Arizona republican., 1891-05-10

tion, a cultivated, honorable gentleman who was never accused of betraying his party, and who never had the faintes, suspicion cast upon him either as a citi. zen or as Democrat, was foreman ol that Grand Jury; Brewster Cameron, one of the oldest pioneers of the Terri tory, whom you all know, does anyone here doubt his integrity? w. I. Perry, who, though young man, is one of the leading merchants of this city, Charles Warren, R. V. Bloxton, another staunch Democrat, R. B. Clark, A. L. Grow, now holding the position of Dep. uty Collector of Customs at Tombston R. N. Upton, Burt Dunlap, the indepen. dent Republican Councilman from Ora ham county in the Legislature two years ago, w. $. Sturges, one of the cat tie kings of Southern Pima and now vice-president of the Consolidated Na- tional Bank of Tucson, Andrew Olsen, business man, Charles R. Drake, one of the leading gentlemen of this city, an old-time Republican and pioneer, Charles H. Roche, secretary of the Tan ming Company and another Democrat. All these gentlemen, members of the Grand Jury, excepting Mir. Upton, con- cured in sending telegram, to the pre- sident of the United States that William II. Barnes was not fit man to preside over the court during the investigation of the Gra nd Jury into said crime or upon the trial of what is now known as the "Wham Robbery Case" Every one of those gentlemen l have named signed that telegram, and in addition thereto another telegram was thereafter sent to the Attorney General of the United States, confirming the protest of said Grand Jury that Judge Barnes was an unfit person to occupy the bench during the trial of that case, which telegram was signed by the lamented attorney of United States for this Territory Harry K. Jetfords, by William Herring oi Tombstone, the present Attorny-General of the Territory, and by s. M. Franklin, an honorable Democratic Attorney of this city, and third telegram, similar in import to the other two was sent by United States Marshal w. K. Meade, than whom there is no stronger Demo- crat or truer man living. (Great ap- plause.) He is another good old Nir- ginian of the stripe of Democracy that comes from the iore-fathers, not my kind, for am a Democrat from conviction. l have the misfortune as you have (ad- dressing party interupting speaker) of having an lrishman for father, but he is Democrat and has been voting for Democratic presidents ever since he came to the country, and he has been here since he was twenty and speaks without a brogue. And was a Demo- crat long before came here tinterrup- tion in audience, words inaudible) and better than your kind that are trying to elect corrupt man to office. [Ap- | plause.
 am a Democrat from honest convic- tlon, for the welfare of the people and the moment the welfare of the people is not being observed by the Democratic party then am no longer a Democrat. Applause. If Democracy means to desert the people; if Democracy means i to desert the best interests of the Ter ritory, then, thank God, l am no longer Democrat. tLong applause.l But if | by Democracy is meant to stand up boldly and courageously and speak and fight for the principles which should govern the party, then I am proud to call myself Democrat. [Great ap- plause.
 l repeat, that all the gentlemen whom have named, sent telegrams to the President, which said that William H. Barnes was not a fit man to preside over the Court during the investigation of that case by the Grand Jury, or during the trial of the case known as the "Wham robery case."
 What does that mean, gentlemen? l give you the bare facts. Those promi- nent citizens were Investigating the most colossal crime of modern times, and they must have had reason when they stepped so far away from any pre- cedent as to put their names to that ter ritfic indictment of William IL. Barnes. l repeat, they must have had good reason. But there is a sequel to this. Judge Barnes called them into Court the next morning, when he heard, through Mir. Upton, what the Grand Jury had done, and ignominiously dismissed them. Now, if he had stopped there, there might have been some frail hope of his answering the charge satisiacto- rily, but he did not have the courage to do so. Like the corrupt man that he IS, he sent corrupt proposition to that same Grand Jury after having dismissed them. He dictated telegram and Mir. C. W. Wright wrote it. The telegram read: "We desire to have William II. Barnes retained as Judge until his term of office expires. While we do not think he ought to try this case, we do not con slider him a corrupt man." That is the substance of it. It was worded both for immediate results and for future effect, so that he might point to it after wards and say that these men did not do that because they thought him cor rupt, but for some other reason. c. w. Wright took that proposition, with the telegram written out, and presented it to his friend w. S. Sturges, Brewster Cameron, Charles R. Drake, Dr. F. H Goodwin and Charles II. Roche, all members of that Grand Jury, and stated that he was authorized by Judge Barnes to say that if they would sign that tele- gram that he, Barnes, would re-conyene the Grand Jury. Now, is that a corrupt proposition or not? To their credit, be it said, the proposition was declined immediately; 1t was spurned with in- dignation by each and every one of the five gentlemen named. He said: If you will sign that telegram I will re- convene you as Grand Jury" The fact that they all refused to sign it shows that they did think him corrupt, but they didn't like to say so in SO many words in their telegram, and only said what they thought would be necessary to have him removed, and he was sum marily dismissed in disgrace from his position, before his term expired, al- though it had but few more days to run.
 These facts are well known to the people l have named. They are all here in the city, ready to confirm the