The Detroit times., 1911-05-04
RECALL IS ADOPTED
DESPITE ATTACKS
BYB|G INTERESTS
It Is Made Applicable To Members 81
Judiciary, Big and Low Weak
and Powerful, Says Gov. John
SON, of California.
His Sixth Article Continues Story Of
Struggle That Ended 30 Years
Of Corporation Rule.

SACRAMENTO, Cal, May 4.-The
extraordinary amount of literature
sent to the California legislators, the
astonishing arguments presented BY
the opponents of the recall cannot be
exaggerated.
Upon this particular measure the
interests made their last stand. and
some OF the great newspapers OF the
state presented to timid Legislators
daily ingeniously devised arguments
OF the most skillful pleaders.
Were the courts to be made the
mere plaything OF the rabble?
Was the great science of the law
to be debauched by the mobf
Should the Judge upon the bench.
holding in his hands the life and
liberty Of the citizens, be made 70
tremble at the clamor OF tempor-
arily maddened and infuriated popu-
lace?
These and other queries were pro
pounded and great lawyers. doubtless
sincere In their fear, protested the
disruption OF the bench, the failure
that hereafter would come In our
judicial system and the revival Of
the days OF the Terror in this Union
Sweeping Victory.
And still we went on redeeming
our pledge to the people and treating
the judicial officers just exactly as
We treated every other official; and
Notwithstanding boards Of supervis-
ors desired to be eliminated from the
recall; and notwithstanding county
clerks wished that they might not be-
subject to the new measure, and not
withstanding supreme judges exerted
their great influence that they might
be exempted, the recall was made ap-
plicable to every one OF them. big
and little, high and low, weak and
powerful, alike.
We found during the discussion up
on the recall that the first great di.
vergence between ourselves and our
topponents was in the first premise.
Nearly every individual who opposed
the recall as applicable to the judici.
larry, when pressed to the wall admit
ted that he did not believe in an cleo
tive judiciary; and just SO certainly
as be started with the premise of be-
lief In an elective system, the very
foundation of our form of govern
ment, just as certainly was he carried
logically to the conclusion that the
power that elects should have the
right to reject.
What Is the "Rabbie7"
Some lawyers OF much or little
learning, as the case may be. AFRO
eating TO themselves an intelligence
that they believe is not possessed by
their fellows, fondly imagine their
class to be different from any other
class, and with peculiar egotism.
designate all others than themselves
the rabble." e--
1t has never been quite clear to me
who are the rabble" I'm our American
life, and just what people are re-
ferred to by our lawyer friends when
they talked of the rabble" whose
public clamor could be SO powerful.
II they mean the great electorate
who now choose our officials, that
electorate at the time of choosing
has just as many reprehensible traits
as 1t would have IL II were entrusted
with the recall, and II we concede
that electorate TO be "the rabble" ct
the time OF the election of our judici-
al, officers, we cannot escape the ulti-
mate conclusion that the same "rab-
BILE" should have not only the power
Of reelection, but power OF recall.
After all, the whole question re-
solves itself into one Of trust or dis-
trust of the people.
Those who trust the people win
trust them I'm any crisis.
Those who distrust the peop16y
trust them not at all. And In TN
point of view Is the divergence ~
tween ourselves and those who hon-
estly oppose the recall.