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Show MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE. The organ of tho county ring which has afflicted this community for' eov-oral eov-oral years, and which has made it its special busiucss, for political purposes.-to purposes.-to use the county government and the county treasury to prosecute a vindictive warfare against this city, thinks that the affirmation of the sentence of Jim Donaldson on account of the notorious McWhirter affair, is "a severe travesty on justice." It continues to insist that George Sheets connived nt "the robbery which was pulled off," and that it is a reproach to justice that he gets off free. This ignores ihe fact that Sheets was prosecuted prose-cuted on this charge in the courts, with all the malignity, all tho venom, and all the ability that the county conspirators could bring to bear against him, both by tho use of the public moneys and by the attempt to pack the jury to convict. Tn spite of all, Sheets was triumphantly vindicated vindi-cated through bis acquittal by "a jury of his peers," as tho law phrases it. This absolutely decisive fact, which no ono who had any desire to treat the matter cither fairlj-, honestly, or intelligently, could ignore, makes this revamping of tho old and exploded ex-ploded charges against Sheets a distinct dis-tinct libel and slander. I But thcro was st miscarriage of justice in connection with that McWhirter Mc-Whirter case. Tboro were criminals, self-confessed, who participated in that affair and in so uiany other lawless acts as to stamp them as habitual criminals, in the custody of the sheriff and at the disposal of the county attorney. We refer to Parrent and Boll. These men were notorious crooks; they had to do with that robbery rob-bery by their own confession; thoy were under arrest, and yet they wero never brought to trial. Why? Simply because tbey were made part of the conspiracy of tho county officials offi-cials against the citv. and the conntv taxpayers were robbed to maintain these men in comfort and luxury; and in, one case, the allceod wife of one of tbo culprits, all at tho public expenso and to the defeat of justice, in place of the furtherance of justice. Bell and Parrent were released ou their own recognizances, were expected to get out of the country and never bo heard of again, and that accordingly followed. These men unquestionably should have been tried for their crimes aud sent to the penitentiary, where the3' were due long before. But to have entered upon the trial of Par-rent Par-rent and Bell would have disclosed the filthy conspiracy which was entered into with them by Sheriff "Emory and County Attorney Hanson. They wero played upon- for "'confessions," thoy were urged to make them against Sheets; they were promised immunity in case they served the purpose of the official political couspirators. The whole gamut of condouing crime and subornation of perjury was run during that political conspiracy against the city, of which George Sheets was made tho personal victim. It was one of tho vilest, most disrcputablo conspiracies ever entered into by a sot of rascally officials for the purpose of carrying out their political aims and personal spites. And all to no purpose, so far as Sheets was concerned, because he was an innocent in-nocent man, was proved so in court, and to revive the charges against him is distinctly malicious, venomous, and i indecent. The real failure of justice was a failure brought, about, by aud under tho patronage of couuty officials offi-cials to protect themselves in wrong doing and for the benefit of Parrent and Boll. It was a conspiracy for which those county officials should be put upon their defense and required to answer. Thoy should alFo be required to return re-turn to the public treasury tho money which tbey squandered by tho .thousands .thou-sands of dollars in the course of that political conspiracy. Wo hope to see the time como yet when theso officials will be made to answer for the criminal conspiracy which they entered into and pursued, and the criminal waste of public money which they squandered in pursuance of that criminal conspiracy. con-spiracy. And when they are made to answer for that criiuo and to refund to tho public tho money which they unfairly and unjustly abstracted from the county treasury, then the public will como into its own, so far as that part is concerned. And if tho timo ever comes when the criminal fellow-conspirators fellow-conspirators of thoso county officials can be brought into the toils and be made to face the music, nqdoubtedlj-the nqdoubtedlj-the co-criminality of the officials who engaged in that conspiracy will be established in court.'hnd those officials (now, fortunately, ex,) will bo made to answer for their disreputable course in that whole evil plot and scries of , plots. |