San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-21
WHO Is FAIR PLAY?
He Tackles Mr.. Franklin and Says
He Is Sorry.

From the S. A. Express, October 81.
"a cALUMNY EXPOSED.
n Editor Express:-At Krisch's hall, Sat
urday night, the lawyers squad let loose
one of their heavy guns, in the person of
Lawyer Franklin, and judging from the
signs of fatigue shown by the audience
during his cut and dried speech, he
proved himself to be a gun of extremely
heavy metal.
Mr.. Franklin's entire speech was dis
ingenious attack upon Judge King, which
appeared to be prompted by a private
grudge that he was afraid to avow. In a
public speech at the Medina con Friday,
Lawyer Denman, who runs with the same
machine, said that they (meaning his
faction) had never charged Judge King
with official corruption, and did not mean
to do so. as there was no evidence tending
to SubStantiate such a charge, but that
they contended that the surrounding cir
cumstances were suspicious" Mr.. Den
man. in these remarks gave the whole
thing away and laid bare the whole trick.
There is no evidence whatsoever, to con-
Wet Judge King of corruption, or official
miSconduct-his accusers admit the fact,
but they propose to convict him upon bare
suspicion. rumor. SurmSe and conjecture
interpreted by the malignity or lawyers
trained to make the worse appear the
better cause" Lawyer Franklin evil
IDENTIFY had had no report of the speech of
Lawyer Denman, when he opened his
throttle valve last night and dashed upon
Judge King with a full head of steam
The speech of Mr.. Franklin was weak,
flatulent and utterly inconsequen-
tia. He produced no evidence,
wha tsoever, tending to prove that
his insinuations against Judge King were
imbued with grain of truth. He had no
such evidence. still he labored very hard
to convince his hearers that suspicion,
rumor, surmise and conjecture consti-
tuted ample evidence of judicious crook
edness. If Mr.. Franklin has acquired the
rudiments of the law, he must know, that
bare suspicion is no ground In court OF
| law, for evening convicting man OF a
| misdemeanor. But he laborously attempts
| to convict district Judge, of corruption,
on mere suspicion, adroitly insinuated.
Taking the facts as stated by Lawyer
| Franklin, to be literally true, they utter
| ly fail TO raise. in candid minds, the faint
| est suspicion of wrong doing or miscon-
| duct on the part of Judge King, in the
matter of the appointment of receivers of
| the Arkansas Pass.
Let us briefly glance at the facts: Mr..
| Charles Sinner obtained judgment
against the Arkansas Pass railroad. His
attorney, Lawyer Barnard, was proclaim
| ing on the streets, with apparent gusto,
/ that he would cause an execution TO be
| issued and levied on the said railroad and
stop the running of trains. In view OF
these facts, other creditors, as they had
| a perfect right to do, filed petition in
| ing for the appointment of a receiver OF
the road. AS he ought to have done,
| TN Ter the circumstances, o levy of an
execution having been threatened, Judge
| King appointed the earliest practicable
| time for hearing this petition. At the
hearing he appointed receivers of the
road, Just as he should have done, as it
was notorious that the railroad was I'M
| able to liquidate debts already past due.
| / take this synopsis of the facts from the
\ speech of Lawyer Franklin. / willingly
| give him that advantage.
! Now, ask Lawyer Franklin IL the
facts, as stated by himself, raised the
| faintest suspicion of the official integrity
| of Judge King? EVIL to him, who evil
thinks" in the absence of every sem
| blance of evidence of guilt. | ask every
man in BeXar is the facts stated by Law
| yer Franklin afford the slightest ground
| for charging Judge King for corruption
| in office? Lawyer Franklin would not
| hang ''yaller dog" on bare suspicion,
| arising from distortion of the facts, yet
| he is nothing 10th to smirch the official
| EOOU VI vi DdlO cusplSlOu
| and CONNECTION. This is bad enough.
But what is the impelling motive for
| this causeless hue and cry against Judge
King? 1t is mainly to secure the defeat
of all the other gentlemen who are run
ming on the same ticket with Judge King.
If there was evidence to show he had act
ed cOrruptly, every man on the ticket
would cut loose from Judge King. 1t is
pretty evident that some of the lawyers
so savagely prosecuting Judge King by
suspicious and insinuations, have an
avowed grievance against him which will
not bear the light of day, or else an "aXe
to grind" The public see and appreciate
the motives of Judge Kings assailants.
1 am sorry Lawyer Franklin allowed
the impetuosity Of his passions to de-
throne his judgment and to debauch his
sense of justice. He made "bad break"
and it will take him years to outlive IT.
FAIR PLAY.