The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-01-24
HERES A HOW-D'YE Do.


is that which is recorded elsewhere in
this issue. There was breaking down
"a failure to connect, to use the
language Of the psople-some weeks
ago. when Judge Zane and associate
counsel in the Dyer-Peters Williams
school-trustees' affair, withdrew from
the inquiry before Judge Hardness,
and because they couldn't have things
entirely their own way declined to pro-
coed. But that breaking down was
as nothing compared with the going TO
pieces which occurred yesterday. Zane
literally craWied out of the mess which
he had created, going cut in the
basest manner possible, and viclously
kicking as be went. 1t was an ugly
spectacle which he presented, and one
which caused lawyers to feel humili-
ated when they reflected that it was
the late chief justice of this great Ter
ritory Whr AS making the exhibition.
On that eventful occasion when Judge
Zane maHched into the Supreme Court
and in solemn earnest requested that he
be permitted to intervene to protect the
public schools against the official spolia-
tors who were alleged to be preying
upon the fund which the United States
government had pluudered from the
Mormon Church, a good many people
were inclined to look upon Zane as one
aerpnSfIu and bopastIu 6iSDoSad RI pra
vent the contamination of a great
wrong. There was much sympathy
with him. The feeling was that he
had discovered evidences of crook
edness or incompetency. and that he
would follow the lead till he struck the
vein and brought developments. There
were very few who were willing to be-
lieve that Judge Zane would make the
break that he did unless he had ground
to stand upon. AS the case proceeded,
however, and instead of BRINGING
squeals from his intended victims,
Zane showed signs u looking for a
hole through which he could crawl
out, the conviction was forced upon
people that the ex.Judge had under
taken more than he could carry out.
and the impression grew that if he were
not ignorant at the outset, his incentive
was akin to personal malice. What will
intelligent people now think2 1t can be
imagined bstter than told.
But what is to become Of that paper
which Judge Zane read in court on
Wednesday? Ordinary folk not
familiar with the language and al
lowances of the law. and unacquainted
with the lengths to which attorneys
can go in critIcising courts, will imagine
they find in that paper very pointed
not to say offensive reflection on the
fairness aud integrity of the court
itself. q very serious charge was pr
ferred against certain gentlemen, Of
ficers of the court, and permission was
asked to establish by proof the truth of
those charges. The court took cog
nisance of the matter, and issued the
order for the investigation, whereupon
complainant alleges that hs has been
blocked by the court and prevented
from pursuing the accusations. This
may be permissible in the legal pro-
fession; but how would it be if one not
a member of the bar were to present
such a paper to court, or about
court?
And again, what of Messrs. Williams.
Peters and Dyer2 No one will pretend
to say that thsy were not charged with
q very grave offsnse. True, proof of
guilt was not forthcoming, and as the
theory of the law is that accused per
sons do not have to establish their in
nocence the gentlemen stand as if no
charge had been made; that is to say,
thev so stand in the eyes of the Law,
but as matter of fact, IL they are inno-
cent are they not entitled to a verdict CT
acouittaI2 If guilty, should they not
be punisbed2 In plain words, is a
lawyer licensed to max opan and public
charges of criminality against lndjvid-
naIS. AQU l6SA 40tOSI W PAAtNO Wy oOS0-
sations or to e1onerate the parties2 1t
seems to us that Judge Zane has even
GONE further than this, for he has viz
tually said that the charges are true
and so sceptible of proof, but owing to
the attitude of the court, he will not
proceed with them. Dyer and asso-
ciates, therefore, stand in the attitude
OF accused persons without an oppor-
tunity to defend themselves. They |
should have remedy. They are en-
titled to protection. They have either
baen scsndalized, or they are guilty of
wronq doing, and both they and the
nnbIic should know which it is.
while Judge Zane has signally failed
IN what he set out to accomplish, and
has undertaken to crawl out of the
ynass it seems to The HERALD that the
affair cannot be dropped at this stage
without great wrong, by implication at