Arizona republican., 1891-05-10

have that $50o warrant drawn in my own name; guess I can stand it off if
 anybody makes any complaint to the
 President; yes, I must have it in nv
 own name;' and he gets 1t in his own
 name, until 1t is cut down to $250, after
 a considerable amount of "kicking" on
 the part of the taxpayers over there,
 and then Court over there in Solomon.
 vile didn't last quite as long as before.
 He did the same thing in Cochise
 county, $500 a year, and when MT. S C..
 Bagg had the audacity to comment ad-
 yersely on it Tn his newspaper, William
 Il. Barnes says to himself "Young man,
 I've got my eye on you; I'll catch you"
 and In very short time he did catch
 him. In very short time there were
 some bids to be let, I think for county
 printing, and when the bids were all in
 MT. Bagg was the lowest bidder, but
 the Board of Supervisors of the county
 did not see it to give the job to Mir.
 Bagg. Barnes was aroHnd, and when
 MT. Bagg brought suit and lost it, he got
 little hot, and then he commented
 again, and Judge William H. Barnes
 reached forth and collared Mir. Bagg,
 and brought him round with a short
 turn, and says five hundred dollars fine
 for contempt, and stay in jail till it is
 paid, and MT. Bagg went to jail. That
 was such an outrage on the community
 that the people got together and, by
 popular subscription, paid MT. Bagg's
 fine, and band of music escorted him
 from the jail to his home, as an evidence
 of the peoples respect and admiration
 for true exponent of honest and cour-
 ageous journalism.
 William II. Barnes will have the
 audacity to stand up before you and say
 that he never asked for that s5OO from
 the counties, that it's payment was
 forced on him. He almost had to have
 buttons sewed on his pockets to keep
 the Supervisors from putting the peo-
 ple's money therein. He had to take it.
 But MT. Bagg, a public spirited citizen, and one of the best Journalists in Ari- zona, man of integrity and honor. comes out and says it is not right, and the very first opportunity Judge William
 II. Barnes gets, and he seeks an oppor- tunity shortly afterwards, he puts that man in jail. He makes him feel the ar bltrary power of venal. court. He puts that man in jail, and the people become their indignity is aroused to such an extent that they raise by the popular subscription the amount of his fine and pay 1t. Let William H. Barnes tell you that he did not make them pay him the $500. How many of you believe itf Didn't make poor Graham county pay $500? It is common rumor all over the county, and Mir. Barnes is excoriated throughout Graham county because they had to pay it.
 How did he get the $500 year out of the Board of Supervisors of Pima county? What pretence? Here he didn't have to ride on railroad pass he used Coppel's herdic to come from his own house to the Court house. Yes; that is worth $500 a year to Mir. Barnes. For this great expense that he was put to in Pima county, the county had to put up $500 year. MT. Barnes never dared present the warrant which he got from the Board of but the moment he got that warrant into his hands he ran down to the bank and sold it-tried to get it into the hands of n bona fide purchaser for l value as soon as he could. Here is a man sworn to support the laws; took | his oath of office and said will see that l the laws are carried out in this Territory and county, and he forthwith robs Pima | county out of $500 a year, and then | don't dare cash the warrant himself; l he sells it at once, and when suit is brought on the last warrant that was paid to him, which was done as soon as he got off the bench and was shorn of his power to hurt any one who attempted to interfere and prevent him from rob ping the county, what does he do? Listen. Suit is brought in the name of Frederick Maish, Charles T. Etchells and Samuel Hughes, for themselves and in behalf of the taxpayers of Pima county, Arizona, as plaintiffs, against William H. Barnes, G. Ben Heney, County Treasurer of Pima county, and H. E. Lacy, Frank l.. Proctor and George Atkinson, members of the Board of Supervisors of said Pima county, as defendants, and this suit is now pend ing. This suit is brought by your Mayor, by Mir. Charles T. Etchells, a Democrat, and Samuel Hughes, Re- publican, all taxpayers, against this | man to stop the payment of the last | which he robbed this county | out of. It is set up in this complaint | that the defendant, William H. Barnes, Dn the first day of January, 1889, was, and for long time prior thereto had | been, a duly appointed, qualified and | acting Associate Justice of the Supreme | Court of the Territory of Arizona, and | the Judge of the First Judicial District of the Territory. and from said date he | the sad position and office up to and including the 20th day of March, | 1889, etc. Now, what is his answer to | swer of William H. Barnes to this com piaint. The case has not been decided l yet. Let us see how bravely MT. Barnes comes to the front. Does he say 1 was justified in taking that $500 and it was a legal act? Does he say so? No; he | lodges the issue. His answer is, first, that the plaintiffs have not legal capac- ity to sue second, that the plaintiffs are not entitled to recover in the capacity in | which they sue third, that the plain | tifs are not proper parties, as they have no interest in the cause of action or subject matter thereof. Itdoesn't make any difference to the taxpayers, he says, if l did do the county up generally; it is none of those fellows business. That is what he says in his answer: "That the remedy asked for is illegal, in this, that there is other and adequate remedy aside from injunction" which means means that you can bring suit and re- cover it, and if you find anything all right. Applause loud and continued.
 That reminds me that when Mir. Barnes was making his little speech on the plaza he said: 'I came here in 1885 to stay. All that have got is here," and then he looked around and hesi-