Western sentinel., 1886-03-11

to be made to the Department Of JUS
tice, at whose head stands Mr.. GAR
LAND as the lawmaker, it is his duty
investigate IN the first instance and
find the ground, if any, upon which a
suit shall be founded and the Attorney
General is a heavy stock holder. True
and had this officer acted as such tri-
bunal he would be subject to i'm
peachment-
The facts are known that Mr.. GAR
LAND became possessor of this stock
when Senator of the United States
Senate, before the election of President
CLEVELAND, and at time when it
was impossible for any one to foretell
his selection to the Cabinet-before
any human being could see that Mr..
| CLEVELAND himself would be elected
President. When, therefore, these
two unforeseen events came to pass,
and the Pan Electric made it's just
and legal appeal, the Attorney Gen
eral GARLAND avowed his interest
and Of course declined to act
Do these fellows venture to assert
that because the Attorney General
was thus barred by interest from SER
wing as Judge that the Pan Electric
Co, was robbed of its resort to a court
| We think not. What happens to a
party when its retained counsel is
elected to the bench before which the
suit is pending? The Judge vacates
his seat for some brother Judge who
| proceeds to try the case.
This is precisely what the Attorney
General did. He declined to act and
the President as in duty bound, refer
red the case to Hon. L. @. C.-LAMAR,
the secretary of the Interior. No man
charges that Mr.. LAMAR had interest
in the case, nay, further, no man, no
Journal, has yet been found TO quest
ion Mr.. LAMAR's personal honor or
official integrity. He found a prind
.taejae case against the Bell people.
and ordered suit.
What then. is the matter? Simply
that the Bell Company fears this trial
a huge monopoly. coming money from
the people, it has its patent in the
first instance through fraud, and has
held its own in court through the very
money it has stolen, and like the Irish
Of the olable story, when assured
he woald have justice, cried out
Justice be jabers that is what
don want
We do not in this mean to asser!
that the courts were corrupt in sus-
tanning the fraud. But we all know
the slender chances held by a poor
inventor against a wealthy corpora
ton who dies in despair in the laws
delays that money is able to purchase
The Bell Telephone monopoly
makes confession Of their wrong doing
in their frantic protest against anc
abuse of a fair hearing. It is not in
corporated by a poor devil of az
inventor without means and without
friends. 1t recognizes in the Govern
ment a plaintiff that can hold its OWL
in count until the final end. Hence
these tears.
! Fortunately for the people, Grover
| ClevelandSis President of the United
States. He is not man to be moved
from the line of duty, and fortunately
for Grover Cleveland his Attorney
General is a man of stainless reputa
tion, who has lived in Washington
these many years a Senator among
/ Senators, poor in pocket, but not il
character, when the great majority o
his associates have grown mysteriousl,
rich,
The question at issue is not tn
character and conduct of Hon. A. M
Gerland, but the right of a" soulles
corporation to patent that has beel
used to plunder the people that kaave
may thrive.