The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-08-27
S.ANPETE ITEMS.
SANPETE, Aug. %, 80.


of the liberals, they met to nominate
eft and proper persons to ill the
vacancies caused by lapsed cleo
ton. Jacob Johnson, United States
| Commissioner, presided, and J. D.
| Page, acted as secresary. The
organization effected, an adjourn
ment was in order, aud to a more
private cOnclave a whispered inVi-
tatlOn was given. The result of the
caucus was the following nominal
tiOns: Jacob Johnson, probate
Judge: J. d. Page, county clerk
Mr.Hall, from Tennessee 0i0 Emery
County, prosecuting attorney ;
Anton Beaumann, assessor; An
drew Madsen, selectman; L. F.
Pritchett, sheriff..
Most of the gentlemen are resi-
dents of Mt. Pleasant. | Opine that
Manti, as the comfy seat, may
object. Thus the vacancies, real or
prospective, are filled; thus the
wheels of our judicial, financial aud
moral status are creased.
Speaking with my informant,
present at the caucus, he feels
sighted because he received no
nomination, but heals himself with
the consolation that his discharge is
fled in Salt Lake City, a voucher as
an sold soldier" hence qualified
for the Office Of assessor and collector.
When 1 read Section y of an act to
provide revenue, approved Feb. %,
1878, requiring a bond as an asses
sOr and another as a collector, and
the power of the county court over
the entire question, even to the
affecting a vacancy, for excuse he
smilingly said, s'I is an old soldier,
and they stand foremost in the
ranks of civil reform, and this is
what Utah wants. l don't need to
give bonds"
won't you take the Office of
j. Pr" mo. 1 wants a posish
where the money is
The above list of names, as [ am
told, has or will be presented as the
expressed opinion of fitness. quail
fcatiOn and capacity for the gifts
guhernatOrial, but there seems to be
so many quils on upon the fretted
pOrcupine that fOrbear the utter
anc9 Of surmiSe.
The resolve to hold an election
for delegate in November next is a
sumner and is the unkindeSt cut of
all.
l see from section s of the cleo
ton law Of 1878, senior justice of
the peace will be necessary in every
precinct, to hear objections, etc.
Must they not hold their places by
election? appointment or holding
over else the machinery of cleo
ti0ns would be deficient, for Objec-
tions may be numerous, as perhaps
challenges may be at the polls.
By the by, has the probate judge a
right to administer OathS of office to
election judges? Seeing by the
Poland bill they possess no civil
powers, which bill superseded the
powers conveyed in section 1916,
Compiled Laws of Utah, as refer
ring, so some argue, to a proceeding
in his probate court only.
There are some who argue chat
while the law provides for approval
Of bonds by the probate judge, he
cannot justify them, as that re-
quires the administering Of an oath,
a civil proceeding.
l have known of instances where
the probate judges at their homes,
or when travelling, have so qualified
judges Of election. L ask for infor
nations sake that no heretofore
course, if untenable, may vitiatt
any precinct election. VIII you
answer nay query? [ am just in
formed that the most summary
proceedings are to be acted upon
relative to any belligerent office
holder as against the appOintee, and
that arrest is the short cut to
quietus. Sections ,S67 and 1877 of
the Compiled Laws are the pre-
sumed crimes and penalties; how
ever, this may be. it is important
that we of the shay counties" should
be informed of the status of the
open question, though it is argued
that the three judges have commit
ted themselves by their letter TO he
Senate of the United States, and
that vacancies do exist. Some think |
that it is better to hold off for the |
twenty days, thus they expect after
the Goth of August, 1882, the plo-
bate judicial ermine will fly.
We hear that a very elaborate, /
exhaustive opinion has been given (
by an eminent law firm, pointing
oHt the fact that vacancies do exist;
we expect therefore to see the |
question open and shut. Whether
we hold over or retire, it gives me
GREAT pleasure, after an acquain-
fance with our county court for
twenty-one years, sometimes most
intimately, to bear record of great /
fairness, frugality and honesty in I
the administration of the affairs Of
tde county, amounting, I have some
times thought, to parsimOny. The
assessor and collector, Mr.. a. Mer-
Ram, has an unblemished record IN
the county and territory records,
and this is eminently true Of the
offices Of county clerk and recorder.
But perhaps the new ineOmers may
10 eight months acquire such vim
and snap that the pOlygamists retlr-
ing may hide their heads in shame
at the super-excellence Of the
Let US hope so, for