The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-04-03
PERSECUTION OF ELECTION IN
SPEOTORS.


Two of the inspectors of the election /
district who received the votes of Miss |
Anthony and other ladies, in the Presi- !
Dental election of 1872, were last week
arrested, by order of District Attorney
Crowley, upon their neglect to pay the
fine and costs imposed upon them by
Justice Hunt in the trial had before
him, at Canandaigua, n. Y. Beverly
w. Jones, one of the inspectors, is un-
derstood to have paid his fine since his
arrest, and to have been released from
custody. Edwin L. Marsh, the other
inspector, is now incarcerated in the
Monroe county Jail, having refused up to
this time to satisfy the judgment against
him.
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
says:
We regard this action on the part of
District Attorney Crowley as an out
rage, in that these young men, who, at
the worst, are but accessories in the viO-
latiOn of law, are made to feel its ter
rors, while the chief criminal is allowed
to defy the law with impunity. No
made to satisfy the judgment of the
court against Miss Anthony. She con-
tennis the law which adjudged her
guilty, and its duly appointed admins
traitors are either too timid, or too neg
ligent Of duty, to endeavoT to enforce it.
The inspectors received her vote and
those of her associates, after taking the
best legal counsel obtainable at the time,
and after the votes had been sworn in
upon challenge It is doubtful whether
they had the right to refuse these
votes. In any event, their Offense
is venial as compared with hers. 1t
does not look we'll for the District At
tOrney thus to proceed against the lesser
offenders, while the chief offender snaps
her finger at the law, and dares its min-
listers to make her martyr.
OF course, in this review, we have not
touched upon the legal questions in
volved in the judgment against Miss
Anthony. She may be right in her in
depreciation of her prerogatives and JUS
tice Hunt may in his be wrong. That she
is conscientious in her Interpretation,
and earnest in the cause, to which she
has devoted many years of persistent
effort, we know. We write in no spirit
of vindictivene IS, nor even in one of an
tagOnism, towards her; but, in the name
of Justice, We are called upon to protest
against the unseemly proceeding, which
persecutes two excellent young men,
and hesitates to attack this woman who
stands as the representative of what she
regards as a great reform, and i'll its
advocacy shrinks not from any of the
| terrors the law may have in store for
/ her. Mrs. District Attorney, it is your
duty to arrest Miss Anthony-to cross
swords with an antagonist worthy of
your steel. Your present action looks
| ignoble and is unworthy of you and OF
the office you fill.
The following is a copy of the COM
mitment:
! The President Of the United States oj
america to the Marshal Of the North
e1n District Of NeiO York
i We command you that you take Bev-
erly w. Jones, Edwin II. Marsh, Will
liam b. Hall-Defendants, il they shall
be found in your district, and that you
safely keep them so that you may have
their bodies before the Circuit Court of
the United States of America for the
northern district of New York, to be held
at Utica in the second district, in ana Ior
the said northern dlstricto OF New orK pc
fore the judges Of the same court on the
third Tuesday, 17th day OF March next
each to satisfy the United states OF
America in the sum of twenty-five dol
lars imposed on each of said defendants
separate fine upon conviction on i1diet. N tho
ment and sentence by the court ~ to-ino, tne
car,oin nersons as voters and receiving
their votes and also to satisfy the fur
ther he sum of So 5Oadjusted by said court
against the said defendants Jointly.
Aid that you also have then ana there
Witness the Hon. Nathan Clifford,
Aesoc;afe Justice OF the Supreme Court
OF the Unite States of America at Utica,
in the said northern district Of New
rear of our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four, and Of the
Independence Of the said United States
the ninety-elghth.
RICHARD CROWLEY, Z. $, Atty.
CHARLES MASON, Clerk.