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Show THE SMITH INTERVIEW. A great deal of excitement has been ' occasioned by the publication of a con sultation between Judges Merritt and Smith in the commonweal cases instituted insti-tuted in this city on the 12th of May. Upon application to Judge Smith that gentleman readily accorded us an interview, in-terview, which will be read with interest in-terest this evening. It will be remembered re-membered that this matter, these telegrams tel-egrams and all, simply constituted a mere consultation which would have been all right, and proper under all the circumstances had it occurred personally person-ally between these two eminent judges, and no one would haye found the least objection. But the circumstance circum-stance that one of them wa3 here and the other in Salt Lake made it neces eary the consultation should take place by wire, is tortured into a damnable dam-nable and wicked conspiracy. Of course we have no means of knowing who placed these private and confidential telegrams in the hands of the Standard, but the motive could only have been bad, and it was carried out in a way only to injure the supreme su-preme judje And the associate justice. It was a mean, underhanded and dastardly das-tardly piece of partisan action for which there is not the slightest excuse or palliation. Of course Judge Smith knew the men were guilty of contempt. He saw it with his own eyes as did hundreds of others. No trial was necessary to establish that guilt. The only thing to be done was to place the matter in lormal shape at the least expenditure of time and money. Thus a eiaiple and perfectly proper consultation between two judges becomes be-comes a deep and damnable conspiracy against innocent, inofensive and good citizens in the proper discharge of their duty. It is a shame that partisanship will go to this extent. Yet so it has gone, and more's the shame upon those who have lent to it willing oars. ! We are eorry that the Tribune hae lent itself to this matter. It will Beverely regret it when all the facts of the case are laid before the public. |