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Show ALL TOOK! DAY OFF. The Kills Pnt a 8tcp en Their Wheels and the Gods Look After the Flection. DESERTED HALLS OF JUSTICE. A Disfranchised Inhabitant Seeds an Opinion on the Eocentrio Laws of Bepiatration, V Justice, lawyer and litigant drew a blauk today. The courts fearing lhty might t-espa.su ou the sacred rights of the voter, put the scales aside aud barred the doors to all comer. This did not affect the trial that was progressing pro-gressing without, however, and the case of The Liberals vs. The Church of Jesus Christ Is now before the great jury ot the territory. Judge Zane was entitled to relaxation. Ier since the summer vacation has hr been grinding out opinions, opin-ions, aud whiia the spectator may limi it difficult to reconcile hir.;elf to It. it is none the less a fact that his work Is as laborious as that performed by any mau In the territory. He ooed into the library where Librarian Lipman was holding communion with the sheep skinned authorities this morning and began to burrow into thulr dry and prosaic pages. Judge Auderson, who has boen under the weather for several weeks, simply looked into the lofty block over which the dignified goddess presides and theu started for the precinct in which he was registered and polled a ticket as virgin and unsrratched as when it caiv:t from the press for the Liberal ticket. "It's a misfortune that there ain't twenty thousand like those to drop in the slot," remarked a patriotic ward worker. ' "Exactly," replied the judge, "but Home with all Its glitteriug grandeur was not put up In a day. The race this tlmo may be iu favor of the other horse, but the time is coming when he will take second place, aud, thank heaven, he Is allowed to walk on three logs. I am Informed In-formed that young Utah Is asserting its Independence today, and If Caine don't have a erick in bis side by ulght It won't be because lie has not been forced to hustle to the liuhh. I believe front the premonitions that when the next congressional election rolls around a Gentile will be elected." 4S"And what do you think of the registration regis-tration law!" "It would bo redundancy to discuss that after it has been so elaborately analyzed an-alyzed In court." "It's none the less an outrage," shrieked a man who had been a resident resi-dent of the territory for seven months but who was denied the right of suffrage because he was not eligible at the hour of registration. "Yes, sir, an outrage. It's the disfranchisement, cold blooded and premeditated disfranchisement of hundreds of men who have acquired property and who under the teachings and franchises of tho constitution have a right to ssy who shall represent them In the halls of eongreM and in the matter mat-ter of national legislation. I contend that It's unconstitutional and that every man who has resided In the territory for six months has a right to his vote, If there was anything that ever called for riotous contempt It's this law and if something Is not done to correct it you will see riot at the polls before another election has been recorded. I've been here seven months and I'm entitled to vote by heavens I'm entitled enti-tled to vote." The court was not in physical trim to enjoy fireworks and having done bis duly to his country moved on bis way. The United States commissioners hud drawn in all their latch strings and were looking after the welfare of the territory. Commissioner Norrell had a case of assault on hand In which Thomas Parsons was the defendant and J. J. Jensen was the complaining witness wit-ness but in deference to the American eagle, that was permitted to go over until Saturday next. This was the solitary sol-itary case on the dockets in this department. de-partment. The probate and county courts were also closed and their miuieus fouud employment at the polls. |