The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-30
NOW SIC HIM, TIGE
KOS HARRIS IN DEALING WITH
TIGER BILL. USES BIG WORDS
He Says He Does Not Care to Express an
ance of the Assistant Attorney General
for Fear IL Would Influence Judge
Reeds Court, but Is willing to Say Mr..
Campbell Acted Like school Boy Play.
ing a Game of Marbles-Listen to His
Big Words. Though

| Kos Harris. the well known attorney
(, and citizen, was seen on Main street
yesterday and asked what he thought
of the statements made by Tiger Bill,
The assistant attorney general, in his
Interview in yesterdays Eagle:
Well" he said. Il will tell you what /
| think OF my friend Tigers interview
in two minutes. There are two trib1-
mails in this county. before which all
eases are tried, one OF which is public
opinion. This tribunal hears. examines.
decides, condemns or approves; though
for season II may err, il usually is
. right and registers its judgment in Kan
SaS in November of each year. News
paper sreeis, maledictions. whims.
yowls. reflections, yilliif1cations do
not form or turn aside the trend OF
public opinion.
Argument sometimes corrects an
error existing or growing in the mind
Of the general public. Personal abuse
of man has never yet made a convert:
il sometimes produces breeds and gen.
crates towards. IL more often results
in rancor. hatred, spite, and yet public
opinion marches onward. forward. 10
final irrevccabie, unoppposa BILE. unre-
versatile judgment. Whatever We may
stay il. IL reaches a verdict and pro-
noUnces judgment. Therefore a news
paper defence Of judge. jury or counsel
Will be foolish. senSeleSS, unwise, unJu-
Giciai and impolite.
Let the future demonstrate whether
the court erred or not in its ruling.
l hesitate TO expires an opinion for fear
il may influence Judge Reed if the case
should go before him.
THE other tribunal fS tho courts nrO-
vided by law. working in established
well-ordained and regular method. We
presume that IN the due course Of
events ii VIII be finally determined
if Judge Campbell is right or wrong.
The result will then be no longer theor-
etical. philosophical. legal speculation
IL will be a judicial determination and
a part of Wichita's history. The grand
mothers will repeat it 10 the little ones.
the oldest inhabitant will relate it. the
chronicler preserve IL and historian
embalm IL. am satisfied to so leave ii.
"Germane to the issue, however. AMI
yet avoiding all the facts, proceedings
and rulings in the matter referred 10
by Judge Campbell, / desire to state,
not as worthy of being preserved or
recorded but as common on conduct,
that the action of Judge Campbell on
yesterday in abandoning a case in the
manner and method adopted was not
TO be anticipated of a lawyer VINO
served nine years as district judge. and
a practitioner for twenty-four years.
In sober truth his conduct
forcibly reminded me of when / went
to school and played marbles. Some
times in game an overgrown. pudden-
headed calf would be getting beat or
caught fudgen' and then he would
kick the ring into the dust and run
home and tell his NAV that the boys
had been 'pick:l' on him and 'chetel'
him.
Chief Massey and assistants Sutton
and Wood were called before the police
commissioners yesterday To pledge them
selves to raise thunder. 1t seems that
the oath of an officer to do his duty is
not enough for the commits sioners al
though it is all the law asks for. One
Of them refused TO take the pledge, il