Show Judges Judge's s Habits Are Attacked b by u I Those Who Would Destroy Him Hirt I JUDGE HANFORD'S alleged fondness for fOl liquor if FEDERAL one is willing to t accept it as a 11 tact fact from the lip lips of tho those c who desire to injure him can cun scarce scarcely have o had an anything to do with his refusal to grant citizenship h p papers to Leonard Leonald OU Oll on n If the Seattle jurists jurist's decision in defense defence of the national constitution andin and andin andin in the plain line of his dut duty was cli dictated tnt l by boY alcoholic t then the law abiding citizens of the United States will instantly demand that Judge part particular ln nud of liquor he be ascertained and copious quantities of it be d distributed to hi his brethren of the tire federal bench all over the tho nation notion If the judge had Irad not been drinking when he lie announced that decision wh why should his fondness for liquor or 01 lack o of it be brought into a case with which it ob obviously has nothing to do dol Leonard Oleson an alien applied to Judge Hanford at Sea Seattle for his final citizenship papers Examination of Oleson in in the thc presence pies pies- pres preg- ence once of the tho court disclosed b by his answers that he did diJ not believe e inthe in inthe inthe the rights of pr private prate ate property and that he was therefore ineligible for citizenship since sinco ho lie could not conscientiously take o the customary and necessary oath to support and defend the constitution of the thc United States Judge Hanford ordered Ins his papers to be he canceled Whether hether tho the peculiar views s of Oleson constitute him a Socialist or a u member of the Socialist Labor party is is beside the thc question but hut Vi Victor tor Berger of Milwaukee Socialist con congressman demanded that impeachment impeachment impeach impeach- ment proceedings be filed against Hanford and made such representations representations representations at the tho department t of justice that Attorney General Wickersham Wickersham Wicker Wicker- sham ordered tho the United Unite States Slates district attorney attorn at Seattle to have havethe havethe the case ease reopened The question then before the congressional committee which is in session at Seattle endeavoring oring to gather facts upon which to base impeachment charges is as tC to whether the jurist wa was guilty guilt of misconduct misconduct miscon miscon- duct in the Oleson case That matter has hns been lost to sight as obviously obvious oh I ly would bo be the case with a Democratic committee whose whoso c are arc being paid on a search for campaign material and the personal pen habits of Judge Hanford are aro being called ca into question It i is charged ed that he lie drinks liquor and the charge is supported by the tc testimony of a n number of witnesses se This if true is most reprehensible as all allwill allwill will agree We Wo have frequently until expressed a conviction that Jude Judge j 5 action iii- iii refusing the boon of citizenship to Oleson was worthy of commendation As an alien Oleson was stoking seeking citizenship rights in a country under a government go in whose fundamental principles he does docs not believe c and which he naturally could not defend He is cHrs cursed with predilections that render him unfit for participation in the activities activities activities ac ac- of American life and of the sort that lowers the American standard As a n people we need none of him and Judge Hanford deserves deserves de de- serves senes well of his country for reaffirming ng the principle that the alien who cannot give the basic fundamentals of our Government go his hearty support cannot be admit admitted ted to citizenship The attack upon Judge Hanford's per personal character and habits the despicable search for rumors and for reports that can be used against him shows that those who would punish him for upholding the national constitution doubt dO their ability to do that if confined to the original case upon which hie the investigation is ba based cd None can orwill or orwill orwill will wish to defend him if he lie uses liquor an intoxicated ju judge ge is amore amore a amore more pitiable and indefensible object than the average drunkard But the keenness of his judicial opinions the high esteem in which he lie ir in i held heM by the reputable citizens of Seattle and above all the attitude he has taken in ill the Oleson case ease form a no complete answer to his critics 2 t f t PROFESSOR PROFESSOR WILSONS WILSON'S position at the PROFESSOR jf opening of his campaign as the Democratic WILSONS WILSON'S candidate for President is IS not an enviable one despite his present fame Under 1 the control con con- POSITION of William Williom J J. Bryan Brou subscribing to the I UNENVIABLE I hare brained fads rods which the Nebraskan evolved e from his inner inner