| Show WHAT is S TI THE f E MATTER MATTEW it is but seldom that we allude to the acts nets or courso course of nien men holding positions in this territory with a view to point out their errors and discuss doings that might well bo be deemed reprehensible for wo we havo have learned e arned to be charitable we know how materially men juen their opinions and while i their motives can bo viewed as corree correct t in the main wo we are willing C to concede all the honesty of purpose that can reasonably bon pon ably bo d demanded when bible gible individuals falsify and malign 1 our alt eizens as a whole and the more prominent ones in part pari particular feuL ix W we e can pass jt by with silent contempt or make but an occasional aliu allu blon gion to it as in the past but nutt when men vested with authority insult the tho entire entime community under shelter of that authority for the wrong doings of a few unknown individuals vi and couch threatening A in intemperate tem iem language we can scarcely allow it to go without remark on saturday last we had llad a somewhat painful exhibition of fadin fading I 1 fr judicial dignity which had it been manifested by any judicial personage lower than the chief justice would have been lacen simply ridiculous but in him it was extremely pitiable and raced raked serious doubts doubts whether ho lie is not subject to mental aberrations which maal mani featly unfit hini him for the position he occupies before the DL district strict court in chambers chambe be ra the lion hou john titus chief justice of utah presiding andrew burt chief chiet of police pollee wm calder and james tom toms s were arraigned on charge of complicity in breaking up ul a tenpin ten pin or bowling alley on thursday night last the accused brought numerous witnesses to prove an alibi while two persons deposed to the three named having been present it is enough to say that of those two the one who affirmed in the strongest manner is well weil known to a portion of the community with a character that la ii moro more notorious than enviable and whose e veracity la it very verb ques tio tlona tiona nabie ble blo under the nest most mosi favorable lc air i eum cum stances ills holifi on thes thea the tho strength of the testimony given bound over the accused in the respective sums gums of 2000 1600 1500 and 1100 1000 1000 to app appear at the iho next march term of the district court bo so far so well lie he had tho right to i place what amount of ere ore credence donee ho he pleased in the testimony bedore before him im but he proceeded in a furious harangue enforced by var various lorus and sundry heavy thum pings C of that part of the tho judicial person generally gener cally known as the seat scat of honor hondr upon the judicial chair abused the police as a body demolished the council out our most raiment citizens closed their mouths with a heavy bar of judicial sealing wax used up the entire community or placed them in the ion lon long iong sought ht for condition of abject serfdom with the sig 1 aut ant remark that they would find out who r nied ruled liere here not nott ruling on the bench boneh but ruling of a more forcible and physical kind we were certainly unprepared for sueh auch violent and intemperate language from his honor we had learned that his antipathies antipa thies wore were intensely strong and his prejudices not very measured we had understood that lie he had made a journey to the capital of tho the to try if the unmerited vengeance of the government could not upon us perhaps in that matt matter erwe we are arc misinformed for ined but such is the prevailing opinion and it will require strong 0 Us testimony to remove it still sull with all that up to a few months ago we gave his honor cre diffor the most correct of motive motives s believing that lie ruled according to the spirit and I 1 letter of the law to the best bes t of his but latterly there has been a singular consistency in his course MUM although somewhat inconsistent with his previous judicial career here perhaps somo some acute legal mind will explain why it la Is that of late every efery person who has sought to evade the law or who has acted in open violation i of df it b by y establishing places expressly prohibited or in other ways has endeavored to breed disorder and trouble hals has had the tile mantle mantie of charity thrown around the them and those who have sought to have law and good order prevail have been blessed with all nil the laws delay or why by it is that every man in the tile community of the old settlers who has lias tried io to maintain his inalienable rights inviolate has been met by a rigid sternness that would 1 if it could achar his possessing them if this has not been the easo case wo we would like to be cor corrected romed ishits it has been forthe for the in interest lter eto 8 of ft members ne U iter of the bar here to dere defend nd eer oer certain tal a institutions known as clubs which under that name have acted in open violation of the laws for those members of the bar have derived pecuniary benefit from so doing they have received their fees for such defence and when his honor has manifested even a stronger interest in them than those who plead before him do unsophisticated people naturally ask does boes his honor also derive pecuniary benefit from the same bame sources source and if so Is ft it as much larger than that which members of or the bar receive as hia hla app apparent arent Inte interest reit in III the contIn continuance uince of ai sueh such u ell eil places Is stronger than theirs these questions being 0 suggested ested perhaps satisfactory reasons can be bo given 0 iven aven to meet the doubts ra we are no defenders of unlawful acts we e deprecate everything illegal 0 and unrighteous and we have reasons 3 to or sayin saying 0 that I 1 legal illegal I 1 acts nets are con contemplated tempia ted tod by wa wicked aked men lil in our midst that the odium maybe maybo may be caff upon the old oid citizens we would not wish to say gay that ills his honor Is privy to them though some som 0 of those whom bs he is anxious to sustain and vindicate are not plow to couple his name with their intentions as ampro bating them we inic have heard it b by y those aho wh vho 0 olg ought tornow to know that at he is sube suba at of tj brain of this nature it is to be hoped ao eo and that the present will IF ili iii mon won pass pasa atnay avray we trust he lie will not bunt burst before it does docs nor inflict any very serious hous injury on the judicial chair chaly or the judicial stat seat of bf honor if ho bo should explode at arl ati an early day eib elb tse ere will try and a 1 ma maes mass of matter mauer nory norv noy nov lying on our out desk and carefully repot reported ted fro from n til his st honors lono rono rs lips that will furnish flamish ampie ample materials materiale 1 for a serles series of comedies by somo gome compa 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