The San Francisco call., 1908-07-22
GRAFT DEFENDER
TO AID TRAITORS
John Barrett Taken From Corps
of Higher Up Lawyers to
Fight for Push
Billy Bell and Others Treated
TO Novelty of Not Hiring
Own Attorney
By George Van Smith

By George Van Smith
John j. Barrett, Garret w. McEner-
ney's understudy in the defense of
grafters and higher ups. has drawn the
JOB of defending Tim Sullivan and his
odoriferous crew of Herrinftes in the
matter of the petition for an order re-
stralning Johnnie Lynch's turncoats
from delivering the republican county
committee to the railroad machine.
Charles Forbes, secretary. of the COM
mlttee, who appeared as counsel for the
sullivan spike gang on last Thursday,
mas been shorn of his brief honors and
the excess baggage which not even the
members OF his gang expected him to
pack. Not all of the Is members of the
county committee section gang know
thdC they are to be defended by one of
the bright particular stars of the graft
de1ense. Such knowledge on their part
is not pertinent to the issue. Indeed.
since they are not expected to partici-
pate in a subscription to the retaining
Zee fund 1t is really none of their bust
ness VINO defends their attempt to be-
tray the republicans of San Francisco.
Barrett is on the job. He served notice
on +. II. Damn yesterday that he was
counsel for all the defendants. Barrett
said he would not. be prepared to ap-
pear in court on behalf of the Is party
traitors on Friday, and requested that
the nearing on the temporary restrain
ing order set for. Friday be postponed
until one week from today. Upon Bar
retts agreement to enter formal ap
pearance not later than Friday morning
his request for postponement was agreed
to.
MACHINE SHOWS HAND
The appearance of one of McEnerneys
men in the defense of the Herrin COM
mfttee grabbers does more than serve
notice on the public that the machine
intends to fight the people without any
attempt to disguise its hand. 1t fur
nlshes new brand of sensations and
lends marked distinction to some Of the
defendants. The Herrin machine has
acknowledged them as its own and
given them the aid and comfort of a
real, blown in the bottle, top notch
criminal lawyer. In their former en-
counters with the machinery of the law
some of these gentry have been COM
PEELED to enter their defense through
the medium of ordinary police court
barristers.
The assignment to Barrett by the in
terests of the defense of their attempt
to steal the county committee serves to
complete the chain of evidence leading
to the Tevis participation in the Job,
which was laid by Tim Sullivan when
he attempted to explain where he got
the money to maintain headquarters
and for Charlie Forbes salary. Garret
McEnerney is not regularly employed
in the legal department of the Southern
Pacific. His legal services for the rail-
road are only occasional, but 1t has not
railroad political game ever lapses. He
is regularly retained by the -Teyis in
terests, and Barrett's connection with
McEnerney won him his place at the
defendants table in the graft prosecu-
tion cases. John E. Bennett whom
Tim Sullivan describes as the angel be-
hind his committee piracy and the Gus
todian Of the eastern sack which Sulli-
van said had been opened for him, is
p0pularly known as q Tevis stool
pigeon. The Tevis crowd also owns the
building in which Sullivan established
his committee headquarters"
BARRETT THE BRAINS
The order to reduce Forbes to the
ranks and commit the conduct of the
legal battle against decency and the
republican party to Barrett did not
come as shock to Forbes. Neither
Forbes, Sullivan, Worthington, Ben
Levy, Billy Bell, Mic Beban, Mamie
Strauss nor such weaker tools as
Gercke, Kibbler and Strahl enlisted to
fight legal battles. Their agreement
extended only to the betrayal of the
decent republicans who trusted them,
and the execution of such subsequent
orders as might be given them through
Johnnie Lynch and the other big men
OF the Herrin machine. 1t was their
business to commit political thievery,
not to furnish brains. They have gone
as far as they can without brains and
the machine has sent Barrett, backed
by McEnerney and all the cleverness at
the command of the interests, to herd
it's cattle
When Billy Bell, who for the first time
in his life was described by Hearst yes
terday as Mr." Bell, hears that John ].
Barrett has been engaged in his de-
tense, old men, cripples and consump-
tives in Bflly's district will be COM
PEELED to travel abroad with body
guards or accept the awful conse-
quences. Before BILLY" lost his saloon
license and when he could hope for
only ordinary legal advice, he found
time to drive pick into an inoffensive
refugee in Columbia square named Kill
cline; shoot Billy Mccarthy in the foot
and threaten to beat up Jasper McDon-
aid, former chairman of the democratic
county committee. MCDONALD is old
enough to be the grandfather of the
Mr." Bell who claims that he refused
$500 and a steady job in return for
support of the Lincoln Roosevelt
league. '
SYMPTOMS OF "BAD MAN"
Bells attack on Kilcline resulted in
the statesmans arrest on charge of
assault with intent to murder. His vic
tim was induced not to press the pros
ecution and Bell, the man of blood, ate
no more victims alive for months. His
reputation was waning when he picked
out Mccarthy last summer Mccarthy
was not fighting man. Bell took a
shot at the noncombatant's foot just to
emphasize the fact that 1t was time to
dance when Billy" hove in sight Nc
Carthy was one of the gang" which
takes it's medicine when it gets it and
payment of his hospital bills beat an
other common or garden variety of
lawyer out of fee
Bell was a democratic legjerker be-
fore Abe Ruef captured him. In those
days Billy never refused $500 bits or
jobs That he never got the chance to
disdafn such offers was not BiIly's
fault. He was the most persistent
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