Show OFFICIAL succession ONCE MORE the NEWS regrets to see a dispose di tion on the part of some of its cotena corar pora lee rieB now and then to avoid a maul manly y confess n of error when they know they have made a mi mistake they evidently think it more dignified to seek geek to crawl out of the position f isely falsely a taken or to cover their enforced retreat by hurling slurs blurs and innuendoes than to acknowledge the error and strive after great accuracy in the future A case in point la Is before us yet yeater day we showed that a temporary oo with an eye to the spoils made mistake of several months in the date a given for the expiration of the term of office of the present governor and secretary of this territory this morning the same clotem cotem oo temporary po r a ry declares depo that governor thomas takee take exceptions to the statement that hl term of office would expire in mays may 1893 and places the date in december the governor was appointed to and took possession of bis big office in may 1889 whether the official term dates from accession to office or confirmation by the senate or the department records is a question not finally determined but al all this cuts no figure 2 whereupon the paper 4 concludes to stand by its z ment even to go one better a d say eay that his excellences term will expire before may 1893 1 now it happens that it was not the governor but the secretary who took exception to the statement and 81 signified ifield w huoh in a falaway fol way to the editor of the paper referred to his hia letter was waa a follow your reporter called at my office yesterday to ask aak when the official term of odthe the governor and secretary would expire ile ge wo was informed that the date fixed in their commissions from the president was dec 80 1893 1 I now read in your fallie of today that the information given changed to read may 1893 11 will you brou be kind enouchs to make the correction ELIJAH the reader will see from the first quotation above how bow the editor afore laid showed that he was wa kind enough to JO make the correction 1 the Ys bag no interest into Int reet brest in the offices or in the e int or future incumbents of them wo aut t it it does like to see the proprieties |