consciousness an and which are like Jike nothing else in ill land or 01 sea sen W Wilson lson must endeavor en en- dC deavor or to forget his past which may not be difficult to his pedagogical cal mind but he faces the herculean task o of inducing others to forget forget forget for for- get it The defender for of the years plutocratic class of the exponents exponents exponents ex ex- ex- ex of or predatory predator wealth convinced o of the righteousness of the thc vested interests and a fervent worshiper of the golden calf Professor Wilson is committed to a policy that makes inevitable ine opponents of those hose whom he once regarded as his intimate friends and that repudiates repudiates ates every ery precept and ami principle which he had been teaching as 05 a I schoolmaster inculcating a as an author and heralding as a publicist At Colonel George Harvey Professor Wilson launched a severe ere blow whoso whose poignancy was the more bitter because of the close friends they had been and ho did lid it merely because Harveys Harvey's other friends and intimates were such as Bryan would not approve e. e After writing l letters let let- t ens offering his aid in k 0 knocking locking Bryan Bryau and his pretension in into to a cocked hat hal Professor Wilson Vilson made the most humble apology possible possible ble and has since ince been fawning upon the Nebraskan The friends with whom lIe he was intimate for years he has disowned and ab abandoned not because they have hac changed but because he fe feels ls that association with them might injure him unfit the radicals of his party The principles principles principles ples which he be espoused for years mid and to which he be had given practical application b by every means in his power he repudiated And the country country- believes es he did this in order to gain political preferment Professor Wilson would never ne have bae entered political life had he ho I not been practically p ousted from his place as president of Princeton He Hc had been quarreling for years with the thc trustees of the univ university and they finally demanded demand d his resignation With no employment and seeking some means of livelihood he lie was exploited by the thc Democratic machine of New Jersey at Colonel Hare Harveys Harvey's R suggestion and was mn made e its candidate for far governor No sooner was h he elected than Tian he turned his back on Colonel Harvey Honey and anel upon the leader of the Democratic party in his state The basest b of ingratitude has been exhibited by this schoolmaster in politic He lie is an opportunist of the most advanced ad advanced ad- ad yance 1 type ready to sacrifice friends principles and all for political preferment tee C HAYING HAVING wearied of their role as assistants DEMOCRATS to the Democratic party party- a sort ort of first fiat QUARREL aid to the injured red the Republican insurgents WITH THE gents in In the Senate will no longer give the D Democrats Dem Dem- m- m any assistance in pushing through g h u their INSURGENTS legislative program The stalwart Democrats have not nothing bing but scorn for the weak kneed Republicans Republicans Re Re- publicans wh whom m they have ha been using for their own purposes and that scorn has become so apparent that the little band of trimmers has concluded to seek seck more congenial society The official reason renson given gi in in the true press dispatches is that the re regular ular Republicans Republicans Re Re- publicans were absenting themselves from the Senate chamber which enabled the true Democrats to get legislation through without insurgent support The real reason of course is tho the present political situation and the lonely position occupied by th those se Republican insurgents who decline to follow Mi Ml Roosevelt in in his ambitious ts program and who can sec see no profit for themselves in ill giving further l' l help to the Democracy De De- 4 1 r t i SENATOR CUMMINS of of- Io Iowa a one of the SENATOR jj leaders of r that wing in o of t the ie Republican CUMMINS party part which fondly refers to itself as pro e thus proving plO that thai it IS STILL enjoys s 's a sense A A. of humor declares that the best hest instrument by ly REPUBLICAN which to io accomplish the reforms he lie seeks is the tile Republican part For party that reason he lic announces an an- pounces s his intention to remain within its its ranks to endeavor to labor within the organization to correct such evils as he bc believes to exist The Tite Thelo a Iowa lowa senator discerns no n no hope hOJe from a u third party for as as he says S 'S it t is no more difficult to dethrone bosses bosses' in an old party than to C prevent nf tb the accession of f bosses in a n new party He will s rt President t Taft and this ins insures res that Iowa will cast her electoral vote cote Ot for the 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