Arizona citizen., 1875-10-30
An Editorial Scrub.


 er. With his determination to plead the cause of the most unpopular Judge ever in Arizona, we do not incline to interfere, but with his deliberate de termination to misrepresent HE CITI- ZEN and people hereaway on the same subject, we will say something. In The Miner of the 18th, the editor proves himself guilty of such a per version of our position, as only the lowest scrubs in the profession are ever guilty of, and they very rarely; and careful reading of the article in comparison with the one in THE CITI- ZEN of October 2, will convince any intelligent person that the editor in- tentionally and grossly misrepresented the more important points in our srti- cle which was his text
 We quote as follows
 For instance, THE CITIZEN of the 2d instant, says, For months after we had lost confidence in his disposition to reciprocate personal favorS, we resolute- y abstained from any sort of discussion of or with him"
 Now We have heard people complain ot judge for having too much of a disposition to reciprocate personal tsVors, but 10 hear the absence of such 6 disposition urged as an argument against a judge is new Does THE CITIZEN, or do the people of Pima desire in Judge Dunne's successor a judge who can be relied on to recip- rocatef
 The quotation The Miner makes this base criticism upon, was remark of ours clearly designed to show that neither personal fsvors " nor private affairs had any influence in our course towards Dunne as Judge, although d man who will not reciprocate personal favors, is as a rule untrue to mankind. to his God and his country, and hence not likely to be Q perfect officer But immediately following upon the quota tion from our article, as above by The Miner, we used this explicit language
 In fact, after his official acts created considerable dissatisfaction with thel Board of Supervisors and observantl citizens, he had the use of our columns to present such legal reasons as hel desired, for his course. We permitted this for the reason that we still hoped he would, when rightly understood, give general satisfaction on the bench. | and We cared much more for this than for any of his personal acts. or his friendship in any form.
 Again We quote from The Miner:
 Then, the petitioners allege manvI serious things, but specify none; and finally, HE CITIZEN, while backing up the charges other than those con. nected with the school question, tacit- ly acknowledges that that is the real cause of complaint, and says: His Nevada and Arizona published records on the school question have been main ly instrumental with the masses in destroying his reputation for fairness in pubhc affairs" (
 Now here is what THE CITIZEN did say in that connection:
 His Nevada and Arizona published records on the school question. have 1 been mainly instrumental with the masses Tn destroying his reputation for fairness in public affairs; not so much l the sentiments of either record as the lrreconcilable character of them with honesty of purpose in their author the Chief Justice.
 Now reader, you will see that The Miner editor was guilty of quoting but half the sentence, and by cutting it in ( two and giving but half, he deliberate T ly and with meanness almost unparal- { leled in the profession, gave our decla- f ration 8 meaning we did not intend [ but clearly stated to be otherwise. | In his zeal to defend the Chief Justice, and maintain for hIm a char 8 acter to which he is not entitled, the r editor of The Miner purposely makes s false issue, viz; That the opposition a to him is only on account of his op- ! position to public schools. Intelligent men who signed one or another of the petitions for the removal of the Chief u Justice, are about as hostile to the pub. N lie schools. as his Eminence The Miner Al defends, and this is sufficient answer in this particular. There are too many base insinuations and deliberate il misrepresentations in The Miner art ( icle, to all have attention now; but the ! article conclusively shows that the $ Chief Justice is defended by person l; with rare qualifications for the task. C We will conclude this by a quotation e from the article The Miner so grossly 0 falsifed, After clearly showing that his opposition to the public schools $ did not materially injure Dunne ss Chief Justice, We said; i, But after the pamphlet and his Ne il ysda record on the subject were read here, then the expressions that he was insincere, dishonest could not be p trusted. was demagogic, etc., were fl common, and there were severe com !, ments by men who previously had said i, but little because of their belief that , however wrong the lecture in tendency. { he might be an honest believer in its i doctrines. The Nevada record was made in deliberative body assembled to frame an organic law 10 direct and ! limit legislation by the peoples rep [ resentatives elected from time 10 time, ! and it was so dismetrically and posi- i; lively and earnestly in opposition to !, the detail and scope of the lecture. {