Show unprecedented PROCEED INGS THE present crusade against the lat ter day saints presents more peculiar and unprecedented tea features textures tures perhaps than any other onslaught upon the unorthodox in any age of the world the proceedings inthe in the courts afford new illustrations of this almost every day among amon the freaks of official persons in their treatment of tte mormons cormons Mor mons those these of the singular piece of perverted hu humanity maulty who has been selected to occupy the position of united states commissioner in cache county are quite remarkable the duties ol 01 our own mckay which render him the laughing stock of the bar and the aversion or of every decent citizen who Is 14 compelled to endure his presence particularly the ladles ladies pass into the background when cache val le goodwin commences to perform we we have related some of the he pai tic ulars of the case of joel ricks eicks when before that pompous functionary who in the absence ot any evidence whatever tending to inculpate the defendant informed the latter that if U he would produce a witness whom the prosecution had been unable to find and prove his innocence he would release him but otherwise he should hold him under bonds to await the action of the grand jury but there is another feature in this case that has not been 9 given ivea prominence commissioner Good also registration officer for the county which is unfortunate enough to count him as a residents resident in this capacity he be under the rules issued by the utah commission has the power to strike from the registration regis traVon lists the names of persons who may be obnoxious to him under the plea pies that he has reason to believe they are disqualified this renders necessary not in law but under the rules aforementioned i 4 a re taking of the repulsive osta oata which the rules again agaba not the laws impose upon the voters I 1 unless this oath is re taken the citizen is dept deprived ived ot the suffrage many persons whose names have been thus stricken irom the lists by regis officers without cause except personal spite have refused or neglected through ignorance of the snap judgment taken upon theato them to claim the right to register again by a renewal of the oath and thus the peoples party has been deprived of many votes to which it was justly entitled you dont find I 1 liberals treated after this fashion in pursuance pursuance of this policy joel ricks Eicks name was stricken from the reg list without definite cause this was bad enough in and of itself but mark the use to which this petty and pusillanimous registrar commis lioner put pat the wrong done to mr eicks when his case came up for examination the only evidence that goodwin who acted as prosecutor and court could bring against the defendant was the fact that his name was not upon the registration list and that was taken as sufficient proof th at he had violated the edmunds law was anything like that ever heard of before in any court or proceeding under the sun sud mr ricks bicks Is now under bonds to await the action of the grand jury because his name was stricken from the registration list through no act of his own and because he did zi not come into court and prove his innocence goodwin has not sense enough nor knowledge of law enough to understand der stand that a defendants innocence is is presumed until evidence of hi his s guilt is adduced 1 the election law of 1878 under which all registration and election officers are required to act provides that for the revision re of the lists the registrar I 1 I 1 shall visit every dwelling house in the precinct and make learea careful ua inquiry it if any person whose name is on his list has died or removed irom the preempt pre embt or is otherwise disqualified as a voter of such precinct and it so to rase the same ther efron or whether any i fled voter resides therein whose name is not on his list and it so to add the same thereto I 1 etc 1 this it is evident was not de 1 sit g arned to empower registration ceia cels to strike oh off at ir will ill or for spite i or for mere suspicion or lor common rumor the name of any an person who has taken the oath and thus qualified himself to be a voter re he must mast be as sure that a citizen has become disqualified from any other cause as that he has died or has removed from the precinct he must make careful inquiry to this end reis be is not authorized to strike names off for any trivial cause nor to subject su eject any voter pter v to fo the inconvenience and an I 1 humility h OT 1 I 1 of f re subscribing to the oath oat and d going g 9 to the office of the registrar reg astr r at a fixed date when he baynot be able abl to appear ot 01 course it is useless to appeal to the manhood the honor or the i sense of propriety of persons who possess neither of these qualities but bat perhaps an appeal to the law might have some effect in section 26 of the election law it is provided th that j ganv adv aerson who shall wilfully u te I 1 y f fail I 1 0 or r neglect to perform any 0 of i t the b d duties a t ies required of such officer or person shall be deemed guilty of a f felony elony and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a flue fine not exceeding one th thousand dollars or be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a tern term not exceeding two years if the registration officer wilfully fails or neglects to wake make careful inquiry iB as to a voters alleged alle Ile aed dis qualifications or to enter upon his list the name of a voter that has been omitted or in any ot herway violates the provisions of of the la law specifying his dutie ahe she may be proceeded against by criminal crl minal law as well as by au for damages it is time that some of the miserable scrubs who have been selected by the utah commission for registration officers simply because of their known antagonism and bitter feeling towards I 1 mormon citizens should oe taught a lesson in decency and fairness and to put their malignant partisanship aside when they engage in the duties of a responsible calling As for the combination of ignorance arrogance and that combines the offices ol of Regist registrar rr and commissioner in cache Cou county rity he te io too far gone one tor ter any lesson in manners morals or crr legality to make a suitable impression r es W when hen b be is to thoroughly ro y understood pd der stood 0 b by YI lis bis m masters asters wei k that to h ne e w will ia prove to e to teo much e even V for 0 the stomach t OM a of their sense |