Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-03-15
SHARP CRITICISM.
Spanish-American Paper Protests
Against CIancy's Statements.
AS TRANSLATED.

~ OiohNs = ittltl vi ln6
Sunday law, space is given to the fol-
lowing criticisms, which is a transla-
ton from La Bandera Americano:
In the issue of The Daily Citizen of
the 18th of this month. the district at
torney of this judicial district, Frank
w. Clancy, in referring himself to mat
tiers pertaining to h observance of
the Sunday law in this district, takes
occasion to extend himself further for
he purpose of explaining the why's
and wherefores of such a law. not being
observed here and g~ratuitously insults
the citizens of this county.
The hypocritical pharisee says:
Shortly after | sent out the circular
letter. a number of gentlemen, promi-
nent in political and business affairs
of he county, waited upon me in a
body and demonstrated with great
earnestness against my prosecuting
anyone for violations of the Sunday
law, and strongly urged me to promise
to do nothing further on the subject.
This | positively refused to do, telling
them that l would prosecute any viola.
tors of this statute, as to whom evi.
dence might be presented, exactly the
anne as | would the violators of any
other law. | was then told in sub
stance that the grand jury would not
find any Indictments against offenders
under this law. no matter what evil
dence might be presented This pre-
diction appeared to be well founded,
because at the next term of the cour /
submitted to the grand jury clear and
positive evidence of violations of the
statute by retail liquor dealers in the
city of Albuquerque, and the grand
jury refused to take any action. may
say without improperly that there
were several members of the grand
jury interested, directly or indirectly,
in the retail liquor business, and that
it has been generally asserted in this
community that the grand jury had
been selected for the purpose of not
finding indictments for this class OF
o~ffenses. Whether this be true or not,
it is quite certain that we had a grand
jury which was not disposed to find in
dictments to other crimes as well, and
that in a number of cases, charges
were ignored where the evidence made
it the duty of any honest grand juror
to find indictments.
"By a singular coincidence, the panel
of petit jurors appears to nave been
inspired by similar feelings, and it has
been asserted of them that they were
selected for the express purpose of
preventing convictions. AS a result,
after trying two cases, in each OF
which the evidence of guilt was clear,
convincing and unequivocal, while the
verdict was not guilty, nearly the
whole panel having participated in the
two trials, l was compelled to refuse
to try any more criminal cases with
such jurors"
Here you have before the people of
II 80 DN~,,1tno N oroftrifOIlg
insult and a stain cast against them
by q nobody and a mean ~prevaricator.
This immaculate pharisee
ily and without cause throws poison
Gus darts against the citizens of this
county for the lowest of reasons, SIM
f. ply because the honest and hard work
ing people of the same from whom are
chosen generally the mass of jurors
and who are his superiors In every
good trait that goes to make up the
man. do not lend themselves willingly
to this pharisee to help him increase
his fees, as he intended, at the cost of
the tax payers, not being satisfied with
the first clip ne gave the court fund OF
81, 500 by the arduous l2i and honest
(?) labor OF dismissing a batch of old
derelict cases which encountered the
criminal docket, at S., $40 and SIS, a
dismiss and which amount he was not
worth.
Does this individual think for one
moment that the peaceful and gener-
Gus citizens of this county do no see
through his mean and despicable inten-
tions, even if he tries to cover them
up by the mask of the most consum-
mate hypocrisy?
Does this new censor and i~rreproach-
-fa-,;et IaCira RI nara6n himself
as the mirror of justice (Which God
forbid) when his accusations are tint
ed by malice and he is unworthy to lift
his head amongst that class OF people
whom he assaults?
By what rlgnt or authority, under
the law of without it, does ne consti-
tute himself as the arbiter OF the In
tentions of the hearts of men so as 10
divine what they have in their breasts
and then, when he draws a conclusion
satisfactory to himself, by means OF
the press tries to besmirch. the char
acter and honor as he has said OF the
grand and petit jurors of this county
who served at the last term OF the
court?
BY what right or authority does he
the power to withdraw the veil
of inviolability that covers the actions
of a grand jury and gives them to the
world openly with the assumption OF
knowing the motives that swerved
them in this or that matter?
Does this stainless pharisee assume
hat all citizens of this county are I'M
worthy p~erjurers and do not under
stand the meaning of an oath? and
does he think that if they go contrary
to his ideas and he insults them, as
he has done, that they will humbly
seek him to kiss the hand that has so
Wiley smitten them?
He states that the jurors were
chosen for the purpose, in substance.
of violating their oaths and not com
plylng with the law. meaning the
grand and petit Jurors at the last term
of the court. .
Now let us see. the inception or
choosing the juries. according to law,
rests with the court. the judge presid-
ing chooses three commissioners to
select Jurors for the term, they in turn
- .bo sa1aptiCO at a stated time