Show HIGH AND mm MIGHTY tramples the rights of citizens under foot AN APPEAL TO THE COURTS N the grand mogul of the registration office refuses republicans permission to ascertain whether voters are ara registered mandamus proceedings ce in tho tha district court it republican e rally bally tit at lehi the arbitrary action of joseph M cohen the suave and slippery democratic registrar of 0 salt lake county in ri to permit the county republican committee to inspect the ithe registration tro tion lists has hasteen been laid before judge merritt and the court will ibe be cal ed cd upon to draye dreye whether the registration tion lists are the priva ite property of the partisan registration officer or whether the public lias inagi not sonio liht to inspect these public documents ahen V hen mr cohen saat ct week refus refused ed to fan furnish rash the republican committee wilh copies of the alls i which they dearede in order that they see cc werther all republican voters were w e re the committee caused a canvass of the CRY to br be and prep ired a complete ast of ell when the books wale opened to for rev revision islon yes yesterday morning C chalem in jame i of at the itha county can cittee appeared appe areil atthe at the office of registrar cohen with the republican he ha 1 had a corps carps 0 of f expert checklist checkers ers era who would aou il have been abo aib 0 o no gio check ot oft the lists in a short urn oa as they were all acha betl caly arranged arrange 1 sir mr jaimes asked permission to check oft off the ests at such times as the books were no not da use rise oy by the beille de a which iv would not no have intorf interfered er w 11 ll the he work of registration ion in any man manner magneri tills this request was peremptorily denied by cohen mr james then anade a formal 4 demand rn and as the representative of 0 the republican commil itee in behalf of the party again ills un highness is no then the chairmen of the various p precinct nade made tr lr requests ques 3 0 and nd each in turn waa turned do vix iby by the creat man a voter who had ibern expressly authorized ily by another to a ascertain whether lie he was re glitt r ed asked permission to look at the list for the purpose bosc of db obtaining this information but his request was haughtily hauel tily denied by the czar car the republican comil littee then determined ter mined to seek redress in the cou courts arts from this of the oe laem registrar and ana initial sta steps were ivere taken in the matter when W F james and other un embers of the committee lied filed a a petition let don un IIA the third thial district court tor for a writ of mandamus a gallat mr cohen bilm to atlow allow the petition petitioners ers or such fauch perso persons 1115 as they imay employ emp oy not exceeding exco edan two persons in each precinct of the county to inspect the registration lists hats as compiled thy iby him lit in order that sald gild lists may roe ibe compared cont pared with the ilia list of re pu huvian VIan an voters prepared by said bald peti the petition was presented toy by judge C W Ben bennella nellt and C 0 whittemore and it was of course a alleged hesed that mr cohen had refused ruseLl re to abow the inspection p for an ali alternate writ was issued mid and sir mr cohen was ordered to show cause t tomorrow 0 afternoon arter noon at 3 2 the hearing promises to be an interesting one As the hearing has been postponed urita tomorrow to morrow thre days of 0 the week will have lapsed elapsed an and it Is not likely the case will be decided in time to enable the Rep Ican committee to sevare secure a full registration afuli A lull registration Is exactly what registrar cohen seems to wish tto to avoid yesterday was a a busy day d ay iy at registrar cohens cohen a office up to 5 new names were added io 10 the registry lists and at the closing hour it was conservatively thit almost 20 names were wem enrolled in the first pr precinct ec forty eight imen took look both oaths in the second alb abbout du t did the same while in the third there were forty in the fourth sixty and in the fifty seventy five anve on alt tills this rate between 1500 and 2 2000 1000 names alti ulti in ibe be added to the lists between now mow and saturday night at 3 9 when the lidl iol lists for will the ibe forever closed |