Arizona republican., 1900-10-04

HILLS BUNCO GAME.-Mr Hill is a lawyer as we'll as a politician, and it is to his shame as a lawyer not less than to his discredit as a politician that he should have attempted deliberately, in his ElmIira speech, to deceive the citizens who were listening to him when he cited a pretended decision of the supreme court of the United States as bar to national expansion.
 MT Hfn said at Elmira:
 'Third-There is no place for Ameri- can colonies under our constitution.
 "The supreme court of the United States has already decided the consti- tutional question involved, and held Q9 Howard, 393-44O that there is no power given by the constitution to establish or maintain colonies, bordering on the United States or at a distance, to be ruled and governed at it's own pleasure
 We observe that this pretended 'de- cis.on" is being paraded eXultingly in certain quarters, as if it were new contribution to the case of the anti-eX- pansionists, discovered by MT. Hills personal researches and conclusive as to the question involved. The World, for example, halls the decision" as impressive" and likewise as putting the official stamp of illegality upon the administration Philippine and Porto Rican performances.''
 Continuing, MT. Hill spoke of the pas sage quoted by him from 13 Howard, 393-447, as the time-honored decision of 1,ic the democratic position in this cam paign in reference to the unconstitu- tionality of American colonial govern ments."
 Few and perhaps none of MT. Hills hearers at Elmira knew what he him self knew perfectly well, namely, the title of the case on which was rendered the opinion from which he cited the al- legged Conclusive decision" It is all most enough answer to Mr Hill to mention the title which he suppressed with dishonest intent The case report ed in 19 Howard, 393-447 is Scott against Stamford, better known to fame or infamy as the Dred Scott case. The opinion is the notorious opinion rend- cred in the slave holding interests by Chief Justice Fancy: the opinion of which Senator Spooner once remarked in the senate that it sounded like "a brief for African slavery
 MT. Hills crime against truth did not end With his suppression of the name of the case. He garbled the sentence which he quoted; cutting off Taney's further denial that the government of the United States possessed any power Ito enlarge its territorial limits in any way, except by the admission of new states" The clause of the sentence which MT. Hill omitted to quote did not suit his purpose. It would have rend- cred ridiculous the part of the sentence which he did quote.
 The third aspect of MT HilIs offense against professional ethics is the most disgraceful. He offered as a "deci- sion, Conclusive" as to the constitu- tional question involved. what was in fact merely a dictum. The real point in judgment in the Dred Scott case was the exclusive right of Missouri to de- termine and regulate the status Gf persons within her territory, and all be- yond that was obiter
 Chief Justice Taney's elaborate doc Urine that the authority of the United States to acquire territory is derived solely from the constitutional power to create and admit new states. was framed specially to safeguard the in- stltution of human slavery In no other case ever before that tribunal has the doctrine been advanced. Ii was in cOntraventiOn of numerous prior dec larations from the same exalted bench, and has been ignored and repudiated in hn Scott case. It has been absolutely over thrown by the results of the civil war.
 What shall We think of a lawyer of distinction and a politician of eXperi- ence who goes on the stump to prac- tice, in behalf of political cause which he hates at heart, a trick so clumsy, so dishonorable and so easily eXposed?- New York Sun.