| Show THE NATURAL EFFECT THERE is something in the result of ot the trial of ordner jones saloon keepers that points a moral if it is not calculated to adorn a tale the defendants fend foud ants had been convicted in the justices court of permitting disorderly conduct in their establishment and aad appealed to the third district court dherit the awe wa tried ever again the evidence for the prosecution was direct and conclusive there being almost nothing in the vv vay ay of teotimo testimony ny from theother the other side what anere was came from ordner himself and was not of a character to shake the evidence against the accused in the least yet the jury after being out but a few minutes comparatively returned a verdict of acquittal those twelve men good and true received received a well merited snub irom chief justice zane seeing that not the scintilla of a claim can be raised in favor of the proposition that the verdict was as based un on the testimony one naturally fishes about for a foundation for it the cause of it is not diffie difficult uR to tind the jury belonged to that class which has been derisively ui nica amed by members of the bar 11 and others patent insides that class which ba baa been called to sit upon upon the cases ot accused armons because they are in tym sympathy pathy with the prosecution v doubtless Dou otless the jury thought in the case against ordner aud and jones that they were acting out the same line of alleged judicial administration if they paid not the slightest regard to the evidence what point did they consider and as a base for kneir verdict we belie veit was simply this the defend ants were in the ardt place tried aud and convicted in the inferior court before an official who is a mormon thu the officers who made tae the arrest af after ter having in made laudable endeavors to main tag abe e peace and the dignity of the law in tue the disreputable reputable ilia resort and the witnesses in the case were understood by the jury to be mormons cormons Mor mons on th thi other hand te tae dependants are understood to be anti cormons mormons Mor mons hence the verdict we I ciok upon the result in the ordner jones ease as the natural outcome come ot ol a condi condition ot of things in th the courts ta t that at is a disgrace to civilization what better things can be expected when a person accused of an infamous crime against morality has been pr emitted iu in the same court to show us as a reason why he should be discharged charged that his accusers were mor alor mona the question is whether the jury on saturday did or did not imagine they were but carrying out the desire of the court it they did they were mistaken for when what we esteem to be chiet chief justice zanes I 1 fani atticism on the bench I 1 is ia not awakened by elements that he thinks have a bearing upon mormonism he is capable of conduct conducting ing affairs judicial bithia his jurisdiction with fair ability and ds crimination when his anti Morl momon morill brej prejudices ure aroused however we beh believe eve his judgment to be as warped and one sided as it is possible for the mind of man to make it also that this powerful predilection leads him to be cruel to the point of vindictiveness in the case against ordner jones there was nothing to cause the gall of bitterness to fi flaw w hence tile the judicial cuff with which he saluted tue patent insides who found a verdict on the basis of their prel prejudice udice in place of on the evidence speaking in general terms of the jury system conr eced with the third dis court during the antl anti mormon crusade some of its features are specially ludicrous there have been several stock open venire jury men who have made a kind of precarious living by watching with an eagle eye for tile the officer armed with tue the document anthor authorizing thor izing the pack they have hung around tor for the purpose of being hsum boned to sit on the hapless mormon victims they have been for this purpose hangers on fungus appendages of the court eager to pick up the scraps falling from the judicial table among these small calibre satellites has been an old man named foreman who is one of the chronic jurymen juryman jury men his frequent appearance in the box has caused many broad smiles at his expense for a long time it looked as if the plan had been adopted of having the sama saina foreman for each j jury ury thit that juries should be for the apparent purpose of providing a few dimes climes for impecunious hangers bangers onha on has snot not added huchto much to the dignity of court proceedings it is ia to oe no hoped that the snub given to the jury in the ordner bjones case will give some of the patent inside fellows an idea that they are to use a little discrimination about their display of anti mornion proclivity and confine it at least to a certain class of cases so far as verdicts are concerned but bat the demoralization of judicial business in one line is almost sure to affect conditions in other directions ions until the whole becomes more or less farcical |
