The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-06
the CONTEMPT" EDITOR 1t LARGE.
HOW He Comments ON the Judge.


prisonment. Application for bail, which
higher Judge at Waukegan and about
II P. NJ. on Monday, the following tele-
gram was served on the Sheriff.:
WAUKEGAN, ILL.,, March 29.-To George
Chandler, Room No. AZ, No. 1852 Wash
ington street; The following is the order
for release of Mr.. Storey: 'Upon plain
tiff in error entering into negotiation be-
fore the sheriff in $500, with George
Chandler as security, he will be dis
charged from custody. Signed, W. K.
McALL1srER, Judge Supreme Court
W. G. GoUDY.
Mr.. Storey was Immediately released
after some eleven hours imprisonment.
The next morning the Times commented
as follows:
The paper read by Williams, on yester-
day, was in no sense, save in name, and
from its surroundings, judicial docu-
ment. 1t was studied speech. Its cita-
ton of legal authorities were one-sided in
some cases, and without application in
others. In some instances, there was
palpable and deliberate Justification of the
case as presented by the record. The
cases Of suppressio veri were numerous
and glazing; those of suggestia fdLsi equal.
ly frequent and noticeable. There was
not an element of judicial fairness or can
dor in the paper. 1t was the heated,
vindictive argument of a partisan. With
in this document the lied repeatedly,
openly, monstrously. Heperverted facts;
he omitted essential elements. He was
NIL 11o 1oh With
zeal to convict an alleged offender. His
utterances were odorous with rancorous
malice, and outraged vanity. He travel
ed within the record, when it would aid
him, and out oft, with equal facility and
rapidity, when his purpose required it.
He deliberately defended himself and the
States Attorney as if their grievances
had aught to do with issues involved in
the case before him. He cited himself to
prove himself immaculate; and went on
the stand to testify in the interests of the
public prosecutor.
When his speech was concluded, he re-
fused to entertain any motions having a
tendency to mitigate his sentence. or to
test the legality of his action; but, twice,
passionately, and with indecent haste, or
dered the instant commitment of the de-
PENDANT.
AS this journal has already shown,
Williams is demagogue and tyrant on
the bench; and in this showing, it has
been borne out by the approval of the
reputable members of the Chicago bar
and Of this community. It will under
take to show before it shall have done
with him, whether or not the many and
grave suspicious in relation to his probity
have other foundation than reckless
rumor. 1t will 50 examine his record
that the public shall know to the utter
most how far he is qualified to occupy the
conspicuous position which he has just
now so fagrantly outraged.
His supreme vanity and his unbounded
insolence have before been shown in a
most unmistakable character. 1t is only
some three or four years since he pub
iished letter in which he threatened to
bring into his court for contempt no less
person than the chief executive of the
State! A limited intellect grated to an
enormous vanity underlies and animates
his judicial action, and permits him to be
lieve that he is beyond criticism and be-
yond contempt.
Such being the man, will his action
carry weighte Will this compound of
petty tyranny, this insolent official, this
vain occupant of judicial position, sue
coed in sending the world back to the six
teenth century? Probably not. Does
his speech convince any one of
the rectitude of his purpose !!
Will a document Astounding with
legal perversions, deliberate falsehoods,
and scandaious partisanship have the ef-
feet to shape the decisions of other judges
and give form to coming decisions affect
ing the rights of citizens and the liberty
Of the press? Probably not. It will
take rank at once as the product of a
demagogue; the fierce denunciations Of
an offended and vindictive official.
For these reasons does the Times hope
that the effect Of this action of Williams
will extend beyond the domain of his
court, and that Of this newspaper. 1t
cannot be feared as tending to destroy the
liberties of the people. It will 60 on
further than the case of the individual
whose rights have been thus summarily
outraged. Like the bred Scott infamy,
it Will not become precedent, but simply
a lasting testimony Of the infamy of him
| who performed it.
Frontier Newspapers Lament.
| From the Fergus Falls Journal
Two weeks without mail! Why, in
that time Arkansas, Louisiana and Little
Rhodv NAV have reyOlutiOniZed. the lower