The San Francisco call., 1898-05-31
JUDGE MAGUIRE AND THE MILITIA
 AND NAVY.
E have given full space to Judge Mcguire s vituperative resentment on being called to ac-

count for his characterization of the taking of Spanish prizes piracy" His aferthought drives him to shelter behind the subunctive if" He has learned that there prize courts and that the condemnation of prize is judicial process in which all rights guarded by international law.
 He may yet learn that pirates have prize courts They take unared ships sea, rob and then scuttle them, to sink with their crews.
 If he is hurt by his own language which is all that used against him, may it teach him moderation in speech
 He denies proposing to 'cut the Gordian knot with pools of blood His speech reported and printed and was not denied until he says that he declared there those who proposed to cut the Gordian knot and wipe injustice in carnival of blood" Between cutting a knot with pool of blood and wping 1t out in carnival of blood, there Is only the difference in the quantity of blood uscd after all.
 The Judge is in the habit of attrbuting opposition his ambition and criticism of his loose and violent language the railroad" This habit increases ones regret tat the railroad deserves many of the blows it ges since it furnishes an excuse for hiding abuse behind zeal against another. So hides the Judge His long letter leaves his piracy" remark just where it was before It remark in line with his thought and his public utterances, pro- jected from his associations and i'll harmony with the kind of men who manage his campaigns, promote his ambitions and are selected by him for public trusts.
 His weekly organ here is the San Francisco Star October B. 1892, the Star, in editorial under the caption If This Be Treason Make the Most of It, said:
 the militia of Pennsylvania de- serve no n,ercy than many rattesnakes, as it is no crime to give them their deserts any time and in any place or manner, that nobody be hurt but them Mercy to them is cruelty to humanity. They have ceased to be human otherwise than in form, and have no rights which at any time or woman is bound to respect" Within three months after that article Judge Mcguire selected the editor of the Star who it, his candidate for Superintendent of the United States Mint in this city, and when Mr. Cleveland refused to appoint him Mcguire began abusing the President and kept up to the close of his term Indorsing the author Mcguire indorsed the utterance. The identical regiment of Pennsylvania militia which Maguire's organ denounced as rattle snakes" and desired killed at any time and in any place manner" is in San Francisco now, in camp at the Bay District track. Our people go and look at what manner of Maguire's organ regards as "rattesnakes" Perhaps the Judges manager and candidate for the Mint might like to go out and try killing some of them "in any manner!'
 Judge Maguires letter in its is an index to bis intellectual methods and his mental stature. He conceives that hold him up to be by himself because he 'was born on a farm" We confess the in- felicity of not knowing that he was born farm, but admit it since he takes pains to advertise 1t. He has been so constantly oficeseeker and office holder that natural to suppose that he not born at all but just nominated for office and raised salary.
 Not only is he given to violent and reckless lan- guage like his piracy rade and his indorseent of his organs rattlesnake article on the Pennsylvania militia but his thought and sympathies run to violence.
 The last Congress passed bill to restrict mnigra ton, which MT. Cleveland vetoed Judge Maguire's daily organ the San Francisco Examiner abused Cleveland for the veto and denounced Senator White for voting against the b but in illustration of what the Judge considers model journalism the Examiner did not inform its readers that Mcguire also opposed the bill and spoke against it.
 His daily organ said of this immigration bill:
 Where the opposition to the restriction of immi- grafton finds its strength is in the steamship panies the coal barons and the great employers of labor in other lines"
 Yet Mcguire opposed it, and in speech in the House, January P, 1897, printed page I4o4, Con- gressional Record, Fifty-fourth Congress second session. he sad
 Gentlemen urge the passage of this bill step in the direction of excluding Anarchists, Socialists and Nihilists from this country Assuming that it would be right and desirable, though do not admit that 1t would be either right desirable to exclude these classes, any of them from this country yet the present bill does not tend to their exclusion They are generally educated men, many of them holding university degrees whose offending consists of resist ance to tyranny, which in the conditions under which they live is obedience to God Who are the Nihists7 They are the Democrats of Russia who struggling against almost hopeless odds establish the natural and inalienable rights of in that country as against the tyrannous and false pretense of divine right on the part Of the Czar."
 Therein Mcguire indorses and defines Nihilism and anarchy. Mickha Bakounin, the Nihist leader, who allied that principle to anarchy in The International, defined it as universal destruction" and presented himself as "The Apostle of Universal Destruction Nihists and Anarchists Democrats" accordi. to Mcguire, and acting equally in obedience to God when they assassnate the Car who emancipated