Show OCH HONE I 1 IN im the language of the inexperienced and hyperbolic on saturday feb 8 a dense cloud of sadness settled down upon our usually cheerful city it hung like a funeral pall over the devoted heads of f the people who it la is presumed had no need to go to the natatorium nata corium having ample cause to indulge in a briny bath of tears the reason for this melancholic condition was the news odthe of the arrest of mr patrick henry lannan on a charge of forgery what made the situation all the more distressing was the fact that the allegation had wt been preferred by one of the gentle mans mana political bed fellows mr wm ochs no wonder in view of this most unkindest kindest un cut of all ally 92 everybody should have lifted u up P their voices and exclaimed och honel hone sure and weats the matter now BOW the reason is made clear in the account of the dramatic entertainment given in our local columns columna the first act of it was performed on saturday feb 8 it was all about the alleged dispatches from W A pinkerton it was important for political purposes that they should be shown to be genuine and not spurious hence the immolation of the magnanimous mr lannan La nuan who was placed we believe voluntarily upon the altar of sacrifice for the weal of his party As nobody could be induced to believe that he is a forger not being that kind of a man ahe performance was not all tragic partaking much of the nature of a travesty with mr lannan Lan nanas as the hero and mr ochs in the role of heavy villain the object of the performance was not to show that mr lannan was what he is incapable of being a forger but that the dispatches alleged to have come from W A pinkerton of chicago were unalloyed political gold dust the basis of the intimations made that they were at least not all real was the annexed which appeared in the evening hotwes an organ of the liberal I party that the reader may note the fact that the tanes declares that the dispatch was received at liberal headquarters we insert the whole thing entire including headlines aud and introductory remarks 64 PEOPLES PEOPLE 11 the kind of men employed by the peoples party pin plug lawyers drunken perjurers Per jurers blackmailers lack mailers gamblers and vagrants the cohorts of the peoples party the darling detectives hugged to the bosom of the latter day saints shown up pinkertons pink ertons detective bureau hades raked baked with a fine toothed comb could produce no worse just as we go to press the following dispatch was received at liberal headquarters from the pinkerton detective agency in chicago concerning the paid heelers of the peoples party who have been securing affidavits along the rio grand western the men employed are merely mirrors reflecting the actions of the peoples party machinations CHICAGO feb 5 to the liberal committee in answer to your telegram gram jesse B barton is ia supposed to be a lawyer of little practice and no landing danding is interested in some mining property in the west with a man named goldberg barton located permanently somewhere in utah might be recommended by parties you name A SWEET SCENTED RECORD barton was indicted for perjury in pennsylvania in 1888 he was indicted in chicago for blackmail VAN ARNOLD van arnold is looked upon in chicago as a swindler blackmailer and perjurer r have been looking after ta him im as a vagrant CLITZ IMA ELA wm ela an associate of gamblers and a drunken sot around gambling rooms never to my knowledge served time will endeavor to send newspaper articles about arnold W A 91 the following day mr barton telegraphed to mr pinkerton Pia kerton and asked if he had sent such a dispatch and here is the reply of the nu bu of the pinkerton agency CHICAGO feb 6 1890 to jesse jesee B barton mr pinkerton is not in chicago but I 1 am positive he has authorized no one to do as you state D ROBERTSON supt bupt the same gentleman also wired to U 8 district attorney ewing at chicago asking him to investigate and if mr pinkerton had sent such a dispatch to proceed against the latter for highest damages here is the reply of judge ewing CHICAGO feb to cesae B barton pinkerton to is away the telegram 1 is denied at his office I 1 have wired pinkerton at cincinnati will send you his answer this thia afternoon W Q G the same gentleman sent along a copy of a dispatch from froin mr pinkerton which to is here inserted feb to jesse B barton I 1 here hare just received the following telegram cincinnati ohio to W G ewing U S attorney chicago I 1 never sent nor authorized anyone to send for me any telegram to sat salt lake stating that jesse jesse B barton had ever been indicted in in chicago or anywhere else elre either for perjury or any other offense lense of if such a telegram is at salt lake I 1 know nothing of it as I 1 never heard of barton being charged with any offense offe aae and dont know him personally Si ened W A pinkerton w a G dwino with the exception of the fact that mr pinkerton was not in chicago it to is understood he had been absent abreo t from that city for a week previous to the reception here of dispatches claimed to have been sent to him from thera theretha the rethe the tivi evidence denV of forgery Is all directed at the alleged telegram which appeared in the times of wednesday feb 5 that organ of the liberals claimed that it had been received at liberal headquarters we claim that it was spurious or at least tampered with so as to reflect upon mr barton this being the case just why mr lannan should have been arrested instead of f one or more of the successors of C sum nichols is not clear on any other than political grounds we believe this alleged legal in vesti gation to be simply a move on the liberal checkerboard we repeat that bogus or manipulated dispatch it was one or the other was asserted by the anse to N have been received on february 6 5 s A at liberal headquarters there has been no denial or retraction in the columns of that paper and none from the 11 liberal man agers therefore taking the position that the dispatch was bogus or worked over a grow gross injustice and slander has been perpetrated upon J mr barton and the liberal managers have made no disclaimer or protest consequently if a libelous crime has been committed by the times anes are they not parvis partie eps brimi ariani nw it has not yet been shown that a forgery was not perpetrated in regard to all of the dispatches there is reason for the belief that mr pinkerton was not in chicago at the time that auy of the dispatches with his name attached were received here Is it not possible that the liberals liberal managers may have been made the victims of misplaced confidence by some person in chicago unauthorized to use mr pinkertons Pink ertons name we do not assert such to be the caw case i but there is yet a deep shade upon the claim that they came direct di red from him or from anyone empowered to act for him in ia the premises in any event the assertion of the chi childlike child id like and bland ochs gobs to the J contrary notwithstanding we hold mr lannan to be innocent and so BO for as we are concerned he may be discharged with his marble brow adorned with a new laurel of unwilled shamrock |