Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-26

utedtSS tHdt VIC diG to nave uo uiOfe
 of that sort of thing in this country
 To infiame the public mind by means Of newspaper lies and oratorical
 poison, against a man accused hy
 malicious business rivals of a peni. tentiary offense, to convert his trial
 into an affair of intense and con.
 scienceless partisanship instead of
 a dignified and God.fearing admins.
 tration of iustice-no. no, It has not
 worked; 1t will not work; it is a
 failure as well as an abomination.
 'I'll get Calhoun, cried Heney to
 the mots that his partisans melted
 and that he addressed. 'Tll get him!"
 And that was the end and aim of the
 so-called prosecution. It was not 70
 give Calhoun a fair trial on a charge
 affecting his very life and the lives
 of his dear ones. It was to "get'
 him. Will any self respecting citizen
 stand up today and maintain that
 to "set" . man is the spirit of Amen.
 lean institutions of which the admin
 istration of justice Is chief What (. monstrous idea, Thank God it findR Judgment in the minds of fewer
 Americans today than when it xee first bruited by the spite-mad Call houn haters.
 The jury's vote of 10 to in Cal houn's favor is revolt against ideas and practices marking back to the times of King James and Bloody Mary. It is declaration that the courts shall not be used as instru- rents of partisanship. As far as the result concerns Patrick Calhoun, per SC, it is not the hour for exuItation by lis friends. for the indictment still hangs over him; but the triumph of ihe principle of fair play in the ex- eca,ion of law and the defeat of the frfghtful doctrine that the prescott ing officials of the government shall "g..t@ a man. instead of giving him a square deal in the courts--these two phases of the jury's vote cer- tainiy call for the mutual felicita- tioas of every thoughtful citizen not blinded by hatred nor warped by bias.
 In the frantic inflammation of class feeling from the beginning of this until the present day there has been much said about pun ishing the "higher-ups." And Cal i ioun was supposed to be the highes: of the higher-ups. He was the shin ing mark because a storm of Ill will against possessors of great wealth and managers of great undertakings was sweeping over the countryside labor unions and strike leaders get ting up most of the wind. Calhoun fought a twicesfought fight against the reds" and the promoters of in dustrial warfare and drove them to their coverts. It was for this and for his interference with the ambi. tons of certain financial magnates in San Francisco that he was to be railroaded to prison, while the real 'higher-ups" in the boodling cases were to go scott free.
 Speaking of "higher-ups." who was higher up in the scale of graft in San Francisco than Abe Ruef? Yet an immunity contract was made with Ruef by the prosecution and he was to escape his deserts if he would testify right" Were there any 'higherups" higher up in the crimi- nal arts complained of than the four. teen supervisors who confessed to bribes and hold-ups? Yet immunity was granted to these confessed crimr 'nals. every man-jack of them. with he purpose of "setting'' Patrick Cal houn-not of conducting . fair trial , of the charges against him. but of l getting him. as the boss prosecu- lor put it. It Is against this un- speakable maladministration of the aw. against setting. prison-birds free md putting up jobs against accused | md unconvicted men to take the place of the lacking evidence. that i he Calhoun jury set it's seal of con | iemnation hy a vote of 10 to Zone # the most significant and pregnant | 'otes ever recorded by jury in this .ountry.
 Under the circumstances 1t would