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Show A SHAMEFUL THING. The recent attack made upon Judces Merritt and Smith, UBing a recent tele graphic correspondence for the purpose, pur-pose, ie by all odds the vilest thine yet attempted in all the history of western frontier politics. The gentlemen named may take this reflection as true: It is because of no especial distaste for either as men, but they are democrats and democratic office-holders and as such they come in the line of fire and must take their Bhare. This whole assault as-sault is nothing else or other than campaign measure. The democracy is to be defeated and the most exalted yirtues and names are to be dragged in the mire unrelentingly if in doing bo, the democracy is to be crippled or injured in any way. The republican plan of campaign ia now fully uncovered un-covered and it will be our own fault if a Btinginp,, aye! a crushing rebuke ia not administered at the polls on the second Tuesday in November next. We regret exceedingly that our foes have elected to adopt this despicable policy, because it is only humam nature na-ture to retaliate, and God only knows what an infinite mass of corruption and filth this will iniect into the cam-paizn. cam-paizn. The recklessness of the thing ia well nijjh criminal, in and of itself. When we recall the fact that our people peo-ple are excited, angered and irrational on this wealer business anyhow, to come forward in this way and without , any base at all, to attack the chief justice, and one of the ablest and best judges ever on the bench of Utah, his associate, is cr'.minally reckless almost beyond expression. It required no trial to fix the guilt of the men arrested. They, were captured in the very expression of contempt. Indeed they afterward pleaded guilty. No more was needed than the evidence of Judge Smith's own eyes. To have pursued any other course than that actually pursued would have been an unfrank pretense, an affectation. j Naturally enough, with bis Nephi duty plainly before him, Judge Smith wished for a consultation, but this consultation was entirely upon the ar-rsoemeotof ar-rsoemeotof the business to which ea;h of the judges were elgible alike, eo that there would be as little hindrance hind-rance as possible to the general business busi-ness of both courts, and not a base conspiracy con-spiracy to convict innocent men, or to prejudge their caseB in any way. This is plainly deducible from all the facts in the case, yet these reckless epecial pleaders claim that Judge Merritt and Judge Smith conspired to condemn innocent in-nocent and unoffending men in ad vance of trial. It is too monBtrous for human belief. We cannot determine as to the correctness cor-rectness of the Tribune's expressions of the several lawyers whom it interviewed inter-viewed in its iesue yesterday morning, but we cannot believe that the bar of Salt Lake could be guilty of euch a petty thing as to give color to the Tribune's Tri-bune's unworthy effort to besmirch the ermine of two such men. We rate that bar of a higher order of men and we feel perfectly aseured that the opinion ascribed to Judge Powers is altogether false in every particular. Time only of the briefest is necessary to establish estab-lish the utter falsity of the whole statement as to all the gentlemen of the law of Salt Lake. ; There is, however, in all this a thing which is altogether uncomplimentary to this territory and its capital city. It is this: That there should be among our loftiest and purest citiienship a eentiment ready and willing to lend aid I and countenance to a mob of men eesking to menace this government and who in the prosecution of their unlawful Echemes act in contempt of the courts, commit grend larceny and steal everything from a locomotive to mess of leeks. The sober second thought of the good people of this territory will place a broad condemnation upon this supreme su-preme effort ot a petty spite and partisan par-tisan hatred to drag these two gentlemen gentle-men down to the low level occupied by their assailants. Shame 1 Shame on them. |