Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1880-04-17
BOTH WRONG.

WIFI Unose papers oPPoseu w oou6o
Pearre. Incorrect. We have been
wholly impartial in asserting only
five incontestable proportions:
l. By bis own confession the
Judge was guilty of one charge prefer
red against him.
2. he was tried by tribunal le.
gally incompetent.
3. He was not exoneratsd, even
by his own procedure.
4. He has lost prestige if not po-
sition.
5. He is more than ever unable
to dispose of judicial favors either a.
rewards of friendships or punish
ments Of enmities.
These are so easily established that
any lover Of simple justice need &C.
cupy no childish attitude Of partisan
ship for or against him. Hence, the
JOURNAL is the only paper in the
county that holds position impreg-
nably right notwithstanding the
laughable conceit of the Times:
The Times was the only paper in the
county which opposed the bulldozers in
their attempt to overthrow justice and
smirch the judicial ermine, as well a. des-
troy the character Of respectable citizen
for spite and gain; and as usual, the
Times was on the right side. Seven men
selected from the gathered wisdom Of the
State in legislative council reported to
the Legislature that our position was
correct, and the entire body, by unani-
nous vote, seid we were right, and the
people of Allegany say we are right
We were not before aware that the
Times position" was under consid-
GRAFTON by the legislative Heptasophs.
And the "seven wise men" will be as
tonished to learn that, after all, their
biggest achievement comprised only
"a unanimous vote" affirming that
"the Times was right" 1t would not
now be surprising if this thing goes
on until it turns out that Judge
Pearre was not on trial at all, and
that his exoneration consists in laurela
borrowed from the Times alsbastsr
forehead. Moreover, it is stated that
"the people of Allegany county," say
the Times is right. Is it possible
that the sovereigns, too, lost sight
of the Judge in looking at an i'm
parchment of the Ismesf
The truth is, nothing of the kind
has taken place in substance or
shadow. Neither the committee nor
the people have made the Times the
Judges rock of salvation.
The Times never considered the
Judges exoneration complete until
after its failure to get such 4 resolu-
tion through the House of Delegates.
If it did, why the attempt to commit
the House to such an expression ?
Simply because it was deemed indis-
pensable to his complete generation.
The resolution net an inhospitable
reception !; the Times withdrew it,
nd, logically, legally and morally,
I. Judge was not therefore exhoner-
ated.
Now, how does the Times argument
work? The committee say "the
Times is right" "the people of Ale
gany county," (yet to hear from, how
ever, say "the Times is right" and
the House of Delegates say "the
Tim es is the only paper in the county
that is wrongI"
What are we to make of this chaos
of sovereign opinions We know
tho Times is big thing, for we have
its infallible word for it-and it
swears by nothing greater than itself
that:
The TIMES is always right, and its In
fluence is greater than all the Others COM
bined.
Tile people amount to good deal,
too, but, really we must leave them
out, for, in our view of the case, the
popular judgment will be unsettled so
long as the House Of Delegates disa-
grees with the Times. What, then,
is the situation? Simply that the
House of Delegates, in the case before
us supreme body, butts square up
against the infallibility of the Times;
in other words, we have the first ex-
emplifcation in all the range of phil
osophy or the universe of matter Of
an irresistible force colliding with an
immovable body.
uQNl REgU