The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-11
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everything good side and EDWARD
everything wicked on the other
has never appealed to me. l can, for instance,
appreciate certain qualities in Mr.. Calhoun, although
quite understand that these qualities are largely
due to his lack of any sense of humor. That defect
of character if it is defect helps concentration
of purpose and denies him the faculty of seeing
himself as others see him. Almost he persuades
himself that he is honest 1t would be
difficult, nay impossible otherwise for Mr. Calhoun
to listen with face of clay to the astonishing
apology made to the jury by Counselor King for
his client In the hurry burly, the tumult and the
shouting of celebrated case this unique apology
appears to have got lost in the shuttle, and l may
be forgiven for digging up without prejudice for,
indeed it should be immortal. This is Counselor
Kings theory of what might have happened to
the famous 100000:
THE COUNSELOR'S APOLOGY
How was the money drawn from the mint used?
is asked There is no proof to how it used,
and failing in this proof you not go outside the
evidence and surmise and conjecture what became
of it. &
Ford CTirey L. Ford general counsel of the
United Railroads. may have used that money in
many ways He may have used it for the inter
of the company in ways which do not
mics only anxious learn of its private affairs.
So far the testimony in this discloses, how
ever there is nothing to show that this money
used in absolutely legitimate
Everything about the conduct of Ruef, Ford
and Calhoun as developed in the evidence here, is
consistent with the theory that the money may
have gone elsewhere than to the supervisors
The statement that Gallagher and Nicholas and
this crowd received money from Ruef proves moth
ing 1t does not show where the money came
T. che D,,of
the defendant The very conduct of this defend
is inconsistent with the surmise of guilt
Even if it proved conclusvely that the de-
fendant paid money to Ruef in this matter, the
case is not proved Ruef was omnpotent boss
and why should he have to go out and ask his
supervisors what they demanded to do his bidding?
Such thing would have been confession of weak
Could he make such confession to corpora
ton officials from whom he expected money? If he
to make offer would they know that he in
tended to do it?
NEVER CRACKED A SMILE
Mr.. Calhoun did not break out in a rude guffaw
over this bouquet of theories, but he showed his
estimation of them by refusing to trust himself on
tho witness stand to explain which of them was
right. In that he was wse because cross exam
nation any of the counselor's ingenious
guesses would have been extremely awkward.
ADVERTISED ASA HERO
Mr.. Calhouns lack of the sense of hunlor finds
further evidence in his permitting newspapers in
his pay to make him ridiculous by printing a
grotesque account of duel that he fought, in
which the only casualty was that noncombatant
editor had his thumb shot off in the course of the
usillade, the proceedings being further envened by
a stump speech delivered on the field of honor by
Mr.. Calhoun himself in the character of the hero
Or was it by chance Counselor King who encour-
aged the newspapers to print this silly stuff? An
editor bereaved of his thumb would be in sad case
unless his other fingers thumbs likewise A
thumbless editor makes no heroes.
THE MAKING OF HEROES
There was once fire in San Francisco with
some thrilling adventures and next day the boys