ad-
nllnlsration OF the gentleman who must now
defend himself in court OF competent jurls-
.dictlon against the indictment OF a grand jury,
q But what the public wants--all that II wants
lis that tho Indictment returned against the
governor OF the state ana tho leader OF tho
democratic party be brought into court in duo
form and this man forced TO plead aud defend
himself under precisely the same rules that are
iuvokcd In the case OF the meek ana lowy John
Doe ana Richard Roc.
II he Is inocont, there is the place TO prove
81. II he has been wrongfully accused, there is
tho place TO prove that. II he is tho victim Of
Intrigue partisan cabal as he frequently
has charged nowhere else can he find the op-
portunity for disspatng the forces OF his enc
mics like a court OF competent jurisdiction.
No man In this state wants tho governor, or
-his bank commissioner prosecuted. All that any
man wants is that both OF them sczc their op-
iportunity to throw confusion into tho ranks Of
their enemies and thus, by proving their own
Innocence through tho prcsontmcnt OF evidence
unEpeachable save the proud reputation OF
this commonwealth from the blot which now
foully bcsmirches II,
Nobody wants any technical plcading. Il will
he trumpet-tongued condemnation for the gov
ornor to plead that his part Of the conspiracy
was consummated in oklahoma county and
thus assall the Okmulgee county Indictment on
technical grounds.
Let Is have a speedy ana above-hoard trla
of this case. not In Judge Chrlstophers cour
Shut in a court commanding the confidence o
the people, and before a jury which commando
ske respect. We want only tho guilty 10 b,
brought to the point whore the laws forfciturci
must be met. TOO long has Oklahoma suf
iferod, Let us at last have Justice