Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-28
JUDGE HORRIGAN,
The UncOmprOmi-ing Opponent OF Pro-
fessiOnal Jurors, Of COst-Bilis and
Ready-Made Witnesses.
The Man Who Particularly LabOrs for
the Iax-Paying Masses. and is
Terror to Eyil-DOers.

The Nashville Banner notifies Its readers
that the Memphis bill Of costs of ,he CrImi-
nal Court for the last term was handed IN at
the capitol on Thursday, and says that II
affords the people of Tennessee another eI-
ample of what might be done in the way Of
reform and economy. Memphis did not go
down hill all at once, and 1t will not be re-
formed in all particulars all at once. As
Reputation community it has Of course
suffered feariully from corruption and ex-
travagance. Its Criminal Court bills
were, in the palmy days before Judge
Horrigan was discovered by suffering tax
payers, from $4,000 10 $4,000 term
The bill which came in yesterday
amounted to $4,000 in round numbers. These
bills have been steadily running down since
Judge Horrigan was placed on the bench,
and it is hard to see how these hangers-on OF
the Criminal Court are going to live II the
decline j. to go on as il has done. This
hard hearted and cruel judge has no more
mercy in him than a telegraph post 1t IL
useless to talk to the professional juror and
the inngmerable hangers-on, the barnacles
and tersdOs OF the
CRIMINAL. COURTS OF JUDGE JEFFRIEs.
He was guilty OF a great many crimes, but
he never cut down a cost bill. He never
took the bread out OF the mouths of the
barnacles, or deprived the corner grocer
OF Its living, or sent the professional juror
and witness, and all that large and respecta-
BILE class who thrive upon the administration
OF the criminal law, TO honest labor, picking
pockets, driving the thrifty jimmy, or
starvation. Hundreds of noble citizens
have been driven to the alternative OF
tilI-tspping, beggary or want by the
unjust Judge who remorselessly cuts
down cost bills to the disgust of the noble
army OF hangers-on, professional witnesses,
iurorE, warrant scalpers and others 10 whom
The crime OF Shelby used to be sure living.
When Shelby could draw from the State
treasury from $4,000 to $4,000 there was a
noble army of eheooiieFs d. iRdustTie, each OF
whom had interest in the crime OF the county
which was so surely vested that it might al
most have been reached by an execution at
! law, and surely by bill in chancery. In
that day the jailor had what is vugarly
| called
A BULLY TIME.
1t had been determined judicially that what
is termed the laws delay in Hamlet and the
constitution is not a thing to be sneezed at
by the citizen. Instead of being hardship
it was found that it was 4 good thing all
round The framersof the constitution pro-
ceeded upon the idea that it was hardship to
| the accused. In Memphis criminal law it
was determined judicially, although not by
direct opinion from the bench, that the
laws delay was a good thing for the
criminal and a most excellent thing Tor
the taller and all the hangers-on. Indeed,
! the denunciation of the laws delay in the
constitution is based upon the fundamental
mistake of supposing that the accused wants
| Justice As that is precisely what he does
not want, it was judicially determined that
the laws delay is good thing Tor the Grim
| inal and all his friends and outside hangers
Oh, and under this rule everybody was hap
Ply, except
THE POOR DEVIL OF A TAXPAYER,
who hiss no rights any criminal administra-
ton is bound to respect. Judge Horrigan
| has reversed all this. He has most unjHstly
and outrageously furnished the accused with
what they don't want-justice, speedy, in
| evitable, and in large quantities, without
| sale and delay and at small cost, to the dis
| gust of the accused, the barnacles, teredos and
hangers-on, everybody except the bloated
| taxpayer What our low-tax friends are
| fond of calling the people" are immensely
disguised and they daily and nightly meet on
the corners, at the cross roads, in the bar-Tooms
| and wonder when reason, which has fed TO
| british beasts will return TO men and resume
| its sway in the Criminal Court. This unjust
! Judge proceeds upon the idea that an accused
/ man is either guilty or innocent, that, If in
nocent, he ought to be speedily let out OF
1 lall. IL guilty, ne BnOulu DC COh-
/ victed. This is most illogical, absurd and
untenable position, but what are the jailer,
the hangers-on and the noble army of patriots
| to do? This Jeffries is on the bench, his
| heart steeled against mercy, and there is no
moving him. 1t is to no purpose that he Is
told there are small people suffering, men
continually dry as the desert, women lacking
seasonable bonnets all for the want OF good
old days Of $4,000 cost bills per term. He
is munster than
THE UNJUST JUDGE OF THE SCRIPTURES.
