Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-29
REYNOLDS ARRESTED.
Let No Guilty Man Escape, but Make the
Investigation Nonpartisan.

The announcement of the fact IN yester-
DAYS REcoRp-UNIoN that warrants were
issued for the arrest of Deputy Secretary OF
State REYNOLDS, and that the books of the
late ex-Secretary of State Burns were short
sos. 900 created no sensation and but little
paper were told of this matter of defalca-
ton several months since. The work OF
investigating old records is a very proper
one, and whether it be for the purpose of
serving the State, for personal advance
ment, or political capital matters not only
so that all crookedneSS in State officials or
employees be brought TO light, and that all
administrations, Democratic as well as Re-
publican, be put under closest inspection
and full exposure made, whenever pecula-
tons are unearthed.
1t is true that the first irregularities dis
covered were in the office of the present
Clerk of the Supreme Court, and of course
il was Democratic CrOokedneSS but I'M
pleasant remarks are being INDUCED IL to
the effect that present Investigations are
being pressed especially in the direction of
Republican officials, skipping Democratic
officers as their cases in order We're reached.
ne successive ADMINISTRATIONS III lIle ESGt-
retarv of States office are referred to as an
instance in point. where the records of Re
publican ex-Secretalies of State Malone
and Burns have been examined and result
proclaimed, while the records of the Dem
ocratic Secretary. who held office between
these two administrations, has not received
any attention of experts, nor been referred
to. A gentleman remarked in the presence
of a reporter yesterday when this matter
was spoken of, ooh, that will be all right
There will be plenty of time to examine
the Democratic officials after the election"
There was extensive comment yesterday
also in this line-as to the reason WHY
Reynolds was not arrested while here in
the city on Tuesday, and when in the pres
ence Of the Controller, the Deputy Attor-
ney-General and others, he not only ad-
mitted the result of the investigation, and
his participation in the detalcatiOn, but
asked that he be then arrested if his con-
nection with the matter was to be regarded
as rendering him liable TO prosecution.
Was it for this purpose, it was pointedly
asked. of making campaign capital by wait
ing until he had left the city, and then,
with grand flourish, getting a warrant out
before a Democratic Judge, and hay
ing it served by a Democratic Sheriff,
and telegraphing it to the Democratic
press of San Francisco, that an ex-Repub-
Iican official was fugitive from justice
Another man last evening, after quietly
listening to a group who had been discuss
ing the subject, said: 1t has struck me as
a very peculiar thing why the Controller
should rush around the streets of this city
at midnight, waking Judges from their
sleep, rousing attorneys from their beds, to
secure the arrest of man i'll Fresno county,
who is simply at home running his hotel
as usual, and who only the day before
called at the Controllers office and offered
to surrender himself if there was any charge
against him.
The currency of these remarks caused a
reporter to ask Controller Dunn why he
did not arrest Reynolds when he was here,
and he replied simply that he was advised
not to do SO.
Reynolds was arrested yesterday at
Fresno, and is now out on bond of $4,000
taken at that place.