| Show LIBERAL BOSSISM A about bout ten last night police man weir arrested a tribune reporter on a charge ot of drunkenness and to terrorizing citizens by discharging hi revolver in the vicinity of the electr 0 light hall the reporter made strong object objections iong but was compelled to accompany the officer to police joilee headquarters j net the same an aa any any other peace disturber immediately upon entering the mar bhang s office the po policeman iceman proceeded to search the newspaper man preparatory to making an inventory of his personal e effects at this juncture judge orlando W powers suddenly appeared on the scene his presence presen seemed to completely demoralize the officers in charice fur for instantly they discontinued their examination examina tiou ot of the accused who to in boisterous bulster language baugus of hai hl sun gun T ahw the officers refused to return to him J judge powers appeared to assume oon arol of the entire affable and marched the reporter from the city hall under the tp protection protection of his big political wing the be judge had everything hla his own way not an objection was nade made by them to this dictatorial and unceremonious proceeding it is due to marshal young captain janney and sergeant donovan to say that they were not present one of the officers who vias was seated in tae the marshals mare haPs private office at the time decla declared in strong terms that had he be made the arrest he would have thrown the prisoner in ln despite the efforts of his bis friends this statement however was not wade made in the hearing bearing of judge powers and not until after that gentleman bad taken his departure for reasons palpably plain to the public an entry was not made of the arrest on the re cord ke kept t for such purpose neither was bair ball money required the salt lake tribune of this morning pretends to be greatly exercised over an account which appeared in these columns last evening of the arrest of one of its reporters by a policeman on tuesday night lat la Is t on a charge of and discharging firearms within the city limits thus 1311 dauger the lives jives of citizens it also demurs to the statement that judge powers suddenly appeared at police headquarters where this drunken I 1 individual 1 was taken and marched by him from the city hall under the protection of his political wing and that the judge had everything his own way and that not an objection object lo io was made by the officer in charge to this dictatorial proceeding the wawne is pleased to denominate the whole affair as a tempest rem pest in a teapot 94 9 4 and says that the individual arrested is not and was not at the time of his arrest a reporter on the tribune IJ to this we reply that it is a matter of general knowledge to public officers that the person in question has been a regular member of the reportorial staff of that paper if he was not such at the time of his arrest then his services service had bad only been dispensed with a very few hours before it is in true that he was laid off a few months it to Is alro aleo true that he was re employed some time since but in the language e of the tribune that is neither here nor thare sp such guch quibbling does not in the degree justify the action of judge ge powers nor do away with the he fact that a well kuben liberal newspaper paper had been arrested by the local peace officers ou on a charge of committing an infraction of the municipal ordinances was taken from we the police by the recognized manipulator arid and leader of the liberal party that is what is objected to |
