Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1895-04-18
MODEST MEADE.
Assault on the Tucson
Stars Bank Account.
Alleged Damages in the
Sum of $4,000.
Libeled by Charges of Journal
ism and Indigestion.
The Saturday Reviews Grievance
Against Both Plaintiff and
Defendant.

United States Marshal Meade has
started out on a short cut to fortune.
He has brought libel suit against the
Arizona Star, claiming damages to his
fair fame in the sum Of $4,000. No
body in Phoenix has seen copy of the
United States marshaPs complaint, but
it seems to be based on the following
editorial which appeared in the Star on
April 9 under the caption "Let There
Be Peace"
''It is generally known that United
States Marshal Meade and Secretary
Charles NJ. Bruce are the principal
proprietors and the silent editors of the
Saturday Review, a weekly paper pub
lished at Phoenix. The Review does
not own even handful Of type and just
enough OF paper stock to run from one
issue to another, sosthat financially it
is irresponsible. Hence the price paid
for the controlling Interest OF the Re-
view columns was not very large. Ac-
cording to their own statements they
secured the control of the Review during
the last campaign. Tnis information
will be of interest to the newspaper
fraternity as it is known that for years
no two men have been more bitterly
opposed to the Arizona press generally
than these two men. This fact accounts
tor the attitude OF the Review in it's
feeble assault on the immigration
board simply because newspaper men
are appointed to office of commits
sioners, for they beth fear and hate
Arizona newspapers as they do
thoughts of death.
1.-THE nagging petulant virago style
OF publications of that Review reads
like the disappolntments of would be
czar and disappointed am bition which
had taken hold on a weak mind. This
may probably account for the fight that
paper ia trying to make on the admins
tration as these officials have been at
war with every federal and territorial
official for the last year, as we'll as a
great majority of the people with whom
they come in contact. They seldom
speak kind worGaof any one and when
taken to task for unjust reflections they
| lay it to Indigestion; but for their own
sakes as we'll as matter of duty to the
Offices they hold, they should try to act
in harmony with the best interests of
the party and stop their everlasting
wrangling and sowing seeds of discord
in the ranks OF the party. Let there be
peace"
To the average reader it does not
seem that there is anything very bad
| 81 In Ry,f<
mating reader there is great deal.
Behind an ostensible and Iaudable pur-
pose to promote harmony in the Demo-
cratic party of Arizona there is a de-
sign almost fendish in its ception.
The writer introduces, apparently only
incidentally and innocently, the state
ment that the complainant is connected
with the Saturday Review. He is not
only accused OF guilty connection with
that journal, but it is set forth that he
is so lost to shame that he has not only
admitted it, but has gloried in it,
Dragged of it, thus calculating to show
that the complainant has not only been
guilty of reprehensible practices, but
that he is so morally degenerate that
he has not even cared to conceal his
crime.
The Star ought to be made to paw
| $25. 900 for that charge alone. But that
isn't all ), the marshal is accused of in.
digestion and OF having owned up to it.
Dyspepsia is not recognized as crime
it is not even misdemeanor; the pos.
SCISSOR OF it is not necessarily held up to
public contempt and ridicule; it is not
regarded in law as an infamous disease
whose publicity would damage the
moral character of the possessor. Still nc
man Is proud OF an attack of Indigestion
Carlyle had it, but he was brilliant
rather than a lovable person. He
would have been much more valuable
to the world without it. Though dys
pepsia is not a crime it may lead to
crime and many theorists have traced
murder and other desperate perform
ances. not to a malignant and aban.
doned heart, but to disordered stom-
ach. Therefore it may be made to
appear that the accusation of indiges.
tion preferred by the Star against
Marshal Meade is serious thing
whether he's troubled with it or not
Unless the Star can prove it, it ought
to be compelled to pay the com plainant
$25,0 900 on this count Also.
People who bring libel suits
usually get the estimate of dam
ages too high, $4,000, $25, 5000, OF
$50, 900. The average reputation o.
any man in one particular di
rection is not worth SO much. One