Year: 1875

: titions of the week before, asking for the re

 moval of Chief Justice Dunne from office

 and indulges three column article, evident

 ly meant to strengthen the application, il which some strong points are made in th' way of argument against his position on th' school question, which is really the question involved. If the people have lost confidence

 in Judge Dunne, disguise it as you will, il

 has been because of his course in the matter

 of the public schools. The fact that be at

 tended as a pupil, was employed as teacher

 and afterwards fostered the public schools a:

 a legislator in California and Nevada, and

 then in Arizona denounced the system as one

 of robbery and fraud, is indefencible When

 he used this language in his lecture last win

 ter to the legislature of Arizona, he not only

 insulted that body but the whole people who

 elected them, and laid the foundation for all

 this trouble that has come upon him:

 They (meanng the Catholics) are bur

 dened with an annual tax to support institu-

 tions from which they can derive no benefit. l." We have charged that you are guilty of perpetrating upon us an enormous

 fraud; we make our proofs that we have

 been robbed, are being robbed, and, unless you grant us some relef, must continue for some indefinite time to submit to this rob- bery. We charge that you are unfairly get ting the benefit of this robbery; that you are party to the fraud, and profiting by it, and we ask relief"

 There certainly can be no excuse for Judge of the Supreme or any other court thus to denounce law of the land as we'll as the makers. It is the province of Judgde to construe, explain and decide upon the law as it comes to him from the hands of the peoples representatives, and not to it conform to the will and interest of any religious sect, or foreign authority whether religious or secular This, with the single exception of his disagreement with the board of supervisors of Pima county, as to the payment of jury fees, appears to be the head and front of his offending, and in matter involving a principle of law, where neither religion nor schools enter into the complication it is quite as likely that he and the balance of the Supreme Court were right as the board. If this be so, then why not base the application for his removal on the real, and not several imaginary causes. For instance, the Citizen of the 2d inst, says, "For months after we had lost conti- dence in his disposition to reciprocate per sonal favors we resolutely abstained from any sort of discussion of or with him." Now we | have heard people complain of judge for having too much of disposition to recipro- cate personal favors, but to hear the absence 1 of such disposition urged as an argument against jugde is new. Does the Citizen, or do the people of Pima desire in Judge Dunne's successor judge who can be relied on to reciprocate2 If so we think we know several who would be eligible.

 Then, the petitioners allege many serious things, but specify none; and finally, the Citizen, while backing up the charges other than those connected with the school ques- ion, tacitly acknowledges that that is the cal cause of complaint, and says: "His Ne Tada and Arizona published records on the chool question have been mainly instrument al with the masses in destroying his reputa- ion for fairness in public affairs" We have lot considered his opposition to schools suffi- ient cause for his removal, for the reason hat we felt equal to the task of refuting all he fallacies contained in his arguments, and aw in the temper of the people de.ermina- ( ion to sustain the schools in spite of his op- ositon, and as yet we have had no evidence i, his false ruling on the bench, however fa- !, atical and partizan he may be in private i fe and on the rostrum. But if his course { n that one question has been sufficiently Of I ,nsive to those whom he is chosen to serve, !! 5 to destroy their confidence, then We say 1, t him go by the board, but place it upon ' gal and not an assumed ground. t As before remarked, we know nothing as ? , the real merits of the other charges and asons assigned by the petitioners, but from + IT personal knowledge of the character of a udse Dunne it would require very good Ii roofs before believing anything to his off, ? al discredit. Should the charges be sus- :, ined, however, we shall be as ready as any e ask for his dismissal t

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