| Show AT ITS OLD BUSINESS THE attempt of the mayor to cast odium upon the city councilmen who wore were the means of exposing the misdeeds of some of his police while offensive to decent citizens of all cl cla asies seea la Is of course endorsed by the salt lake that paper which puts ats the word of such a person as 0 W W powers against that of united states senators and other men of national repute and throws mud at the latter to vindicate the former might be expected to assail amail gentlemen at home who bring to light the misdeeds eds of office officers cers re of its own party the doings of the officials entrusted with the care of the city have been known for some time their scandalous conduct has been whispered around and among a certain class has been food for mirth Is it limply likely that anything more would havercome have come of it if the councilmen who received positive information of these orgies or a ies had not determined to bring them to light why should the mayor condemn their action and exhibit so much anger over the exposure which compelled him to remove the Rp offending ending of of ficere fleere interfered with his prerogatives did they why did he not exercise therb them then and relieve them of the necessity of action if he ar ardently denty desired the purity of the city he would have thanked thank etl those councilmen instead of ciati casting ting blame upon then them but the tribune goes much further in its ts common vile and MORD mean and paltry way it seeks to put a moron mv i codur on tb the e transaction two of those councilmen were mormon aldermen if it saya and proceeds to put upon them what blame it chooses to MALu manufacture facture it charges that they were trying by imitating the methods of the chief of police to damn him and escape unscathed themselves vee if there is anything connected with his bis unsavory une avory affair that to is meaner and more contemptible than this tribune to besmirch bea those gentlemen we fail to perceive it the evidence to Is clear that their object was solely to detect the evil doings of men in the public service and the vile insinuations and assertions of the tribune are aim simi ply characteristic of that sheet had fahad they gone as aldermen should have gone had they bey gone and seen and gone away their conduct would have been above reproach 01 so eo it says gays well how does that agree with the charge that in doing anything about it they were trenching drenching tren ching on the mayors pro prerogative As to aldermen there are no such euch officers in the city either mormon or gentile these councilmen as the evidence shows went to detect crime some of them may have been unwise in their method that is for the council to determine but that they went where they did for the purposes intimated by the tribune is a con elusion not justified by anything that has appeared in evidence and is virtually contradicted in its own columns speaking of the committee appointed to inquire into the matter it says in another part of the paper the opinion of this committee from interviews with a majority of its mea members is that the mayors critic criticism iam of the councilmen who were engaged in the so called investigation of the police committee was unwarranted this seems to be the opinion of a majority of the members of the council outside the committee and whatever course coarse the report may take that part of the mayors message will la in all probability not be concurred in by the council if the liberal Liber alJ organ wants to provoke comment on the liberal administration of affairs in this city ever since the steal of 1890 it can do so by thus picking out two of the councilmen who have served the public b by y bringing to light iniquity that even the tribune cannot condone and trying to throw slime at them because they tb eyAre are cormons mormons Mor mons |
