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Show - . " t -v - -X CTABU TO AOL" Ujcdeb the above aoggestiTe title the Salt lake 7imet ('Lrberal") publishes the feUowlag In Km Jane of Saturday, Dee. 6th: , "TbeTri6tut pretend to bLV oral paper when In fact It bnatataff bot a Mormon-baiting sheet. Its policy, so far as it hat any, latodc roar an assortment of Saints for each meal and top off ths feast wilh some chestnuts'or dessert. Otherwise the 2YifrBnereprescntsa ring and not a party. The former Is the source of its perpetual solicitude, tho. Utter merely an Incident. Compelled by the inevitable in-evitable logic of circamatances to support sup-port the Liberal city ticket last winter, the government-elect was no sooner Installed in office than the Tribune opened its mud batteries loaded with fool insinuations upon it. When challenged for the proof the Tribune spiked its guns and slunk Into a corner. Still its object to cast discredit u on the city officials was accomplished. accom-plished. "in ibe Augnst;cle3t!on the Tnbunt was responsible for tho partial defeat of the Liberal county ticket, pitting as it did its ring against the party. "Go with the TViJmne cuqae wittingly wit-tingly or not. and you rill be landed to the skies; go against it and yon will be damned to perdition. This U the rule or rain policy applied to every man ba he pouadmaster or chief ju-tiee. "Yesterday ths organ ot spleen and hatred was happy. It discovered a discrepancy in tho recordei'a oDlce, and" wilhont inquiring into thecir- cumstances proclaimed the fact to the world wilh 111-sapprcssed glee, litre was a slender pretext on which to base an a-saolt. The. guerilla .sheet promptly seized upon It to stab the Liberal goternment in the bacl. Recorder Ilyams is evidently not one of the Tnbunc ring, and the opportunity opportun-ity to crucify him for that was too tempting to mls. "In fact, there was a discrepancy found in the license accounts of the recorder. re-corder. Whether it it apparent or actual, whether clerical or criminal, is unknown and will remain unknown until the finance committee reports. This committee U investigating all the offices in the departments, and not Mr. 11 yam's alone. It would be manifestly manifest-ly improper to fasten upon any one at his time the guilt for the shortage, If a shortage (should pnne.to caist. Of coarse everybody knows that the recorder re-corder himself docs not issue licenses, though they bear his signature, and be Is not expected to personally keep all tho accounts. All that U required of him is to be responsible to the people for ths hinest administration of his office, no matter what his relation to his subordinate may be. This responsibility re-sponsibility Hccordcr Ilyams does not shirk, and in ths caso of tho discrepancy discrep-ancy it wai Immediately mads good by him pending further developments. That Is the part of an honest officer, which Qyams is. The city is not particularly par-ticularly concerned In a difference between chief and subordinate, and except for the brutal inuendo of the Tnbunt th molehill would not have been ralcd to ths proportion of a mountain. "But the dull axe of ths paper must fall upon somebody outside its clique." |