The Muskogee Cimeter. (Muskogee, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 17, Ed. 1, Thursday, February 2, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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77e Muskogee Cimeter.
Vol 6.
jIuskogGG I.T. Thursday Fob. 2 1905.
No. 17
Court aiul while I am not ready to
make a charge though he has said
at different times he was ready to re-
ceive one I do not feel that it is out
of the way that the living should re-
ceive commendation when it is due.
I want to say that I have been before
Methodist conferences; I have been
before Presbyterian Synods in their
deliberations; 1 have attended courts
where lawyers were fencing over cer-
tain cases in dispute; I have witnessed
the decisions rendered in courts of
justice in the States of Indiana Illi-
nois Iowa and Texas and now 1
n .
its w.rk (in the criminal term and ' staiuI crc' nml l walU tf) say tIat tn
when it had done so asked to present j Sl" ' Pencnce I have never seen
a resolution before the court. The !'" 'accd in ""thor.ty who has
r..n...ct wn rr.nt.i rwi i. fiw.;r ! been more considerate more honest.
" "
PETIT JURY OFFER
RESOLUTIONS
To the Federal Court after completing
their work for the term.
ENDORSE RAYMOND
As u most satisfactory Judge for hon-
esty and sqarc deal.
This mt ruing the petit jury finished
resolution was read
Petit Jury Resolution.
"Wo. the petit jurors of the Fed-
eral court at Muskogee 1. T. for the
January term. 1905 desire to go on
record endorsing the administration
of Judge C. W. Raymond.
"No man could bo more fair and
impartial to litigants; more impartial
:u all instruction given to the jury
or more courteous to both witnesses
more decisive more correct in all of
his judgments and decisions than our
Honorable Judge incumbent.
"1 thank von.''
Raymond's Response.
To this Judge Raymond made the
following reply:
' Gentlemen. I thank you for your
snlcmlid endorsement. Von come
every position in the gift of the peo
ple and has generally been unsuc
cessful. Defeated for World's Fair
Commissioner. Defeated for dele-
gate from Indian Territory to Wash-
ington. Defeated for delegate to Na-
tional Convention. Defeated In his
desire to have the editorial associa-
tion of Indian Territory and Okla-
homa endorse his plan to have the
laws of Oklahoma extended over and
put in force in the Indian Territory;
he has become a chronic complainer
and is now almost without a friend
or a follower in the Indian Territory.
"Some time ago this same man
came to me and after inlorming me
that his newspaper was under mort-
gage asked me to assist in forming
a corporation to take over his news-
paper advance the money necessary
to pay off indebtedness and take
stock enough in the newspaper cor-
poration to compensate me for the
advancement. This 1 declined and
this is the only proposition 1 have
ever had made to become associated
in the newspaper business or with
from everv part of the Western Dis- newspaper men. Shortly after this
Mr. Douglas came to me and insisted
that as Judge of the United States
Court for the Western District I
name his newspaper as the official
therein. In support of this request he
stated that Judge Townsend of the
Southern district had made a similar
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t . .:. ;rif k. .wiiuinUtiT- -order and as the editor oi the Kepub-
ioar that justice might be administer- 111
and jurors. There is hardly a case j trict representing all parties and in-
tried in which Judge Raymond hasterests. and have been present during
not instructed us to be fair and give athe trial of the criminal cases for thj
j 1 - n .:.. 'nnct iiirm wi'iks. Von have seen
"We endorse his administration as something of the manner in1 which jpaper of tins district and compel al
r.-i able and strictly honest one; and j public business is transacted here and legal advertisements to be inserted
endorse him as preeminently the 1 your judgment is of much more value
iiw'ge o; a square deal. ! than that f the man who has never
.w... i.i..i.nii. a n Tii..c I imiHi Jn I'niirt. or who has stood in
Mounds; F.. R. Durfey Muskogee;
Fherman I'.rown Okmulgee; J. K.
Nelson. Wewoka; Thomas F. Young
Rex: S. P. Montgomery. Muskogee;
P. M. Zink Muskogee; F. W. Rizer
Muskogee; John Doyle Muskogee;
Robert Z. Todd Muskogee; A. M.
T.itslr Muskogee; John T. Dyer. Mus-
I ooco; W. F. Greene. Muskogee;
rims. Dyer. Muskogee: F. Wiswell
Mu.-kogee: W. B. Robe Muskogee;
f'co. i). Harvison Okemah: W. K.
Moore. Hoynton; Henry Hombeck
Mu-kogee: John Kelley Muskogee;
Gv-tit Spradling Muskogee; Frank
fborn. Muskogee; J. O. Warriner
"'tisl-rgt'o: J. S. Marshal Muskogee;
Joe V.. Todd Muskogee; Chas. A.
ed to him.
