The morning call., 1892-01-06


MEAN AND CoNTEAIPTIBLE
In the eyes of honest men, as Wilkes Booth
or Guiteau. The names OF great Judges
great in their views, calm in their decisions
and pure in their lives, who are known TO
the whole people to have distinguished
themselves as such, form moral element
in the history of nation, they constitute
most valuable part OF the inheritance and
traditional stock of virtue and give a moral
hope and stabiityto the community for which
nothing else can be substituted. But, on
the other hand, no ignOminY Is so deep as
that " hich attaches to unjust and corrupt
Judges | hold that when any man seated
upon judicial bench accepts from any rail-
road corporation pass to travel across the
continent ne is corrupt; and hold also thar
the corporation granting any such pass is
virtually n bribe-g iver, and their charter
| should be forfeited Immediately. The log
| ical acumen of the Judges or the learning
! OF the law should never hide the corporation
nor shield 1t from deserved contempt. The
| people have always seemed to understand
the importance OF the Judges Office, and
| have ever been more watchful over and
| deeply concerned in the judiciary than in
any other branch of the Government. And
/ whyP Because the people are in lar closer
are with Legislatures Your rights, my
| felOw-citiZens. and your liberties, are
| far more intimately related to the
| judiciary than to the Legislature. In case
| of wrong you appeal to the law and the
! Judge. the interpreter of the law. You nm
derstand that the maintenance of your
personal rights, that the punishment and
| suppression of crime, the preservation of
| public morals,
| THE SECURITY OF PROPERTY,
| Life and social order are all dependent upon
! the wisdom, the impaTtlality and integrity
of the Judges who hold the scales Of justice
and interpret the law. Such man 1 hold
| to be Judge Wallace-bOld to expose and
| punish the crime Of the bOOdleT, the man Of
| the hour. We cannot afford to have such
| an incOrruptible Judge leave the Office of
| Presiding Judge at this time. A man asked
| me to-day: 'Dr. Easton, what is your
| opinion OF Judge Wallace2 Give it to me
short sharp and crisp l said: We'll,
| sir, Judge Wallace, to my mind, is as pure
| as Cato, as just as ATistides, as infeXible as
| Caesar and ii would be an evil omen if so
/ good and great man retire from his busl-
ness at this peculiar crisis Let then
| the people of San Francisco be head
| and new term be granted at
their imperative demand. And if so be
| that he retiTes from the Presiding Judge
! ship, then we may see time when regret
| Will be unaYallng. In the history of old
| Scotland, my dear native land, l recall an
| incident when one Of her gallant warriors,
| sorely pressed in battle, saw grim defeat
| before him TO his valiant host and he cried
out in despair. ON, for an hour with Wal
ldC6 y LliRuk9 dul III ptUpu6l, UOT luo
| son of prophet but l believe that if this
| just, this incOrrupuble mau sh Ould now re-
| tire the Doodle element will soon have its
| oppressive yoke upon our necks, and when
| the corrupt Judiciary comes into power we
will plead, but plead In vain, oh, for an
| hour with Wallace!
sit makes very little difference who your
| Mayor may be, aud more pure and more
! UPRIGHT CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN
! Than Mayor Sanders0n you Will not find,
a man whom l love, honor and respect IL
| makes very little difference who the Mayor
| Of San Francisco may bs, nor how vigilant
your police, nor how patriotic your states
men, il your Judges are not independent
| and incOrrupuble, they can and they will
! paTalyZe both the legislative and the adj
minstrative arms of the government Not
| the Governor nor the Legislature, not tie
! President of the United States, nor
! even the Senate of the United States
/ has such power in them touching
your rights and my rights as the Judge on
! the bench. A Judge can render far more
! injury to the individual citizen to the clti-
| zen Of San Francisco and the great COM
! monwealtb, than any other officer Of the
| Government or member Of the body poll
| He has more power TO COndOne crime; he
! has more power to wrong the Innocent, TO
! make vice bold and virtue timid. But the
! high-minded, independent and unpurchas-
/ able Judge makes the law terror to the
| ~ would appeal tonight for not only
| pure judiciary, but a pure press-a press
| that will be puTged OF bribery, press that
| cannot be bought, press that Will never
allow itself to be sold. Eternal vigilance Is
| said to be the price of liberty, and so is the
! price of judicial purity. \ GU are-the power
! behind and in front of the throne tonight,
and if you demand that Judge Wallace shall
! be reappointed he will be.
THE OVERTHROW OF CARTHAGE.
"When Cato preached the overthrow Of
/ Carthage what was his policyP To every
/ man he melton the street and talked with
| IN closing the conversation he would say,
| And Carthage must be destroyed AT the
| close of every speech on the platform he
would wind up by saying, And let Carthage
| be destroyed. AT the close OF every letter
that he wrote would be, Let Carthage be
| destroyed And the time came when Car
| thage went down and old Cato went
up in glory. And l say tonight that
there must ring from the citizens
| Of San Francisco as just one word,
| Wallace TO the Presiding Judges bench
Let il echo and re-echo, Return Wallace to
the Presiding Judges bench In every
| newspaper editorial let 1t be written. Re
! turn Wallace to the Presiding Judges
! bench, 'Iand with Grand Jury suited to
| his own MIND he will purge the common
| wealth of those vampires and the State will
| rise in glory and be an honor to the republic
| which is the fairest, the gTandest. the
| nobleSt republic that ever rose upon
| the shores OF history. | was born in
| Scotland, dear, lbeTty-loving Scot
! land, but l am a naturalized citizen,
aud If ! thought there was
| drop Of bloob in these veins that was not
/ true to the flag OF my adopted country, l
| would let it out tonight, because ! love this
! flag. and because l love this great Califor-
| MIA, which / have adopted and taken to MY
hear, of hearts end ! say. For the sake of
| God, for the sake Of virtue, for the sake Of
religion, return Wallace to the Presiding
| judges bench. There are some other
| things l would like to say something about
| but the lateneSs Of the hour forbds. |
would like to have spoken of the
| police of this city, but | don't know
| how to touch it. For three sue
cessive nights l stood in the
an answer to the question and the answer
| has never comet has never been given.
THE POLICE.
| If it be true, as In two papers OF this city it
! was charged, that the police Of this city re-
ceive three thousand dollars every Monday
| morning for the protection OF crime | as a
| TAXPAYER want to know it. And those men
| have not had the bravery, nor the moral
| courage, nor the integrity to come out and
| challenge me on that question. Those
papers are either guilty of libel
| or they are telling tremendous
! uutb, aud you taxpayers nave rlgnt to
! know if $4,000 every Monday morning is
| gathered out of the dtns OF harIotS AID out
of the dives of the city and put into the
! pockets of the police officers of this city. If
! it is a lie. let them say so. ! stand for
| purity, and | care not where the thunder
strikes nor where the lightning falls.
| stand by the press. and believe that the
| press of this city will tell what is right and
| speak what is true. | believe in the
power of the press, and l want the press Of
! this city to press that question which
| has been put forward in two weekly papers
| of this city and never challenged, that
| $4,000 is gather every Monday morning
| for the protection of crime in this city.
And while we plead for a pure judiciary,
| and while we plead for the return of judge