The silver star., 1900-11-02

be reached is that he wants some per.
son, either as District Attorney, or
District Judge, to stand between him
and these threatened criminal libels.
And to throw the voters on the track.
and to direct their thoughts away
from his secret motives he charges
that am arbitrary and overbearing
and frowning in my conduct on the
bench. This he knows is not true.
1t is true l have had to be somewhat
severe at times with some Of the at
torneys. and this necessarily SO, or
the business of the court could not be
transacted; but see what Dave Day,
in his article of April 16, quoted
above. says on this subject. His lam
guage is:
Judge Russell has saved thous.
ands for the taxpayers in this district,
and his method of dealing with attor-
neys is quite satisfactory to clients,
as the barristers must do business.
No shirking from term to term
1t is natural with attorneys, when
defeated in court, to growl about the
rulings Of the court, but in nearly all
these cases attorneys have sought the
views OF me higher courts, and these
courts have almost always sustained
me-Of course I have been reversed
on few occasions. but all attorneys
know that in the hurry of the trial
OF case the trial Judge Is liable to
commit some errors, and the attor-
neys referred to by Day in his paper
as willing to make affidavit OF unfair
treatment do not exceed two or three
In the entire district, and the griey-
ance Of these two or three is not
founded upon the trial of cases in
court, although they may make that
as an excuse. Take Garbanati, for in
stance. he has been bitter and vim
dictive enemy OF mine for years
was before l ever went ON the bench,
and has been ever since-he certain
ly cannot say it grew out of actions
Of mine in the trial of any case. He
ran against me six years ago as an
Independent candidate, undoubtedly
for the sole purpose of taking away
enough votes from me to elect Sum-
ner; but as to the statements made by
Garbanati, and as to his grievance, l
will make no reply. He is an old and
feeble man, tottering on the verge of
his grave, and l am sorry to see him
SO unrelenting and vindictive. He is
no doubt urged to it. II had access
to the files of the Democrat of six
years ago, published In September OF
that year, I could quote where Dave
Day often times asserted that the old
man was in his decline, and was so
feeble that people should not pay any
attention to what he says, or words
Of that import, and whatever Garba-
natl has said and whatever he may
say concerning me, either as a man
or upon the bench. I feel that I must
pass 1t by without comment.
Now. as to my objection to Spick-
ard being fused on to the Democratic
ticket: AS l before stated, did OBJ
ject to Spickard being a candidate on
that ticket. ! had the right. as a citi-
zen, to make objections, and to OPEN
~ assert them, but l have not stated
publicly what my objections were.
although l did state one or two of
them in a private letter which Dave
Day got hold of, and which he was
unmanly and cowardly enough to
publish, thereby giving public expires.
sion to what I had written c-'vately,
and which did not wish to be COM
PEELED to publicly state. although my
statement was true and still adhere
to 1t. but l have other and further
reasons for my objections to Spick-
ard as district attorney. which 1t is
not necessary to state and which do
not desire to state, but there is MOTH
ing personal between Mr.. Spickard
and myself. And while It Is true that
made objections to Spickard being
the man placed upon the Democratic
ticket for District Attorney. I also at
the same time stated that l had no
objection to an other attorney that
they could name. but this was not
satisfactory to Day-no person could
be named to suit him, but Mr.. Spick-
ard. He wanted to please himself and
have his man secure without regard
to the rights OF others.
! have no objection to any one vot.
Ing against me II they feel they have
reasonable grounds for doing 30. what
ever they may be. but do object to
my one allowing himself to be mis-
led by Dave Days utterances. When
You read his present vindictivc abuse
and assertions against me. all OF
which are now made while he IL In
anger and desirous Of injuring me,
ask you to turn back to the quota
tons that have taken from his pa.
per during the last two years. and
read them. They were made coolly
and deliberately. and when he had
no cause to misrepresent either me
or the facts, and ~ before stated. I
have held no court since nor transact.
ed any business oiicialiy. and when
you compare those statements with
the statements that he IL making
now In this campaign. you certainly
must conclude that the present state.
ments are made with malicious. vim.
dictive and wilfully false intentions.
and for the SOLO purpose Of revenge
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