Show AS TO 10 THE rilE CASE CASK OF OP CHIEF Nothing Is more moru common than for an accused ed man manto manto manto to shout hout that he ho Is being persecuted on account of ot Poll poli tics No No matter matter 1 tf it ho lie never nc was able ablo to deliver a n. voto vote besides his own vh when ho is d ho will shout from the housetops that the politicians aro after atter him with 1 that flaming and perilous sword of ot a n. e conspiracy It is so o in the case of ot Chief George Sheets now nowa n a accused cu d of ot a felony The charge Is without foundation George Sheets I I I I I I I r r I I Is ii either guilty or he Is so unaccountably Incapable that he should not bo 10 trusted rusted to walk homo home alone It If the tho latter ho should be removed from office If tho the foUrier former he ho should be bo punished That Is all nil there Is to It And politics has no more to do with the tho case than It has to todo todo do tIo YI with h the tho arrest t of a bunco man or tho the imprisonment of or a n bum burn Burton Durton of or J Kansas It will be bc remembered had the same samo excuse lead ready leady to hand when he ho wa wan charged ed with the crime which finally him In lit dl disgrace out of ot the United States senate and Into the penitentiary Abe Abc Ruef makes the same reply today to the charges which have enmeshed him Mayor laor probably the vcr very worst public official of ot mo modern ern times has the hardihood to declare that the tho politicians are arc trying to destro destroy him It was so so with the land thieves It Is Js so with crooks in general For tho the good of or George Gcorge Sheets Sheet's cause his friend should have ha selected a less discredited defense Let it ho bo understood clearl clearly There Is no political con conspiracy ph cy nor any Rny other sort of 01 conspiracy a against George Sheets It Is no advantage to have havo tho the man annoyed with warrants for fOl arrest and sworn statements o of con conduct which no honest man can cnn explain But Bul the tho evidence Is so 50 overwhelming o that ho made of or his police headquarters a a. house clearing-house for bunco men that mat hep no ito p permitted a well known crook to Impersonate an nn officer come Into headquarters In the vcr very presence of ot the chief an and a n victim of robbery and escape without an attempt being made to detain him him the the evidence of ot these and and other Is so conclusive that prosecution Is im Im- un- un If It the county count attorneys attorney's office or the he district attorneys attorney's attorneys attorney's ney's heys office has fallen into a technical error In the grade gratIo of the crime charged that is to be regretted But tho ho public public and and that Includes ever every one not In the Tribune Sheets conspiracy simply conspiracy simply wants the tire case brou brought ht to trial on Us Its merits If It Sheets bo be not convicted then let him be bo removed from office as an Incapable And if iC he be guilty guilt let him be punished |