Show VEXATIOUS THE feth article articie of the amendments to the constitution provides thata that in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trl tri albyan trial by an impartial jury juny but bul thore there is a class of prosecutions ps eullar to this territory in which this constitutional tut ional right is entirely ignored these cases casci may ba be properly called anti antl mormon accusations they are presented not in the interests of justice nor ilor odthe of the common we wei wel fa rebut in the spirit of persecution springing from a malicious desire to harass and annoy cl certain individuals because of their with the mormon church of this class of prosecutions la the indictment against a number of gentlemen for the killing of ike potter and chas wilson two notorious thieves and lawless desperadoes while attempting to escape from the officers of the law more than thau 12 years ago the indictments were found august 3 1877 and the trial has not yet taken pa place ace it is now postponed until next february why are the accused no not brought to the bar and punished if it guilty of the crime of murdel simply because there is no evidence against them oost la is all this being being the case as is la well known knowd wily should they be sub aub ejected to the annoyance trouble and expense of this procrastination bebau because u the prosecution tion hates to beo sec them cleared from the shadow of the charge and this N because they are understood to be connected with the mormons cormons Mor mons if it it were not for this their cases would have been settled long ago indeed if it they had not been mormons Mor mons it is not at all likely they would ever have been indicted 1 if the onn off officers lepro who prevented the escape of two notorious rut ruffians rians thad that buo cuo law jaw ands andi and ano backed by indians shat bhat down cattle and appropriated them without leave leava of the owners threatening death to any who interfered torr ered had been gen Geu gentiles tiles the deed would have been applauded by those who now seek reek to fix the stigma of crime for this act upon men against it whom there is no evidence co to ba be found but because they aro arc 11 mormons Mor mons they are to be harr barr assed and badgered and put to great after time BO so thao thaM here bere may mag 6 a same shadow of pret pretext tit for he hp charge that the mormons Mor mons are are murderers and for old and stupid bugaboo afi danicea Da nitea and destroying angels Ang elsy notions actions of a depraved press and a hireling shameless sectarian priesthood the counsel for the accused will do doubt press for a settlement of their cases next february and the last of these vexatious prosecutions originating in bigotry malice and falsehood falsehoods will be cleared from the calendars of our district courts ther they are a shame and a disgrace alike to the attorneys who concocted them and the judges who encouraged cou raged them s |