The St. Johns herald. (St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona Territory [Ariz.]) 1885-1903, 1888-06-07

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only one year in the penitentiary?
If the Governor, or the pardoning
power of whomsoever it may con-
sist, think SO, they will be held re-
sponsible By the people of Apache
county, for the disgrace cast upon
her courts as occurred during the
trial of Barth, and for one-fifth of
her Indebtedness, which is now out
standing in the shape of fraudulent
warrants. Why not pardon Juan
GARLIC, Francisco Baca, Utimio
Baca, "The Iron-Galled Kid" and
Phin Clanton? There are tender
hearts daily pulsating for their well
fare-crying children, grief stricken
wives and mothers show they are
not forgotten. The crimes of these
men combined, are not equal to
that for which Sol Barth was tried
and convicted, and why not give
them the same consideration? Is
it because they are poor? or is it
because they were not leading
democratic" lights in this county?
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The last issue of the St. Johns
Herald devotes about aquarter of a
column in an incoherent denial Of
having cast aspersions on Judge
Wright's predecessors, as recently
charged by this paper, winding it
up with repetition of its former
charge. The words used were to
the effect that Judge Wright had
been the first judge who occupied
the bench in Apache county who
was not influenced in his decisions
by the railroad company. If that
does not directly imply that all the
judges of the Third Judicial dis
trict, previous to the present one,
were corrupt, we have not yet learn
ed to understand the import of the
English language. The gentleman
who is accredited with editing the
Herald and running the office of
district attorney of Apache county,
as we'll, has evidently not been away
from Mississippi long enough to
learn that four years before Judge
Wright was ever heard Of in Ari
IONA, and about six years previous
to the illumination of Apache coun-
ty by this legal luminary from the
sunny south, chief justice of this
territory rendered a decision in
these same tax cases, substantially
and practically the same as the
much-boasted and Immediately
honest one spoken of by the Her
ald.-JournalMiner.
For the benefit of the Journal
Miner, we will state that on the 18th
day of August, 1884, we reached
St. Johns, and that so far as we are
personally cognizant, even the Ian
guage that paper imputes to us, is
correct: Our words were literally,
as follows: "But we have said Of
him, we believe it, and repeat it,
that his intelligence is too great to
be duped, and his integrity toe high
to be bought, by the Atlantic and
Pacific railroad company, or any
other corporation or individual"
We said, and we repeat it, that
the Minor-Journal was still in its
swaddling bands, No person, or
thing, arrived at the age of matur-
ity or reason, could possibly put
the construction of the Minor
Journal on our language.
For the further benefit of that
astute sheet, and all others inter
ested, we will state that the District
Attorney may be accredited" with
editing the HERALD by the Atlantic
and Pacific railroad and its allies,
but we are afraid the District At
torney does not feel very highly
f1attered by the credit.
THE Albuquerque Democrat says
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