Show A MAN OF STRA STRAW W tIR friendly neighbor the St Salt t Lake Tribune m may mayas OUR O as well understand that its efforts are arc vain And it m may numy pass that word ord along to those these that shape the verbal bullets it so ineffectively fires fire Its s attempts attempts attempts at at- tempts to construct a false basis from which it may lUay attack us in iii the tho case of the Parr Parry cs escape pe are arc futile The Utah public has Ilas carefully observed the developments developments develop develop- ments it understands we wo believe behice that wo demand only justice in its behalf just ice justice not for one individual who vho may have hate figured in the circumstances but for all nIl that were concerned We Ve shall shaH not be satisfied nor will they until that demand has been met mot in its fullness With tile tho amiable hope of making a a. man of straw it it may later Inter demolish Mr Keams's mss newspaper remarked remarked remarked re re- re- re marked editorially yesterday Tile Tite Smoot organ appears to be making the case at of tho the convict Parry It its own and Its partisanship for toc the time guard Merrill Is s undisguised d. d It Il announces that It will tako up the cudgels cudgel for Merrill as ac soon n as ns the examination examina lion tion is over over and continue It its raid on tho state authorities ties tics who have h had to do with this case oase Thus an outlaw out out- low law organ supports ou outlawry and aad crime and ond criminals We Wo have have- expressed no opinion as to tho the guilt or innocence pf of Guard Merrill tho the Tribune in LJ tho the above refers refer to him hin a as lIB a criminal We Va vo ha-vo repeatedly urged sw swift ft and implacable justice for or him punishment him punishment if he be bo guilty vindication if he be inn innocent ent The Tribune Tribune Trib Trib- une evidently con considers ciders his hearing a a. more morA superfluity p a temporary and unnecessary obstacle in the tho way of his punishment We Va have haw gone further farther and demanded 1 that not only he be bo penalized if guilty but that all nU others concerned in jn the escape of Parry share the same chastisement Th The Tribune or some reason it has not yet explained resents the tho presumption of Merrills Merrill's in innocence innocence in- in until proven guilty it demands his immediate immediato punishment and absolves absolve everybody else at tho ilio prison without the too shadow of hearing In which even a a. a position po pO- do dots does impartiality ty lie l lIn In its s assumption that we shall continue our supposed sup sup- I posed pd raids on the state authorities who hove have had to todo todo do with this case the Tribune evidently has tion in the Parry ParIS c caso we do not Dot share So far nr as we weare ore are aware no state authorities were concerned in ini inthe in i the escape cape But We are Bre averse to quibbling quibbling- and if the f considers W Warden Pratt a state authority TTO wo shall ahaU not quarrel We Lad had fancied warden The a a subordinate appointive appointive f tive tie officer under the state government whose of oLf official i i- i cial nets acts were subject to proper review that tho the people whom ha lie serves might understand them That we fe feel l assured is the publics public's view also The Tribune Ion for f its own purpose to confuso Warden Pratt in the public mind with the tha entire state administration t non tion which will be an excellent trick if it succeeds but butr r f while the weather is extremely warm m it 18 is scarcely torrid term enough for for that That is drawing it abit bit fine even for or tho the dog dOl days days- No amount of dexterous di divert ert public attention from front the tho hearing of Guard Merrill The public open impartial inquiry of this Parry affair affair af m- af- af fair that we demanded is being had the tha court over which Judge Tanner pr presides ides is 13 open to all an who may crowd into its circumscribed quarters quart Under the tho sharp harp scalpels of tho attorney for the commonwealth and the counsel for the defenso defense moat of the tho truth should rise to the iha surface That is nil nfl we wo desire that thatis is all nU the Tribune or anybody else should desire And they flatter themselves if they hope to escape with any Jee lees The state of Utah cannot afford to be other than remorselessly p impartial in this mattor matter The Tho great court of public opinion from which there is no appeal appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal i is IB making up its judgment |