Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-17
THE OTHER SIDE TO. DAY.
DEMONSTRATIONS HARD TO QUIET

DETERMINATIONS HARD TO QUIET.
Feature OF the Proceedings Was the
Cross-Examinntion of Common
wenlth,s Attorney Evans. of a M M
herst, by Major Conrad-Admis-s
.ions Made of Bitter Animosity
Towards Accused-JudEe Takes q
Hand In Observation-Disclosures of a
witness Dr.. Crawford again
Upon the stnnd-Bars Never Quite
Been Let Down.
The first chapter OF the Campbell In
QUESTION Is closed. -
With the evidence Of Comm onvvealth' 8
Attorney Evans yesterday the asbestos
drop fell and there will be no mora. stories
Of fire water from the mouth of any wit
nesses In behalf Of the people OF Ani-'
herst.
Mr.. Strobe announced at the conclusion
Of the proceedings that the testimony
was in on his side of the legal chalk line,
and to-day begins the inning of Judge
Campbell who has been shelled, at hand
and from afar, as perhaps no other V1r-
ginia jurist ever was bombarded. And.
to say that he has been raked fore and
aft is to put it very mildly.
From the very moment that the legfs-
lative call boy summoned him to the
issue until the finale Of the game that is
being played against him, the. effort to
make the Impeachment proceedings car
ry. has been pitiless, and, but for the
inclined toward him, there is no. possible
| way of prognosticating how indecorously
they might have been colored: The be-
ming dignity of the committee has.
however, prevented any unseemly dis
play. except on two or three minor occa-
sions when the wassail cries of the
would-be royal rioters, were quickly sup
pressed.
The hearing and attitude of the commit
tee. has, en- PEASANT, won for it no little
deserved praise and pleasant comment.
There have been times when the noun
tebanks among the spectators showed a
strong inclination to create a hippo
drome, to wallow In an environment mat
would have been an everlasting reflection
on the State-a blot on its escutcheon
not easily. erased.
There never was any paramount dan
ger that the inquisition would take on
the alleged putrid atmosphere of the
Amherst court, as Committeeman Sipe
seemed to fear, however. There never
has been a time when the great throngs
spectatnrsS ShaYe-not sbaer5well .reinedstn
and entirely under control. And there
have been few actions or causes in any
tribunal, or before any governmental
! inquisition. that took on more graphic or
| highly painted excitement.
The issue, it is plainly observable, has
from the first been one Of no small mo-
ment and not the tempest In teapot
that a. great many people thought it
| would be-.
Bars Never Fully Down.
! The committees high appreciation of
this fact has been patiently illustrated by
| the number Of executive sessions which:
| Chairman southall has deemed necessary
TO the fair trial of the cause. The pro-
! phets who caused the idea to go, forth
| that Judge Campbell was a machine man;
that the whole proceeding would be as
great a travesty on justice as were the
| Amherst court issues are like the ostrich
now-hiding ,i1eir heads in the sand.
! The committee has, to be sure, kept
+ IuuCu IOul, leli.s ana foreign out OF
| the case. The bars have never been fully
let down to permit the Amherst counsel
| TO dig up the skeletons in Judge Camp
bells family closet but full opportunity
| has been afforded to disclose all the is
sues pertinent and Immediately reIevent
| to the issue.
The result. however, has not been
pleasing to either Judge Loving. or Mr..
Strobe. and as already suggested in these
columns it is more than likely that the
present proceedings will be purely pre-
llminary. The judgment of the legal ex-
rsrts is nevertheless. that If Judge Camp
bell himself will keep in the background
and permit his Blackstonian prestidiglta-
tor and Greenleafean master Of leger-
cermatn Conrad. to assume the title role
in fact play all the parts in his defence
! he need have no fear of having the fun
measure OF justice meted out to him
The closest friends and warmest admir-
ers of Judge Campbell do not think.
,tho',~h. that he is doing aught but. hurt
Ling hts own case by putting his finger In
the pie-especially when he has an art
pastry cook that would be a credit to
! Nanquni or Maurice. to take care OF his
| palate.
Brilliant jurtsts say a man never makes
1 a gncd counsel for himself.
be he e5lawyer or layHan Whether this be
true OF not.E the concenSuSs OF opinion is
that Judge Campbell seems to have hurt,
! rather than helped, his case thus far,
especially In the examination Of the road
commits issioner yesterday.
The feature Of the proceedings yesterday
! was the matter brought out IN relation
| to he disrepute into which has fallen the
picturesque and rock -bouEd Amherst One
witness testified that when he went into
an adjoining county to try case, the
modest and graceful suggestion wa made
| TO him that there was manure in the
steble at home necessitating removal An
other, that the code dnello, was by no
means a lost art in the blue mountains OF
Amherst. and still anotherf the day
previous. that to get a drink in this local
option community was as simple as to
find new sweetheart In a New England
Village.
A little while ago Amherst was like
unto any other Old Dominion COUNTY.
Now. strong men-anu not only tinid
! women-speak of 1t with bated breath.
IN this present hearing. the several wit
nesses have, in pleasant. drawing room
fashion, recounted one or two killings,
several little public episodes. ard a sun
day morning fireworks display, just as II
I there were not church ora law in this
| fine and spectacular II region. And like the
nild-mannered man who scuttled theship,
lit appears that none of these things would
have been discovered If it had not been
for the factzt hat "a preacher, who Is beinE
l. El.Y.s