Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-11-11
HOW THE JOB WAS DONE

newspapers nave a mlSSiOn to per s form. Originally they were mere collab
 orators and disseminbtors of news, bu e later they entered broader and a vide , field, viz, the gUardiaus of public in- , terests and the educators of public f opinion. A buses have been made by then , a stsnch in the pubic nostrils and the remedial m assures applied through the agency of the press line, the highways and the byways of reform, of progress and civilization. But if for good why
 not like potency for evil in the hands of public looters and designing dem- agogues? The uses and abuses Of the
 press has been a fdvorIte theme for
 moralists for the past hundred years and
 we suppose will continue till the coming
 of the long-promised dawn.
 As an example of the demsgogue uses to
 which a newspaper can be put we con-
 mend the Star Of thus mornings issue,
 in it's review of the cInernay case
 under the caption "How the Job was I
 those who refused to become its pliaut
 tools, or who from honest convictions
 stated to the court that they could not
 conscieniously sit in judgment on the case.
 It must be remembered that McIner- nay was superintendent of the territor- lal prison at the time the present ad
 ministratIon rode int power on tidal wave of morality Applicants for public favors were catachised on their Christian duties and Sunday observance was made the sesame of admIttance to the sacred circle of his excellency. It was to be hia h-moraiity administration, under which the good were to bs rewarded and the evil rebuked and punished. Mac Inerray was republican and as such he must, perforoe, have done wrong. An ex- animation ui his accounts was made and his supposed shortcomings wsre blazed to the world. His reputation was blackened that the shadowy regulations of some of his democratic predecessors might be whitened by comparison.
 Mir. Thomas Gates the present incum- bent was to be appointed to office, and to silence ugly rumors afoat concerning that gentleman's previous administra- ton a special commission of two we'll known experts, Messrs. Beney and Boone, the latter the present territorial auditor, were appointed to examine the books and res ort. This they d:d concientious- ly and well, out To! it was rot the kind of report wanted. But two administra- Messrs. Gates and MacIuernay. Com par:sons were found to be odIous and Governor Hughes personally forbade the going cut of the report for publication. It was public document but care was taken that it should not reach the pub | lie eye. The appointment of MT. Gates, against whom we have not word to say, was pet scheme of the governor, and un- less his previous administration of pre- vious sffaIrs could show exalted virtues 1t should not be shown at all.
 MacInerngy had to be convicted Fortunately however this could not be | done through the job office Of the Star, but he had to be tried by jury of his peers chosen from among the people of his county. An indict- ment was procured and the case was called for trial. Two venires of thirty each were exhausted before an unpreiu- diced jury could be had. Thirteen witnesses were examined by the pros ecution, against Maclrernay who alone was examined for the defense. Within an hour after the case was given them | the jury returned a verdict of mot | guilty" and MacInernay the bugaboo | of the administration had escaped its | clutches and was free man.
 No longer able to do him harm the ad- | ministration organ, ''the governors own | paper" viciously assails not only the | good names of the jurymen but of al most the entire venire who had been i excused by the judge from serving. Why these gentlemen should come with in the purlieu of the governors job room we are unable to determine but probably they refused to bs used in the furtherance of its machinatlons against ] MacIn srnay so must needs be cast into outer darkness by single sgipe of the administration pen.
 Of course they cannot expect to be pure and good like the administration; that is a privilege accorded to but few on this earth, but still we hope they will continue to rustic along like good | Arizonans, despite the disfavor of the executive job office.