Show DOES nOES NOT PLEASE SE C Congressman Edward Edvard Spencer of or North orth Carolina has been acquited acquitted HP TIC had practiced before tho departments at nt tt Washington after hl his c election to th Ow ninth Fifty congress con con- gress rt but before he be had hail taken the oath and l nHI his his his' trial hn hits has attracted a n ngOOt good gOOt deal of ot The Tho law forbids for for- bids such because ho lie w stand In the Uw relation of a agent ent or n servant ervant of oC the nation aton while whilo a 0 congressman and ond andIn to In permit a 0 man nian In that hint po position llon to appear r as ns counsel cO against his principal H pal 1 would be Nuh subversive e of nil all ni right It H mu may In be he added that when a congressman con eon Ire gressman Hilan asks anything of or a depart mont head he lie I is pret pretty near sure to get It I. I The Tue departments are nrc at th the tho mercy of the congressmen and amI so long a as the demand I h is within reason It J I Is 18 going to be granted So stern I is th the rule ride against this irac- irac that at one United States senator enatO h has been beon convicted of or criminality crim In iii its Is following and nd the u use use- e- e of at least one more has been forever rOIe destroyed It I Is a n sound rule which prohibits the tile practice and nothing noth noth- In ing should b be Ie encouraged which makes for Cor the weakening of oC the rule Mr h fr Blackburn should not lUit be he content content con con- tent with wih the verdict since ince It I I is ha based on in his defense e that he was as ral really not nota a congressman s until after he had taken inkS tak ink S en fn the oath ri The point I Is not wen well elI taken H lie lI was elected and It I wasS was I S certain h he hI would take his seat scat If It I I Ithe the general generl rule obtains in the case caseS S of or con congressmen In actual poc possession slon S of n office it certainly would obtain Inthe inthe In Inthe the cr case c of oC a man elected to congress s and sure Mure to b be in hi his seat at the com corn comIng coming ing session t ion His His defense I b is very verr S weak enl r S. S S r Jit lt I is th the more nore t to be bc r regretted eted because be lie- cause caUle Mr fr Blackburn 19 Is on one of or tho iho strongest men of or his stat stat lie j Is not yet 40 years enn of oce age has been In the legislature has been speaker of the house In his state has hns been a member S of or the seventh Fifty congress congles and In j I spite spite- spite spite-of of a gerrymander which left leC left him bun at home one term terni was waR re elected against strong OPIo opposition in that same j-ame amt district an and an sent hent back It I seems he heIs was I Is stron strong enough to live Ile without ut S practicing before departments which imIch would naturally listen to the Hie representations en- en of oC a a. man nan who hail had been In theS the S house antI and who held a c certificate of election to tu return there S The trial against him has as lone done some fome good Advices from flom Washington Washing Washing- ton ton toil are to the thc effect that tha men are aro areS S I less and less inclined to trifle wl with their official oth oaths The Roosevelt Roosevelt demand for COI a square deal ceal and clean clan methods I iti In public life has ha had hud its i effect The rule mule In the Blackburn c case se will viii wi not be so o readily violated again A gradual uplift of or 0 amon among men in public life le will 1 follow folo the condemnations of oC the present ent era ela And instead of or getting the money moncy being the one criterion h by which to I Judge an action the good old 01 rule of 01 I right Will wi prevail al |