| Show PRESIDENT CANNONS CANNON FAILURE TO APPEAR FOR TRIAL HIS COURSE ED AND SOME suggestions MADE SALT LA LAKE CITY march 20 1886 editor deseret news new much has been said and written the last two or three days in relation to president geo Q cannon not responding to the bond given for pis his appearance in court on the I 1 dinst st to my mind this is not extraordinary when we take into consideration the axiom that self preservation vre preservation is the first law of nature and those who nave have been most rabid in their denunciation of him for not appearing were the llast to doubt that he would thereby showing in most conclusively and giving him ti the benefit of their ideas in advance that if they were in his place they would not place lace themselves in jeopardy under tte the circumstances that seem to control the district attorney in the remarks which his bis organ said he in made showed aisi venom towards the man in part only to a person who has observed the motives and actions of dickson zane co in their endeavor to get ha hold old of him the reward reword offered the extra precaution taken in securing the arrest in a neighboring state after the judas had earned his 30 or wore more pieces of silver the military display the seventeen times greater sum required for bail from him than from any other parson for the same offense and the st still further demand of the usual bond THIRTEEN times multiplied on two more trumped up charges for similar offenses together with the extra heavy bonds ot the witnesses the full import of their animus is apparent these facts would seem to indicate that his persecutors were not acquainted with the fact that the law knows no distinction between citizens but that all are guaranteed alike a lair fair trial before a fair judge and jury and would not justify them in following the bent of their prejudice against him and forcing him to trial under such circumstances that acca accusation would be tantamount to conviction vic tion I 1 am much pleased that he has taken the bhe course he has and I 1 hope that a fair square fight will be made against the bhe collecting of such excessive bonds that every feature and point that can be legal legally y raised will be and that it be carried up to the court of last resort and make them face squarely every issue raised I 1 am inclined to the belief that the arrest in the first place was illegal and that every proceeding had since has been void in this connection I 1 will state that a complaint should be sworn to in due dae ilora lorm charging marshal ireland E H murray and the officer of the post who ordered the portion of the U 8 S army to go to promontory as a posse with a violat violation ton of the statutes of tile the united states demanding that warrants be issued for their arrest and asking that the judge of this district instruct the grand jury to summon the witnesses and if they find that the statutes have been violated to prom promptly lis t indict the guilty parties lf if all this is refused which no doubt it will be let the facts be certified to and sent up to the president of the united states and let us see if any one else in the territory of utah except are to account for their misdeeds by the bye what nas has become of the virtuous and his case in the territorial supreme court where ort rt thou let his champion boreman answer to JUSTICE |
