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Show MIN THE INTEREST OF THE ! MORMONS." Iu no ironical spirit, but iu ihj so-' Wrest and most earui.m manner of which wo are capable, we b;g the President of the l.'nited States to turn a deaf ear to the "California and Nevada Ne-vada capit.t!i" who arc urgini; him to remove Judges McKean and Strickland. Strick-land. "In the interest of the Mormon." Mor-mon." to u-o tlie lani;uago falsely attributed at-tributed to Governor Woods ye solicit soli-cit their retention. In this request wo are whosesoever the fault may be influence! by no sordid motive whatever. The Judges have not either expressly or impliedly agreed to sustain sus-tain us ro j) i the bench if we will sus tain them on the beach. We have no mines in litigation before them, no suits they can indefinitely postpone, 310 cases to ootno before juries of their ejection. Park has not organized a tunnel company tor us, Husey has not ''seca u?" the Walkers have never assisted us W mat Saturday nights greeable to OCS fj'p0.'- tVe support the jurists whoui a beneficent Adminis tratiun has vonscliafed to us for other leasons than any of these ahhongh if the parties in interest ru-h to recognize recog-nize our valuable service. io this behalf, be-half, by bringing us within reach of any goldenshower that may about this time patter on the roofs of newspaper I organs, we will not say nay. Wt sustain onr judicial friends from I a "Mi.rmon" standpoint. We fear ! that if they be removed the "Mor- mods" may go farther and fare worse, i Wo fear that any Judges sent here will j couje under tacit if not direct in-itruc-; nun) to do all that is possible against filio ''Mormons" and wc prefer men ' who are weak to men who might be : wicked. Another effort to enforce the ' Uulloui hill (on the hypothesis that it ougnt to havo passed) might provo ! mure effectual. Could we hopo to j have another Judge who, after over turning the laws and overriding pre-1 pre-1 cedents to pack a jury that might indict in-dict '"Mormons," should proceed to di-miss that jury without day on the ground that there was no money to pay them? Never again might we hope to behold such an illustration of the nursery couplet "The Kfnii ot'Franco with forty thousand III1 D. March d up the hill and then marched down again." Never again might we hooe to have a Judge who will kindly relieve our citizens of tho expense of courts and jails, and tho vexatiousduties of jurors Tho President might send us Judges who would really "go for" the Mormons Mor-mons in place of pretending to "go" for them while really attending to their own interests in quartz and things. Good Mr. President, leave xur Judges alono; they are not hurting us, they are doing very well for themselves considering; and as for the Nevada and California capitalists let them suffer suf-fer for their lack of taste. No good oitiacn, no liberal, no man with a grain of appreciation of the fitness of things, ought to objeet to having his claim jumped by a JUDGE. |