Show RATHER TRY 1 THEIR CASE CASEIN IN RED INK Stern Guardians of Law Postpone Storey and JacKson Jacson Cases Inability to connect tho the American party with the alleged gigantic conspiracy conspiracy acy to swamp the time registration districts iu itt this city city- with a horde of me illegal al rc registrants in a manner manner that would not stand for a 3 moment in court was probably ably the cause of the sudden postponement postponement postpone postpone- ment meat of tho the arraignment and preliminary preliminary nary hearing of II 11 U. U Storey and aud Lyle Jackson who were arrested by deputy sheriffs tho the former on char charges es of ot compelling the latter to register illegally mile ille gaIly gally and the latter with havin rc- rc pea ted Following their arrest the s sheriff with the adroitness that always characterizes char char- his actions on tho the eve evo of an au election secured full confessions which were probably written long long- before before before be be- fore the tho arrests that tho the story might be properly cooked up These confessions confessions confessions con were were era expected to tell of crookedness in the cornin coming election lection but bit they told more mono plain plainly I the straits in which the anti American an crowd finds itself with complete defeat staring itin it itIn itin in In the face It was arranged that tho arraignment arraignment arraign arraign- n. n ment and the tho preliminary hearing should be rushed through on the tho day before election that the tho whole alleged fabric of corruption should be torn aside in order that the tho public might gaze gaze- aze in horror upon its awful details All the scenery was set and the stage props were in place but the curtain curtain cur cur- tam tain did not go up Someone had bad queered tho the deal and stopped stooped the whole show I At the appointed hour 10 o'clock I Justice sat on her throne waiting No ISO sheriff and no prisoners appeared No crim grim prose determined that the I ballot should be e held sacred and inviolate inviolate late came upon the time scene leene No creepy music sounded from th orchestra No iNo thunder and lightning lightning- was used in in the wings wins The theatre was silent except for the magistrate who muttered har harsh h I things about tardy prosecutors Then the justice was ad advised that there would be 10 no flO hearing bearing at 10 0 o'clock clock and maybe not at 2 0 cIok One of the defendants II H II n. Storey was seriously seriously se se- se- se i ill in n n his cell ceU in the county jail DemIt Prosecutor J John M. M Bowman intimated that it H looked suspiciously like a ease case of t jim A little later he said that Lyle Jack Jack- sou son would not be arraigned at the specified time today because he lIe ad admitted admitted ad- ad omitted in an unguarded moment the sheriff was WiS n not t wholly satisfied that ho lie had enough h evidence and w was s huntin hunting hunting hunt hunt- in ing for other witnesses He needed more testimony and the case ease would not noto go o on until he got it Tt would be hard to t tell ll when whim he would woula get gel these witnesses witnesses witnesses wit wit- nesses so the deal that deal that is the hearing hear- hear ing- ing would ing would not come up as scheduled on the eve of election at too late an hour for the friends of the American party to show the flimsy pretexts upon which the church party's usual campaign campaign campaign cam cam- bugaboo had been leen built So Lyle Jackson is il still waiting to tell her terrible tale ale to a waiting world and H. H H. H Storey is being attended at at- tended by a physician in the county jail and the sheriff has another beautiful beau bean campaign kickback on on his Dis hands to put into mothballs until the next election when it will be revamped and paraded in iii the usual manner |