The daily morning oasis. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1917-1920, 1920-02-13
Nogaes, Arizona Friday Morning February 13 1920
BEAT THE WOBBL1EES TO IT"


When the Bsbee deportations were accomplished
those who dsapproved set up great howl while long and
loud were senup that the dported
should have been arrested and tried by the law instead
of driven out of the country by men who became law
breakers themselves by the very act they committed
The cry repeated and reiterated SO long and so
perstent that had its effect upon the public mind and
there strong sentiment that those who violated the
law to protect society from the law breakers should be
punished for their extra legal operation Taking adj
vantage of that sentiment candidate forcounty attorney
Cochse ounty elected to office upon pledge to-
bring to trial the deporters By way Of parenthess it
may be aiss the state that first indictments were
found against these in the federal court and thrown
out demurrer the court sustaining the contention that
the state had sole jurisdiction in the matter.)
AS soon as possible after he in office Attorney
French set about making good his aneeecton promises
and he succeeded in bring indictments against two hun
dred Bsbee deporters The Superior Court of Cochise
County has been in session nearly two weeks trying to-
get jury to try the first called of the two hundred
indicted Hundred of taesn1en have been examined and
excused for cause with but thirteen tentative jurors I'M
the box while there must be twenty five who shall have
passed before preptory challenges be exercised and
jury secured Doubts are expressed that jury can
be secured to try that case, without taking into
sheraton the other hundred ninety nine. One in
dictment embraces one hundred fifty defendants No
jury could be gathered in Cochise County try that
under blanket Indictment for so many talesmen
would be disqualified account of admitted prejldce
AGAINST one defendant or another.
That of the very epoints depended upon by w
members, bolshevsts, anarchists and others who are
bringing TO trial our American free government to break
down which they declare their determination They an
tcipae that many of themselves violating the law the
courts will be overburdened and the machinery of Justice
Will suffer breakdown just it has done in Cochse
county where invoked tobrng to bar those who headed
off a lot of them
Right there is where it is made possible even neces
say for operation of vigilance committees deportation
posses, and other machinery which outraged communi
ties resort to at times to prevent criminal elements from
obtaining the upper hand and converting law abiding
community into confusion of long continued violence
and disorder Hundreds of communities in these United
States have had to rise andpurge themselves of criminals
and law breakers, by law abiding citizens invoking mob
law themselves Fifty two years ago the writer was if
Cheyenne Dakota (now Wyoming), then new town
The criminal element had captured the city, and the chief
OF police was the worst criminal in the lot One morning
the writer arose from his bed room off from his Of
fce looked out of the window and on an open space
about an acre IN area was tripod about nine feet high
made OF four inch scantngs, and within it swung thu
feess body OF the chief of police AT four other places
IN the city were similar evidences of the vengeance of ar
outraged community of law abiding men, Those five
men had killed more than twenty Others some of their
own kind, others reputable citizens. That operation of
vigilance committee purged the city, the criminal ele
ment departed and Cheyenne has been law abiding ever
since.
In Bisbee the Wobbies had the upper hand thew had
planned to carry things with high hand and then escape
justice by breaking down the machinery of the law |
through mpossbty to get jury before which the could
be brought to trial Law abiding citizens of Bisbee cheat
them to it."