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Show M The Courthouse Affair. B The "only" savs Tiik Hki'iiiii.ioan B Is dissatisfied with the verdict In the m Clay ton case and has tried to put S. 1 AV. IIcndrlcKs In a Jiole; thiit tlic cr- m dli'l K-'vs " i por without oppoi- B itlcal capital of the B i . illuro ro agrco wlih B r further says that B Viiu u ui'iiLu hi the case "gave the He" B to our icports dm Ins; and since the ic- B cent audit of the books. M To the llrst accusation It may be m said that this paper has not at any B time exptessed Itself as to the verdict B in the Clayton case, so of cour.su "the B ' only" is mistaken. It cannot know H how wc feel on the subject. B To the second It maybe said that B in our shoit icport of the case, in- B spired by ''the only's" publication of B only that part of the evidence unfa v- B orablc to Mr. Clay ton, this paper pub- B llshcd a summary of Mr. Hendricks's B evidence. The ttuthfulncss of that H summary can not be denied, and the H ,, summary w as made without comment. H . If Mr. Ilcndriuks' evidence puts Mr. H Hendricks in an unfavorable light, of B , couisc this publication is not lespon- H ,, ! slblc. H To the third: The fact that Mr. H I Clayton was convicted does not enter H j Into the political phase of tills matter B at all. "Thu only" knows It doesn't, H but it's up it tree and doesn't know H how to get down. It knows, and so B' docs every Dcmociat know, that the H , party is in a hole over this mutter H and "thu only" Is doing publicly Just H ' what Individual Dumoeiatsaiu doln B pilvately squirming. The fact that H Mr. Hendricks accepted an $l,fe(H) H shortage from a piedccessorand did not H expose It; that Mr. Clay ton was kept H employed In the cou it house long after H i it was known that atf.ilrs were not B stralfjht with him, kept theru against H' I the advice of the cnmmissinucis; the H fact tliat thoiu was a contest oer the H , clcikshlp against thu dc.siic of the de- H fcaled cleik; the fact that when the Hi ballots weie lecouuted, they were H found to hae been tampered with; H the fact that uvety thing plainly show- H ed eaiclessuessand f.illuiu to comply H with lawful regulations, and luit for H the lequestof Cleik Laisen that the B books be audited this ccposiiie would B never havu come as long as the Demo- IK; eratlc rnt; could cover it up; all of H thesu things lead to the belief that the B Democrats weie in power too long, had B too much of a snap. "Thu only knows BB these things and It's awfully bitter, BBS hence that paper's foolish bic.iks. BH Fourth. Instead of these decisions BB t giving "the lie" to lepoitslu foiincr BH ) Issues of Tiik Hki'Uui.ioan, this de- BH' cislon. and the evidence of the tilal BH i'i'.ovi:i) eveiy .statement made by BBx Tiik Hki-uiii.ioan, w ith the exception BH - of the actual number of dollars In the B case. After "the on I)" had vilely slandered ociy ltupubllcan mombcr B of the city council last fall and fie- B fluently avsalled Major Hansen Tiik BBt ItKi'iiiii.icA.N' reported astatc of a Hairs BH at the coutt house, claiming a short- B ' age in ccitaln accounts, careless book- H' kcepliiK', etc. It asserted that money B ' had been paid in to cover up dlsurcp- B ancles, etc., all of which "tlio only" t , pooh-poohed and denied, claiming that B ' the tioublc wasall In Cleik Fanell's BBBfl Dutch bible which the new biclhicn BBBf couldn't decipher. BBBJi The auditing of the books ritoVKD BBBJi all our assertions, and the lecenl evl- BBBt deuce pioved many other tilings, not J thu least of which is that there lias BBBJ ? been a collision amont,' members of the BBBj old Democratic county rlntf to cover BBJ tip short-comings of the past. Tills BBVJ case bioiiKht out that there had been BBBl shoitaes before and while thcio Is no BBVj desire to make any accusation, It is BBBE a general belief that if the books BBBf were examined back twenty years, BBS -other Interesting things might BBBt be discovered. No one deshes that fv and It is best for all that the audit BVV should end here, for systems of look- BBBm ' keeping weie not llrst-clat.s a few BAB' ycaisago. BBBE ,,- There is no pleasure in lcferrlng to BJ ' P these unfortunate things, for Tiik Rk- bbbtI l- BBrflffflffflffv t. BrSBrflffflffflffflffflffflfffll BVBBVBBV.SBVBBVBBVBBVBWr BJBrBfBfBfBfBfBBBK?TT waMysr.-y-- -. l'UiiMCAN syniynthl7.es sincerely with every man connected wltlt the affair and regrets that Cache Is placed in fluch an unfa voi able light before the pcoplejgf Utah but When a little 2x4 patenb tncdlclne almanac, edited by a package of peanut-heads gets on a high-horse and makes deliberate misrepresentation mis-representation and falsifications,! holly hol-ly unnecessary to Its own advantage oven, then patience ccase3 to be a virtue. vir-tue. If the llrst chnptcrofClcik Ktrrell's Dutch Ilible results In such a climax as the conviction of Mr. Clayton, what might notsucccedlngchaptersdevelop. The Democratic party.lf It Is wise, will call off that fool sheet down the s'treet. |