Arizona republican., 1891-05-10

here but Charley Kresham, one of tn,
 "boys." [Applause.l
 Il Charley Shibell left here to do Clerk
 duty; Charley Shibell, my old-tim,
 friend, here to say Courts adjourned ?
 and to put it in the books. No one hert
 to do anything but him, and A day going into the pocket of l.. c. Hughes
 A day going into the pocket O. John
 ny" Martin out in the mountains chas
 ing squirrels, $2 day into the pocket
 Kresham and $4 day to the Sheriff ; al
 out of the taxpayers of this county, fol
 l58 days, and here (producing paper) is a record of the days by the month and year and day, which I have compared
 myself and which has the certificate o
 the Clerk to it that it is correct. Wha, do you think of that? Is that the man to trust to prepare constitution for this Territory, under which all our laws must hereafter be made and tested
 What do you think this man is going ur there for? Do you think he has any interest in shaping that Constitution Sc that corrupt legislation can be had un, der it? Oh, no; he won't do anything like that; there's no show! Why, you can fix a Constitution so you can drive a four-horse team through it on gallop
 you can fix Constitution that the first Legislature that meets can rob every citizen of this Territory out of his birth, right-not even a pot of porridge left
 You can fix Constitution so that the Legislature will have unlimited power to grant franchises-to grant away the public domain, provided the United States is liberal enough to give us these desert lands; say that you can fix a Constitution so that corrupt Legisla- ture can grant away every valuable | franchise and every acre of the public domain when we get it, and who do you suppose will get in on that? Barnes has nothing to do with the little Plaza job, suppose. have been told that he has not. He hasn't anything to do, sup pose, with the little Railroad job, or the job by which the unsold city lots were given to some fellow under bond. Maybe he has too! I tell you, ladies and gentlemen, if William H. Barnes has the making of that Constitution, and this Territory is admitted as a State, the first Legislature that meets Mir. Barnes will be there too. That re minds me of a little story he told about fellow down in Illinois, in the Legisla- ture of that State. It appears that there was always a bill introduced early in the session of the Legislature there cinching the insurance companies, and the insurance men always appeared the first day of the session to see what was going to happen, and they generally brought pretty big sack along and saw the boys. But this session the in- surance men hadn't put in an appear ance, and the members had paid out most of their ready funds and were get ting "tired," SO this old fellow intro- duced bill that would wipe the in- surance companies clear out of exist ence, and after having the bill read by the clerk the old fellow said, Well, guess that will bring those insurance fe!lers along with the sack double quick" Laughter.l We'll. think Barnes would get some measure intro duced before many days that would bring every fellow up there--every fel- low that had a sack and wanted to pro- tect any portion of it or have any of it left. I think it because of his record, because he robbed this county out of $252S. I don't care whose pocket it went into, he did it. The man who would rob the county for the purpose of putting s4 day for l5S days into the pocket of his son-in-law, and thereby cause an expense to the county of SIP day more is not fit to be trusted with public office, and I believe the ballots will so pronounce on election day.
 But he was not satisfied with that. He demanded from this county $500 year additional. And for what? 1 meant to have brought the statutes down here with me, but I forgot them, but know the law well enough to state it correctly to you. The statute pro- vides that the District Judges shall be assigned to the districts and shall live in the district to which they are as- signed, and they must hold Court there. Now, Judge Barnes was assigned to the mated as the place where he should hold his Court in this county, and where the United States Court should be held, and this is where his residence naturally would be.
 Now, Congress further provided that those Judges could hold Court in the other counties of their District, desig- mated by the Legislature; but that the counties should bear the expense of holding those Courts. What do you suppose Congress meant by that simple provision? Do you suppose that Con- gress meant that those counties should pay those Judges salary? Do you sup pose Congress was preparing fat posi- tions out here by which a man could make more than double what any Judge was paid back East? 1 don't think you do. Neither did the first Judges who came here think so. The first Judges who came here understood that it meant that these counties on the out side should furnish the Court room and furnish chambers for the Judges while there, and should furnish Bailiff and Crier and other necessary things to properly run Court, though you would not think Crier necessary when you hear the lawyers. The outside counties did this, and after awhile they went little further and paid the expenses of the Judge Tn travelling there from his home Tn the District to the county seat where he held the additional Court-his actual travelling expenses were then paid. Perhaps Congress contemplated even that much, but certainly no more
 especially when the Judge rode on railroad passes and didn't pay any board after he got there. But when William H. Barnes arrived in this Territory he gave us a new deal of the cards; when he arrived in this Territory he showed the Republican office-holders who had been here before him that they didn't know the first thing about making money.
 Judge William H. Barnes is the most