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Show THE VERDICT. Well, Cache county has pronounced her own verdict on horself. When William Wil-liam C. Parkinson and A. M. Israelson, members of tho presidency of tho Mormon Mor-mon church stake of Zion in that county, coun-ty, took from the judge of election, a Mormon bishop at M't. Storling, certain official ballots and marked them, tho avcrngc citizen bcliored that an infraction infrac-tion of law had. been committed a serious se-rious infraction, made the more reprehensible repre-hensible because of the high station of the offenders and because of tho improper im-proper purpose to which they were to be devoted. Not a man in all Cache county could be found to make the complaint against theso ecclesiasts. Tho officers of tho law declined to movo in tho matter until a citizon of another part of tho State in the interest of Utah's reputation, repu-tation, the enforcement of law and the purity of elections took the burden upon himself. The offenders wero arrested, ar-rested, but immediately relonsod on their own recognizance. The prosecution prosecu-tion languished, until from north to south there was a notice served on Cache count' that, in the popular opinion, opin-ion, she herself was on trial and by tho action of her people In this caso it would bo determined whether she preferred pre-ferred to protect crime rather than to enforce law. The case is over, the learned justice before whom the prosecution was brought finds no criminal intont, nnd tho ecclesiasts are set freo to continue this kind of work. More and moro it becomes apparent that the average priest of tho Mormon church high or low believes that the law was made to bind other people and was made for him lo break. Cncho county has passed judgment upon herself. |