The herald., 1894-12-29
A Wall FROM SAN BEnDooN.
Editor sslkirk Rsgrsss this visit OF
Marshal Oovarrubias.


[From the San Bernardino SUM-
The Sun is easily not perturbed. 1t is not
often perturbed. Never before has 1t shown
the slighteet signs OF perturbation on Sunday.
For Sunday 1t has reserved its mldest, most
genial and benignant rays. But on this
blessed Sunday of all others. the Sunday next
before Christmas, the sun is perturbed; wor-
ried; mortified sad.
And worst OF all, the author of all this is an
agent of the greatest government on earth, q
government to which the sun ever has render
ed and ever will render the profoundest rev.
erence. The author OF all this is an agent OF
an administration toward which the Sun has
maintained loyal, willing, hearty fealty
All of which but magniies the perturbation
and intensifes the unutterably sorrowful sad
ness.
Within the past week a gentleman holding
the high position OF United States marshal hes
paid this city the distinction of a visit 1t
goes without saying that he was received with
that hearty cordiality and that generous hos
pitality for which this city If famous And
yet. if leading Los Angeles paper is to be
believed, he has responded to this hospitality
by statements which cannot but be cruelty
crushing to the finer sensibilities of every
member of this community. He has stabbed
us right in the most vital part of our corporate
vitals, as it WERE
Marshal Covarrubias may be a good man, a
good citizen and good officer, but If so he
must certainly have been the victim of an hal
lucination. He has cast imputations against
an officer of this imperial county, than whom
few have been more conspicuously honored,
none for so long period of time. And, as
though to put upon this glorious city and this
imperial county the direst humiliation, he has
selected for the object OF his imputations
Newton Brown.
Yes, Newton Brown, who within week.
prompted by righteous and uncomfortable in.
dignation, resented in the public press, over
his own most responsible signature,
what by strained inference he had con-
strued to be an insinuation in the
columns of the Sun, that he had allow ed
prisoners who were fond of each other, and
who were confined within the jail under his
austere charge, to meet within those secure
precincts or to correspond by letter.
Yes, the marshal has charged Mr.. Brown
with allowing to go at large, without let or
hindrance, prisoners, who by court of the
United States, had been ordered into close Gus
tody, and this charge is made against Newton
Brown, who, prompted by an inexorable sense
of duty, but recently refused to release a
county pris lner at the reqrest OF the sheriff,
and sternly insisted on written order of the
court.
But what makes it doubly CALLING, doubly
humiliating. doubly mortifying, doub.y sad
dening these charges may be considered as an
insinuation against q board OF supervisors
whom we all delight to honor, whose judgment
and discretion are as precious as the apple OF
each eye TO every individual in the county.
and whose judgment and discretion have been
exercised in behalf OF Newton Brown above
all other men for 10 these many years.
And these charges trebly calling, trebly
humiliating, trebly mortifying, trebly sadden-
ing, in that they remotely reflect upon the
electoral Judgment OF this imperial county in
the choice OF The august supervisors who have
SO persistently honored the object of the mar
shals charges AMI quadruply all OF the
above conditions have been magniiied by the
insinua,ion against this glorious city. the
proud and willing scene OF Mr.. Browns au-
tocracy, city who's, religious and moral sem
sibilities would be shocked by the sale OF u
necktie or pinch OF snuf on Sunday, or an
irreyerent sneeze by victim OF la grippe,
within half mile OF a house or pa asonage.
We are religious co immunity. We are Il
moral comma lity. ours is representative
government. Like officers, like constituen nts.
The marshal must have been in Riverside or
some other ungodly placl. where they played
on his credulity and made him believe he was
in san Bernarlino. And some goddess, care
less, vii ful fellow must have been palmed off
for our model officer, who has shown his re-
luctance to let prisoner out .evcn when en-
titled TO go. and whose solemn word has been
given in writing and through the public press,
that he has sternly refused let prisoners
meet or correspond, even within thu safe walls
of his jail.
Do, please, Marshal Covarrubias. confess to
a case of mistaken identity and take it ali
back. Then the sun, as usual, will be imper-
turbed. Then, and not until the1. can it know
what happiness means. In the meantime,
grief, misery and detection.