Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-10-26
An OvershadOwing Evil.

Cronin murder case, ably discourses at length upon some of the dangers that beset its administration under the loose American system of the equal right of all persons to aspire to public position, and its remarks pos sess general rather than a special | bearing It says:
 "To none," swore King John before l the barons of England at Runnymede, ! twill we sell, to none will we deny or delay right of justice"
 And that this oath might have bet ter chance of accomplishment he swore also: We will not make any justices, constables, sheritfs, or bailifTs, except of such men as know the law of the realm and mean duly to observe it."
 The United States has embodied
 the spirit of the first quoted clause of
 King Johns oath in the fourth and sixth amendments to its Constitution,
 and many States have incorporated
 its very form of words in their bills of
 rights; in every State has its meaning
 been made to pervade one or more
 passages of the organic law
 The second quoted clause either has
 been omitted from our State constitu-
 tions or has fallen into sad desuetude.
 We have made justices, constables,
 or baililfs" in obedience to the de-
 mands of leagues, clans, orders, asso-
 citations, and cabals which not only do
 not mean duly to observe the law"
 but which were formed specially to
 defy and violate the law
 Constables, bailitfs, sheriffs often
 have been found working together
 with criminals to "deny or delay right
 or justice" its due operation, and,
 though happily but seldom, justices
 have soiled the bench by hribes or con
 tempt of law. Not to make any pro-
 tracted excursion through the history
 of legal malfeasance, the acklscandal , in New York, with its infamous Sheriff, it's vile referee, it's venal or grossly , negligent judge, and the Cronin scan-
 dal with its obstructive police shield
 ing detective against whom a true bill has been found as party to the dreadful murder, it's bailiffs in sympa- , thy with the murderers, it's other 3 bailiffs acting as corrupters of the jury, : it's legion of men in places of major or . minor office, and appointed thereto by
 influence of those who are chiefs of an
 organization whose object is to make l the law of the organization dominant e over "the law of the realm" may be 9 cited as proofs of the ugly facts of an unworthy departure from the terms oi King Johns oath and of American r liberty.
 n When the administration of law is ,- polluted the source of civil life i: polluted. And the scoundrels ir broad
 cloth and political power who have t first plotted murder and next plotted s miscarriage of justice from their guilty V tools are the fellows, whose arrest anC . conviction most supremely is to be ' desired. Pending this, and aiding to 10 ward it, should be the instant reno 't val from the police force, from tht e corps of bailifis, and from any anC If every place of great or small pubic .o trust of all men who owe allegiance t, " any order or league whose command 'r are held by them to be more imperiou y than the commands of the writer of law. Except such as know the lav '. of the realm and mean duly to obe
 it," there should be neither justices . -A---a->Li@-,--l-@-i nor hailiH-,i' 'e officers of any kind or degree T. i ,r absolutely necessary that elective an, a appointive officers henceforth shoul :, be chosen upon these terms and upol V none other.
 E. It may be said that two of tn of bailiffs now indicted for conspiracy t ,e corrupt the Cronin jury are not mem of bers of the league whose affairs wer " the prime cause of the murder. Us may be so. But if there were no rr g mors, and evidences, too, of the powe c. Of men suspected of complicity in tn m great crime to secure and retain tn
 appointment of corrupt officials woul 'S the two bailiffs have sinned as the It. now have sinned? Could such schem s- of corruption have been matured upo al behalf of plain John Smith charge l., with the murder of plain John Jont y as has been matured to secure the a, lu quittal of men who evidently are bu of the tools which an as yet unknown han lv has used, and which as yet the III I known hand dares not to let depal ~ from within reach of it's grasp? N at one believes in such a possibility. g. The attempt to buy the jury is a col
 fession Of belief in the guilt of some
 the accused. The men who furnishe 'w the money know that some of the a SC cused is either actually party to tn ,g crime or know who was its instig o', tor, and is likely to tell if himself '' convicted. The hand of dictator, q or autocrat. supreme ruler is at wcl or in this. Till that hand is shacklt ad the country is not safe. It is han ,ir that has shaped murder, hand tn
 well nigh overthrow the pomp ar ls dignity, the power and form of law. V yUu ,,0t,cf fo1yo ,se,,o u,,tt, @l,o C.,