Show THE HAYICEN CASE The termination of the Hayken case for the present at least by the disagreement disa-greement of the jury was rather an unlocked for and surely unsatisfactory termination It is our hope as we believe it is the hope of the community com-munity that the prosecution will renew re-new Its efforts until it shall either convict con-vict the men charged with bribery or learn that it Is absolutely impossible to prove < their guilt The case should not be dropped at the hanging of the jury Either acquittal or conviction absolute ab-solute should be sought as the proper and only period to this business That there was crookedness in that furniture deal perhaps admits of little doubt and the responsibility of ft should 11 n jinnn the guilty artier < artie-r I Not only that bribe takers might be punished but that innocent men might i i barelievedfromtaintof suspicion and I that the peoples representatives might have read tp them such a lesson that I henceforth the state shall be free fiom such corruption in its officials While the earnestness zeal with which the prosecuting attorney of the county has followed up this case are I no doubt to be commended we cannot say as much for Mr Whittemores acuteness as a prosecutor or his I methods of procedure His blundering work his childish petulance and questionable ques-tionable methods have done much to alienate public sympathy from his cause however much people may have thought the man he tried was not cleanhanded This community unquestionably desires de-sires > to see the law and those who endeavor to sustain it upheld and above all both their principles and their interests would lead them to desire de-sire the punishment of both bribe giver and bribe taker but there is such a thing as attempting to enforce the law by methods as much to be condemned con-demned as the original offense sought to be punished and for the meditation of the county attorney we call his cit tention to what is now a very old saying say-ing and as true of prosecuting attorneys attor-neys as of the officers named Thieves for their robbery have authority author-ity When judges steal themselves Every proper consideration was shown to the prosecution by the court and indeed when the court was really in great doubt as to the propriety of admitting one class of the testimony presented the prosecution received the benefit of the judges doubt instead of the prisoner on trial In the synopsis of the argument of Attorney Whittemore published in the press of this city he accused The Herald I Her-ald of giving special prominence to the weak points and errors of the prosecution prosecu-tion and alleges as the reason that The Herald had been bought by Hay I ken It is unfortunate that the prosecuting prose-cuting attorney so far forgot himself as to stoop to falsehood The Salt I Lake Herald was not bought by Mr Hayken nor by anyone connected with him either directly or indirectly and Mr Whittemore should either put hs charges in such form as to make The Herald company one of the defendants in the case or cease to stand as a slanderer and false witness against his neighbor But we hopelet us repeatthe I prosecution will be renewed and that the county attorney will secure such legal assistance that there will be no weak points or errors in the presentation pre-sentation of the case so that the state may bring the bribe givers and bribe takers to condign punishment |