Show ballf julf loi TO YOU THE PEOPLES bartyl how many of the voters of the peoples party council di are out of town and have no intention of returning on the coming election day how many are conceiving plans of business or pleasure that will take them away on that day how many have not given the subject a thought since the nominations were made and will most probably forget the date of election forget to read their paper and at the critical moment be engaged in sn oozing or horse racing or some other super intelligent diversion when their duty calls them to the polls it any one can anaker these cups lions we can tell leini whether lie peoples candidates are going to be defeated for if such should bo the outcome of the coming election negligence willful or heedless will bo the sole cause of it at the election of school trustee recently alie liberals elected their candidates by a majority of one it is stated that many of the liberal voters in the district were not present that night to deposit their ballots tor the election of their candidate but on our side there was greater negligence to the writers positive knowledge there were at least three of hia neighbors who upon the presumption that a sufficient number of their friends with more patriotism than themselves would bo there to attend to matters staid away when there was no plausible reason tor BO doing their presence would have turned the election over to their party the twentieth district in salt lako was lost in precisely the same fashion wo hope the people by the time election day comes round will sufficiently sense their duty in the premises to perform it THE RAID ON GRAND JURY the correspondents who are trying to keep tho country informed upon be doings of the constitutional conventions vent ions in the proposed now states are making a poor success of it either the inchoate lawmakers aro a set of numskulls num skulls or alie reports 0 their labors are gross libels it is true that what e hear from idaho Is rather moro coherent but as there are invariably two contradictory accounts of everything that is interesting te we are at last left in doubt as to which it cither h the correct one and whether after all both may not be totally false from montana however comes the intimation of ft question which may prove of serious importance and we consider ourselves fortunate in being able to glean at least one kernel out of bubli ft mass of chaff we refer to the proposition to graft upon the young constitution a clause abolishing the grand jury the matter was referred to the committee on judiciary from whom in due time we hope to hear startling as proposition may aleem it is by no means original with the montana constitution makers it lias vexed the mindi of the best legal men of the nation and la yet far from battled but it ii gaining headway and it is no longer treason to approve it the modern grand jury is a modern etar chamber fifteen to eighteen inquisitors inqui assisted by the states attorney make it heir business to overhaul any mans character listen in secret to the evidence eri dence of his enemies frequently bulldoze and bielli rag witnesses a ho ibave no one at hand to protect them and by dint of questioning which would not be tolerated in open court in liing up a bill of indictment oft times as outrageous as le method ot its at is damnable tho chow of secrecy is usually a farce and cases are not unfamiliar where the records of the grand jury room have been produced in court with we leave cadi reader to judge for himself the intention of the framces of the national law was all right and the objects for which the system was adopted were commendable but the one in ita execution liaa woefully miscarried and he other have long ago lost their purity aliis being the case no wonder men doubt whether the wrongs which aro committed under it are not almost greater than the wrongs which it labors to correct the montana decision may not be expected to settle the question but it will be interesting nevertheless JAKE kilipati KiLi iAti roso to liis present glory from he ranks of the fruit peddlers in all his prosperity he Is etall proud of lis on marketable tomatoes |