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Show fol securing- of public lands in Oregon. The making of such 1 an accusation is serious enough; but the prominence of the man rather than the nature of the charge or the probability of guilt, usually measures the attention attracted. David Eccles has occupied a prominent place in the west for so many years that he is known to a great number of men. He is a man of wealth and great business activity, nnd has had dealings with a multitude of people. His character char-acter for probity is far too well known for the indictment alone to convince anyone who knows him that he has been guilty of even the smallest wrong. He has helped in far too many instances in the advancement of his fellow citizens to receive now anything less than their confident loyalty. He may be assured of a perfect suspension of judgment. No one is going to believe badly of him unless the fact be ad-mitted ad-mitted by him or uncontrovertibly proven in a fair and unprejudiced un-prejudiced court. That is the view of a host of men in Utah and Idaho and Oregon and wherever else Mr. Eccle3 has been known. SUSPENSION OF JUDGMENT. The Salt Lake papers so seldom have a good word for Ogden-Ites Ogden-Ites that the following exception, taken from the Herald-Republican, has held our attention: There is no disposition on tho part of any good man in Utah to see the laws violated; no desire to have the rights of the people invaded; no wish to unfairly or improperly lessen the public domain. But there is, on the other hand, a definite wish that, even in the case of a man indicted, on a charge of having secured forest land in violation of law, he shall have a square deal at the hands of the community and the government. Mr. David Eccles, one of the foremost citizens of Utah, ' has been charged with conspiring with others for the unlaw- |