Show WHY GUILTY today to day editor appeared before the first district court and entered a plea of guilty to each of the two remaining ini for libel now pending against him one of these indictments charged libel upon general kimball and the other charged libel upon chief justice zano in the latter case the editor did not believe that a libel had been committed but the court overruled his demurrer to the indictment and the editor had nothing to hope from the anti mormon jurors while editor voluntarily pleaded guilty to these indictments he did so because the presumption of the law was against him as well as because of the fact that airily lie was unable to defend him himself there is not a single individual in Ogden acquainted with the editor who believes or who would dare to charge that he had or has the least personal malice against either general kimball or chief justice zane ry pleading guilty in these cases editor merely appears as a lamb at the slaughter the grand jury might have indicted a petit jury convicted and the court but these are formalities of an expensive kind ju which the anti cormons mormons might have waived and summarily gum marily murdered him in bascho would be quite as powerless to resist an oyer whelmine whelming wh elming and powerful combination ho pleads merely to save time expense and the useless waste of ammunition which could not leave saved him the anti cormons mormons may throw fetters upon editor court may consign him to prison deprive him of liberty and the opportunity port unity to support his family and entail untold sorrow and misery upon him and his but he will en deavor to bear all willi patient resignation and wait for that vindication which finif filoni can give hitherto this terri lury and he whole west tho pre has been permitted to pursue a course of extreme license and the libel law has been practically a ded letter others have repeatedly offended quite as grievously as editor hemenway he has bean acin aled out for the first victim and he cannot help himself therefore he is compelled to plead guilty and humbly bear the consequences as well as he cart |