| Show RESPECTFULLY REFERRED TO DARNER Wo We dont don't mean to annoy Mr Darmer but we are still a little little- puzzled to know how so wise a n. man ashe as ashe ashe he could permit himself to take tako the view of or the tho McI McWhirter Mc- Mc case which I h he I IE is quoted as ns having taken at a I recent meeting of or his party members He is said ald b by c S.- S. tho the to have told his hearers that they were not notto notto notto to be stamp stampeded ed lJ by the Sheets case and that tho the whole case CaC found its origin In political persecution Probably Mr tr Darmer Is as tull fully informed Inform d of the tho facts in tho the case as an any other man mun Let us ask his attention to lo this thise view e of It There was a n rob robbery er Ho Ile will hardly deny that A jury has seemed s to take talc that view of the case And tho the Tribune knew of oC it the tho night It occurred Ten thousand dollars wore were taken talen from the who were cre tourists In the city The These o seem to be e facts palpable enough to the understanding in o of or oran f an anyone one and all established b by sworn testimony that tha t can har hardly l bo be discredited The police knew new of tho the case One Ono thousand of the theten ten was returned to the victims and the they left tho the elt city These also are arc esta established facts The police knew of tho the return of this money moncy Chief SIH Sheets ets himself Is Js authority for that Now Supposing the Trl Tribune une hind had printed the facts next morning simply telling the truth Supposing It Il did compromise compromiso tho the I police chief Was as It more important Important Im Jm- to savo save the chief than save s. the tho party If one should bo be compromised e was it wise to compromise compromise e etho tho the 1 party parly a rt an and save the chief Should anyone guilty of or an offense be bo protected at the expense of his party part Suppose the Tribune had told the truth and the whole truth ruth about tho the case e next morning and morning and thereafter there there- after In what way would It have havo hurt hUlt the American party part Docs Does the tho American an party parly rest on the the Impeccability cab I lit of George or Sheets Sheets or an any other of or Its members If the Tribune had hind taken cn that course courso would not nol the police pollee have instantly tried to capture the thieves thle Would not that branch of the civic organization have ha exerted ItSelf to execute cute tho the law Would not It have o been the engine engino of tho the prosecution Would it not have appeared In bel better tel lI light ht than to refuse to follow the fleeing culprits culprits cul- cul Would ou d not tho the whole case have been een better betler for truth tr th an and openness than by the tho record that has been cen made mae In order to sa say No Xo to these questions Mr Ir must say there was no McWhirter robbery robber To 10 justify his ils position he lie must adopt the Tribune theory that the were Scotland Yard detectives cs bi ought brought rou ht to Salt Lake Lae by the hierarch provided with the ten thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand dollars ollars an and deposited on the streets for the Iho trapping trapping trap trap- ping pinS of oC tho the American party's parts chief of police This position is not illustrative of oC Mr 11 Banners Banner's habit labit ha lt of thought th u ht nor reconcilable lo with his lils manner of action And yet et when he delivers himself as he has been boen reported by tho the Tribune at the American J party part meeting we can read no other conclusion sIon than that 1 he ic has closed his e eyes cs to established facts and borrowed the he Tribunes Tribune's vicious theory of ot unreason and ridicule |
