River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-10-28
EALL0CH'S ARRANGEMENT.
Because the Grand jury Intends q,
Eudict Him Ne EndictS 1t BEFORE ths

Eubiic.
San Francisco Post
Rev l. Z. kalloch announced in his
'prelute" last evening, at the Metro
poltan Temple, that he would "indict
the grand jury" He said that the SUI
preme court had decided that 70 per-
sonal responsibility lay against grand
jurors for any atrocity they might com
nit against the rights of individuals. 1t
was a strange system, but for his part
he was inclined to submit with a good
grace to the decisions of the supreme
court; they had made so many
of late to suit him that he was not in
clined to find fault He proposed to
undict the grand jury now in session
before the great tribunal of the people
the arbiter which makes courts ard
sometimes abrogates them The grand
jury rs an institution had long been
under cloud; eminent publicists Of
this and other countries had freely con
denlned it, and here was a provision in
the new constitution which looked in
the direction of supplanding il, as it
was felt to be fast becoming nuisance.
This, the most irquisitorial institution
that could be allowed i'll n free state.
had been in session for weeks Mt the
new city hall, and had already cost the
city thousands of dollars and would
Yet cost more He stood there to de-
nounce it as political machine col
lection of gossipers, whose only occu-
patton was to sit in secret session to
make capital against its enemies, to
prosecute the attempt against him
which the supervisors had dropped i'll
despair of success. He had been told
that it would not be safe for him TO
make the indictment he was making
against the grand jury; he had been
tCld that he might be indicated again,
but he was getting used to it. He was
able and willing to substantiate every
count in the Indictment he was bring
ing against them. Did the people sup
pose it was accidental that, in body
of nineteen men, only four should be
long to the democratic party, while all
the rest were taken from other parties?
They had already indicted (he had
hOen told) kaplan, Sheriff Desmond
and himself, bat it was not for the pur
pose Of defending himself that he
made his attack upon them. They
had indicted the mayor of this city
ment of one man, without giving him
(the speaker any opportunity to re-
fuse the charges, AZ he could have
done without any difficulty. He had
| been before them once, and they had
asked him some questions about other
matters. He had said to them that he
was told they had been asking good
many questions of other parties about
him. He asked them did they want
any statement from him, but they
simply shook their heads. They knew
that he could not be convicted, be-
cause he had done no wrong. What
then, was there purpose? They be,
| lieved that a municipal election was at
hand. and they thought thsta few
{ ininal indictments would form good
documents for campaign circulation,
and that the incidental law business
would occupy the time of some of them
when they ought to be looking after
their constituents. The indictment of
Kaplan was his punishment for helping
in .he endeavor to secure pure cleo
ton. But above all, he asked, what
crime had Sheriff Desmond been guilty
of? He would tell them there was II
Young man in Desmond's custody
whom he ioes not keep IN dark-cell
on bread AID water, and three Tunes
during five months, at the request of a
physician, he had allowed this young
man to take exercise in the open air
This was his crime. There was not so
much danger Of this boys wanting to
escape rs there might be in the future
for some of those men who were sit.
ting on the grand jury. His boy had
done nothing to be ashamed Of He
had no approximations that these pro
ccedings Of the grand jury could be con
summated in fee country, and for
that reason he made their report a lit
tie in advance