Show the organ of the leaguers in general and of dickson and zane in particular desires the utah commissioners to take the same view arview of the case as the attorney and the judge and ar sues gues that if there was nothing wron wrong in Dick questions there woula would be nothing wrong in the putting of the same questions by the registrars to men who desire to register as voters we und understand erslan I 1 that desire and the public will not be slow purpose that hat lies skulking kinn behind the movement but unfortunately for foi those abd wish to obstruct the registration and to th exclude cormons mormons Mor mons from the polls both the edmunds act and the instructions of the commissioners to the registration officers in pursuance thereof and of the new law stand 1 broadly in tha way of their designs The Edmands act says concerning the commission 1 64 provided that said board of civo persons shall not exclude any person s otherwise bli eligible gible fo 10 vote from the polls on account of a any vol opinion D such person may entertain enteria in an the subject of bigamy or polygamy nor shall they refuse to count any inch vote on account of the opinion of the person casting iton it on the subject of biga bigamy myor or polygamy 11 1 the commissioners w t their latest circular after stating i the statutory qualifications disqualifications dis which chic prohibit f ram from voting persons guilty of the offenses named in the new law jaw and those who have not taken the prescribed oath make the following remarks on this watter matter the commission is of the opinion that the above specifications include all the disabilities to which eee electors tors are subject under the laws of congress and that no opinions they may mav entertain upon questions of religion or church polity should hould be the subject of inquiry or exclusion of any elector this is sufficiently explicit it and covers all the ground it if any registration or election officer leagued with the scoundrels who want to steal the territory attempts to impose shy aay a ay re in excess of the law let the lie offense be reported at once to men inen wh who 0 will see that citizens are protected in their rights and that the jhc bili official cial violator of the law by exceed 1 ing its bounds and obstructing its electors to Is proceeded against for his bis crime the attempt of the organ it at argument on OB this question turns tarns entirely upon an aa if if there was no wrong in mr Diek sons questions yes but there was a breut deal of wrong in them the they were wrong because there is no law w t justify them jurors were de debarres debarred from taking the oath provided for by law because they were not willing to take another and entirely diff different erent oark for which there bisno is no law adest A test of this may be found in the fact that after the persons persona who were not rejected passed the test teat imposed no such oath as mr dickson premised waa presented to thew because there such oath to present it only existed in the mind ot mr dickson and the court it is not in the jed edmunds act nor in the new law and as the district attorney was bound by law in the examination of the jurors what he did was wrong for it was in excess of the law we W e caution registration reid and election officers not to follow folio w the bad example of a dismissed official nor to take the dangerous and vile advice of the organ of mischief if they do they will get into more serious trouble than any of their ill advisers would care to help them out of they had bad better not go beyond the law serious consequences depend on this b both oft t to them and the people and we are in earnest in this word of war warning U in there is no excuse for such a course as the chief conspirators would like to a see e taken by bi reckless registrars and those who attempt to follow it will deeply re regret gret their folly let the laws take their course there are bad provisions in them and many sections are to be condemned by the just but while they are enforced like other laws and are not made the vehicles of persecution instead of prosecution and those who administer them keep within the their ir legitimate limits there will be no formidable obstruction to their enforcement but they must not go beyond the law or they will themselves and if legal technicalities prevent their punishment by process ol 01 of the courts lut week wednesday austin merrill who lived at the head of boulder creek near shoup idaho was Ns killed by bt the asti accidental dental discharge diec barge of his revolver while he be was in the act of taking aarink a drink from a creek there will b be a found a lawful way by which they can be needa res reached ed so that they may day learn the needed lesson that officers of the law jaw must keep them selves within the bounds ol of the law |