Show rik THE TRIBUNE AND the salt lalie tribune aa usual alio ws its two faces and asinine qualities W I 1 by 4 coming to the defence of 0 W powers as it did in this mornings issue and mainly because the murmon press has dared to ex pres its disapproval of him the mormon press has dared to do what the sneaking tribune has not that is to criticize the public and official acts of a public man as it had a perfect and unquestionable right to do the tribune is two faced because while the editors through their paper have neither flattered or condemned powers yet theyone and all have privately expressed their disapproval of him and bis acts and have acknowledged that the reason they have published what they have of and concerning powers was because he himself brought it to them for publication when C G goodwin editor in chief recently went to washington he avowed that he would do nothing t further the interests of powers or to help his confirmation thereby expressing his disapproval of powers and leaving it to be understood der stood that if he did anything at all it would not be in powers interest now the tribune pats powers on the bad chucks him under the chin and calls him good little boy and why because the mormon press have dared to express the feeling and sentiment mormon and gentile that powers was unworthy of respect the tribune always shows its janine qualities because it cant help it cant cover its cars nor detill its musical bray r w A to the fight against powers the gentlemen opposed to him have noun one instance done anything mean nor underhanded on the contrary they went to him fairly and squarely equa rely threw down tho glove and told him to hia face that they were opposed to him and would do all in their power to defeat his confirmation they have sot attempted to make any great fight here for in the first place they knew full well that a good fight was being made in washington too good to have it impeded by any local fight aad 10 lo it was not necessary to make the fight a local one for powers waa all the time working his own destruction the men opposed to him have been so fair and manly that in consideration for him they have not used half the powerful weapons in him the tribune is now and for a long ume has been in possession of all the charged made against powers and when it saya that abe main fight has been official actkin this territory it bays what it knows i untrue although they have been used against him as far as was deemed best there may be perhaps no suspicion against powers of corruption in hia decision of the eureka beck case we dont charge any but it seems queer to ug y for judge field an owner in the eureka mine and the attorneys for tho eureka people before the decision fac i is given to go to washington and figh tor powers and all arong the moment any one on the other ado does anything to defeat him so very wrong that powers and his friend the tribune must make a howl of persecution As to powers having resigned it is all bosh unless he did so on or since friday last for on that day he said he received and did exhibit a telegram signed by judge field saying your prospects look still brighter or words to that effect does it look as though he would resign after receiving auch word from such a roan whom he know had been working in his behalf powers treatment of the old members of the bar in this territory has been and ever will be without parallel men who began the practice of the law before pow era existence bad begun men learned in law and to whom powers can look for the commonest principles of law have been treated as though they were so many school boys attending powers law school and needed correction powers has used the grand juries of his court as though they were formed for his especial use and benefit and they to their be it eaid have allowed him lo 10 use them as his tools the way certain men among them members of the bar have allowed powers to feed them on wind and promises so as to use them as he chose is well known and generally remarked we can safely say that never judge yet merited or enjoyed such universal contempt from the bar and from those men who have been forced to act as jurors or wit nesses in his court as the late associate justice orlando W power As to how the president likes him or approved of him one thing is worthy of remark that is while the letter of the president censuring some one for recommend ing an unworthy man for appointment was going the rounds of the press and the conjectures of the people powers flunky the inimitable isaac gave the whole business away by stating that the man unworthy of appointment WAS nono other than orlando W powers |