Show ONE SIDED JUSTICE verdict in the case ot of may white prosecuted under indictment for adultery adds one more instance to the multitude which have gone to prove that the administration of lus jus in the district courts is ia an unmitigated farce farca times without number it has been proved to a demonstration that so far as its application is concerned the law has been used tor for the punishment ol of mormons cormons Mor mons while the grossest offenses offe nees can be perpetrated with impunity by other classes of elti citi zens it is difficult to imagine a case in watch the evidence was more conclusive than the one referred to th the marriage of the defendant to james M white was proved dy by the testimony of the official who performed the ceremony witnesses testified that they found her in joint occupancy of a room with frank engler edgler under circumstances pointing strongly to the adru erous character of their associations une one witness U S deputy marshal pratt also testified tes tined to the fact that the woman had bad admitted her guilt and stated that it was no ne use for her to it fight lit the case t in the face of these facts look at the result the case was given to the jury ur congi consisting stin of eleven non Vor gd cormons mormons Mor mons an and one mormon 11 yesterday afternoon from ta the the start the eleven were for acquittal and one the mormon tor for a verdict of guilty the odd man who was in favor of the enforcement of the law yielded and within thirty minutes the jury returned into court with a verdict of not guilty such instances as this along side of the vigorous and vindictive prosecution of mormons cormons Mor mons who are convicted on the most anost attenuated evidence and herded into the penitentiary and what is the conclusion no other can be arrived at than that the courts of this territory are used as a species of crushing crashing anti mormon machinery into the toils of which uon non mormons cormons Mor mons need not enter it was hoped that in view of the expressed intention of the th chief executive of the republic to see that the laws are enforced against all classes alike there would have been an aba abatement ement of ef the one sided justice which has b by a long series of causes brought the utah tah courts into merited popular contempt it appears however that the flagrant outrage is to be perpetuated unless some decisive action dionis is taken in relation to those who I 1 unjustly discriminate in the enforcement and administration of et the law it is useless for officials to try to throw the odium of such results as mat reached in the case immediately in point upon the jury had there been an impartial administration of the law throughout the morale of juries would not have sunk sank to the debased le level it has re reached sched in this regard attorney gee counsel for may white administered a stinging blow upon the official cheek of assistant district attorney varian and indirectly upon the ear of the court he said that he be mr varian had declined to prosecute a number of cases of persons charged with lewd and lascivious conduct and moved for the dismissal of the defendants defendant sone s one of the grounds for this action being his allegation that the witnesses were not entitled to be believed mr gee said the witnesses in the case he was defending were of the same class the slim apology offered by mr varian was to the effect that the cases referred to were ot ol a different character to that under trial the they doubtless differed in some of their teal features but the offenses charged were bona fide infractions of the law and it was his duty to prosecute and that of the court to try them had the accused been mormons cormons Mor mons they would without doubt have been prosecuted prosecutes with vigor and vindictiveness just such proceedings as those referred to by mr gee nave given antl anti mormons cormons Mor mons of whom juries junes are almost entirely composed the idea that those belong belonging i ng to ther their own class should escape ol of Justi ceno matter as to the character 91 the tm 1 vi I dence adduced against them on the other hand band that Mornie ns accused of offenses should invariably be found guilty if there to Is a shadow of evidence u upon 0 which to bank a verdict of e that klu and d such results as that reached 1 la the lie M may ay white 1 I to case is what might be expected as a p product c of the e way in n which the courts vf of utah have b becca manipulated |