Show IS THE TRUTH BUT A A local whose desire to shorten the terms of office of the governor and secretary of cf this territory can be easily understood but whose deliberate misquoting mis quoting of the record so far no the he commissions of those officials are aft concerned still needs explanation refers somewhat petulantly in this mornings morning Is issue to the tha NEWS as aa an over captious and apparently patently ly ill informed no and as our punctilious evening in one of these reter refer ances to the subject the herald berald for thatis the paper with whom the controversy tro versy hau has arisen apologizes to the public for devoting so eo much space to so trifling a quibble and in another pira paragraph graph it says it remains for us I 1 to say that owing to the business methods of the postmaster the Secre missive which the NEWS quoted yesterday did not reach the suitor until yester jay friday december 91 9 it now becomes the duty of the NEWS to come to the defense of the postman tera methode metho haeth dp P 1 since it appears that through us have his methods been called in question we can do so in no more effective manner than by quoting the following documents obtained this morning from the secre tary s office the statement made in the herald of the bolh mat editorially that the letter from me referring to the date of tile the commissions of the governor and secretary was mailed is a misstatement ot the fact the letter was sent by mr joseph burton barton a faithful messenger who reported that he delivered it to the office of the herald within a few minutes after I 1 gave it to him ELIJAH SELLS I 1 hereby certify that I 1 promptly delivered a letter addressed to the editor of the herald from secretary sells at the herald office on thursday dec ath 1892 joserh JOSEPH we expect that this presentment will lay us still more liable to the charge of punctiliousness and over captious nese nes if such shall be the penalty for insisting on the truth we must prepare to bear it but since neither the postmaster nor his methodi me thoda had bad aught to do with the delay in tile the arrival of the Secre letter of thursday at the desk of the herald editor we hope the batters lat apologizes to the public for devoting so much space to so trifling a quibble blell will not be accepted until he first apologies to the postmaster in his ex estimate timaton oa a aa absolute conviction of misstatement of fact and the resort to a paltry evasion to cover 1 V may be all trifling quibble but that is ii his affair not ours the original controversy grow grew out of the heralds changing the date of if expiration of the governors governor a and d Secre term from december 1893 as given to the reporter at the Secre office to may blay 1898 1893 when four years will have elapsed since those officials entered upon the discharge of their respective duties the fact would have excited no particular notice had not the terms terr a a of other incumbents of federal offices been published without amendment in that papers editorial only in the case of nf the first two in the list a the governor and secretary did the journalistic memory declare itself in opposition to record the remainder of the list went unchanged what the motive was for thus showing partiality in the matter of attention to governor thomas and secretary bells it is not worth while to inquire but in order that the public who must by this time be somewhat confused in the promises premises may know exactly how the matter stands and appreciate the truth us as the NEWS has contended for it we a number of instances explanatory of the point in argument and analogous in all respects from THE RECORD AD INTERIM appointments A appointed on may to hold bold the office until the end of the next selon of the senate elijah sells appointed secretary on sanae date for the same term 0 S zane appointed Chief Justice on may 24 1889 for the to same term C S varian appointed district Diat riot attorney on july 12 1889 for the same term john W blackburn appointed associate justice on october 1 1889 for the same game term appointments CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE A L thomas appointed december 30 80 1889 tor for four years elijah sells so appointed pointed secretary december 30 1889 for four years 0 S zane appointed chief justice january 7 1890 for four years yean 0 S varian appointed district attorney january 27 1890 for four years j W blackburn appointed associate justice february 27 for four years james A miner appointed associate justice july 2 1890 for four years yeam |