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Show i JUDGES WHO WOULD INTIMIDATE The supremo coqrl of Idaho eontln tie to be the objer t of severe condem nation rrom all points of Hie Unived States, and not the leant of tha orW cUms 18 that from Theodore Roosevelt, Roose-velt, telegraphed to the Progressive state chairman of Idaho on Saturday last. In which the Progressive leader avs "T am confident thai I express the feeling of every decent American citizen cit-izen when I aaythat I nra outraged and indtpnant beyond mwsnr.- at the infamy that has been perpetrated in Idaho. 'In its essence the action of the court Is In the first place to deny to a very largo minority, possibly a plurality plu-rality of the voters of Idaho, the rlcht effectively to express their desire as to who shall be tho chief magistrate of the nation, and in the second place to punish those who protest against this denial of Justice and thereb seek to Intimidate all men who may here after desire to protest against slmi lar outrages "No anarchist agitator could ever do anything against the courts com pared in effect to these actions of the highest of one of our state courts "There conW be no better proof ihnt we need In many states at least the power to recall Judges from the bench when they act badly; and that everywhere we need to give to the people themselves the right expeditiously expedi-tiously to make their own constitution and to be in every act the master of their own destine "I have communicated with Sena tors. Dixon. Borah, Poindexter and Brlstow to ask if something cannot be done In the United States senate, nt any rate, to call attention to the out rage. "Let me know If there Is anything in which I can be of any assistance. MeanwhUe I wish to extend to the Progressives of Idaho and particularly lo the men who have been fined and sentenced to jail, ucrt merely my heartiest sympathy, Iwt my heartiest admiration They are In every act proving by their conduct the truth of thair profession Thc;y have made all poad citizens their debtors They havi made great sacrifices for the rauso of popular government, of good citizenship, and of the right temper tely aud truthfully to say what is vi-, tally necessary to the Interests of good citizenship to have said. "I adYnire them and respect them We do not know of anything the Progressive senators can do to rem edy the 'wrongs in Idaho, except to call attention to tfiem. although thej might proceed to limit the powers of the federal courts 5n similar contempt cases and take frjm narrow, bigoted JudgeB In the fcdeial service the right they now possess of abusing even fundamental principle of law when their own hatreds are stirred to action. |