Show A STAB IN THE BACK the above suggestive title the salt lake jimes aimes liberal publishes the following in its issue of saturday dec jtb the tribune pretends to be a liberal paper when in fact it is nothing but a mormon baiting shoe its policy no iso far as it has haq any is to devour an assortment of saints for each meal and tp top off the feast with some chestnuts for dessert otherwise the tribune represents a ring and not a party the former is the source of its perpetual solicitude tb the latter merely an incident compelled by the inevitable logic of circumstances to support the liberal city ticket last winter the government govern finout elect was no sooner installed in office than the tribune opened its mud batteries loaded with foul insinuations upon it when challenged for the proof the tribune spiked its guns and slunk into a corner comer still its object to cast discredit uvon upon the city officials was ak accomplished com sn hed shed in the august elea elevation ele atlon tion the tribune was responsible for the partial defeat of the liberal county ticket pitting as it did its ring against the party go with the tribune Tri buile clique wittingly or not and you will bo be lauded to the skie skied go against it and you yon will be damned to perdition this is the rule or ruin policy applied to every man be he or chief justice yesterday the organ of spleen and hatred was happy it discovered a discrepancy in the ie recorders cordez deis a office and without inquiring into the circumstances cum stances proclaimed the fact to the world with ill suppressed glee here was a slender pretext on which to base an asnault the guerilla sheet ri promptly aptly seized upon tt it to stab the liberal government in the back recorder hyams is evidently not one of the tribune ring and the opportunity to crucify mm him for that was too tempting to miss mim in facts fact there was waa a discrepancy found in the license Ewe accounts of the ra re vorder whether it is apparent or actual wh whether father clerical or criminal is unknown and will remain unknown until the nuance finance committee reports this committee is investigating all the offices in the departments and not mr hyams alone it would be manifestly improper proper to fasten upon any one at t this time the guilt for the shortage i if f shortage should pro veto exist of vourse everybody knows knowd that the re cogaer himself does not issue licenses though they bear his signature and he ta is hot expected to personally keep all the lie accounts all that is required ro of him is to be res responsible D s 1 p 1 e to the people for the honest td administration r n i p i nt ration of his office no matter what his relation lOrk to his subordinates may be this responsibility recorder hyams does not shirk andin and in the case of the discrepancy it was immediately made madar good b by him pending further developments that is the part of an honest officer which hyams is the city is not particularly ticul arly concerned in a difference between chief and subordinates and except for the brutal innuendo of the tribune the tha molehill would not have been raised to the proportion of a mountain but the dull axe of the paper must na upon somebody outside its clique it |