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Show llZ CAC2 OF CHIEF SHEETS. , ; The bungling of Judge Whitaker has been partially par-tially cured by the decision of Judge'. Armstrong, ,and Chief Sheets is free. We say free, but there is ; still a string upon. him. He has always been' free so far as any legitimate proof has bound him;' but 'there are still his defamers, and we anticipate that 'they will go on trying and convicting him on the 'riBald statements of self -confessed thieves bunko-steerers bunko-steerers and prostitutes of criminals of high and ilow degree. We 6uspect that this class from the County Attorney's office and Sheriff's' office, from .church and Federal officials up to the genuine bun-, bun-, ko-steerers and self-confessed thieves,; will be glad of the decision of Judge Armstrong, for they know . that had a trial been 1 pressed they would have flunked, that they had nothing to prove which honest hon-est men would have accepted as legitimate, while ' .now they will have a new text, that if they could but have had a chance they would have paralyzed the city on what they could have shown. It is for this that the case should not be allowed to stop here, . , ' . j A conspiracy was charged. There doubtless was . a conspiracy, and this should now be investigated. On its f Ace the complaint lies against the County At-. ' torney's office, the Sheriff's office, certain elders of the Mormon church, some of whom are in office, and certain Federal officials and 'Republican "officeholders. "office-holders. With these of course are all the criminal V class whose operations Chief Sheets has interfered Avith. There was a double incentive behind the con- . ippiracy. One was to down Chief Sheets as the 'agent, but .the chief purpose was to down the American Ameri-can party, as the principal. As it is Chief Sheets must have spent most of his Salary in standing off the buccaneers, and now the (American party 'should jnove! It in turn should icharge conspiracy and should cause Attorney Hanson, Han-son, Sheriff Emery and the others to show cause why "they should not be adjudged guilty of conspiracy end of using public funds in an effort to gratify their own malice at the county's expense. And the Deseret News and the Republican organ should be ncluded with the other suspected criminals and jmade to show on what grounds they have been charging crime and convicting and sentencing decent de-cent men almost daily for months. 1 If the American party has not the pluek and ;cnough sense of justice to inaugurate- these pro-' pro-' fceedmgs and push them to the limit, why, we shall . jthink less of the party. . Chief Sheets has .been a faithful and most competent com-petent officer, and he ought to be given the assurance assur-ance that the party behind him appreciates what he jbas done and is doing, and that it will stand by him. i ,, - |