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Show Bombistes' Court. Salt Lake City. October 19th, 1S74. Editors Herald: Though you were eesn in court this murnmg, as well as myself, I can't refrain from telling you how the sensation of the day, re The I preparatory steps for indicting the people's paper looked to one outsiae the holy circle: First, the sounding of the bugle far the entry of the grand jurv, to hear tne Chief Justice bring his colic to the surface for their deliberation; Second, the oratorical display to the grand army and the withering side glances of the judicial goggles to "one Fuller," or some one eke; Third, the self-immolation of said Chief Justice upon the altar of justice, and the request of said notable that I, your Chief Justice, mav be placed in the felon 'frdock and there be defended de-fended against such charges; Fourth, the magnificent wave of the arm of our Chief Justice which sent the grand jury back to the room, and the titter in court that someone had ma le a fool of himself. The thiggj i believe, was gotten up for a show of pageantry on the part of our Chief Justice, and though 'twas galling to the grand jury to be compelled com-pelled to play the supers' parts, il couldn't be done without. McKean ought to have bad his fife playing and drum beating, with a ragged banner, to have made the thing complete. Oi course, the desire of our Chief 1 to shut up funny thoughts will not : be consummated; he may, through thus stirring up old reflections, have some addendas to give bis grandiloquence grandilo-quence airing upon, and 'tis time ne had it too. Only think, that a piper dare not say that it hag heard that McKean Mc-Kean 's rulings were extra judicial; that his amount of law knowledge placed him at the foot, instead of the head, of the bar; that prejudice and partizan feelings are his code of practice; prac-tice; that the proceedings of to-day are more the display of a quick-tempered quack than of an astute and pool-headed judge. Of course you must not repeat this, or you will be arraigned for libel ! But. whether you say it or not, the public say it, j and often, tco. If you were inside j the "ring" you might publish libels every day, and not be touched-the ! partizan judge couldn't put his goggles gog-gles on to seo it, but being on the side of the party attacked the ring Chief nuut try to squelch you, hut you can depend on public appreciation and a prosperous life when the memory of all Utah's enemies are dead and for-, gotten. Disgust. |