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Show CALHOUN'S MONEY HAS SAVED HIM. The failure to convict Patrick Calhoun, Cal-houn, the San Francisco millionaire, who, as head of the street railway system sys-tem of 'that ci'.y, ! IVtd the aldermen and slKd in coirurting an entire city administration, will cause regrot wherever the hope had prevailed that all the bribed and all the givers of bribes would be held up to public obloquy by a Jury of their peers. , Heney, the moving spirit In the prosecution, who is backed by Spreck-els, Spreck-els, has made a tremendous effort to reach this wealthy corrupter of public pub-lic officials and he has sought to visit eomline punishment upon the rascal, but evidently. In the disagreement of I he jury, bis efforts have been met by a power which. In its subtle operation, opera-tion, cau overthrow Justice. These prosecutions In San Francisco ind this whole municipal scandal has proved the weakness of our judicial ju-dicial system when money is employed employ-ed to upset the orderly process of law. Money if too potent; not that the courts are corrupted by it, but money can command lawyers, and lawyers, well supplied with money, can make a farce of legal procedure by resorting to all the technicalities which have been provided in safeguarding the in nocent who may be wrongfully accused: accus-ed: money can defer the day of final judgment, and, often, it can free the guilty. In the case of Patrick Calhoun, public pub-lic opinion has long since found tho man guilty, but by the unlimited pressure pres-sure which wealth can command and bring to bear on twelve men, ten of the jurymen who tried the millionaire declared him not guilty. Of course, the case will ' be tried again because, of the failure of . the jury to agree, but. this first abortive effort to place Calhoun in company with Sehmitz, Ruef. Gallagher and the other, victims of his bribe money, is a regrettable break down in San Francisco's Fran-cisco's struggle to throw off the incubus in-cubus of municipal corruption. |