The San Francisco call., 1907-02-16
CHEAP SQUABBLE
OF FACTIONS IS
SAN JOSE'S WOE
Hayes and Rea Followers
Involve Fair Name of
Santa Clara
PRISONERS IN COURT
Alva Is Released, but Anna
dor Insists on Stay
ing in Jail
ACCUSE POLICE CHIEF
His Arrest Is Followed
by Warrants for Lang
ford Supporters
ACCUSE POLICE CHIEF

SAN JOSE, Feb. 15.-Two sides
Of very grave political question
confronted Santa Clara Valley yes
terday afternoon. A day brought
forth a material change in the situa-
ton, and the fight that has involved
the fair name of this usually quiet
valley in a scandal has degenerated
to cheap squabble between the Has
Beens and the Powers That Be.
San Jose doesn't like the sensation.
The citylteels thatit is not in posi-
ton at present to stir up political
controversies. But the politician
seems to take a different view of the
matter. and he is playing the game for
individual gain, Santa Clara County to
the contrary notwithstanding
Several peculiar and somewhat con-
Trajectory things occurred this morn
ing. The cases Of Domingo Amador
and Charles Alva We're threshed out in
Department ! Of the Superior Court
before Judge welch. Amador and AIva
were held in custody by Sheriff Lang
ford. and. TO make a very long story
short, there was not apparent to the
average uninterested layman any rea-
son why either one of them should
have been made the center Of such a
turmoil Of political dissension. The
Judge and others know their business
In Santa Clara, as they undoubtedly do
in other counties. but 1t is hard ques-
tion TO answer when il is put that men
with fairy tale charges hanging over
sum OF $4,000 to $4,000 and still be
fused over in vain effort to find lean
technicality upon which to hang a
tangible something.
ALVA SURPRISES REA
Rea lost out when AIva went on the
stand and said that it was not true
that he did not wish to be released
He surprised the ancients with his de-
nand for freedom, and the District At
torney acquiesced in his dismissal In
this the district official was also sur
prise. and as Judge welch summed it
Up. why, gentlemen, we won't have
any case to try before long" Amador
did not give IN. He stood by his decla-
ration that he was not anxious to be
relieved by writ Of habeas corpus and
that no one was in authority to speak
for him in the matter. He wanted to
stay in jail awhile and think things
over. His request was granted.
Chief Of Police T. ". Carroll was ar
rested during the afternoon on a
charge Of rescuing a prisoner. It was
long distance arrest and came IN the
shape Of a warrant handed to the bel
ligerent chief on a shovel, for most Of
the anti-CarrolI faction il San Jose is
afraid of the reckless, MOTTO be- -bluffed
head Of the police department. The
warrant alleged that Carroll tried to
prevent the taking into custody of Pa
troll Driver. Navares. who slipped
through thee sheriffs net when the
deputies were after him at the city
prison last night.
The attempted arrest was about as
sensible as anything that the Rae fac
ton has sanctioned. and the indiffer-
ence Of the law shown by Carroll and
his determination TO resist arrest.
without due knowledge OF the legal
status Of the Sheriff in the case. might
bv some persons be construed into
meaning that there is no law at all
in Santa Clara at present, and If there
IS. Il is in poor hands under both city
ano county administration. The law
as II is usually interpreted seems to
rse misunderstood by more than one
Nficial Of San Jose and Santa Clara,
and the good OF the town ana the
county seems to have been sacrificed
for political chicanery.
Charles Alva walked out Of the court