Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-26
DANGEROUS THING TO HAVE AROUND.

TO HAVE AROUND.
 It may be regarded as a safe pre- diction that the provision for the re call of the judiciary will never bs restored to the Arizona constitution after its elimination by the voters st the direction of the smul-FIoot resolution; that is, it will never ap rear again in it's present form, if at all.
 The sentiment in favor Of re-inser ton, so rampant after the veto of the Flood resolution, Is steadily subsid ing and many of those who had most strongly advocated the judicial re call now admit that in the form in which it was put into the constitu- ton, it was peculiarly dangerous and vicious. It is agreed that the entire recall provision is wrong and that an officer against whom charges have been lodged should be permitted to go before the voters on these charges alone. unhandieapped by an opposing, popular candidate
 The Coke case in Oregon has had sobering effect upon the judicial rocallers. A petition was circulated against Judge Coke, the charge against him being that he had im- properly instructed a jury in a mur- der case; that was the only alleged evidence of the unftness of Judge Coke. Thus there was to be brought before the people CT his judicial ais trict question of law to be decided The judge. supposedly learned in the law had erred in . single instance. The voters, rot one in ten of whom had perhaps ever opened a law book were to say whether the judge was right or wrong.
 Thus, foolish fad was to be put iEto practical operation and thereat, the more sensible of the faddists be- came alarmed. They had asserted when the amendment providing for the recall of the judiciary was pro Iosed to De put into the Oregon con stitution, as the Arizona advocates had asserted, that in all likelihood. it would never be invoked. But, here. it was about to be invoked in a most startling instance; not in the case Of an alleged corrupt judge or an incompetent judge but in the case of an experienced and able jurist al lesed to be guilty of one error.
 It was evident, too, that if the re- call election were allowed to proceed. Judge Coke would be defeated; the republicans were preparing to nomi- nate a popular candidate against him; the Bryan democrats were unfriendIy toward him because he was an old line democrat. The liquor interests were whetting their knives, for Judge Coke leaned toward prohibition His recall was absolutely certain.
 The petition. it was announced some weeks ago. was almost com YIeted. Then the hideousness Of the things became apparent, not to the roople at large. not to the republi- cans but to the leaders of the pro gressives." If this outrage were per mitted to proceed there wonld almost certainly be an awpkenins an in. sistent demand for the removal Of sueh a dangerous instrument; the entire new structure of "popaiar government would be shaken.
 The most strenuous efforts were made to stop the recall proceedings which the progressive" newspapers and leaders had been urging on and it is announced now that there will be no recall election.
 But this incident has brought a realization that the judicial recall is a dangerous weapon to have around "a loaded gun that may be taken in hand at any time by the fool or the