Show THE USUAL DISH OF sensations IT APPEARS that alvin crockett Crocket fc a reputable citizen of cache county has been arrested on a charge of having been connected with the alleged murder which occurred at payson Pay sonin in 1857 1867 george W hancock has been committed without bail on a similar charge it is perhaps unnecessary to remind our readers that the main facts in the me case are as follows A young y man named jones committed the horrible and unnatural crime of incest with his mother As a result of this foul deed a child was born the community where the offense was perpetrated were disgusted and greatly incensed against the parties this condition of moral sentiment culminated in a mob surrounding the house where rethe the brutal mother and son lived and dispatching them for alleged participation in the doings of the mob mr hancock and mr crockett have been arrested on a charge of murder As a matter of course the act of the mob was lawless and therefore wrong in that respect it was ona similar footing to like transactions that are dally daily occurring in almost 3 Eni rt 9 arffa every part of the united states the public journals journal furnish abundant proof in that regard I 1 most of the cases of recent oc currence differ from the stale payson affair in the fact that numbers of people are being lynched nowa now a days all over the union who are merely suspected of committing gross or heinous crimes crimea in the jones case the guilt of the parties was clear and indisputable there is still another distinction between theold the old payson affair and many similar circumstances taking place at present throughout the country in many of those current cases prisons are broken open and officers of the law overpowered before the obnoxious criminals can be dragged out and strung up or shot to pieces these preliminary vre auxiliaries are all additional lawless and criminal elements tagged on to the lynching lunching lyn ching proper it does kotap not appear that any of these extra conditions attached to the antiquated payson homicide there is still another feature that has a distinguishing aspect about it modern inching lunching lyn ching cases even when aggravated are seldom traced up that the participators participatory may be legally dealt with then why is it that the payson matter is being resurrected and worked over Is it because of its ancient character well not for that reason exactly notwithstanding that there is a class of people in this territory who deal exclusively in criminal antiquities they must rake up the dead embers of the past because the live coals of the present furnish no opportunities we are now in the last half of november and Con congress gres meets in december the anti mormon 1 bloody shirt must be waved in the face of the national legislature hence we are in the very harvest of sensations manefa manufactured aured from old and tattered materials which are am clutched patched over with blu blue e and red rags and flaunted by the minority political party in utah this is the stock in trade of the liberals we have no other idea than that this accounts for the resurrection of the payson case which is but 0 a part of the liberal dish of rotten eggs and decayed fish served for political purposes to congress and the country it is a constituent of the regular december antl 1 mormon meal upon which the country and its legislature Is ig fed at opportune intervals it to is a wonder that the nation does not nat 1 kold hold its nose as a protection against the foul vapor which arises from the stale m mass when it is tendered the payson case is old enough to speak for itself and if it is brought forward for political capital we do not see that it will be a bonanza it will doubtless be placed on the same political platter as the delectable proe proceedings that have been conducted 4 in the third district court during the last few days |