Show WHAT IS AN EXECUTIVE OFFICER All an executive officer has 1 to do Is to enforce the laws as he finds them theiR Now No I and then lawyers laugh at the ju justices of I the peace the primary grade grad of tribu tribunals I nals who set get out of enforcing a law aw awby by declaring it unconstitutional The Tbt spectacle of ot a justice of the peace CJ pass passing ing tag on the constitutionality of a law Jaw al always always always ways amuses a lawyer But what shall hall you say y of a public officer elected by the people sworn orn by bythe bythe bythe the spirit of popular government covern paid paI by the citizens who admits the exist existence I ence once of ot the law concedes its constitutionality con and yet refuses to obey it That is what John Bransford did He found a law Iw on the statute books boob and fairly riddled it with his influence and his official power when he backed the stockade scheme He Ha not only re refused refused fused to obey the law Ja but he removed from office his chief of police pollee who want to disobey Then he be appointed an another another I Iother other chief of police who 00 was willing to ignore the law They drove ti the law Iw as if I they were absolute dictators aid aud have to consider the statutes tf f a state HAte the ordinances of a There never neveria ia i L all the h history of o Ms this tI nations na on cen eon century century tury of progress PIO has IMS I been a 8 more gin glar glaring r lug ing example of an executive officer de do defying defying the laws la WB of the land tend John Bransford could nave have been im ha impeached impeached poached and driven disgraced out of office for tor his conduct of the stockade matter matterAnd matterAnd matterAnd And yet some people who put nut the city in an uproar because of the stock stockade stockade stockade ade are re out with indorsement ement of the theman theman theman man who made the stockade possible po AND THE ONLY O LY MAN IN TN ALL eTL UTAH WHO COULD HAVE IIA VE GIVEN IT STANDING IN THE COMMUNITY All an executive officer has lias to do is Ja enforce the law John Bransford not only enforce the law but he Ite let his subordinates enforce e fOrCe it itHe ItHe ItHe He fired when they refused to join him in lu violating It ItIs ItIs Is Je that a good pod man for citizens to proclaim an as their choi chums e for br r mayor mayur again If he lie is I to be permitted to pick and choose choo e what laws lawn he shall shan obey do you know what is 18 the next law that will be made inoperative e by him Is it safe afe to select a chief executive of the city who is a law Jaw unto himself What bat is the use of any an laws Jaw if your our elected elect d sworn and paid officials can make mke them inoperative |