Arizona republican., 1908-06-06
THE SECOND WATERFALL
IN The ELECTION CASES
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Gardiner faction, was another witness
who could not give the defendant a
good character. On cross examination,
Stevens denied that he had made Ar
mold an instrument in putting up a
job on Gardiner. He admitted that he
too had seen Canning but not with
special reference to Gardiner. His
name entered into their conversation
entirely incidentally. Thus it was
throughout. The colored witnesses
against the character of Gardiner had
all seen Canning. They had not gone
to him about Gardiner but while talk
ing about the tariff, the need of cur
rency reform, the famine in India, the
subject of Gardiner had very naturally
come up and had been discussed in an
finland manner without any bitter
ness whatever.
Another anti character witness was
William Wolf a republican and mem
Der of the Yenire summoned to try
these cases. Mr.. Wolf did not like
Gardiner because the latter had one
time tried to drive him into line and
he would not be driven
Another anti Gardiner witness was
c. R Price, who after some hesitation,
admitted that the reputation of Gardi-
ner was bad. He would not admit on
cross examination that he had been
defeated for city marshal a wear ago
when Gardiner was working for his OPP
ponent. Mr.. Price was also a member
of the venire for the trial Of this and
the other election cases. He was
asked to reconcile his opinion of the
defendant with his statement under
oath while the jury was being exam
ined a few hours before that he was
entirely unbiased and knew nothing
about the case.
The gloom which pervaded the pro-
ceedings was wholly dispelled by the
appearance on the stand of Jimmie
Healy. Jimmie had been a ward work
er in Chicago and his emigration TO
Phoenix hardly made him miss a
stroke. Jimmie tubled itno politics on
his arrival, the worst kind Of politics.
the kind practiced by the Young Mems
Democratic club, which was then get
ting ready to nail up the shutters and
go out of business. Since then Jimmie
has been in all kinds of politics. dem
ocratic, anti-lOcal option and admins
tration republican. Jimmie had run the
gamut. But he does not like the de-
PENDANT and was put on the stand to
say so. In the opinion of Jimmie the
compatibility" of Gardiner" was ap-
paling He had heard that opinion con- |
firmed by two-thirds of the people OF
Phoenix but he refrained from furnish |
ing the attorney for the defense with |
a list of the corroborators or with any
part of list.
Jimmie was asked by Attorney Alex |
ander if he himself had not been taking /
an abnormal interest in politics Jim |
ME denied It: he had taken no interest |
at all.
Then, what are you always hang |
ing around the polls for?" asked the |
attorney; why are you here? Why are |
you mixed up in this prosecutiOn?"
well, sir" replied Jimmie, I'm in |
it in the interest of purity in politics" |
order in the court room!" cried a |
deputy sheriff.
Mr. Healy was dismissed, but later |
he was recalled on the request of Mr.. |
Alexander who desired to ask him |
something about his domestic affairs.
The question was not allowed on the |
ground that it was not right to permit
this attempted political reform to in |
wade the sanctity of homelife.
After the instruction to the jury |
there were some brief but heated ar
guments in which the defense riddled
the characters Of the character
witnesses of the prosecution. The in
structions were delivered and the jury
retired. There was hardly a POSSIBLE
ity of verdict from the beginning. 1t
was inconceivable that twelve men
could believe from the character of the
evidence and the witnesses that the de-
PENDANT was guilty. On the other
hand it was probable that other mem
bers Of the jury would be willing to
convict the defendant on no evidence
at all or on rumors of the defendants
pernicious activity in politics.