Show i DAVE HOCUS AFFI DAVIT dave evans hae a vivid tion none the less remarkable than billy distorted vision that allows to see things as bis attorney directs THE stannard HD cannot understand how men with the intelligence of dave evans and W H rowe can prepare and eign and swear to ench a filled with falsehoods from beginning to end it is probably the most remarkable document filed in the courte within the state of utah abe affidavit of two things either the water company lies a very doubtful case and is sparring for time or the attorney for the water company has lost his denees no honest nan in lull IV possession ot bia mental faculties would make euca rash and unfair statements affidavit is cot only remarkable but it has in pait a pathetic ring to it listen to this we imagine we dave evans weeping as be reads the following to the court abe defendants reduced the water rentals in order to allae the bitter feeling but immediately it waa published that it was a confession on the part of the defendant that it had been continuously robbing the people i the past and likewise published the statement to the effect that such redactions were in fact no reductions at all but in fact raised the water rates toe public can imagine how the tiny little te arlete trickled down dave evans flushed checke be and billy rowe communed over the alove how billy V heart must have throbbed with when tie heard david dwell upon hie areat water reduction and how I 1 the people had rejected it ana said it t actually oraeed the price of water taink of a great man like david ears filing in a court of justice the statement that judge ia unfit to act as a judge in an action between ogden city and the water company because charley richards voted for him 1 we suppose it would be a great and fitting climax for charley richards to fill an affidavit that dave evans supported judge marshall for united states jude and for that reason the united stiles judge S and then what why then there would be nobody to try the that Is just hat dave evans aad alie water company ti eire judge mcmillans llanis objected to be causa he a political pull Is there any lawyer in utah who has not a political pull what an objection judge dey of salt lake city is objected to because he was chairman 0 the democratic district committee that elected the salt lake judges and also because he was once tue attorney for bothwell if a court of justice can allow such thing to eland between the people and justice then indeed are aba people hopeless the affidavit bays that the street car company bid to licht the streets and the new franchise for the street car company were refused because jarvis coaklin were interested in streetcar what 5 beitl divald evans when he prepared that and W rowe 1 he it should have known that the statement was fale every man woman and child in ogden knows that the of the city ot oden was promised to the pioneer power corn pany it they would the mr they have finished that work aad are entitled to their reward no one knows tabt better than the ogden water company and tta attorney t abe affidavit baye that the city coun cil subsidized TUB dave evana and W II 11 rowe know that to be untrue the city council bae aub W H rowe lias also subsidize tins the city council paid TUB 1 cents per line for aliat it published and win II 11 rowe did the same thing lie had his matter published in THE STANDARD in the same issue with the city and we charged both 15 cents per line anil h th paid it so it the city subsidized THE then billy rowe is that same charge and he should have no caad for complaint As for the charge that TUB STANDARD ha great influence and circulates throughout the ie all true but wo never dreamed of having an influence so great that a quarter of a million of people including all the state judges should bow down before no one knows bettor than we do that THE STANDARD has great but cot near much as the gentlemen would bare it appear from the vay the water company is its fight against the city the pc ople will that richard A and dey and the city attorney have their hands full in watching all the legal points the case corn a up again in salt lake city next monday I 1 remains to be been it imagery bulldozing bluffing and deception will win in courts of justice |