The Nome nugget., 1901-08-20

 person, to be telegraphed to the presi- dent of the United States from the city of Seattle or San Francisco upon the arrival of the steamer Senator at said city.
 A second petition"was adopted, to be signed by the people at large, for pre- sentatiOn to the president. This was passed around through the audience and received many signatures.
 Following the adoption of the reso- lutions, there were calls for several ~ell-knOwn citizens, including Messrs. Itentons s,Julius Tompson, l;. B. Milroy, George M"rphy. Strong, Judge Burns. of Port Safety. Messrs. Strong Thomr- son, Fenton and Milroy responded. Judge Fenton said that the lawyers ot the community had already spoken; they had,always striven to uphold the dignity of the law, and this vast 'assemblage was here tonight to pass upon the acts of one who bad been called upon to preside over this Judicial district. There was no office so important as a. judicial office. There fore, this community of miner, and laborerS and commercial interests bad come here to petition; the right of petition was theirs. He congratulated them upon the magnificent strength they had shown in support of the resolution.
 Judge Thompson tfollowed. He had been asked to be specific in his state ments concerning Judge Moves, and he was. He congratulated the meeting upon the course it had pursued. It Was d mark of the intelligence of long >sutfering. people. It was the first time in his long experience that he had | known ma jorily of the bar condemn judge and ask for. his removal, and this meeting had passed resolutions sub .tantially in line with those passed by the bar. Judge Thompson said that Moves had violated the court practice of any country by making opders in secret, when he hud already disposed of the e;l,e in open court, all parties being present. He gave specific in, stances. Such procedure had swept away all doubts as,to his worlhineas to sit upon the bench: and, even worse. lJudge Moves had given litigant, and Eattorneys his private ear and counsel, and this alone w;ts sufficient to dis qualify him.
 -R. B. Nilroy followed. He referred to the first miners meeting he had at tended.in Nome, more than two yea. 5 ago. and he said.f the resolutions there adopted had been put in force the con- ditions prevailing here would not have existed today. He did not know that Judge Moves was dishonest, but he did know that he was weak. vaclllatng partial and incompetent as,s, judge: he twas born so and he cOuldn help it. There was mot "a lawyer in the camp, whether he had sigHed the petition or not. but knew that Judge Moves was kwcak and incompetent. Mir. MilrOy preferred to d stabetnant that had been tmade 10 the effect that it was cowardly to attack Judge Moves after he had left Nome, but, he said, the most cOWardly act of all was in Judge Moves himself leaving the district at d few hours notice, with litigation in d most de- Lplorable condition. Did the people I>know that Judge Moves Wa, going to leave? He had heard men say that if
 Judge Moves were relieved that his
 he said he hoped so himself. He ad- ministered q eastigation to the at .torneys who had declined to sign the petition, say 'ng that if Judge Moves ,wt.s not removed they hoped to profit
 by it. They would say, "We did not .pe,ition for your remOval;' and this, he claimed, was rank cowardce. If the
 lawyers meeting was one of towards, then this was another, and he did not
 believe it. Twill you stand for what is riyht?' he,ashed, and five hundred voices answered "Ies.'
 Chairman Baldwin referred to Gov ernor Brady's visit to Washington last wear and his statement that unless , EIudye Moves was removed blood would flow in Nome. -Four days later Gov ernor Brady was told that the governor
 of Alaska should be in his territory Brady left. Captain Baldwin also
 asseveratetl that the act of cOwardict l was on the judge and not upon the at < torneys or people.
 s The band played the national an l thems and the meeting ended. I Liquors For Family Use. | svrhe Hnn1el3, makes specially 0