New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-27
RAND ROASTS OSBORNE.
GIVES JEROME'S RECORD.
Assistant Says District 4ttoraeys
Office Has Been absolutely Clean.


IN speech to an audience that filed the Madi-
80, square Garden Concert Hall to overlooking,
..,.sfant District Attorney William II. Rand last
tight made answer to the myriad of charges and
,,a Aow of invcctive that James W. Osborne has
6,rected against District Attorney Jerome.
AR Rand's reply biting, scornful, personal
g., ,ts tone He recalled the fact that In the first
Jerome campaign Osborne went on the stump and
made q coarse and bitter attack upon Mr. Jerome
m as TO save his Job In the District Attorneys
oe,ce Despite this Mr.. Jerome retained him. be-
ceu.s he believed him 70 be able and honest MI.
Rand declared
when Osborne went into private practice. Mr..
Rand further asserted. MIR. Jerome sent him clients
end aided him in making progress in his profess
zion Ping UP the list of services rendered TO Os-
-. ~, Jerome and then recalling Osborne's at
,,ck on the District Attorney, Mr. Rand said pas
sionately:
AFT Is not a question of taste: it is question OF
common decency. Tell US, osborne-I now appeal
% the Osborne God made, not to the candidate
xr--nhv rnade-teu us, when you cleansad your
bosom of that rotten stuff, didn't 1t leave Da0
taste in your MOUTH"
Inetice William N Cohen presided at the
-oea,ing and in q brief address, that called 1orlh
many cheers declared that the fight was one winch
.nnssled 10 the liberty loving American cili@eNs
80 vas against an ignorant, brazen and corrups
noss"-a struggle Of the oldttme honesty asai4'I
s+aalinS forbidden by the commandment
Assistant District Attorney t. b. Loro btienS
counted his personal view Of the work or MS
.,,s, ,lpon the East Side, and then Mr. jerome
erst assistant W. H Rand took up the WORK %
,efuting the Osborne charges, and 1ncoeneaAy Vi
s.c,ering his reputation of his former associate
ba am1nany candidate At the outset OF MS speeciA
=, .o15 of the reasons adduced by Mr. Jerome LOT
re-entering the political arena He DESCRIBED MI
Jerome as saying in response to an inquiry aS ~
his reason:
.T will tell you Rand, what 1 want to DO
,,our NV Office has been clean. know my ONCE
bes been effective, but 1 want TO make 1t more
clean and 1 want to make II more elec'i'e-
want 10 make 1t clean, so enectlVe' SO "eiA
orgautzed for good IN this community that blsllcI
Attorneys will from the Pacific Coast TO LOOK
81 nv Office and how a District Attorneys
Office ought to be run
Mr. Rand then took up the famous osborne
declaration: IF he didn't get 1T, he must have Deen
q fool" he said:
Rv these standards he has been fool to let get
by him the chances that come up every day IN thsd
once 10 daKe 3 keen his Iatchstring out both day
and night for the humblest sutton for Justice. ne
has been 6Gas 70 Of party T
that PSd Part od mean to HIM, simply because
oath OF Office required him TO do IL e.
his oath without turning aside from his duty with
out fear favor to race party or Greco; LOW, 0n
him for his folly.
Mr. Rand then reviewed the work OF MI JeroInes
Office and the number Of cases actually handed
declaring that the time between the fndict-
Sing Sing was six days. He reviewed the charge
that Mr. Jerome had failed TO do his duty in the
Park-ave tunnel case, and declared that MI
Jerorne's Office had gathered all possible evidence
and placed It before grand jury, which refused 70
indict. That later Mr.. jerome tried TO have the
grand jury act on the ground that the tunnel was
a nuisance and failed again.
Declaring that Mr. Jerome had avoided cheap
notoriety when he could not get the proper grand
jury action. he demanded suddenly of Osborne:
rellu re
Will you present J. p. Morgan and other directors
Of the New-York Central to the grand jury?'
Continuing Mr.. Rand said:
Osborne complains Of the Darlington case HI, He
ished anybody. That is true The owner was in
dcted but be thought he could not wait. he ran
al agree to that. After he has found out where
&ok AND bns e US back that defendant IN
Darlington case We will give him speedy trial
borne is giving you fair deal +s when he brings up
not police the whole world you know
Turning to another former case, Mr. Rand said:
Which of Jerome's predecessors ever dared to
inal He rich criminal Jerome brought him
down made him plead guilty to being e9mmoR
that's that is III s''u put 'i'--' '0' u
Osborne asks you to believe that he Is the kind
Judgment in your interests. Don't these very ac-
Of what he is talking about, simply for the purpose
OF catching stray vote here and therc-doL't they
be the factf That brave he is, able as he is,
that in way is he mentally fit to be District At
:orney Of this county or any otherT
Here is what the Court Of Appeals says about
Osborne This no newspaper froth; this is no cam
psign talk. Osborne tried man named kerner
Appeals reversed the conviction because OF the ad
mission OF Illegal evidence and they apoi9siI b
had to do it-and this is what they saio ABOUT
borne got the text for his speech of acceptancef
"a public prosecutor is a public officer. whose
duty REQUIRES only that he shall fairly present to
the court and jury the questions involved in his
case When he goes beyond, and, by captious Cd
lection or i'll considered effort imposes upon the
trial court an result may ultimately too"
and may well be expected
That is the measure of James Osborne as a pup
lie prosecutor in the Court Of Appeals
Mr.. Rand closed his speech thus:
Why won't you meet the issue, Osborne? DON'T
you know that If you take office Murpny WI. VIII
appoint your staff for you? Don't you know that
the only reason you were nomha'ea WI S mai
You would have to turn over the payroh "a IiAl1
Office TO the organization? -,
Osborne you know, suffers from a. very curious
obsession at times. He affects TO o e, reas
that he iE running his merits against Jerome;
OF course IL he would stop TO think, ne "ouIo
know that there were not ten men IN tne con. con-
were not ten men in that convention tiiht tnousht
that he would be a better District Attorney imam
He knows perfectly well that he is sitting in the
with the cards stacked he is trying mis- cause
of those who believe that Osborne would be a bet.
ter District Attorney than Jerome He Goes noe
family and personal friends marching to the polls.
Not he. He counts upon the tramp tramp Ia!LO
polls to DC Mnrphy e bddns With their pencil and
who DO know the Office OF Distrlcr Attorney
from an ash