The San Francisco call., 1910-09-11
THE MALADIES OF COMMERCE

The legal value of an assortment OF ailments
becomes obvious and the medical certificate puts
the writ Of habeas corpus out Of business. It only
needs lawyer with an acute case OF lumbago to
outrun the constable.
The assumption on which the accepted legal doc
trine in such cases proceeds is that given lawyer
is Indispensable Without him the battle may not
go on In the case OF Tom Dozier the assumption
IS Illuminating If Dozier has the toothache he
can not be replaced There are no others like him
or fit to take his place. It IS great improvement
on the ancient plan:
They can't put you in jail says the attorney
But they've got me in jail, says the prisoner
III get you out says the attorney. How? says
the prisoner. Why says the attorney, by habeas
corpus deictu; and if 1abeas corpus don't fetch it
II take out a nandamus if don't damn me: and
II that fails, II get up mob
The new lawyer does not have to get up mob.
He can have certified sore throat dedicated to
the goddess Of liberty. If the case were singular
it would not be worth mention, but the thing hap
pens twenty times day in the courts and it is
gross abuse The practice is based on the assump-
ton that the convenience of lawyers is superior to
the rights of litigants.
SOME HUMORS OF THE CAMPAIGN
The humor of the present campaign lies in the
slow crouch OF the old crowd. The Chronicle
started the crouch, but in its customary tinorous
fashion, like rat showing his teeth and carefully
keeping close to his hole That lasted for about
week. until attention was called to the performance,
and then at once the Chronicle hunted its hole
Old Blunderbore Of the Los Angeles Times is
different Nobody may fairly accuse Otis Of cow
ardiCe, and he would rather fight than eat-iust
malignant old cuss. He is now aboring with
plentiful flow Of adjectives to persuade his friends to
knife the ticket, as for instance:
The adoption of socialistic doctrines by the late
L. r Los Angeles convention. coupled with its
lnsolent rough riding the minority, will have
tendency 10 make Of the coming election a case
OF catch as catch can" In view of Hiram John
sons refusal, in his insulting letter the repub-
hcan state central committee, promise to support
for governor whoever should receive the nomina-
ton, II VIII not be surprise Il many OF the
supporters OF Curry, Of Anderson and of Stanton
should commend the poisoned chalice of party
dlsIoyalty 10 Mr. JohnsOns own lips. The candi-
date OF the insurgents not be elected unless
the supporters OF his rivals at the primary shall
vote for him. 1t would seem, view of this fact,
that the nsurgent candidates would seek to
ciliate those who did not vote for them at the
primaries rather than repel them by such antics
as were exhibited IN the county convention last
Saturday.
THE KNIFE FOR INSURGENTS
Otis believes and hopes that it will be best for
the republican party to GO. into a defeat that will
extirpate insurgency for the future rather ,than
encourage the featherheads by helping them TO an
ephemeral triumph, and he suggests that what he
calls writer in clubs should be formed to vote
ticket by writing in Names. not in any hope of
eecting the same but because if this course should
be followed 1T is not impossible as he says that
Bell may be elected governor"
The amusing preliminary and premise to these
conclusions Is his declaration that the REGULARS" In