Arizona citizen., 1875-07-24
THE BABY ACT, ETC.

childhood, @ mixture of pity and charity must step in and put period
 to keeping his name before the public "a place he is sufferingly anxious to
 occupy by some means. Referring to
 his course in the Nevada constitution
 al convention, he says:
 That was away back in the times of the war of the rebellion. I was con-
 paratively a young man then and confess did not understand this ques- tion as well as I think I do now. l had been living chiefly on the frontier,
 where there was very little question of schools of any kind, but as 1
 fought that Convention all the way through single-handed on the propo-
 sition that I thought it ought to ad-
 journ and form no Constitution at all,
 even though some exasperated mem
 bers who perhaps saw offices ahead, dis
 cussed the same amiable proposition
 which you have suggested, that if
 could not agree Ill opinion with them
 l should step down and out, not open ly on the record as you have done,
 but not less earnestly.
 Judge Dunne made that record at least two years after he had served
 l2O days in the legislature of Califor- mia as a maker of laws to govern men. He had also employed himself In the meantime praoticing law.
 When that decided record was made,
 he either was too old to be permitted to plead the Baby Act, or he never ought to claim the powers and respon- abilities of manhood. The fiippant way in which he waves or attempts to wave away that record made under the obligation of a solemn oath, ar gues one of two things, viz: 1. That he can dispose of it in no thorough manner; or 2, that man may with propriety and claim of honesty of purpose, take all sides of leading pub lie questions.
 His excuse of having chiefly lived On the frontier is, if anything, more unfortunate. He was about San Francisco some and we believe it was the old county of Sonoma he repre- sented i'll the California legislature, both of which places were well SUD- piled with public journals and books, as well as schools and churches of his own religious denomination. While in Humboldt, only couple of years between his legislative experience in Sacramento and constitutional Iabors in Carson, he was a noted student and had the most extensive miscellaneous library in Humboldt ceunty-certain- iy 6 very large one for that locality, and one that showed the choice of a man of manly wisdom rather than one of childish folly or human i'm maturity.
 And it will not do to say that he was beyond the influence of his church, for at the very time he stood in his place in the Nevada constitu- tional convention, making what weI regard very good comparative rec ord on all subjects he prominently figured in, a Catholic church and school were within a few rods of him, and bat fifteen miles distant others were ip prominent existence. And it will not do, either, for him to reply that the subject of public aid to Cath .olic schools was not a live one there and then, for we believe, without excep-I tion, each successive legislature of Nevada Territory appropriated from S3000 te $5000 to the school in Yir- ginia City, conducted and controlled l by the Sisters of Charity; and pend ing the passage of these items in the appropriation bills, the discussions were slways spirited and sometimes what might be termed heated.
 And even if this feature of Terri torial legislation had been overlooked | by the Judge, the subject was brought directly to his notice by MT. Lockwood in the Constitutional Convention, when he (Mr. Dunne) was so earnestly ad- vocating the compulsory educational clause which is in all essential points similar to the l2w enacted on the sub-i ject by the lat Arizona legislature and 8hic., he zealously endeavored to de- feat. Next week, we will give his rec ord on the compulsory clause as applied to Catholics, wherein it will be seen that he argued that no one could take exception to it because it only required attendance upon some school-just as is now the case with the Arizona law which, as we said, the judge opposed But enough of this now
 His allusions to Office-seekers and primaries are as shallow and unfortu- nate as his other attempts at wit and defense. Not a man in Nevada was a more industrious office-seeker than Judge E. F. Dunne, nor was ever more zealous primary work done than was done in his behalf, with his consent and early and late cooperation. There was nothing wrong about it then, and is only alluded to now because he, one of the most ambitious and aspiring of men, should refer to it in his Miner letter with view to cast Odium upon others who arp SeptZinO no yOtpS for