Show MADE A MISTAKE one of the curious features in the now famous mandamus cases that have figured su prominently iu the district conits of tho Toni lory during the past two or three mouths is eliat tho great majority of tho aepli bauta cauta novar succeeded in filing tho bonds required by law for their expected offices with tho person or organization designated bv law 13 the receiver and approve cr of such bonds and that instead of manda mussing tho county treasurer or county courts as tho caso mi lit be to receive and file the undertakings der takings they went to work and obtained a writ of mandate on tho incumbents de facto of the coveted offices to compell then to vacate and surrender their records and official property prop eity to what virtually irresponsible men such is the status of tho cases in every instance in which they have beon thus far ansti if such athing had occurred in any other state or in the union they would on that ground bonc have been undoubtedly out of court long before this but justice is a peculiar ansti aution in utah eliat is when the political rights of the patties litigant uro called into question otherwise our courte of justice aio os fairly conducted as elso in the republic another feature is that the edmunds bill having prevented tho usual biennial election taking place last august there cannot be an election to fill the offices that ara falsely supposed to havo been vacated until august 1881 for the existing tarri 0 law plainly bays eliat on the first monday in august in the year 1872 and biennially thereafter on election behall bo held throughout the territory of utah to fill alie county and territorial offices therein acs jo wc io nor give uio precise words of tho statute but merely tho cx c x ct of it if the appointees finally attain their coveted positions which is doubtful and congress docs not continue them in office beyond the stipulated period of eight months there is bound to be a vacancy and consequent chaos in the local governmental affairs of the at the expiration pi ration of that time a result which the congress in its bigot ted hasto to piss the anti mormon measures seemingly neglected to anticipate the only known remedy for this prospective chaos is tho passing by congress of an act providing for tho holding of a special election sometime next summer or else tho reauthorization of our imported governor to make another set of appointments to continue until tho usual election in august that utah will be admitted as a by the next congress is beyond tho of probabilities but it is eminently apropo that we keep knocking for admission confident that if not this year then somo period in the near future will the hoitala swing open and utah heartily welcomed to enter in and tako her place in the great american constellation ait should happen that such good fortune would smile upon her this yo arthen tho gordian knot would indeed bo solved but as wo said above such a thing is very im tho continued litigation however haa certainly one grand ef feet viz to thoroughly educate and train the mass of tho populace in their duties aud as citizens ot tho greatest ic pubic on earth so that when the timo comes that utah becomes ono of tho galaxy man and woman within her will thoroughly understand the theory and practice as well as tho rights and guaranteed to them by both a and national bovein mont a knowledge that wo might udd is valuable bayoud computation from the fact eliat upon tins intelligence is based tho true purity of tho ballot and consequently of true democratic government |