Arizona republican., 1891-05-10

welcome office-holders that it had. He
 remains there two days and the Grand
 Jury and the trial jurors remain here two days, and then take their little $a
 apiece for doing nothing. while Mir Commissioner Hughes took his little $4
 a day for saying: Courts adjourned.' .'
 Laughter.
 And MT. William H. Barnes went tc
 the city of Phoenix for the purpose oi
 upholding his brother-in-law, George II
 Daily, the then clerk of his court in
 Tombstone, in standing in with the
 Wolaey Legislature and putting this
 Territory where she is todav--in driving every Democratic office-holder out of of.
 flee. That is the kind of Democrat
 William H. Barnes is. Where is my
 proof? 1 will give it to you. The records of the court show that he went there, and that MT. Hughes opened court in
 his absence. The other facts state are
 true, and one of the gentlemen whom he thereby robbed has sworn to enough to
 make out the balance of it. Charles M. Strauss, the most efficient Superintend- ent of Public Instruction the Territory of Arizona ever had Charles M. Strauss, to whom is due the fact that the public | sCilOulo VI uT6 uOW-1ll ~ DttteT condition than any other Territory ever had it's schools; Charles M. Strauss was robbed, say, by the action of this man Barnes out of his hard-earned salary, and that salary was put into the pockets of George w. Cheyney, who never did a stroke of work for it or even looked into the office. That is William H. Barnes this party man! this roaring Democrat Listen to the affidavit of Charles M. Strauss [Reading.i
 | TERRITORY OF ARIZoNA,l ss County of Pima, 's' | Charles NJ. Strauss being duly sworn accord ing to law, on his oath deposeth and saith: | Sometime in the month of March, 1889, while l the Legislature was in session at Phrnix, William H. Barnes, judge of the District Court of the First Judicial district of the Territory of Arizona, said court being then in session and also grand jury of said court, left both said court and said jury and went to Phoenix afore | said.
 By the way, that was the 18th and 2Oth of March, if any of you want to look ct the records in the clerk s office, and l don't think Martin would falsify them, at least, not to hurt Judge | Barnes.
 Continuing with reading.) "On the morning | he arrived in Phoenix, several Democrats were | in consultation there lat Ph9nix) at which gathering was present, and 1t was there stated | that 1t was thought that MT. H. D. Underwood, who was a member of said Legislature, could be induced to refuse to assist in forming n quorum for the purpose of keeping the said Legislature in session beyond the sixty days limited by law, and was requested as a friend of Judge Barnes and of MT Daily, (the brother. in.law of Judge Barnes, and who was also member of the Legislature), to see Judge Barnes and Mir Daily and see what could be done with them to that end. I immediately leit said gathering for the purpose of seeing Judge cial hotel in the city of Phoenix, and then and there, started to broach the subject to him, when without giving me chance to explain my purpose, he immediately said: By God that Is just what came up here for and point ing his finger at the State house, he adied: T came up here to kill the appointments of that ---- Governor Zulick, and you are one of them, Strauss, and you have got to take your medicine with the rest party mali indeed And Barnes don't swear only when he is very mad and in earnest"
 and had no further conversation with him, but turned on my heel and returned to my Demo cratic friends and related what had taken place My reason for going to interview Judge Barnes in regard to MT. Daily was that then had req son to believe fand circumstances which have since come to my Knowledge confirm me in that belief that MT. Daily was wholly under the power and influence of Judge Barnes being at the time clerk of the said District Court at
 (Signed) CHARLES M. sTRAUss.
 Subscribed and sworn to before me. at Tucson Arizona, this sixth day of May, A. D. 1891.
 [sEALl Levi H. Manning, Notary Plplic Pima County, Arizona.
 Now, at the time Mir. Harry Jefrords was elected by such a majority over Cameron H. King, there is another cir cumstance that proves 1t was because of the application of this principle in vot- ing by Democrats, and that is. that the idol of the Democratic party--Eugene o. Shaw-was elected over the Republi- can nominee for Sheriff by majority of 331 at the same election. It gives me courage to proceed to look at those fig ures. It gives me courage to think that we have that many honest voters in Pima county-that many honest and independent voters who refuse to be governed by the politicians system and by the principle that when a man is nominated he must be supported by every man in the party whether he be corrupt or whether he be corruptly nominated or not.
 Ladies and Gentlemen You all know the history of that session. George II. Daily, for a consideration of Sl75, re- mained in Phoenix. I say this boldly and wish it understood for considera- tion of $l75-and for other good and valuable considerations (the other good and valuable considerations being that it was the desire of Barnes) remained in Phoenix and voted with the Republicans. The Republicans thereby passed lot of laws, which laws have cost this Terri tory a great deal of money and will cost it great deal more. 1 saw ny the papers the other day that Solicitor General Taft had fled his opinion in the case of Jefferson Wilson, in which the Solicitor General takes the position that those laws are void. There was not a Democratic attorney in Arizona-Ben Goodrich, Mark Smith, all the Demo- cratic attorneys of this city, gave it as their unqualified opinion that any laws passed after the expiration of sixty days would be null and void, and we had the opinion of three Attorney-Generals of the United States in succession on that very point and to the same effect, yet Barnes, a judge upon the bench, sworn to sustain the laws, goes to Phoenix and has his brother-in-law remain there and assist in passing those laws, and the re- suit is that every case tried under them will have to be re-tried at considerable expense. The result is that great many Republican oflice-holders drew a large amount of salary which they or their bondsmen may have to pay back to somebody, and the result is that a number of Democratic ohice-holders of honesty, integrity and ability, who ought to have drawn salaries for their services, failed to connect.
 William H. Barnes is responsible for all this.
 Now, this thrifty judge put his hands into the pockets of the people in several other ways. In the first place, while