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Show "SwiNiHNii AtiorNn." Tho Denver Den-ver A'ns wi.-dio.s to know how it is "swinging around" to tho Mkhm.Ii'k way of thinking. Wo will give it an illustration. It hn.i been maintaining that Judge MoKoan wan tho pink of perfection, but concluded it did not likp his "remarks to tho juries." That's just our position. Wo did not like them because they wore undignified, undigni-fied, course invective, incorrect statements state-ments and tho very wantonness of spleen itself. Wo will toll tho JYncs more : Judgo MoKean himself is swinging around to our way of thinking. think-ing. Not only Judgo McKean, but his coadjutors on tho bench have, by repeated rulings, been ignoring everything every-thing in tho shape ofTerritorial courts; yet within a few days, when a easo of habeas corpus came up before him, he actually recognized tho lower court and remanded tho easo for that court either to amend tho commitment or ro-examiuo it. This is so new, so strange here, that wo paused and wondered, won-dered, and waited a day or two, still wondering if there would not bo another anoth-er decision and a couuter-ruling. Judgo McKean is now over tho usual six months in a Territory, and wo expect ho is beginning to have moro cularged ideas. Almost every Judge who comes to a Territory starts iu with the idea that ho knows it all, and other people know nothing ; but generally improves after a period of residence among and contact with lawyers of experience ex-perience and standing in tho Territories. Territo-ries. If anybody will point to a single ease in Utah, whore a Federal Judgo, not six mouths in tho Territory, permitted per-mitted a ease brought before him on habeas corpus to go back to tho inferior infe-rior court, we will be obliged. The usual course has been to turn the prisoners pris-oners loose, no matter how criminal. |