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Show I Vindicated. I Chief Sheets stands vindicated at last, after I nearly two years of such persecution as only a I combine of officers, newspapers, thugs, thieves, I hold-ups, thimble-riggers and low-down gamblers I could plan and wage against an assailed man. I And the chief has won against them all. How does the Deseret News feel? The News that has I tried and decided the case so often? The News, I the guiltiest of all the sinister brood, for the News I purports to be an organ of a church; to hear .the I News tell it,' the only true church. But it was I foremost in its meanness, malice and mendacity, I and sent its false charges, knowing them to be I false, into ten thousand homes to try to degrade and destroy an honest man. I The Smoot organ does not nood any special I notice in the matter because from lifelong habit I and native instincts, it is always a delight for it I to assail decency and the word of a thief and a I thug is as much evidence as it requires to sot its I types dripping with falsehoods that should insure I the writer of them ton years at least on the rock I And the county authorities who were so 8 closely identified with the case, how do they fool? They have been consulting with the thieves and I thugs, and with county money boarding and I clothing them, for lo, those many .months, try- ing out of the mass of nastiness and guilt to make a case that would stick. How do they fool? And there are still higher officers that are not blame- loss. They would not have dared to do what they I have save they had the approval of their masters, some of those days it will be a pleasure to run I down, and brand the whole outfit. It is enough now to say that to try to work a partisan hate to I the limit they were all engaged in about the dirtl- est conspiracy ever concocted, a conspiracy that sought by such lies and perjury as thieves and I hold-ups helped by officers of the law and some ut-I ut-I torly characterless newspapers could concoct to I blast the name of an honest .man and cast overlast- ing discredit upon a political party. And the baf- lied bunch, stand now so naked and depraved and shamed before the world, that they would be sub-I sub-I Jects of pity If they had consciences that could I realize their own degradation. I We congratulate the ex-Chief and it is a pies- I uro to assure him that the verdict which exoner- ated him received the approval of nine out of every ten men in the city, and the wish was on ten thousand lips that he might at once be restored re-stored to his old office, and another exodus of the thieves, thugs and hold-ups remaining here be inaugurated. in-augurated. We congratulate the Chief's attorneys. They have made a manly, splendid fight for their client. They faced the first great storm that roared around him with a splendid courage and resourcefulness; resource-fulness; they never wavered and finally mounted and rode that storm to a supurb victory. Finally, the very best feature of the case was that on the final trial a fair proportion of the jury were Mormons who were so far out from under the influence of the Deseret News that they could be just |