The San Francisco call., 1905-06-10

might vote twenty times or nifty times
and that there was NO Law In the state
to punish him. Don't YOU believe for
minute that that meeting did not occur
in September. If Countryman did not
the witnesses In September he has
gone back ON every duty he owed to the
state and to his client. I say that any
lawyer In this State who practices that
way ought tn be disbnrred.
''The two witnesses, Podd and Silber-
stein, had sufficient mentality to serve as
election officers, yet now the defense Is
! UP In arms against them when for once
they tell the truth.
Where are Carson and Goetjen. who
served with them? They don't dare to
come here and commit perjury by saying
that this meeting took place in January.
FOSTER is DENOUNCED.
Guilt fell from Fosters lips instinc-
lively. This was the man who had to be
corraled before Maestretti went to Coun-
tryman's office. Fosters appearance on
the stand is enough TO discredit him.
There is nothing that strikes so forci
bly, at the institutions of our country as
the stuffing of the ballot box. Yet this
defendant, a public effieer, holding a po-
sition of high Importance, stands by the
man who has committed this crime.
Would Governor Budd do this? I hope
that the time will never come when men
of high position will sit beside and try
to protect man guilty of ballot-box
stuffing.
Attorney Dibble in his address paid
tribute in a way to political boss
hope that no Juror In the box believes
in that kind of politics
ut may be that the witnesses TO Macs
tretti's character may know some juror
in the box and they may have been
brought here for the purpose of inf1uenc-
ir,or ,HAN 1F- f,tv-, I hot "a
acts of this defendant are not the acts
of a man Of good character.
You have heard a great deal about the
private detectives In the case. You have
been told that these two men were in
generated for seventeen days and piled
with liquor. Did the defense prove this?
You have been told that Podd and Sill
berstein were terrorlzed into testifying
by threats of the rock pile. Do you think
that men like Andrews and Bowes would
try to get witnesses to testify falsely?
There has been talk Of conspiracy. but,
gentlemen of the jury. Mr.. Andrews and
Mr. Bowes do not live In the Thirty
ninth District. ;
1.-The fact shines forth as clear as the
sun in the MONDAY heavens that Wynan
and Steffens and others have been this
mans tools Is not the testimony OF
the prosecution strong enough TO reach
over and hold up the man who is respon-
sible for their acts? II IL cannot be done
we had better do away with the jury
system
'If the man who pulled the strings can
get away and the poor puppets suffer,
then free government is a failure. l be-
lieve that there is enough integrity and
enough intelligence In this jury box to
wipe away the story OF the fictitious
meeting in January. You will never ac-
complish a better or nobler work If
you achieve that result.
They said that. they were going to lay
Maestretti's life bare, but the moment
that the District Attorney started to
cross-examine, Budd did nothing but OBJ
ject-object.- If Maestretd were honest
he would not have needed Budd's protec-
ton. 4sft
This is the man who changed his pol
tiles when the reform movement was
taken UP by the Democratic party
Attorney Budd, who strolled into the
courtroom at this juncture, leaped TO his
feet with an objection
"a great many left" asserted Budd.
Guess they didn't like the reform
movement" chuckled Attorney Ferral-
There was too much dirtneSs covering
thern," retorted Budd-
Judge Lawlor stopped the wrangling
and cautioned Attorney Budd not TO IN
terrupt.
"a public official who stands by
fraudulent voter is not the man TO real
ize what civic purity means-not the KIND
of man to give US clean streets or honest
buildings"