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Show GrntuitoiiN Judicial IiiNiilt. It is reasonable to inquire, all things considered, if James B. Me-Kean, Me-Kean, Chief Justice of Utah, could render a decision or give a judicial opinion, without wantonly insulting the community which he "judicially governs." He has so frequently stepped from the pedestal of judicial impartiality, to attack, with all the partisan bitterness of a bigoted and narrow mind, tlic large majority of the people of Utah, that it has ceased to 1c a novelty; though men of sense still stand aghast at some of his extraordinarily extra-ordinarily rabid, biased, and undignified undigni-fied assertions. In his decision on the application for injunction, yesterday, yester-day, he. used the following language : If a person bo maliciously prosecuted prose-cuted he has his remedy at law, or would have i(yiy.i' lutes emu-ted here. If such laws do not exist the courts cannot be held responsible therefor. Had this language come from any less elevated source it would have been beneath contempt; coming from the Chief Justice of the Territory it is a wanton outrage and deliberate insult to tho whole people; lit and pruper enough, perhaps, to come from a man who eoufd order the Bar practicing prac-ticing before him to go and study tho Bible because they declined to go to trial with important causes before a jury which he had just decided illegal. |