"For three and one half years 1
have been trying cases here nearly
every day of the year and much of
my labor has continued into the
night. I have always tried wit 11 my
lican paper at Muskogee demanded
a like one I told Mr. Douglas 1
knew no law which would justify me
in making such an order and I must
decline. That 1 had never heard of
such an order being made by Judge
11 v ... 1
Ti-tti.ticmwl Mint 111 niv onniinii such
whole might to do my duty and ' . .. d (
without being in fear of any man or
granting special favors to any man. 'I
have endeavored to administer the
law. I think no impartial honest
sober sensible citizen will contradict
this statement. It has always been
my desire to give a square deal in
every trial as well to the govern-
ment as to the parties to the litiga-
tion. You have been long enough
llfiMim-nv. Checotah: H. II. Klase. I in court to know that some parties
Muskogee: C. F. Chunning Musko- d not want a square deal but rather
yco; 11. C. Tearson. Ft. Gibson; W. entertain a fear of it.
W. Moans. Wewoka." ' "You will remember the old say-
After reading the above resolution ing:
'' following remarks were made by ."'No wretch e'er felt the halter draw
Mow .ink. professor at Hacone Uni- With a good opinion of the law.'
MT-Mty. upon presentation to Judge! " notice some complaint has been
Ut.vmond: made by a man by tnc name 01 uuK-
"I should like to add a word to this as. Well to be criticised by a man
1)(int. ' Iwith such a record does not even
"First: 1 desire to say that having annoy me.
luen a teacher before the public fort "This man has been three times
r-any years and having desired at all 'tried for murder in the Indian Tern-
times to consider things as they arc ( tory.
si rd hope for their perfection T bear j "Was summarily discharged from
witness here as a juror in this in- the government service in the Indian
n:.ce. j Agent's office for peculiar conduct by
"Fccot'd: I desire to say as a juror the Secretary of the Interior and
while sitting here judging the wit-1 since that tintc has continually crit-
.guesses or testimony for and against jicised nearly every public official in
the criminal I have not left unno- tne government service.
ticcd the conduct of our Honorable! "He has been a candidate for nearly
be very unfair to the editors of other
papers Republican and Democratic
throughout the district; that all must
be treated squarely and alike; that
I had no personal interest in any of
them but that I was friendly to each;
that attorneys had the legal right
to name the paper in which their
legal advertisements were published
and I must decline to make the or-
der. - This irritated the gentleman
and his criticism is the result.
It is simply a case of blackmail
where the goods demanded were re-
fused followed by an assault.
"Gentlemen such men must not be
taken as a type of the vigorous man-
hood trying to develop this grand
new state.
"They are but freaks and only rep
resent themselves and their peculiar
vanities.
"If the order which is to the effect
that no witness while drunk will be
permitted to testify in this court;
that no juror while drunk shall sit
in judgment upon the important
rights of the citizen and no drunken
lawyer while drunk shall misrepre-
sent any client in the federal court of
the Western district is tyranny and
discourteous 1 think the criticism is
a fair one.
"Gentlemen you have seen enough
to know such a rule is but fair deal
ing to litigants whose rights ought
not to be sacrificed by drunken attor-
neys and ought to be enforced in
every court in the land.
"The same class of men who criti
cise an orderly court here were very
vicious in their attacks upon Judge
I'.irkor of the Western district of Ar-
kansas who did so much to preserve
order in the Indian Territory.
"I have appointed to official place
only the best men I could find. Fach
one will bear me out in the state
ment that the only orders they have
ever received from me have been to
enforce the law without fear or favor
be just be square and transact more
public business and in a better man-
ner than has ever been before at his
station. Some have been newspaper
men. They have been appointed
upon their merit alone; and frankly
gentlemen I have always thought
that the newspaper fraternity was a
very honorable one and never before
knew it to be an offense or impro-
priety to name a newspaper man for
official place until I read these criti-
cisms. "I still cling to my former good
opinion of the newspaper boys -with
an exception or two.
"The records of the Attorney Gen-
eral will show more business trans-
acted in this court last year and at
less cost to the government than in
any other court of the Indian Terri-
tory. "In this the Western district last
year there were not counting dismis-
sals of causes 1270 trials in law and
criminal cases at an expense to the
government of $147000 as against
1025 trials not counting dismissals of
causes in the Southern district at an
expense to the government of $190-
000 and 10.34 trials not countng dis
missals in the Central district at an
expense to the government of $211-
000.
"That record moans something. R
shows some one must have been at
work. Much of the credit belongs to
the splendid grand and petit jurors of
the district who were willing to re-
turn an honest day's work to the gov-
ernment for an honest day's pay the
same as one expects to render in
working for a corporation or a pri-
vate citizen.
"No better jurors can be found in
any state of the Union than have
been sitting in these courts for the
last three years.
"Since I have been judge of the
Western district many of the most
important legal questions in this Ter-
ritory have required my earnest at-
tention and decision. In not one of
these importan t cases has my de-
cision been reversed by the Court of
Appeals.
"Without courting the applause or
disfavor of any 1 have only asked
myself what is the law and having
made as good an investigation of the
facts and law as was possible I have
Continued on page Twelve.
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Twine, W. H. The Muskogee Cimeter. (Muskogee, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 17, Ed. 1, Thursday, February 2, 1905, newspaper, February 2, 1905; Muskogee, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc69985/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.