Show A VICIOUS ASSAULT It is the meanest dirtiest kind of a flght which some of his political enemies arc making against Judge BEATTF recently nominated by the President to the United States judgeship of the new state It seems that in their viciousness those enemies ene-mies have charged the nominee with immoralities im-moralities and designated Washington city as the scene of sensational highflying women of the town being his companions A man has to get pretty low before he will undertake to defeat an opponent by inventing invent-ing and filing such vicious charges as these We say inventing because we dont believe there is the slightest truth in them or anything which could be construed as giving a color of truth to the allegations We know Judge BEATTT and while his politics pol-itics are bad and he is not great in the law if he is other than a clean man in his private pri-vate life ho has been so careful about his irregularities as to hide them from his associates as-sociates and intimates and ho is certainly the last man one would think of as engaging engag-ing in a carouse with public women THE HERALD hopes that Judge BEATTT will make it his business to hunt down the accusers ac-cusers and not only expose them but bring them to justice Of course the Idaho Senators Sen-ators who are doing their utmost to defeat the confirmation would not be guilty of employing the weapons of personal slander to accomplish their ends but there are politicians pol-iticians in the state mean enough to do what has been done against BEATTV and these are the fellows who should be smoked out and compelled to answer for their vicious conduct |