The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-24
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who is william, shelton.

| who IL William shelton:
The Falls County Index, sickly locking
weekly and very weakly paper, is edited by
William Shelton, who seems to have very
poor opinion of those who read his paper.
In the place Of news he furnishes libelous
articles to suit the supposed taste Of his few
patrons. He hates ME no. because hold
the humble position of United States COM
missioner at Marlin, Ter in March, 1879, he
recommended me to Hon. A. z. Mccormick
for the position of district clerk of the
northern Judicial district of Texas, but be-
cause l have declined TO be governed by him
ia the discharge of my official duties.
His attacks upon me have been improve. I'd
and annoying, His abuse of other officials
because he does not like ME is libelous and
without the shadow of an excuse.
In bis paper under date of January pa,
among other things he said:
The United States Of america In the per-
son of Frank Knox, United States commis.
sionerr' was oru'ail.y drunk last Friday night.
"'Why such a nondescript should be retained
| In the Office of commissioner Is n matter of
sstenishmen! TO all citizens regardless of po-
| litical bias
1.-THE pusillanlmous puppy has harrassei
good citizens II the county time and again that
he might make bill ofcosts against the gov
eminent and secure means 10 go on drunken
debanch, Thestrangest part of this matter
consists In the fact That those frora VII, N he
derives his oilical life have witnessed the 'ttlo
scoundrs's conduct On one or more OF these
debauches.
"Tnat he sonsorts with debauohees and
fn md haiti 10
PROBABLY looked on with favor by suon
men ~ Mr. Hayes is pleased to appoint to
elilee In the south There are gentenlsn in the
republican party, but in the main they are
not popular with the powers tina, be aud are
generally left out when appointments are
| made"
Sincs the date of the above attack upon
Others thsn myself, he has published other
articles of similar character. There is n
statute in the penal code of Texas upon the
subject of libel; lis application and the
enforcement of the prescribed penalties de-
ponds not altogether upon state officials, but
upon healthy condition Of public sGnti-
mont.
shall only add that whatever may be tho
opinion of mo entertained by Mr.. Shelton at
this time, be once thought me worthy of a
better place than the humble position now
hold. That the honorable judge was at
least excussble in appointing me to such q
place rs he may have believed me qualified
10 ill is evident from the following recon-
mendatiops which l copy:
MARLIN, Texas, March |. 1879.
To the Hon. A. p. Mccormick, Judge of the
United States District Court for Northern
| Texas
SIR We the undersigned members of the
Marlin bar, would most respectfully recon-
| ,,and 20 ynur faynrahlo onps;da,nt;no 81, -
name of MIR. j. Frank Knox, member Of
our bar, in connection with tho clerkship of
your court recently created and to be organ
lied by you.
Mr.. Knox is a young man of superior
qualifications for the duties of the position
for which he is an applicant having already
filled the position Of clerk Of the supreme
court of Louisiana for three years with
credit to himself; and he has been for the
last five years practcng attorney in good
standing at our bar. We take great pleas
ure in recommending Mr.. Knox for the
clerkship, feeling satisfied that he is in every
respect competent, and that, should
you favor him with the
appointment, he will faithfully and credita.
bly, perform the duties of said office.
| Respectfully submitted. j ID 0xtorf, j,
Il Mcdonald, Easley, VIM II Reagan,
j A Holland, j Earl Preston, j l. Scott, ID
b Clarkson, l. w Goodrich, Il Stewart,
county judge, Aycock & Wharton, b X
Rines, A ID Shylar, Thos d Williams, j A
Martin, l. N Cooper, . S Shook, q w
Featherston.
| We, the undersigned citizens of Falls
county, outside of the legal profession,
eheerfilly recommend tho appointment of
J. Frank Knox to tho position for which he
is ar applicant. NJ Ii Curry, clerk county
court. Falls county; Jesse Scruggs, clerk
10 q + G; VIM Kilburn, p NJ;
A NJ Attaway, j p; George Elam, dcpu.
ty sheriff; w Watkins, l. B Barton, asses
scr; Matson, sheriff, and d Il Wood.
WILLIAM SHELTON,
i Principal Marlin High School.
! Al Watson. w o christopher, II Rinkel.
man, George A King, James Quinn, II e
Wells and others.
A similar recommendation was signed by
tho members of the Hill county bar: 10
Abbott, John Ii Bullock, A Z McKinnon,
| V II Ivy, Geor,e A Bell, CT Jones, N A
Peery and Others.
A similar recommendation was signed by
the members Of the Bolton bar. and among
them the Honorable II b Saunders and
eighteen others.
A similar recommendation was signed by
tho members OF tho Calvert bar, and among
them was the Honorable William IL Ham
man and fourteen others.
1t will be seen from the above tbs. our
district Judge was justified in believing that
| was worthy of the humble position / hold.
II, since my appointment, havo ever
been guilty of official misconduct the court