Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-06-29

the case as they came before the court. | THE COMPLAINT
 In the District Court of the First Judi l cial district of the Territory of ArIz- ona setting in and fer the county of Pima.
 William Kidder Meade, plaintiff, ye.
 Star Publishing Co., defendant. Plaintiff alleges
 That plaintiff and defendant are resi- dents of the county.
 The defendant is corporation dul, | organized ard existing; that on the 9.h day of A prIl, 1895, for long time prior ! thereto and from thence hitherto, the defendant was composed and published, in said county, daily newspaper, nsme0 the Arizona Daily Star. That said | newspaper IS circulated and distributed throughout said territory, in each and all the counties and towns thereof and particularly throughout the towns and | among the people of said county of Pima.
 That for nore than a year past plain tiff has been and now is the United States Marshal for the Territory of Ar izona.
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 That on said day said defendant, in said newspaper, did print and publish 6 false, malicious and defamatory libel !, the same being Tn hereafter set forth, of and concerning the plaintiff, and against his good fame, character, honesty, in- tegrIty and repui stion, as we'll person ally as public official.
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 That said false, malicious sId defama- tory libel is in the words and following, to Wit:
 "LET THERE BE PEACE.
 'It is generally known that United States Marshal Meade and Secretary Charles M. Bruce are the principal pro- prietors and the silent editors of the Saturday Review, a weekly paper pub llshed at Phoenix. The Review does not own even handful of type, and just enough of p per stock to run from one issue to another, so that financially 1t is irresponsible. Hence the price these | two gentlemen paid for the controlling I interest of the Review columns was not | very large. according to their own | statemen hts they secured the control of | the RevIew during the last campaign. | This information will be of i terest 10 | the newspaper fraternity, as It is known | that for years no two men have been | more bitterly opposed to the Arizona press generally than have these two men. This fact accounts for the atti Jude of the Review in its feeble assaults on the immigration board, simply be- cs1se newspaper men are appointed to office of commissioners, for they both ear and hEte Arizona newspapers as they do the thoughts of death.
 'The nagging petulsnt VIrago style of of that Review reads much ike the dlsappointments of would be Jzar and a disappointed ambition which lad taken hold of a weak mind. This nay probably account fur the fight that 3aper Is trying to make on the adminis ration, as these officials have been at gar with every federal and territorial fficial for the last year, as we'll as great majority of the people with whom hey come in coat tact. They seldom peak kind word of any one, and when eken to task for unjust r, factions, they ay it to indigestion; but their own sakes IS well as matter of duty to the offices hey hold they should try to act in har- nony with the best interests of the par y and stop their everlasting wrsngllug md sowing seeds of discord in the ranks # the party. Let there be peace" T aat said pu puollcation IS and each and III the stat tements therein contained are aise, malicious and defamatory; that he me was published by the defend .ot, as aforesaid, of and concerning the plaintiff, and of and concerning him as United States Marshal for Arizona, and ith the purpose and intention of i'm { teaching tue honesty, irtegrity and rep- { ltation of the plaintiff, to expose him to atred, contempt and ridicule, to IDjure lIs efficiency in his said office and in the ffective and successful performance of he duties thereof; and thereby, and by ( eason of the premises aforesaid, to se- ure the dismissal of the plaintiff from , he said office, to the damage of the 1; ,Iaint fl in the sum of S25, ,000. Whereof plaintiff demands judgment in he sum Of 525, ,000, and for costs of suit.
 WRIGHT & WRIGHT,
 Attorneys for Plaintiff.