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Show Rkvolutiuss seykr go backward. Those who imagino that the Mc-Koan Mc-Koan era of judicial tyranny is to be revived in Utah, evidently labor under un-der a mistake. In the first place, the late crusade was contrary to tho enlightened en-lightened spirit of tho age; secondly, it3 author has been repudiated by the administration and the people. Whatever may be dono in luturo no judge is likely hereafter to desire to walk in Judge JIcKean's persecuting footsteps, r to rehearae his worn-out platitudes from the bench. All ih.it any portion of the community can demand from his successor is simple justice, meted out according to legal forms, in regard to all questions at issue, without prejudice or partiality. A judge who adopta this course, we venture to say, will have tho support and approval of all honest men and women in the community, although some may differ with him in opinion, recognizing, as all well disposed people peo-ple must, the necessity of dame justice holding the scales evenly. TheMcKean dynasty is dead. It did not belong to the nineteenth century, and cannot bo resuscitated or reestablia'ied. |