He will; not be moved by the prayers OF
the hummer and loafer, the tears of the
lovely nymph whose Johnnie is no longer
able to keep her in the old style. There is
small margin in a $4,000 cost bill per term
for the hummer, the loafer, the nymph and
the dispenser OF bibulous compounds? Com
munities have to suffer when such judges are
on the bench. Whenever class gets the
upper hand IN a free country and rules even
the bench, and class judge holds sway and
rules it with double-edged sword OF justice
and uses it IN cutting down cost bills in
stead of cutting off the heads OF taxpayers
honest, virtuous, lovely nymphs, bummers
| and loafers are going to suffer for it. Justice
was born blind. Her congenital blindness
has been the theme of poets and statesmen.
Judge Horrigan has opened her eyes; woe
is the day, and patriots are suffering Tor it.
Alas, LOT DllnulOIu lustlCS, thS SooueeS Sits
with eyes open and scans cost bills like a
young woman of miserly business. Ie gods,
that Tennessee should afford an example OF
a CLASS JUDGE,
devoted to that bloated, greedy, misery
class, known as taxpayers, whose hands are
always against the people. AS it is in Mem
phis it might be throughout the State. IL
the State should pay its debts, ged rid OF
agitation and devote itself to business, not
only in criminal law but in civil law, We
might have our Jeffries-we mean
our Horrigans-on every bench, our
| taxpayers exulting over the virtuous,
honest and lovely nymphs, loaf
ers, bummers, hangers-on, barnacles,
teredos, warrant-scalpers, professional jurors,
| and witnesses. The people would be undone,
the taxpayer rampant, the Jeffries lording 1t
! over a free people bound In chains, Justice,
| open-eyed misery scanning cost-bills and
deriving honest men and lovely, bedizzened,
painted women of their liv ng, accused per-
sons cheated of the laws delay and served
with evsn-handed, prompt justice, which is
the last thing in the world they want, suitors
| in civil cases driven TO speedy trial, at small
cost, to the immense disgust of the honorable
gentlemen who live and fatten upon DILA-
TORY PLEAS
Our criminal law throughout Tennessee costs
| the State about four times as much as 1t
| might cost; but the money Is well spent IN
| keeping up an army of cultivated, refined ,
| intellectual genial, aesthetic bummers, loaf
ers and nymphs, who fatten and thrive OF
plethoric costs bills. Our civil administra-
ton of blind old dame justice costs about
twice as much as it might cost if justice and
| taxpayers had their eyes open; but Athens
sustained her cultivated and noble citizens,
and China supports at public cost her philos-
ophers and learned men. Woe to.the day
when Tennessee shall deprive her noble bum
mers, barnacles, teredos and nymphs OF the
fat living which is contained in plethoric
cost bills and accursed be the day when
| Horrigan's shall be in fashion throughout
the State the lew-tax variety of 1.-THE peo-
pie" placed under the heel of Jeffries, class
ermine in fashion, the taxpayer on top, cost
bills cut down and the public grooming I'M
der the wretchedness OF its noble army
of barnacles, teredos, loafers. bummers
| and nymphs. God help US all II the
State debt should be put out of the way
and Justice should open her eyes and
we should be turned to wanton destruction OF
our barnacles and teredos and loafers, and
bummers and professional jurors, and war
rant scalpers and nymphs, and all who tat
ten and thrive directly and indirectly upon
such bills as blind justice sends up for pay
ment. Oh, let US forever keep the goddess
| blind and her sword turned on the taxpayer
and heaven shield US from the Horrigans.
LAFAYETTE COUNTY, MISS.
Greatly Stirred OPP About the Division
OF The United States Court at OK
ford-ManniU I'm Danger.