Show A the prosecuting fisherman who is such an adept in the use of a scarcely be able to catch a conviction of charles wright esq on the charge of illegal voting today to day when the case of mr wright was called ia tho first district court it was rather peremptorily dismissed and unless special legislation shall be made the charge can never be res it ia well that judge powers stands in no awe of long poles or their or ho might feel some dismay at having deprived the prosecution even apon such irrefutable evidence of a ch anceto bring a mormon before a jury and secure n conviction of a member of the peoples party in this lost chance the vigilant prosecuting officers will have the sympathy of all tenderhearted tender hearted people govern attorneys in utah have had so few disappointments of ibis character that this oua one is likely to considerably sadden them indictment has been so nearly equivalent to conviction that at times it has seemed scarcely worth while to contest the allegations of the prosecution but however much the people may pity the assistant district attorney they will scarcely condemn mr wright and his attorney for demanding the quashing of the indictment and the discharge of the defendant biad the case been simply one of misdemeanor it might have been tho duty of mr to submit to a conviction and the subsequent punishment ish ment rather than to destroy time honored precedent by causing ono of the prosecutions cases against a mormon to fail of its jbf j act put as the charge against the defendant io addition to its own gravity involved possible esses of perjury against himself and several of his friends charitable people ought not to view his act of self preservation too harshly |