The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-07-19

/ present n case with the result that
| the cases were lost through a tech
nicality in the procedure. In answer,
Rev. Mr.. Bailey stated that IL is the
/ business of the prosecuting attorney
and the Judge of the common pleas
court to appoint detectives TO ferret
out violations of the law, IL the rep
resentatives of the league are igAo-
rant of the proper methods. He
questioned the use of employing such
officials IL they are of no value to
the people and IL they openly refuse
to enter cases of this nature when
they are so requested He thought II
| time that these officials were moving
out, and later during the evening he
I expressed a desire that the recall sys-
tenn might be in vogue in order that
an elction might be held whereby an
attempt would be made to put the Of
ficers out of office.
In the closing address of the even
ing, by Rev. Mr.. Bailey, in which a
summary of what had been said dur
ing the evening was made, he de-
clared that the members OF the
league and their friends should act at
once and draw up petitions, asking
these officials to resign. He also had
something to say regarding the kind
of attorneys being employed by the
liquor interests and said that he had
no more use for n bootlegging lawyer
than for bootlegging public officials.
After reading an article from n
New York Journal. in which II was
stated that a lawyer had been arrest
ed recently for hindering the pro-
gress of trial and later convicted. In
which the Inference was plain, he was
loudly applauded.
Referring to the local police force
and the Mayor, he plainly stated that
they were incompetent and were not
enforcing the law He stated that he
had been in the office of the Mayor
of the city quite recently and that
the Mayor had asked him to visit the
cells in order that he might get
glimpse of what 1t was necessary for
an official to contend with. They WIS.,
tied the cells and there found fallen
woman, young girl and a man
locked in the cells. The woman con-
fessed her guilt, he said, and the
young girl, smoking a cigarette, be-
gan TO plead with him. thinking that
he was lawyer. Rev. Mr.. Bailey
made some remarks at the time. and
the Mayor asked the woman referred
to why she should ask mercy, after
having been brought within the court
for the second time. The woman stat
ed that she had never been arrested
in this court before.
But you were arrested in this
court before" said the Mayor.
II declare to you that / was not"
returned the woman. 'It was my
sister that was arrested in your court
and the only time that was ever in
your office was when came here
from Columbus and gave you five dol
lars for not driving me out of town"
When the interview was over. Rev.
Mr.. Bailey asked the reason of this
statement and the Mayor responded
that 1t was because the woman had
been fined but that she did not know
it, Rev. Bailey declared that it was
very unusual that the Mayor could
assess fine and the convicted person
could pay the fine without knowing It.
Spirit and enthusiasm was at a high
pitch when these statements were
made and through the house Kisses
were heard
In bringing his remarks to a close
the speaker declared that no more
cases would be brought in the courts
of the city and county located In this
city Recourse Will be made in the
future to the courts located in other
places In the county where justice may
be gained. In referring to the cases
which We're brought into the courts
here, Mr. Bailey showed how the
local option people Were turned down
In every case and stated that they were
done with the officers so far as he was
concerned. In regard to the case in
the court of Probate Judge Spencer
where 1t was questioned on either side
whether the case might be tried in
that court, the speaker wondered
that decision should be made on the
side of the liquor interests.
Rev. j. p. Currin, of the First
Baptist church, was the first speaker
OF the program of speakers as intro
duced by the chairman of the even
ing. In a splendid Grafton II was
shown that the people have powers
within them for great accomplish
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the occasion. People should catch
the vision and place their souls in
this fight. He said that the lack of
alarm is the worst kind of alarm and
during the progress of his remarks
the speaker fired his hearers with his
words.
Rev @. p. Barnard was the next
speaker and this theme was "A Day
In the Courts of Marion County" The
speaker opened his address by refer
ence to the Biblical statement that a
day In the courts of the Lord was
better than a thousand. Amid much
laughter, the speaker stated that
day in the courts of the county here
wa sincomparable. He reviewed the
court proceeding of last Friday and
told In detail of the trial which was
enacted in the court room of the may
or. He spoke of the abuse which
was hurled at the attorneys and wit
nesses on the prosecution and re-
viewed WILDLY the scene when Still
wei stated that he had drank with Of
ficer McDonough. She said that the
profanity used by the candidate for
Mayor was disgusting to decent