Show JUDGE JIM HARDY The Oregonian of May lay 22 in its Fifty Years s Ago go column has baa this item Hem In the impeachment ca case ue e of Judge Hardy In the California Cali Call fornia senate reate ill all fl the tho specifications in In the indictment found by the assembly were dismissed except ept tho the fifteenth which related to his treasonable expressions uttered on various occasions The judgment was as that he lie be suspended d from irom office Hardy was vas tried not for any wrong ruling that he be had made from the bench but because he was a rabid rebel and the people of oi California thought it t was a 8 shame for a man to preside over a court in that state wh when n his allegiance was all to another government and when his prayers prayers prayers-if if he ever was prayed prayed was that the government to which he was wasn in n his heart a subject might prevail and the government government government gov gov- of the United States might be I ered Hard Hardy p was one of the seconds of Terry when Broderick w was wis s fatally wounded He belonged to the he 1 extreme chivalry wing of the Democratic party he w was s an aggressive fi fiery tempered man jUt just such a 8 man politically as was Judge Terry except that he liela lacked ked the I Indian dia hate te in Terry Ferry made it a pl pleasure asure to strike down an enemy He crossed the mountains to Nevada after his trial rial and practiced practiced- his profession there for three or four years He was a a fine lawyer a genial generous generous generous gen gen- erous man but he nev never r mixed in poi politics ics unless when hen in a convivial mood he would sometimes lose Jos cont control ol of himself and hurl his anathemas at the world a and d declare e that the United States was vas peopled peopled peo peo- p pled eq by lunatics at atthe the same time admitting that he ic was one of them Th The writ writer r s 's saw sw w l l late te one summer summer night m marching up p th the street tree arm in a arm with Judge Will TWill Campbell both how came me you so and both singing John J Browns Brown's roWn Body Lies Liesa a I 1 in t the G Ground O I but put Ris His His' Soul Goes l Marching On and then u Glory Glory Hallelujah Halle Halle- lujah rang out cl cle clear r and high and ang a a moment later came echoing back from the sullen flank of Davidson I |