Show TIlE GRAND JURY REPORT It is hardly necessary to deal specifically with so remarkable a document as the grand jurys report as presented in the Third District court on Saturday The document is full of points sententiousness and figures if it be an honest one it contains con-tains many things which the public should closely scrutinize and carefully attend to otherwise it is merely the work of a set of political hucksters bentJ upon accomplishing accom-plishing partisan purposes at the expense of the public One thing that has not been explained away is the onesidedness which conspicuously conspic-uously appears at nearly every point in the report The grand jury is supposed togive an Impartial presentation and in this case has given but one side of every matter brought before it and made its own conclusions conclu-sions these having reference only to such findings as it has seen fit to produce Cases in which the inquisitors have unearthed defalcations come before us as merely ex porte statements not giving us the benefit ben-efit of anything by way of explanation and they as well as every one else must surely know that in fiduciary affairs theie must beat least a showing of justification debits against credits and vice rerun and some means of accounting for expenditures everywhere When men who hold such positions set out to steal deliberately and absolutely unless they make or assume to make a showing for their thefts so that the minions of the law will not swoop down upon them all at once they are insane and insanity is a defense against a criminal charge Now why did not the worthy and altogether zealous grand jury give us one or the othereither the explanation or the defense There was a motive for it and that motive must be shown TIle HERALD has never been an admirer of the grand jury system more particularly particular-ly when under local regulations tho panel can be made entirely and exclusively partisan par-tisan as is the case in Utah The fact that the system is about the only relic of the inquisition that has been permitted to enter into our method of government procedure is a strong argument in support of the proposition all shades of opinion in the community to which it pertains should be represented in it and the additional ad-ditional fact that the accused has no representation before it docs but intensify the proposition The grand jury is an altogether unAmerIcan uu republican re-publican unrepresentative institution and when it is made up of men notoriously if i not infamously against the class of people whom those who are in control seek to have indicted it is a species of infernal machine against which the civilization of the day revolts and every sense of justice is arrayed It is worse in Utah than anywhere any-where else and is bad enough everywhere every-where The secret investigation system is something some-thing that grates harshly on the ears of nineteenth century propriety There is really no necessity for it And there is less necessity for it being made a machine for the furtherance of political purposes as it apparently nhas been in Utah What right have fifteen men impaneled and sworn as an inesgating body and drawing pay from the public treasury to act in tho interest of a particular division of the public pub-lic That what the grand jurys report charges others in the community with haying hay-ing done and If they have not done the same thing themselves it looks awfully like it Are they supposed to Investigate transactions for instance that even if criminal as they allege are barred by the statute of limitations and therefore dead so far as they arc concerned Are they not presumed to confine their attention to living matters to things having a presence or a tangible form and not roam off into fields that are far away and from which they can obtain nothing And since this is the case what do they do it for Since no legal results can come from it and all the points developed devel-oped have but the tendency of aiding a political po-litical party why shall we not say they arc acting as partisans while ostensibly working work-ing for the whole people and as the whole people pay them for their services why have not the whole people a right to complain com-plain against them Why should they not brought to the bar of justice for receiving receiv-ing money under false pretenses S For the grand jury or any member of it to pretend or attempt to say that that wonderful won-derful report is not a Liberal campaign document would be for it or him to say against his own knowledge and against patent and potent facts and it is a concomitant concom-itant fact that while those men were working work-ing up this campaign material they were in the pay of the public and expected to ignore parties or classes Viewed even in that light it is a most signally sig-nally weak lame impotent and inconclusive incon-clusive document because of not having presented the whole case in any instance as previously suggested Here are some examples Grtat stress is laid upon the circumstance circum-stance of three or four policemen having gone to Bingham to look after an election and in their receipts for payment they said the services were rendered ic the Interest IJ of the Peoples party It is not shown nor attempted to be shown that the officers did not actin behalf of both parties if there were two in fact it is not shown that there was any other party to represent Tho fact that officials of the Peoples party employed em-ployed them to perform a public duty which they performed and properly got paid for is not commented upon it is only the receipt for the money that raises a quibble Now supposing the objection to that be correct and the facts concerning which it was given be also correct which course would an impartial person naturally suppose a grand jury would take in the premisesconsider the services pursuant to which money was paid and a receipt given or merely take up the form of the receipt make a great todo over it and ignore the facts behind it Suppose they claim to themselves that there was no need of such service at Bingham at such time why not let the absence ol such necessity appear in the report Why not show up the whole transaction in fact if there was anything in it calling for the intervention of the grand jury Was it not because to tell it all would be to deprive the party in whose Interest the grand Jury seems to have been working of a large portion of its capital would seem so If a man receives re-ceives money as payment for finding anothers horse and playfully or ignorantly receipts for the money so as to make it appear ap-pear that he has stolen the animal for his patron of course a dignified intellectual and upright grand Jury would indict the man on the receipt alone for grand larceny although tho facts otherwise showed that the man never stole the horse nor anything else and was nota stealing man I If he were I a member of the Peoples party and the late grand jury had to handle his case we feel justified in saying that that is about what would be done Againconclusions are grasped at from cases in relation to county and city officials As to the former not the slightest mention is made of suits brought to enforce collection collec-tion nor of compromises made when it was evident nothing better could be done in the way of obtniningwhat was due So far as the report was concerned we were left in com plete ignorance I of all that And why Can any other reason be assigned than what is herein set fortha desire to aid the Liberal party in the impending campaign by raking up all the old stories against officials who have been identified with it in the past and giving them a new coat of varnish and thus the semblance of originality by incorporat them into the official report of the grand jury of the Third district court As to what is said against city officials they will be given an opportunity of making a better defense than can be done for them in these columns and that their showing will be complete and conclusive there can be no doubt The mention of federal officials is for the purpose of apparent impartiality and is a very diaphanous disguise Following so closely upon the naturalization naturaliza-tion proceedings before Judge AKDEBSOK we can only now say that the Liberal party must be sadly beset by doubts and misfortunes All their boasted ability of being able to carry the city on a full and free poll by a goodsized majority is shown to have no foundation other than their own blowing and the lying deception of their organ Without such assistance as they are now dragging in they have no chance to win and they realize it They dont want a fair contest in fact any contest at all if it can be avoided they are working to have the election made a mere matter of form the courts through an improperly im-properly influenced and therefore unduly biased public sentiment settling it for them in advance One thing remains to be saidsince the grand jury were going so far back and into in-to all forms and manner of malfeasance in office why could they not have given us a report on Tooele county under Liberal rule That county is in this district and yet they are as dumb as oysters regarding it Of course they were thoroughly impartial im-partial seeking out iniquity wherever it may have existed at whatever time and in whatever place Of course Certainly I |