The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-05-19
DEMAND IMPEACHMENT OF
JUGDE WHO FREED TILDEN
Chicago Newspapers Say Adelor j.
Petit Should be Kicked Out of the
Cook County Cour for Obstructing
LOrimcr Probe.

Chicago, May. Rarely has Chi
cago been SO stirred against a court
as it now is against Adelor J. Petit,
judge of a Cook county court, who
faces demands for his instant i'm
parchment on account of his action
', in releasing Edward Tilden, the mil
lionaire packing king on habeas
corpus, after Tildcn had been arrest
, ed by the sergeant at arms of the
Illinois senate on charge of contempt
, for refusal to produce books, which,
the state alleges, wuld show the con-
tributors and manner of expenditure
of the 100000 slush fund that elect
/, ed Lorimer to the United tates senate
Petit's action practically closed the
gates of inquiry, working as an in
surmountable obstruction to the eff
forts being made to prove Lorimer a
corruptionist. The state senate want
ed Tilden's books to show that money
had bought Lorimer's election. Judge
Jetit freed him entirely and declared
in addition that 1.-THE senate had no
right to probe into the Lorimer scan
dial anyway"
'Kick Him OUT is Cry
Open charges are made by some of
the most prominent men in the city
and by the newspapers that Petit is
the tool of Tilden, Lorimer and the
beef trust. One paper says: Petit
does their dirty work, which takes on
a semblancc of cleanliness, as he is
clothed in his court ermine. He is
therefore opposed to giving the peo-
pie view of the slime through which
Lorimer was compelled to make his
way to reach the United States SEN
ate. Petit would rather have the
stencil of the closed sewer kept from
the public nostrils as much as posi-
BILE, than to give 1t an opportunity
to rise from an open gutter, forcing
an aroused public to seek an imme-
date remedy. That remedy would
mena that the beef trust, Tilden, Ar
mour, ct al, would have Lorimerless
United States senate and Petitless
Chicago court. There should be lit
tie place for the yellow dogs of big
business on our court benches, to
make farce of justice and mock
e ry of government"
"Kick Judge Petit out as soon as
the opportunity affords itself 1t can
not be done too SOON"
Chicago Tribune Aroused
The Chicago Tribune, considered
cry conservative, today carries the
editorial, under the title,
The Tilden Incident"
Judge Petit should have noted a
few days ago an editorial upon the
arrest and alleged kidnapping of Nc
Namara and McManigal. 1t contrast
I'd the summary and effective meas
Tres by which these men were
brought before the bar of justice in
Los Angeles with the manner in
which Mr.. Edward Tilden has been
.reated.
"The Tribune does not agee with
many people as to the method used
n apprehending the men charged
With destroying the Los Angeles
Times building, and has no fear that
hey will not be given full and fair
rial But it does not forget there Is
widespread opinion that in our
ourts there is one law for the poor
nan and one for the rich, which
opinion the episode of Mr.. Edward
rilden will by no means weaken.
Furthermore, this opinion has al
og6ther too much foundation. The
,ood fortune of Mr.. Tilden, though
conspicuous, is not unique, and the
tribune invites not merely Judge Pet
t but also, and chiefly, those men In
he banking and business world
whose sympathies seem to have been
ntirely on the side of Mr.. Tilden, to
onsider just what the growth OF this
pinion will bring about. le
"The fight of Mr.. Tilden against
he Helm investigation and the break
own of the senate's process in court
re sinking deep into the conspicu- /
usness of the American people. The
efense of Lorimer, which is really q
he defense of the powers behind Lor-
ner, has shocked and aroused the n
hole people. 1t has stirred the ma
ion to a profound sense of danger, g
OF merely TO its welfare but to the D
cry existence of it's institutions. s
us it to be said of the great mon U
led interests of the country that Ii
HON the gods would destroy they II
rst make mad?" q