Arizona citizen., 1875-11-13
From The Alta California, October. T. I Chief Justice Dunne of Arizona.

From The Alta California, October. 27.l
 Chief Justice Dunne of Arizona. No man is lit To hold or worthy of the office of Judge ofa Suprcm: Court. or any other, for that matter, who takes
 upon himself 10 advocate or oppose
 laws which may come bef1rc hm for
 interpretation, or to discuss as q partisan
 particular principle in the govern
 ment of which he is q part For these very subjects are liable to come before
 him for an impartial application of
 the law, or for an impurlia! intcrpreta-
 ton pf the statute What confidence
 could the people of California have in
 an opinion rendered by Chief Justice
 Wallace, or any or his associates, if he
 or they were known to have stepped
 down from th" Bench to oppose the
 very principle, or institution, or law,
 they have brcn called upon to ad- judicate Common dccency should
 restrain Judge from SD violating his
 obligations.
 Yet We are forced to believe that
 such is ;hc course pursued by ChicfJus- ticr Dunnc, of Arizona Whether he claims io be Republican or Democrat
 we d. not know, nor does il matter a
 whit, in respect to this paragraph
 Whether the one or the other, his first duty was and k to the GQY0gnment and the people, to exercise his authority as an incorrupliblc interpreter of the law
 Before he went to Arizona Ee lived in our ncighboriqg Siatc of Nevada, was a member of its Legislature, ICon- sututional Conycnlion instead of Legis- lature.-Ed. Citizen. and was promi- ncnt as an advocate of public schools. Then he was where there had sprung up no opposition. But transferred to Arizona. for some cause he has become one of the biitcrest opponents of the common school system, and, by lectur- ing and otherwise has, according to the reports and journals of Arizona, done his utmost to injurc the system, and, if possible, destroy it there.
 He seems to have fallen under un- fortunate influences. The people of Arizona particularly of the District of Pima, of which Tucson is the capital, had cx"r;cd themselves tn build up their common school system according to our usual American idcas-frec fo- all. without distinction. But the Chief Justice, appointed by the President of the United States, takes upon himself to dcnounce it publicly, and Io accuse all who favor it as conspiring to rob a portion of the people of their school money. This foolish, not to say dis honest. course, so unworthy of d man so high, responsible and deli cate a position, has aroused perfect storm of opposition, and even indig- nation, and they are clamorous for his contcnding that he has destroyed all power and opportunity of doing anything for the Territory and people, because they have lost all in and respect for him.
 Beside his opposition to the common schools. he is accused by the authorities of the village of Tucson, the acting Mayor and the Comcilmen of that town. of ofcausing 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 Dunnc. | The Chairman Of the Board of Super visorS. and two other members. ask ihe same thing. giving, besides his Op- position to the public schools, hist tvrannical course. usurping the authori- tv of the Board, and compelled the Board to allow and pay accounts which they did not consider just, together with other objections which they urge. The members of the Bar make similar appeals over their own names, to which the Sheriff, the Treasurer, the District Attorney and the Recorder of the coun- .y, sign theirs. To this is added a memorial of the merchants and others of the town of Tucson, a long list of Spanish and American and German names