The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-10
QUEER QUESTION IN COURT
POLITICS OF PANGUITCH MEN
JUDICIALLY DETERMINED.
Jury Commissioner Appointed As a
Democrat Is Held to Be Repub-
lican, While the republican
Turns Out to Be Democrat.

Panguitch. July THE July term OF
the district court opened here TINS
morning. Judge McCarty presiding and
Attorneys v. Rapp, E. E. Hoffman, e.
w. Collins Of Richfield, G. r. Beeoe OIL
Junction, w. f. Knox of Beaver anu
7 F. Chidester and w. ?. Sargent Oh
/ this place being present. AFTER INC
Jury panel was examined anu sWoih
in for service, and a few propate ot !,
ders made. the case against Joseph
smith and Jed Mott, accused OF cattie
stealing, was called for trial DeIena-
ants demanded separate trials, ana lHe
case against Smith is now under mead
wav and undoubtedly will occupy TWO
more days in trial
The incest case, state or Utdn vs.
SAWYER, in which defendant was re-
Gently released from the state prison
on .habeas corpus proceedings before
Iudge Norrell under the supreme
courts ruling in the Thompson case
the offense having been committed pc
fore statehood, and the defendant nav ,
ing been convicted by a jury composed
of eight persons, was set for disposition
tomorrow.
One very amusing incident worthy OF
note occurred at the beginning OF the
trial of the Smith grand larceny case:
DEFENDANTS counsel, V. Rapp, planted
a sweeping objection to the entire jury
panel. attacking the legality and con-
stitutionaiity from A to Il of the enure
law under which juries are drawn IN
Utah since statehood. The challenge
to the Jury panel also alleged that the
Jury commissioners, Joseph cameron
and Albert De Long, were not OF OPP
posite political faith, as the law pre-
scrihes they shall be. Judge McCarty
appointed Mr.. Cameron as a Repup-
Iican and Mr. De Long as a Demo-
Graf. the gentlemen for years having
been known to be of the pOlltlcal 1altnS
as named. Cameron having assisted
and travelled with Judge McCarty IN
the campaign he made just prior 10
election. and De Long, being a motel
man with whom the judge often
stunned having often argued politics
with the Judge, always champlonlng
the Democratic side of the controversy
Mr.. Rapps objection was backed by
an affidavit by De Long, declaring
himself to be a Republican, and af-
firming that he was such at the time
of his appointment, when he acted, ana
for long years prior thereto.
Cameron was placed upon the wit
ness stand and swore that last cleo
ton he represented the laborlng
class and voted for Bryan, but did not
support the Chicago platform in its
entirety: neither did he endorse the st.
Louis platform; was not PopullSt.
The ticket he used in the voting booth
was the Independent Republican
ticket With this testimony he left 1t
for the lawyers and the court to de-
termihe what his politics are.
r The court heidi THE court has
made a mistake apa the man he be-
lieved to be Democrat appears, from
his affidavit, to be Republican, and
the one that he selected as a Repub-
lican is a Democrat, if one is to judge
a mans politics by the platform that
he endorses and the men he votes for,
and denied the challenge. De Long
has placed his flop" very pronounced
ly on record, and is from now ON a
thorough going McKinley Republican,
and seems to be- the happiest man In
Panguitch in consequence.
Cameron does not rest well under
the judicial ruling that he is Demo-
craft, and says that he is not, and Wor-
ries greatly because he knows no way
of appealing his case so as to get a
decision of the supreme court revers-
ing the decision of the lower court
however, and Cameron's lamentations
to the contrary notwithstanding, the
spirit of the law has been followed, and
the jury commissioners of Garfield
county are of opposite political faiths,
for have we not a judicial opinion of
Judge McCarty, declaring it is so, and
can a former Democrat who voted for
Mckinley, and a former Republican
who voted for Bryan possibly be of one
and the same political faith?