The Washington times., 1911-05-23
uTFLETON BITTER,
DENOUNC|NG PLAN
TO RECALL JUDGES
In Maiden Speech Asserts 1t
Would PROSTATE Ju-
# dicial Power.

A bitter arraignment of the plan for
the recall Of judges as a blow which
would strike from the splendid struc-
ture of free government the arch upon
which it has come to rest with unshak-
en- confidence" was made in the House
today by Representative Martin W. Lit
Teton Dem, n. ".
1t was Littleton's maiden speech as a
Congressman, and received closest at
tention. He spoke with mis- desk piled
high with formidable looking docu-
ments. and opened the days debate on
the Arizona and New Mexico Statehood
resolution.
THE seasoned and staid traditions of
Impeachment are to be translated into A
trial by tumult. The orderly processes
OF regulated justice are to be converted
into sporadic assaults born of hate and
disappointment
The dignified minister of the estab-
.Itshed law ennobled by the grandeur
the pressure of a sober responsibility
is to be degraded by the impending
, threat and distracted by the uncertainty
of precarious tenure
Malignant Passion Menace.
THE misguided or malignant passion
Of an unimportant fragment of the COM
munity may recklessly accuse the most
stainless judge, and by a groundless
charge put suspicion in the place of
confidence and distrust in the place of
faith.
The lying liugant, baffed in his
mendacious effort to subsidiZe the court
TO make secure his fabricated cause,
lays his unscrupulous hand upon this
ruthless weapon to strike from public
esteem the upright judge.
THE culpable confederates of the
convicted criminal, audacious in that
freedom which has foiled detection and
angered at the thought that tardy JUS
tice has overtaken one of their number,
can assemble and foment the necessary
and irresponsible fraction to put on trial
the conservator Of public honor. The
corporate bandit, marauding through
the legitimate fields Of honest commerce
and finally condemned by the firm
hand Of an incorruptible court. can turn
its passive chagrin into active revenge
and summer sufficient Of its dependents
to write a recall.
The agrarian agitator, whose up
lifted hand is always against the sub
stance and the symbols of order, unable
TO write his crooked creed into the
courts DEGREES, will call for venal vol
unteers to rebuke the judge who dared
deny his loud prOtestations.
The reformer, whose righteous task
and unbalanced judgment makes him at
once the most attractive and most dan
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chaic and too rigidly bound to serve
the elastic purpose of his pretentious
program, and his honest wrath will stir
the souls of his faithful followers to
issue a recall in the name of all polit
ical virtue.
The joint resolution, which will prob
ably pass the House today, sends back
the Arizona constitution, with the hint
that that Territory shall eliminate the
recall of the judiciary.
If 1t retains the initiative and refer
endum and the recall of other public
officers the House will let the Territory
have its way, although 1t is understood
that the President would not sign the
proclamation admitting the State with
q the recall of judges still in effect
The New Mexico constitution goes
back in order that 1t may be made cas-
Ter Of amendment, charges having been
made in the House that 1t is hidebound
and practically unamendahle.