Arizona republican., 1891-05-10

know who holds it; of course not, and
 he so alleges, and that is good reason
 why he should not be made to pay back
 the s5O0 year. That makes 5000
 more, during his four years on the bench,
 out of which he robbed the county of
 Pima.
 Then he got $500 year as Territorial
 Court Reporter, that is, for writing up
 the decisions of the Supreme Court of
 the Territory when they rendered one,
 which wasn't very often. Here is the
 the appointment (reading):
 In the Supreme Court of the Territory of
 Arizona, adjourned term held at the city of
 Tucson, Friday, July 9th 1886. In the matter of the appointment of a court reporter of this
 For the convenience of this court and that
 the decisions of the court may be properly and accurately reported in convenient periodicals and to pay for the publication thereof, the the decisions of this court. Signed,
 WILLIAM II. BARNES, Associate Justice
 WILLIAM W. PORTER, Associate Justice
 Barnes gets there first and with both
 feet. Applause and laughter). MT. Justice Barnes was majority of the court and got the appointment and the $500 also. If there was anything he did not get, l fall to find it. Q.aughter).
 l want to say few words on the citizenship of Mir. Barnes. He says he came here five years ago to stay. You
 know when fellow is appointed from a state back East to an office here, he
 likes to hold on to it, and then again,
 he thinks that in case he loses this office, he may want to get another one, and therefore, he wants to hold his puli at home. When Barnes came out here it wasn't good scheme to change his residence; he came and lived here, but his residence was Illinois, and he was very careful to do no act to change it. He had a precedent for that. There was never a carpetbag judge before him that did not do the same thing, and possibly he was justified, but the moment he was out of office he put his name on the Great Register. He did this August IA, 1890, and that was the first time that Mir. Barnes ever con sldered that his interests as citizen of the Territory of Arizona were great enough, or that he took interest enough in what was going on in our fair terri tory, to put his name on the Great Register and have vote.- Now, judges should not take part in politics, and if this judge had not only failed to put his name on the Great Register, but in addition thereto, had also refrained from taking part in partisan politics while on the bench, I would respect him for it. But when it appears that this political judge, this judicial demagogue, went around and interfered in every little political scheme there was afoot. when he puts his finger into every pie that was to be cut and eaten here, then l say, that he ought to have gone farther, and should, at least, have put his name on the Great Register srd identified himself with Arizona, and not claim citizenship in Illinois. On the l4th of August, 1890, then he be- came a citizen of our territory and within one year from that date he tried to crawl out of it, within one year he was sorry that he had put his name there; he saw another office in sight-a bigger and latter office than the one he had before, though in the same line of business. There were some land- grant courts established and William Brewster Cameron and other land-grant claimants in more ways than one.
 The grants are valuable, and the judge that has full power to determine they are good or not is in a pretty good position for picking. Judge Barnes had a curious desire to see there was much in the office or not, and he asked for the appointment. His greed for office is so great that he shamelessly seeks appointment un- der Republican administration and he is Democrat! this party manl He writes Congressman Springer and he also writes other Democratic friends of his, imploring them to help him to this office and 1 will furnish the proof, both of letters and telegrams, if he denies the accusation. Do not mistake my language, now. He wrote back to Washington and said: "I am simply in Arizona my residence is in Illinois," And why? Because the bill providing for the land court says the judge thereof must be appointed from residents of the states of the United States. He wanted to be judge of the land-grant-court and he could not be if he was a citizen of the Terri tory of Arizona, and consequently, he betrayed his territory and repudiated Therefore, he says: "Your God is not my God, and my God is not your God" But now he wants an office in Arizona. If he can't get an office in one place he will take it in another; it is all the same to him so long as he gets an office. Now lie says, "I have come here to stay. Witness my posses sions on the assessors book" Iaugh- ter.)
 Do you want to send citizen of Illinois to prepare a constitution for the new State of Arizona?
 Speaking of Mir. Bagg reminded me that Mir. Barnes wanted to get a con tempt law passed at the last session of the Legislature. He prepared law which would have shorn the District Court Judges of the power to punish for contempt.
 In other words, the man who had so lately been Judge, tried to deprive the Judges now upon the bench of the power of preserving decent order in the court "a power which has always been con- sidered inherent in every court of jus tice--the power of preserving order in upon the bench and pass upon the rights of men unless he has the power and the authority to preserve order? What does this demagogue mean? What would he do? Does he want to turn our into prize rings? Does he seek to bring about conditions which might terrorize our courts and juriesr Does he want to take ruffians in there and make our court rooms the scene of affrays that never should happen any, where, and seldom do happen outside of bar-rooms, or was he prompted by the fear that some other Judge might have