| Show lat THE PRECIOUS GREENMAN 1 1 we hare have a few low times before called public attention to the tb is eminent judicial ability of commissioner 1 I 1 Green mail manof of salt lake city that ar election caga case ruled upon otherwise 11 overruled by him on wednesday bems to have Poss possessed esEed the secret something om ething which has called oat out the legal egal powers of bis big wonderful mind V to the full limit of their capacity ilia decision was wrought out with much I 1 obvious labor and an effort to be logically exact which ia Is common to I 1 all great legal minds having strong 6 motives weak men can cannot and do not attempt to sustain auch such mental tAl effort if k the case was one in which one W J alien tallen as proxy judge of election I 1 wag wait charged with having fraud bently manipulated tho ballot boxes a ai poll 2 fourth precinct salt lake city BO so as to elect P L williams a liberal instead of R W young 01 a P lea candidate witnesses called ln 1 l LE decaso testified that they had been seen this earno same alien allen whose duty it I 1 was to place the ballots in the box L fumbling them in his bands hands I 1 11 I 1 BO so that the voter could I 1 I 1 not in to many cases determine whether his ballot went into the box or not one witness affirmed that alien allen had not put his ballot in the box at all bat but bad had thrown it back at him yet this same voters name was checked on the list as having voted in adal a gi 1 1 I 12 7 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 tion to this testimony it was shown that a startling discrepancy existed between the ballota ballots found in the box and those reported by alln all n and the other judges to be canzalie can canvassing valie ing board A certain number of voters testified that they had voted for 11 sir r Young yet an equivalent number of ballots tor for mr young were not found in is the billot ballot box in response to this testimony the defendant defend abt brought forward witnesses among them an officer or two the substance guba tance of evidence was that they were there at the time the alleged fraud bad taken place and they tild ld not see it ft upon this showing he the inestimable mr Green greenman mart solemnly rehearses that of the witnesses who had bad voted for mr young only five or six had bad observed irregularity in the way alien allen had bad received their ballod ballots that a large majority of tho the ball ote therefore had gone in all right that the witnesses while claiming to have havo seen irregular conduct on the part of mr alien allen bad had not complained ablat it on the spot that mr thornburg Thorn burt bad testified to baving noticed the peculiar actions of mr alien allen in depositing his ballot and yet mr thornburg did not abed and there remonstrate or say anything about it that although these witnesses esmere were citizens whose duty it is to sacredly guard the privacy bf tha ballot and to expose correct and immediately take steps stops to deter and prevent any violations of law or fairness in the conduct of balloting they closed their mouths and allowed what they deemed doomed wrong and strange actions to be perpetrated and did not find fault or remonstrate and now therefore though this evidence points to discrepancy and irregularity in mr aliens allens conduct my impression is that be he should be discharged for want of evidence to warrant a further examination by the grand j jury a ry this isan all mr Oreen Green mans most splendid victory achieved since his advent on the commissioners bench he ife has handed up material for legal precedent to which none will ever deny the quality of being entirely fresh and original the logic if this immortal judgment may be stated in brief is that thou though gh the testimony is conclusive of crookedness at the polls since the witnesses are censurable for not reporting their knowledge sooner the defendant ia is not guilty and should be discharged A mam ma M in lit ogden bi bat received a letter from rom a friend in the east asking for partle ulan about th the e climate of utah this letter be he bu has referred to secretary gillespie of 0 the chamber of commerce asking him to tur fur the information BI as he b Is better abl able to do this than are ar tho the people in ogden iiii ufa also aiki asks about the tb business outlook bisatt it lall late paper the man in ogden was a salt laker luker whose letter came addressed to him in ogden because bis his correa correl pendent was familiar with the aromi lence nonce and push of this city and bought thought better of ilia life friend than to believe he be would go anywhere else |
