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Identifier: recollectionsoff00taft (find matches)
Title: Recollections of full years
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Taft, Helen Herron, 1861-1943
Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) Philippines -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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shop near Fourth and Main. But Powell,either forewarned or foreseeing some such development,had quietly made preparations to meet it. He lightedup the front of the store as brightly as he could, then, withtwo or three other men who were expert shots, he put him-self behind a barricade in the rear. The mob came on andas the ringleaders broke into the shop they were picked offby the men behind the barricade and killed in their tracks.Four or five of them went down in a heap and the crowdbehind them, not expecting such a reception, instantly wasbrought to its senses. This was in April, 1884. Such an outbreak was a disgrace to the city of Cincinnati,but it had the effect of bringing the Campbell controversyto a head. A bar committee of ten men, of which both myfather and Mr. Taft wrere members, was formed to see whatcould be done to rid the community of the evil reputation ithad acquired. This committee made a thorough investiga-tion of Campbells character and record, prepared charges 12
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o C/5 _ a H U <H —-t O < X C/5Pi ■ - cq —i ■MNP RECOLLECTIONS OF FULL YEARS against him and, with my father as chairman, presentedthem, in June, 1884, t0 tne district court of three judges,and asked a hearing and Campbells disbarment if thecharges were proved. Campbell had been indicted on a criminal charge of at-tempting to bribe a man called on the Berner jury and theprosecutor in this case was our intimate friend and associate;Mr. Rufus Smith, who had been in Europe with Mr. Taftthe year before. The jury hung, eight to four, althoughthe evidence was strong against the defendant. This fannedthe flames of popular resentment and I dont suppose ourlittle salon was the only place in Cincinnati wrhere Campbellwas carefully retried and convicted. In this criminal caseMr. Foraker, who shortly afterward became Governor ofOhio, was counsel for Campbell. The disbarment hearing was set for the following Novem-ber and some six months was thus given for taking the dep-ositions of n

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