Show HOW Itow su EK Um us UmA usA A A A COWARDLY BEAST so low so de dc depraved r fj o Inn inhuman that ut lie be did not DOt hesitate to kick an eye oat let of ot a prostrate antagonist has bas been en freed f from the tha grip TiP of the law in Missouri be of e lea Iea that a can cannot cannot cannot not Sv see in Utah Ut a Justice God lave ve the UM Justice la Is the last that y former saloon boer is Ie lesIs for foil fo If Stansbury ry had bad plain simple justice uIse j he be would w today be confine at t hard In hi the Utah penitentiary In an affidavit which he knew In his hili cowardly eow heart waa wu absolutely untrue true It m In a S habeas corpus proceed ln instituted tte to prevent his return to Utah Uth on a requisition D that had been honored rel hy by the governor vernor of Missouri cI that he Jae would wed d be punished punts bed if It be he was t to th this state retard regard regardless re rd less of his Ot or o innocence aoe he lie mass Gentile aGe Be Ue declared that the tIM coma courts by es under the Control of the Mormons and that their ir irin t in the Gentiles was so et great they would go CO to any length to injure Iture them themA A supposedly Intelligent court ac accepted accepted this plea pJ aa as sufficient The same court listened while attorney ney told a tale of how bow a Gentile had been convicted of r murder awl and ud executed i in la Utah because an old Mormon had pretended to have a revelation in which his ilia path coOt was waa disclosed ed Thia T of course is III m a reference to the case was waa not a Gentile the rev revelation revelation revelation elation testimony my ay was brought out by the defense on OD and the court Instructed the jury specifically ly I not to tilt consider it It Farther was tried before a Gentile judge he convicted was by a lury Jurt jur composed largely of Mormons K and be he was defended by Mormon attorney nays ney His Ills case on appeal Wet went before a supreme court urt composed of three Gen Gentile Gentile Gentile tile judges and was affirmed So 80 much for tor that case The other stories s told and allegations made reel real upon a sim aim similarly simIlarly Insecure foundation of fact It I ia Is surprising r that any court in any state should have tolerated such lach stuff for a t The affair would be humorous if it it did not establish estal a sort ort of precedent for action by courts coons of other States tates in tn proceedings instituted against criminal fugitives This feature makes the matter very serious indeed It is ie i ithe the logical outcome of the lurid stories that have been beeD sent ert out of Utah during t the last few months stories which all of us here at home hoar know to be untrue but ut which it would appear are re be believed believed believed by credulous people eople elsewhere We may add too that tbt it la is another of tf the indirect benefits accruing from frota the election If of Reed Smoot to the eon sen senate n nate ate of the United States |