Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1891-10-10
AFTER THE BooprEns.


Judge Wallace. presiding Judge Of the
Superior Court Of San Francisco, recently
organized . Grind Jury with the distinct
purpose Of bringing the boodlers Of the
Bay City TO merited justice. When be
came to select his jury he found that th,
list Of names in the box from which the
jury was 10 be made up had been tam
pered with, and thereupon he appointed
an e%lisor, IS he had . right TO do undel
the law, to name the persons to compost
the PANEL. His elisor was Henry II,
Scott. formerly Sheriff Of Elko county,
this State. but for several years g resi'
dent Of San Francisco. Mr.. Scott held
q position in the San Francisco Custom
house under the Cleveland administrs-
tion, and it was be who made the great
battle against the opium smuggling rinG
of that port. He seems to have been .
very proper person 10 select . Grand Jury
to put on the track of the boodlers. Ex,
Congressman Barclay Henley was made
Foreman, with q list Of gentlemen asso-
ciated with him comprising for %intelli-
gence and integrity the leading men Of
San Francisco. Mr.. Henley was no doubt
chosen for his known hostility to Buck.
ley and Buckley methods and Boss rule
generally. The boodlers took alarm and
many Of them fed the country. At lat
est accounts Boss Buckley and some of
his confidential lieutenants were in Mon.
tresl, Canada. A few Of the Republican
boodlers were nabbed and an effort made
to have them tell what they knew about
corruption at Sacramento and other
points, but here the attorneys Of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company in
terfered and instituted proceedings in
Judge Murphy's court TO declare judge
Wallace's Grand Jury an illegal body.
Murphy is Republican Judge and was
nominated and elected chiefly through
the influence Of the railroad. That the
railroad knew that their man could be
counted on in an emergency has been
proven by the result. Murphy, holding
an inferior Judgeship, declared in effect
the Wallace jury to be a mob, to whose
authority no boodler need pay the slight.
est attention. This brought together a
mass meeting Of indignant citizens who
Endorsed Wallace and denounced Muir
ply. Some Of the speakers also went
after the Railroad Kings without gloves,
and Senator Stanford was declared to be
the arch corruptionist of the universe.
In the meantime she Grand Jury goes on
with its work paying no heed to the Muir
ply decision. What the outcome of it
all will be, no one can foretell, but it is
hoped that the Supreme Court of Cali
%fornia, to whom an agreed case has been
submitted, will stand by Judge Wallace
and against the thieves. This, however,
will depend very largely on the question
Of how many of the Supreme Court
Judges are owned by the Southern Pacific
Company. Judge Beatty, formerly Of
our Nevada Court, is Chief Justice Of
that tribunal. While in this State he
once rendered an anti-Centrsl Pacific de.
c%ision, which defeated him for q re-elec-
tion. 1t has been limited that he betook
himself into the railroad camp after going
to California. His forthcoming decision
in the case just submitted will very
clearly indicate whether or not he has
abandoned the people for a corporate
master. But il is . pretty fight that is
now going on at the Bay between honesty
and boodleism. Honesty may be relied
upon to win in the end. unless there be
more thieves than honest men in that
city, which for the present is an open
debatable question. The Examiner, Gail
and Bulletin are manfully fighting for
honesty in official place, while the Chron.
icle is zealously defending the ways OF
the boodler. The latter journal seems to
believe that the Republican party will
be hurt if the investigation is allowed to
proceed. We have an idea that individ.
uaIs in both parties will be hurt and
ought to be. The clearing of the decks
and the publication of the official atmos-
phere ought not to hurt any political
party undeservedly. To oppose this
heslthful process is q frank admission Of
ouiIt