The herald., 1896-04-05
INTERESTS JUDGE N|DNEY
AND VERY LIKELY A MULTITUDE OF
OTHER PEOPLE
A Caustic Communication From Hon. Zach
Montgomery, and Another From "one
Who Knows the Record''-A Proposition to
Reopen Rogerio Rocha's Case

EDITOR HERALD: In The HERALD of the
goth INST, Judge Il. M. Widuey again at
tempts by glaring misstatements to divert
the public attention from the real issue OF
this controversy.
The writer has reason to believe that
there was land-grabbing secretly attempted
in the present congress and believes that
an open attempt was made to get an
honorable bill through this congress in
favor of the settlers, but was defeated Dy
the land grabbing element being in the
majority, for fear their nefarious practices
would be exposed.
The learned Judges continual howl about
outside matters, If persisted in, will cause
the public to conclude that he is in the
condition of those of whom it Is said
"Whom the gods would destroy they first
make mad," and that as squirmer he is
a bowling success. and founding theo-
logical seminary will hardly save him. His
harping on "James' or "Joe' Montgomery
will avail nothing, nor his statement that
none knew of the petition to congress,
when in fact this petition was endorsed by
the signatures of thousands of the citizens
of this and adjoining counties.
1t is for the judge to prove that Mr..
Hammel, who signed the affidavit, and the
one who appears on the records as deputy
sheriff are one and the same person. 1t is
for the Judge to explain how the judgment
of 1888, after it had been squelched by
the court, was made to do duty under
date of 1855.
The learned Judge should also know that
the case was declared a fraud and the title
to the rancho declared valid, when if he
knows anything the case is now pending
In the supreme court.
As the Judge weeps for the poor unfor-
tunates who have inv ested their means to
test the validity of this grant, ! will ask
him what he gave to poor old Rogerio for
the land to found a seminary, and whether
the many allegations regarding the various
transactions concerning RogeriO ald this
rancho which he has heretofore been
asked about are true or not, and if not,
why does he not reply and deny themp
The Judge appears to be anxious to learn
the identity of the writer. Let us see wheth-
or he really means business. "Justice"
made proposition and the writer will do
90 also, by which he can learn all he de-
sires. Do not seek to cloak yourself with
the armor of David, but grid yourself with
the shield of Goliath, which fits you better.
stipulate to reopen the case OF Rogerio, and
the writer will come forth with his purse
and counsel and defend the justness of Ro-
gerio's cause and the cause OF all those In.
dams who have been unjustly deprived, az
the writer believes, OF their lands.
, Now, judge. you occupied the bench in
THIS county, anu as Jusc Juueos unfo you
reopen this cause and try it on its merits? !?
ONE WHO KNOWS THE RECORD.
March 80, 1896.
HON. ZACH MONTGOMERY WRITES.
EDITOR HERALD:-In your paper of yes
terday, March 20, I observe an article
signed by r. M. Widney and headed:
.Judge Il. M. Widney Replies to the Com
munication of One Who Knows the Rec
ord"
have not the honor of personal ac-
quaintance with Judge Widney, but from
that gentleman's high reputation. both as
q distinguished jurist and devOut and
pious churchman, it 10 impossible to avoid
the suspicion that the article in question
must have emanated from some other
source. 1t reads as if it were either the
work of some rattlebrain crank, who
might, perhaps, have imagined himself to
be Judge Widney. just as q crazy man
sometimes imaRines himself to be the
president of the United States or the
crowned ruler of some great empire; or
else it may have maliciously been palmed
off over the unauthorized signature of r.
NJ. Widney by some enemy of his, who
took this method of bringing the Judge
into public ridicule. And here are some
of my reasons of thinking so.
One of the universally recognized marks
Of insanity is the confused and incoherent
y
together different subjects that are wholly
unconnected with each other.
And it will be observed that the writer
who signed the name of "R. M. Widney"
to his effusion, while claiming to reply to a
previous communication published in The
HERALD over the signature of zone
Who Knows the Record" so mixes
UP said last named communication
Ia document with which had
nothing to do) with recent petition of
mine to the president and congress, asking
for a repeal of the Limitation law passed
in 1891, and with my letter to the Settlers
league touching the same subject, that ap-
peared in The HERALD on the 23d inst, as
to render it difficult to tell whether the So
called Widney was criticising said petition
to congress, or said letter to the Settlers,
or said article signed zone Who Knows
the Record"
Not only does this pretended Judge Wild.
ney get his subjects most inextricably
confused one with another, but he gets the
names of those upon whom he seems de-
sirous OF pouring the walls of his wrath
even worse confounded than his subjects.
For example, the so-called Judge Widney
says:
evidence OF the fact that could not be an
fornia to the statement of Hon. James
Montgomery, printed in THE HERALD of
March 23. 1896, in which it is boldly
stated that there is an organized league
for the purpose of attacking patented.
grants to heal Up the titles and let the
league members aud others get the lands
Now while it is true that in THE HERALD
of March 23d there is letter addressed to
the Settlers league by the undersigned
Zach Montgomery, have been unable to
find in that issue of The HERALD any com.
municatiou from Hon. James Montgomery
on that OF any other subject.
believe it IL true that during my recent
absence at Washington my son James did
take the Hon. Judge Widney pretty Sc
verely to task for some of his published
structures on his then absent father; but it
Is to be hoped that the judge did not there
by become SO ratified and unbalanced in
mind that every time since then, when he
reads the word Montgomery in print, lie
imagines that James is after him agai.i.
Further on this same would-be-thought
Judge Widney, true to the real or we'll
feigncd instincts of diseased mind, con.
verts James into Joe, where he says:
ITO quote Mr.. Joe Montgomery's lam
guage in THE HERALD of the 23d," etc.
And then he proceeds Immediately to
quote not the language of Mr.: Joe Mont