Show GUN MEN MES AS BODY GUARDS A recent issue of the Salt Lake TrIbune Tribune Tribune Tri TrI- bune carried an editorial entitled GunMen Gun dun Men as IS Body Guards which while dealing particularly with the Hue Huey Long Lone assassination laments activities of gangsters in political activities and severely the practices of such luch lawless individuals The editorial is b reproduced here and should read it The evidence of Senator Longs gunmen gunmen gun gun- men given before a jury the other day throws a red light on methods of the gangster In politics Both the weeping v. Messina and the grinning Boden told stories IndicatIng Indicating ing the lawless stripe and vicious type of or body guards that have bave followed the theAl theAl theAl Al Capones and other racketeers racketeer from one den to another These trigger men are unable to protect their employers s 5 s 's a rule but are always ready to avenge them As AJ guards they are failures but as aa mobsters they are efficient When the brooding foe toe of ot the senator senat senat- or confronted him in the corridor of of the Baton Rouge capital and fired one 1 murderous bullet at least three members mem- mem bers of the ever present bodyguard I were on hand with itching fingers on the hair triggers of their assortment I of deadly weapons The s assassin sassin was wash I alone He could have been overpowered overpower overpower- ed Instantly as aa was Guiteau when he shot President Garfield or Czolgosz when he killed President McKinley B Both th of these assassins were ere taken by secret cret service agents turned over to state officers imprisoned imprison imprison- ed N. N tried and executed according to law and orderly Had Longs Long's bodyguards been actuated ed by lawful motives they could have assisted the unofficial bystander who I threw himself on the senators senator's assailant assailant assail assail- ant lint and prevented a second shot But i these professional gunmen who taU fall ed to prevent the attack made no dr ef effort effort ef- ef fort to follow tollow a legal course of action r It was 1115 foreign to their natures at variance valance with their training They proceeded to fill till the culprit culprit- t. t with lead In their insatiable blood lust lut they perforated the dying culprit with 61 bullet holes They carried out outa execution to their I a a. private liking and evidently felt they were performing perform perform- ing the duty for tor which they had been hired The misguided wretch who started the greatest war in history by assassinating assassinating assassinating assas assas- a prince and princess heirs to an ancient throne was saved from mob violence and locked up In prison where he died Away out there in the benighted Balkans from whence come tales of ot personal vengeance and bloody Intrigue there was no such cHul ful performance as shamed Louisiana the night of Senator Longs Long's assassination The slaying was Infamous whatever whatever what what- ever the grievance but no credit will i accrue to any cause or leader de depending depending depending de- de 1 pending on thugs who have no regard for tor laws or precedents no respect for courts or human life and hold th the primitive appeal of private private revenge e I above the demands of justice |