Show TWO OF A KIND TH THERE is a bunch of prickly pears on judge blackburnn blackburns Black burns seat on the bench they must make his position exceedingly uncomfortable as they have already almost if not quite penetrated his judicial unmentionables nables one section of the group of the thorny plant is from provo another from ogden while a few been gathered in salt lake to make the bouquet complete the bar of the two first named cities and a portion of that of the capital protest against his confirmation by the senate the ground of the objection Is ia im competency in legal parlance the point As ia well taken if the objectors only knew enough they would present to the upper brancalf of congress the opinion formulated by his honor on the general municipal election law if any mem ber of that august boby can make out what the supreme court ot of utah intended to say by what it did state in that alleged opinion through judge blackburn he be will not only show his bis capability to sit in the senate but also to conduct a law office cafice in philadelphia it Is truly a heterogeneous concatenation of extraneous trai trane ibous ous phraseology and would we believe on careful examination sea seal the judicial doom of its author so far as we know it is only paralleled in point of clearness by the alleged legal argument made today by mr caleb W west before judge in which the learned gentle man contended that a mans real deuce dence in a place is co ea eal with his intention to locate locale in it consequently ly that a person living in hi denver who conceived an intention in june to reside in salt lake was a resident of this city from that time although he did not reach here till august just let a person apply this theory to the general affairs of life and then hen calculate the character of the bolt he be makes from the line of the 1 commonest kind of common sense sense indeed it loo looks as if even ajon upon the basis of qualification governor thomas recommendation of his predecessor to a post on the utah commission was on a par with the one which placed judge blackburn in the important office from which the legal fraternity are now geeki seeking lag to dump him |