The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-12
NOT POSTED EXACTLY.

Judge Campbell, Tiger Bill" was
acquitted at Wichita Saturday night Of
the charge Of accepting brides from the
saloon men. AS Judge Dale, before
whom the proceedings were brought, IS
| an anti-Campbell, anti-prohIbition
man, it is safe TO say that Campbell
| was not guilty. It seems, however,
| that he did take money from the joints,
| and did dismiss cases against them.
| Judge Dale says that while such things
| are not right, and that he viii have no
more Of it, yet there is no law against
| it. The first thing Tiger Bill did when
| he got out was TO pull another joint
| Lawrence Journal
Our usually wide-awake cotemporary
| is not up-to-date in the Tiger Bill
| case. The assistant attorney general
is a creature of the Morrill-Dawes adj
ministration, Judge Campbell being
| employed by them to make Wichita
sick. He was appointed at the special
solicitation Of the PrOhibitiOniStS.
Judge Dale, who was the fusion can
didate of the Populists and Democrats,
received the united and hearty sup
port of the ProhibitiOnists of all par
ties, in his candidacy and at the polls.
Judge Dale, therefore, is in no sense
either an anti-Campbell man or an
"anti-prOhibitiOn man." The very
leaders who precipitated the admins
tratiOn's fight on Wichita had pledged
their support to Dale before they even
knew who the Republican nominee
would be. When the people, from the
distraction growing out of the turmoil
of Intellectual and expensive prOSecu-
tons. recalled the fact that a young
and inexperienced county attorney had
been disbarred, ruined and sent out Of
the state in disgrace for practicing just
what Dawes had instructed and upheld
Judge Campbell in doing, except that
Boone retained both costs and fees, the
demand was urgent that a suit be
brought against Judge Campbell, !
which was done. Judge Dale appoint !
ed, as one of the attorneys for the in |
veStigation and prosecution, his old |
partner, Judge T. B. Wall. Judge |
Wall was, more than anyone else, re- /
sp0nSibie for the candidacy of Dale. |
Judge Wall, in his speech as one of the |
prosecutors of Judge Campbell, de-
clared that he would be ashamed 10
ask a conviction, Notwithstanding
Judge Wall, in conjunction with the
other LAWYERS associated with him in
the case, had held the evidence TO be
sufficient Hence the murmur Of dis
Our cOtemp0rary's asser-
ton, therefore that Judge Dale in hold
ing that the practice complained of in
Judge Campbell was wrong, and not
permissible, in the face of his acquit-
tai, becomes incomprehensible. So far
as the trial is concerned it seems to
have been case of lawyers, attorneys
and judges, in which the sitting judge
and the two ex-judges came out on
top
In hoping that we have shown no
bias or i'll will in the foregoing state
nent but simply reflected the views {
md convictions Of this community, it
S only fair to say that Judge Camp
1ell holds and declares that he was
lot only acting under the instructions .
If his superior, but was proceeding in
he manner which his judgment as
'ured him as not only being honorable
Dut the one promising the speediest
Of the liquor traffic with :
he least possible expense and annoy
lnce to the taxpayers. .