Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-11-18
IN DISTRICT COURT TROUBLES.

Hardly day dawns that new interest is not added to the struggle to anseat Judge Sloan and relieve him of his judicial vestments. Unexpected features float to the surface and strange phases are offered the public fer discus sion.
 The recent resolutions of the super visors, addressed and wired to Attorney General Olney, were surprise to many and provocative of almost universal discussion and comment and not all of it by any means favorable to the board. The sudden interest manifested by them and the gravity of the charges made force the causes to the fore for serious consideration.
 Presumably these charges were made in the interest of the public veal and were made only upon mature delibera- tion by the representatives of the business interests of the county, other wise they would not have formulated them and stood sponsor for them. Us ually the board is not given to hasty consideration of questions pregnant with public interests but in this case unless an authoritive showing can be made that will purge the resolutions of parti- san bias in favor of some good demo- crat for Sloan's official position, the consensus of public opinion, will be against them.
 If Judge Sloan but half merits the scathing denunciation that has been passed upon him he should be sum- marily divested of his judicial functions. If however these charges are but political subterfuge put forward to en- compass a political end, or to unseat him for daring to maintain the dignity of his court, they should, and we trust they will, signally fail.
 Personally we have no particular fondness for Judge Sloan, but we do not propose to air our private grievance on the public line. Too much of this class of apparel is already dangling ill the breeze. We propose to be fair by Judge Sloan as we are with his enemies. We cannot afford to be otherwise and would not If we could.
 Unfortunately for him the adminis- ration of his court has never been a forceful one. He has been his own worst enemy. His natural disposition is to be fair and the very fear of appearing otherwise has weakened rather than his court. But aside from this Sloan has made good judge. His rapid disposition of business, hls honesty of purpose and determination to do right as he saw the right has won nim commentators from friend and oe alike. Strangely unfortunate for hlm at he very time when the fierce strug- yle for office was being waged on poli- ical lines, contempt case in which a newspaper and its publishers were in- rose before him for adiudica- ,ion. The findings of the court on thls ssue are being used to encompass his | emoval. Newspapers are prone as individuals o a misconception of court dignity and | re alike susceptible to punishment for uch attractions. Now while iu- inuatipg reflections are not calculated O win.the love of the court it is hardly | that the judge would jump 'verboard in his afforts to svenge him. elf upon his tormentors. Of course, as newspaper men. we love ustice, all newspaper men do, more when it follows in the line | # their sympathies in the direction of | men. We dislike to see or | lear of a newspaper man in trouble and | Vhen one is so afflicted we propose to | Ielp him out of it by every legitimate means within our power. But we do | lot intend, nor would we ask another o do it for us, besmirch the good name # judge who has the courage to do lis duty as he sees it.