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Show Should Be Impeached ttttB HAVE no recall for judges in Utah. Y The only remedy possible to reach a judge when he becomes dangerous, is through impeachment. We in this district have a judge, Hon. F. C. Loofbourow, who, through his sterling and unbending integrity has become a menace. And our thought is that his Excellency, ' Governor Spry, should not delay In convening the (legislature to sit as a court o impeachment upon his case. , jf .,-The articles of impeachment would be some-WflgPIngJlike some-WflgPIngJlike the following: ' &W4fl We do not charge high crimes and misdemean ors, but do charge that by temperament, mixed Puritan and Moslem, he is unfitted to make cor-lect cor-lect legal application of the law and the facts in any case wherein personal antipathy or ambition is liable to be aroused. - We charge that in presiding over any case which leans to anything sensational or scandalous, by an infirmity of mind he is prone, unconsciously, to play to the galleries, and that by external influences he often unconsciously is so biased that the measure of his justice becomes appalling. We charge that by a mental infirmity his natural nat-ural integrity of purpose is often so swayed that no one can distinguish by his ruling at times where politics leave off and law and justice assume as-sume their sovereign sway. We charge that his prejudices are so strong and his friendships so abiding and deep that by a mental aberration of the mind of which he is not conscious he is liable unintentionally to use his office to assist a friend oven as under a conviction con-viction of duty he uses the same office to inflict extreme, unusual and unheard of cruelty; and all "" this in the holy name of justice. We charge that when once his suspicions or his perverted sense of duty is aroused, it is sometimes some-times doubtful if he distinguishes between a misdemeanor mis-demeanor and a felony. We charge that in his zeal that only righteousness righteous-ness shall prevail under the law, he has uncon- sciously in his mind mingled the legal with the ecclesiastical code and is apparently desirous of improving upon the decrees of the Saviour of the world. We charge that by temperament his moral at-p at-p tributes are so lofty that it is difficult: for him to g make a fair application of the law when poor I mortals are involved, but his altropathj' becomes b inverted and, like a reversed locomotive, what is intended as a blessing of tho earth becomes a pit-1 pit-1 iless engine of destruction, and in the cause of righteousness he unconsciously looks upon the victim vic-tim before him as the devout Mohammedan looks upon all unbelievers, as dogs. These articles are presented that accused persons per-sons may be convicted on sufficient evidence only and not on their former reputations and with the thought in mind that so many of the fixed stars are distracted by aberrations, that only the polar star is a safe guide for mariners. |