Show REPLY TO COUNTY ISSUE in last weeks issue of the box el der news there appeared a lengthy article criticizing the present incumbent of the county attorneys office why the writer of that artiel article e should stoop to assail one who a candidate and expect thereby to strengthen ills his own candidacy vy ily such disreputable methods methods Is beyond comprehension and such an aft attack being made at it the eleventh hour or in the last isue sue of the paper prior to election is evidently tor for the sole sale pur purpose ilose of preventing a reply being made before the electors had cast their ballots thereby attempting to influence ithell vote but even this being the case the writer deems that in justice to to the republican party of this county and to himself an answer should be made that the people of the county vyman may know the facts but let it be understood that the writer is not in any way connected with or responsible for any other reply that may be made to such article and the writer will not attempt to justify his own acts by slinging mud at the other fellow as he be does not believe in ary such practice the attack itself in genera genei Is false concocted in the mind of one who attempted to use the office of ai count county attorney tor for private advantage and being defeated in ills his purpose now attempts to get revenge the circumstances attending this particular incidents are as follows the attorney had the defendant in the particular cases cited in his article cited to appear before a justice ot of the peace in a civil proceeding which proceeding Is known in law as is a bill of discovery and used tor for the purpose of getting a defendants testimony before the plaintiff presents his case and for which proceedings and the like this particular at torney is famed when the defendant had been sworn in this certain proceeding an all objection was made to his testimony by the at attorney tor for the defendant which objection put the famed bill of discovery proceeding out of business the attorney in n order to overcome this objection and while smarting under ahe the still sting of defeat drew up ul a paper which bedad the unadulterated gall to call a criminal complaint regardless of the fact that the law provides that the county attorney must draw all such papers and attempted to have it filed but this certain complaint was never so filed or docketed as the records of andrew funks bunks offic ice show ghow notwithstanding that the statement published in the paper attempts to convey the contrad contrary y idea whereupon learning of this attempt to institute criminal proceedings the writer investigated the charges and in tailing failing to find sufficient facts to warrant the prosecution and the witnesses falling failing to coma bonici forward and give evidence before the issuance of a warrant as is required by law which this attorney of 22 years ability certainly knew was required the writer deemed that in justice to the taxpayers of the county that the prosecution Ee se was unwarranted answering the the charge that county officials have not been advised suffice it to say that such statement Is untrue as the writer has never tailed failed to abend the meetings of the board of county commissioners except on oil a couple of occasions when lie he was engaged in the trial of cases and could not attend and lie he lias has never failed or refused to give advice to any official on matters relating to the public the statement which indirectly refers to the present incumbent of the county attorneys office as being without a law practice office or library permit me to call the attention of the reader to the thelast last trial calendar of the district court wherein this young inexperienced theorist as our democratic friends or pleased to style fyie us had as many cabesas cases as any other lawyer practicing before said court ind and very nearly twice as many as the lawyer of 22 years abili ty and further as to the law library question the writer ot of that article well knew and we stand ready to prove that the present county attorney owns one of the best up to lo date law libraries in this county replying to a the charges that criminals liate have not been prosecuted let me call your attention to the records ot of the past officials as compared with that of the present incumbent and make a co comparison n but in so doing consider the fact that while their record Is complete the present incumbent has some ome two months yet to serve then after such comparison say sav whether 0 not the charges made against the present administration ire are false a or true sly immediate pi during his term or the years at the time the lucia cutoff cut off oil was being constructed and thousands of persons of unknown character were in the county filed eighteen criminal cases in the dettrict Dittri ct court of which eleven convictions were had bad one acquitted and s alx dismissed and this with a democratic democrat lc district attorney to prosecute of OC the democrats we find that when they were last incumbents ot of the county attorneys office at a salary ot of nearly double that of the present time they filed blied fifteen cases in the district court secured but five convictions vict ions and succeeded la in turning ten loose while the present incumbent which the democrats charge with failing to prosecute criminals has to date filed fifteen criminal cases in the district court of which ten were convicted four acquitted and ont ant pending without a single dismissal a and id in the justice justly court has filed criminal cases ire cured sa s1 convictions including those bound over 5 3 acquittals dismissals and IS pending collected in fines including costs and days imprisonment imposed after this record can call it be said in the words of our democratic fi lends box elder county lias has educated young attorneys to practice on the public at the lie public expense and adiv r to the countes coun tys sacrifice furthermore refer to the last great criminal trial held in this colicki county in which the lawyer of 22 0 years ability appeared as one of the counsel tor for the defendant and note bow this same attorney camo came out in the preliminary examination he got left and it made him leini so sore to be by one of those young republican theorists that he got out a writ of habeas corpus and again through the file aid and assistance of these same young theorists the states side was upheld and this ibis lawyer of 22 years ability being so successful that lie he sue succeeded ceedee only in increasing the ball of his client to nearly double its former amount after all of this can it be said that the taxpayers of this county have made a mistake in putting young men in office especially in that of county attorney where the duties are more that of a counselor than a pr and when owing to the frequent changes in our laws the knowledge of 22 years ago is of little worth wortha our democratic filand fi lend charges us with being responsible for the coal famine here and we suppose that he would have charged us with being responsible for this same famine in idaho it if he had read them the daily papers and noticed how coal trains were being holdup there ile he pledges if elected to furnish the people with coal or in other words keep heep the people warm and we dare wager that it if he is elected he will fulfil fulfill the ilie latter pledge for or it he be ever gets in office the taxpayers will be kept in hot water be much that they wont have time to get cold the writer hereof lias has always during aing his term as a public official lone done his duty whenever called upon and knows that in ill so doing lie he has created enemies he has never taken up a case in which there was not sufficient facts to warrant the same has kept in mind the welfare ot of the taxpayers refusing to prosecute any action as a criminal charge when the same was tor for the purpose of collecting a debt or enforcing a purely civil light bel believing leving that the people dont doni pay taxes tor for that purpose and I 1 shall continue to conduct myself in this manner luring during my term affording everyone eve iyone just treatment and I 1 trust that the voters ot of this county will appie clate rny ray record and I 1 will return a good majority to the party of which I 1 belong the grand old party CHAS E FOXLEY |