| Show fraudulent VOTING CASES IN THE COURTS thim THE conviction of two persona tors for illegal voting at ogden affords some comfort to the Peo peopled pleis party not that any one belonging to it desires to 0 see its enemies suffer but the fact that juries can be had in utah who will sustain the law in face of party interests is encourage tug ing and full of hope henry andersen and thomas con connelly nelly have been fount guilty of illegal voting the maximum penalty fr for this offense is a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for two years an dersen dersons der sens lo counsel moved for a new trial connelly was sentenced to five months imprisonment and was well satisfied satis fird with the outcome great credit is due in the prosecution of these dases cases to district attorney david Evans E vans who put aside strong party proclivities and vigorously pressed the matter to an issue we do not believe the jury would have done their duty but for his firm and just persistence af mr r too is deserving of praise for his course in the affair but as he is a member of the peopled pie Is party it might be thought he had an I 1 interest in the matter though we are sure that he would have done his duty no matter where the sword of justice might fall andersen voted at the august election in the name of harry ferguson connelly Oon nelly in the name of J P thomson neither of them was a legal voter himself both declared they had been promised money by prominent eini liberals for their impersonal lions canelly connelly oa nelly when challenged at the polls forgot the name given to lo him at first aud and had to retire to refresh his memory before he could vote mr devaus tried to dia caim any connection of the liberal iberal party with these crime that way may do very well for him hut unfortunately for his diso disclaimer laimer the same sort of frauds fraud have been perpetrated by the liberals at every election in ogden and salt lake since and including the municipal election at the former city in 1889 by such means they have gained such successes as have crowned their efforts our friends in this city who watched the elections will recognize familiar liberal liberala 7 tactics in the course of connelly Oon nelly his lack of memory renewed attempts and all it appears tor to us that if the desire to put a stop to these infamous tricks is genuine some earnest endeavor will be made to trace the source of this subornation of perjury the poor tools have come to grief the wealthier villains who induced them to commit the crime ought to suffer the greater penally if justice was done there would be some heads now held high in this city in liberal Ll boral ranks that would be covered with shame and obloquy behind the bars bara of the penitentiary contrast the action of the jury in the first district court with that of the jury in the third district court ou on tuesday there and then a man was convicted of perjury per ury who gave information against a supposed illegal voter having apparently every reason to belleve believe that he was doing a simple duty doy the voter has be been en adjudged to have acquired legal residence and that is all there is of the case yet the man idan who stood up in good faith to vindicate the law and maintain the purity of the ballot box has been convicted of perjury when it was evident that his greatest offense was an error this packing of jury boxes with the political and religious antagonists of parties defendant and that too when the jurors are bitter partisans is a mockery of justice and a disgrace to judicial procedure the laws governing this matter as they now stand are glaringly defective fec tive but the practice and the manner in which they are administered are infinitely worse unless some change is made jury trials in utah may soon become a mixture ot of broad farce and deep tragedy |
