| Show OFFICIAL INTEGRITY THERE thene lias has beon been some controversy of late concerning the character of or certain federal officials and statements have llave been made and charges offered which reflect severely upon some of them denials of certain of these statements and charges are madland ma assertions are put forward of unswerving official integrity whether technically tho the charges and accompanying statements can be legally ati unstained stained and proved is a question for the courts cowarts to determine if it ever comes ba before them and with those charges we have little todo to do but nut when integrity is professed the public opens its ears cars knowing that appearances do not justify such snowy whiteness of official lelal off omm character in all fedora federal 1 elais however honorable some of those gentlemen may be and how however ever faithful to ili ill their c official duties there have been good federal officials in this territory and it is pleasant to think that some bome of those here now aro are above the average and entitled to the respect of the eom bom community but there haye been and are others of whom we could not conscientiously say asmuth as much protestations no matter how solemn go a very little way ivay when they run counter to known and lind undeniable facts being indeed worse silence if an in official in all his IA official dealings shows allows a fair frank straightforward upright spirit and invariably discharges the functions of his office in an impartial man lie lle ner in thet thel manifestly truo true intent and spirit thereof he makes good liis ills claim to official integrity and his protestations of the same are worthy of ready acceptance being supported by the best of all backing noble actions fairly above suspicion that such buell has not been the tha case with some federal officials is well and painfully known no ito person can ri sustain ustain a claim to official integrity who enters upon his ills official labors labons with or displays in thomm thorn any other purpose than to properly fulfill his liia duties in their proper spirit if his ills main object is some other than this tills he is corrupt and that main object sooner or I 1 later a ter will swerve him from the proper performance of his duty as in many known instances in this territory A judge for instance who sits upon the tile bench boneh with the avowed pur pose of accomplishing a certain side purpose if possible rind and shows in all ils lis his its course that lie ho is just as willing illing and determined to effectuate ate ato that purpose in defiance of as in accordance with the tho law laly dwarn war ing or ignoring tile the law to E suit sult his hib 1 sc schemes hernes can not be rightly termed less ahan than han an gunj wicked judge he may make the most solemn protestations may take the most sacred oaths that he lie is an all officer of probity but his hia protes protestations ta eions and sand oaths a aro are ro mer nere 0 mockery hi 1111 judicial actions speak ten thousand times louder than words that lie ho ia is a miserable timeserver time server serven anda and a di disgrace grace to the ermine and when oneo anc lie he has deliberately and determinedly earned for himself such a bad name th the public will be ibe ready to tp believe any tales of corruption that may be bo charged against him while his denials will be held as ampf of no more account than the idle idie wind which llo rip man ic 10 gard gardetti e etli th |
