The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1875-11-06
Chief Justice Dunno, of Arizona.
From the Alta California; I.

From the Alta California;.
No man is fit to hold or worthy
of the office of Judge of a Su-
preme Court, or any other, for
that matter, who takes upon him.
self to advocate or oppose laws
which may come before him for
Interpretation, or to discuss as a
partisan particular principle in
the government of which he is a
part. For these very subjects are
liable to come before him for an
Impartial application of the law,
or for an impartial Interpretation
of the statue. What confidence
could the people of California
have in an opinion rendered by
Chief Justice Wallace, or any. of
his associates, if he or they were
known to have stepped down from
the Bench. to oppose the very
principle, or institution, or law,
they had been called upon to adj
Indicate Common decency
should restrain q Judge from so
violating his obligations.
Yet we are forced to believe
that such is the course pursued
by Chief Justice Dunno, of Ari-
IONA. Whether he claims to be
Republican or Democrat we do
not know, nor does it matter a
whit in respect to this paragraph.
| Whether the one or the other, his
first duty was and is to the Gov
eminent and the people to eXer-
else his authority as an incorrupti-
BILE interpreter Of the law. Before
he went to Arizona he lived in
our neighboring State of Nevada,
was member of its Legislature,
and was prominent as an advocate
of public schools. Then he was
where there had sprung up no op-
position. But transferred to Ari-
IONA, for some cause he has be-
come one of the bitterest oppon-
ents of the common school system,
and, by iectu-ing and otherwise
has, according to the reports and
journals from Arizona, done his
utmo st to injure the system, and,
if possible, destroy it there.
M He seems to have fallen under
unfortunate Influences. The PEG.
pie of Arizona, particularly of the
District of Pima, of which Tucson
is the capital, had exerted them
selves to build up their common
school system according to our
usual American ideas-free for all,
without distinction. But the
Chief Justice, appointed by the
President of the United States,
takes upon himself to denounce
it publicly, and to accuse all who
favor it as conspiring to rob por-
ton Of the people Of their school
money. This foolish, not to say
dishonest course, SO unworthy of
a man holding so high, response.
BILE and delicate O position, has
aroused q perfect storm of opposi-
ton, and even Indignation, and
they are clamOrous for his dis
placement, contending that he
has destroyed all power and OPP
portunity Of doing anything for
the Territory and people, because
they have lost all confidence in,
and respect for him.
Besides his opposition to the
common schools, be is accused by
the authorities of the village of
Tucson, the acting Mayor and the
Councilmen of that town, of caus-
ing among the people "a feeling
| Of insecurity of life, liberty and
property" and they respectfully
ask the United States Attorney
General, Pierrepont, to remove
Judge Dunno. The Chairman of
the Board of Supervisors, and two
other members, ask the same
thing, giving, besides his opposi-
ton to the public schools, his ty-
ranical course, usurping the au-
thority of the Board, and COMPEL
ed the Board to allow and pay &C.
counts which they did not consi-
der just, together with other OBJ
jections which they urge. The
members of the Bar make similar
Iappeals over their own names, to
which the Sheriff, the Treasurer,
the District Attorney, and the Re-
corder of the county, sign theirs.
To these is added a memorial of
the merchants and others of the
town of Tucson, a long list of
Spanish and American and Ger
man names.
i
The great number of the signers
to these petitions, and their re-
spectability as to character, intelli-
gence, influence and general quail