Show A CHARGE IBM WHOLLY FAILED kn For I some days after the Republican city convention there was more 01 less talk about wrong methods undit few persons were rash enough to speak of bribery and corruutlon in connection with the results attained I was not clear just what was meant by the clamor but it was sure that it was intended to make the people believe that something wrong had been done some crime committed some offense against the law But if this was true then 1 was somebodys duty to enforce the law I and bring the 1 wretched iranssrcssois to Justice Accordingly Mr George Wcstcrvelt I the County Attorney of this county publicly announced his readiness to prosecute any case of the kind brought to his attention and officially culled upon those huvlngOtnowlcdgc of any wrongful doings to bring their evidence to him HO that t the offenders could be dealt with as the law directs This was I an eminently proper thing for him to do It showed a I correct appreciation of the rightfulness and the need of dealing with corruption If Itcxlstcd for it he should have had universal approbation and those who were charging fraud ought to have been glad to find an officer offi-cer so ready to take U1 their cause und to prosecute the guilty But what was the result Not a single sin-gle one of those so blatant with their charges so much as responded In any form There was not oven a suspicion brought forward not 0 proposition looking in any way to the substantiation substantia-tion of a rumor even that any one had done the slightest thinS out of the way In or about that convention Not one took the slightest step toward verifying verify-ing his vague and shadowy vociferations vocifera-tions But in what manner was Mr Wesler velts proper and official proffer met Not In any way to carry out the law or to support the accusations made On the contrary the opposition has met his courteous and dutiful proffer with revillngs and personal obloquy has endeavored en-deavored to cover him with odium und contempt Why Certainly the propriety pro-priety dignity and appropriateness of his offer is unquestionable Whylhen this torrent of abuse If there was In fact any wrongdoing why la it not proper to punish it and why should an official be thus rampantly assailed for offering to do his plain duly t Certainly it was not his business to open a detective de-tective agency to run down this crime if crime was committed The law does not provide him with facilities for this sort of work nor I is It his duty to see to It The case was a iilnln one certain cer-tain persons claimed that bribery and corruption had been employed they t claimed to know it they asserted it publicly Why then as good citizens did they not come forward with their case and their facts as the law enjoins upon all good citizens to do when they am aware of lawbroalclnjr L0 answer Is evident They didnt l come forward with their case because they had no case thC didnt offer their facts 1 because they had no facts to offer And they lake the shameful course of trying to cover uy their defeat and chagrin at the failure of their cam palgn pt lancer and malice by attacking attack-ing the County Attorney so that under the cover of the dust thus raised they can sneak back to cover In the vain hope that their malice and reckless charges may be forgotten In the meanness mean-ness I and malicmmt attacks upon Mr I Wcstervelt But In this too they have emphatically failed as they deserved to fall The odious andrcckless campaign of abuse reacts upon Its managers and workers |