United labor bulletin., 1911-05-04

newton, DO you want 10 go 10 jail lot tne
marked effect for good" that would
come to the citizenship of Grand juno
tion? And some day it may be that you,
Mr.. Audurel. and you, Mr.. Bacon, will
languish in the county jail in order that
your respective communities may grow
better and learn to follow in the foot
steps of our meek and lowly Master"
The attorney then discussed the cases
of the Connor boys, George Peninsky.
and the other imprisoned miners. In his
own way he paid his respects to the ac-
tion of Judge Whitford with reference
to the occasion when Whitford was drunk
at Weinbergers saloon and passed to
the testimony of Margaret Miller, the
witness, who claimed she paid Whitford
the sum of $4,000 to imprison the miners.
Il shall assume in this connection"
said he, that the testimony of Margaret
Miller is false, and shall take the posi-
ton that the action of Judge Whitford
and his defense before this committee
are sufficient to bring about his impeach-
ment and trial in the senate.
They boast to you about how they
have impeached poor Margaret Miller
and l am going to show you how. This
woman testified that on the night of
December 18th she went into room 6
of a rooming house on. Arapahoe street
and there paid to Judge Whitford $1,000
in money She says that house is one
of i'll repute. If il is, and such state
ment has not been disputed. there must
be landlady or landlord there If there
is landlady or landlord there, the room
rent must have been paid. Is there no
person in charge who knows that Judge
Whitford did not visit the place? No
person who would have seen him. had
he visited the house-to come here and
testify for this man.
-Or is it a fact and maybe it is, that
they tried to get the landlady here to
testify and she told them that if she
came she would tell all the truth about
the man on the bench and about other
doings of his, and they dared not bring
her here to face this committee?
Does Judge Whitford deny it? Not
a word from the lips of the man who
has been accused by this woman. Gen
tlemen of the committee, the reputation
of poor old Margaret Miller may not be
worth anything but the reputation of the
district bench in Colorado is, and was it
the manly man or the cowardly man who
sat in the face of these charges and re-
fused to say a word against the truth
fulness of those assertionss l wonder
why he didn't come before this COM
mittee of his countrymen and blast these
charges in manly way-and l am still
wondering why2
But they impeached Margaret Miller
again John Miller says her story can
not be true because he says he is the
common law husband of this woman,
and because she was with him that night
she couldn't have been on Arapahoe
street. And then John Miller comes to
testify in contradiction of her story in
the room. instead Of Judge Whitford. o.
they charge that Margaret Miller is a
prostitute. but here is a dignihed judge
of the district court who impeaches the
testimony of a prostitute who accuses
him, by the substitution of a macque-
reauxr
Smith then referred pointediy to the
testimony of Joe Miller and ex-Sheriff
Robertson and proceeded with the testi-
mony of II. p. Gumaer Gumaer had
testified before the committee that in the
spring of 1907 whitford. while judge, had
walked down Market street with his arm
around a lewd woman. Hersey had jok-
ingly, in his argument referred to lovers
and their doings in the springtime. The
answer of the Federat;on's attorney was
as follows:
Mr.. Hersey. in a strain of sentiment,
refers to the parade on Market street as
being in the springtime when our minds
are turning TO thoughts of love. Gentle
men of the committee, il is immaterial
to me, if this scene was enacted in the
springtime, l care not if the birds were
singing or If the flowers were in rosy
bloom. The question for YOU TO decide
is. Is it becoming judge of the district
bench to parade in his adulterous love
upon the open streets of Denver with a
notorious prostitute in the early hours
of the morning.
Il appeal TO you. Mr.. Bacon. as the
representative of the sturdy men of
Cripple Greek, to say by your report if
this is the kind of judge your people
want? And to you, Mr.. Hollenbeck, to
tell us il the people of Chaffee want this
kind of man for judgeg To you. Mr..
Newton: you. Mr.. Audurel. and to you,
Mr.. Mcintyre, to say to your constitu-
ents who have honored you with your
office. if you want this kind of man for
judge of our district court? 1t is not
disputed that he was there when Gumaer
says he saw him. If he was. the next
day he was no doubt sitting on the dis
trict bench determining the rights of
American citizens and of women and
children in this great commonwealth. 1t
is wrong, gentlemen. and in the name of
all that is right. decent and just, call
upon you to say it is wrong
The attorney closed his argument with
this tribute to our government and to its
institutions;
Gentlemen OF the committee, this
great country of ours has bene supported
and surrounded for over 100 years by
three great constitutional bulwarks. Our
government is tripod in its constitutional
form. On one corner stands the eSecu-
tive. on another stands the legislative.
of which you gentlemen have the honor
TO be a part. and on still another stands