Show THE LIBERAL WOULD BE legislator THE publication in the salt bait lako lake heraldon Heral dot cof an indictment against harry raines the liberal ll candidate for councilor from the seventh legisla tive five district and its private smothering on his paying up his hie shortages la Is ft a veritable bombshell in the liberal P P camp A copy of the indictment will be found in another part of this paper the question arises how was thia indictment or these Indict indictments mento for it appears there were two effectually covered up so as to avoid a trial without any public action in court it seems that the present candidate for 1 councilor and judge of election for hunter precinct swore to a financial statement which was waa false on v its ito face according to the indictment he not only made a false return to the government but committed perjury in swearing to it if the charges set forth in the J indictment n d tot were true the payment of shortages might make his accounts straight betit but it woud not square the crookedness of the false return nor condone the perjury in swearing it was true if the figures given in the indictment are correct the charges were clearly established and if they proved to be unfounded regular proceedings should have been talento set aside the indie indic t ment by what liberal hocus the affair was smothered out of sight eight may ant form a subject of official inquiry and the facts be given to the public A derson of this stamp is just the kind of a candidate for the great mass of the liberal faction what he did will form D objection in their minds as to his eligibility to any office in the Li liberal berall gift but what will the decent liberals I 1 think about it will they help to send a man of that stamp to the legislative council to aid in making laws which people of all parties must obey he is just the sort of person most of the liberals would select for a judge of election aud on looking over over the list of liberal judges it would appear that he be was considered of the right sort by the utah commission sion there are names upon it just as unsavory as his and entirely suitable au for liberal purposes an object M which that body seems to have been careful to consider harry haynes is chiefly noted as a blatant liberal and whisky dealer As asa a saloonkeeper saloon keeper and loudmouthed loud mouthed abuser of his betters he be may be a de aided success As a lawmaker law maker and abettor of liberal schemes in the r utah legislature we should think after this exposure he be would not out cut any figure at all exit harry WE reproduce from the herald another indictment similar to the first which was found by the grand jury of this judicial district against harry haynes liberal candidate for the legislature from the seventh council district W we e do de not see how any consistent liberal eliberal can vote for this saloon keeper who was Indi pied twice for swearing to false returns of course no straight republican or democrat la Is at all likely to do so L that he would carry a number of liberal votes even if he had been convicted for the crimes crimea alleged against him we have little doubt but how any clean and respectable citizen can cast a ballot for him we do na not understand the attempted defence of their whiskey dealing candidate by the Libera lorgan is 19 worse than none at all but it is characteristic of the writer it consists simply of a statement that the charge will not hurt him at all a dirty fling at the herald for publishing the indictment and a covert threat of what haynes would do with the herald editors if they should make such a charge to haynes face all that will not count the herald has made no charge no other paper has made a charge against this special pet of the liberal faction it to is a matter of record the charge was preferred in due course by a public officer indictments were found by the grand jury and the whole affair was smothered without a trial these facts cannot be denied and black guarding or threatening anybody and everybody will not strike out one word of the black and damning record |