Idaho tri-weekly world. (Idaho City, Idaho) 1875-1875, 1875-05-09
The Assassins And Their Organ.

nv to dellneate the crimes OF the eult(
Of the Statesman. There is nobody
Idaho Territory but knows his shane
full history by heart. His entree to tn
bar Of this Territory is remembered b
many by the circumstance Of Hon. /
D. Holbrook telling him in presenc
of q court house full Of people that h
stole q stove from poor immigran
family in Powder river valley. There
after, the insigni6cance of the dishon
est idiot caused him to pass into foI
getfulness and oblivion until imbecili
ty at Washington, and corruption herr
wanted cheap and nasty tool in thu
Judiciary of this Territory, when h
was elevated to that position. III
knew no law, but that made no differ
ence to his masters. They wanted {
criminal, not a lawyer. He, however
suited them to well; in other words
he turned out to be q greater scoun
drel than even those who sought to
use him for purposes Of robbery had con.
ceived him to be; for when he got to
be a Judge" his uncomfortable ava
rice and instructive thievishness led
hinb to see an opportunity to increase
his rotten gains by the betrayal Of his
masters and he received brides right
and left, from whoever offered them,
always, however, feeling" Of both
sides, and getting the largest offer, be-
fore pocketing the change. This
practice was carried on so openly and
shamelessly that he was finally re-
moved from the Office he had brought
into disgrace; and at the same time
or about the same time expelled from
the bar. If the country had been
in settled condition and the law
properly enforced he would also have
been sent to the penitentiary, fate
he richly deserved. After his dis
graceful ousting from the bench, the
Statesman Office was offered for sale.
and summing up his brides he found
their total was enough to pay for the
paper, and again placed himself where
his influence would command at least
an occasional bride. Too brutal
minded to realize the possibility of
there being such thing as gentle
manly dignity or moral responsibility
attached to his new position he began
at once to prostitute it to every vile
means R gain. This course he has
continued until bis paper, the foul re.
Election Of his fouler mind, has become
a plague spot and leprosy on the fair
name Of our Territory. Last winter
the editor Of the Owyhee Aualanche,
who is said to be responsible gen.
tleman, in summing up his infinite col
umn Of crimes, charged him among
other things, with the seduction of an
IDIOT girl at Auburn, Oregon; and in
the last issue ofhis paper he ticks the
eet Of Mr.. BILL like whipped cur.
Such in brief is the history of the ed Il
tor Of the Boise Statesman, and in Ian 9
,uage as chaste as it is possible to I
Employ in the mention Of such sub I
ect. An expelled attorney, a con- t
'icted bribestaker and perjurcr; ac- Ii
used Of theft, and published. to the Z
vorld for the commission Of still h
lore hienous offense, by one whose G
7orth and veracity he endorses in the k
D)umns Of the Statesman, in these n
indy words: a.
Nv. J. Hill, editor Of the Owyhee "
has gone to San Francisco al
recuperate his health. J. S. Hay, W
sneatly written notice.. announces ST
1t he assumes, temporarily, editori- "
control Of the paper during the alb M
ice Of the senior editor" K
This much introductorily; and now &c
opr subject which il snesking, he.