The Green Forest tribune., 1900-12-29
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Just Little of the Other Side of
 Work of U. $. Marshal StahI.

genuine satisfaction that THE TRIBUNE is able to announce semi officially that the Republi- can State Central committee will not again indorse the application of s. F. Stahl to be United States Marshal for the Western district.
 Hon. B. M. Foreman of Tex arkana, the Republican Richmond of South Arkansas, will capture that distinction; and it will be to the everlasting credit of the Republican party of Arkansas that he will do so. No man who has ever dabbled with political affairs in the state has more thoroughly discredited himself and prostituted his party than the present United States Marshal for the Western district.
 Our knowledge of Stahl and his methods are made up from experience, and it is a question of doubt in our imagination if the depths of purgatory could re- veal subject that is more deeply dyed in hypocrisy and deceit than this man Stahl.
 This opinion of ours, while ex- pressed in original language, is shared by scores of other men in the state who have felt the sting of his deception and who are now up in arms against him.
 That the astute Marshal is making a desperate effort to succeed himself thereis no doubt. He is circulating self -edited self-praising report of his ''re- cord" all eXr the state at heavy " thile he is se- curing all endorsements that plan. It comes to us from what we consider a thoroughly reliable source that he has already en- tered into a written contract to make certain Crawford county Republican jailer in considera- tion of services to secure indorse- ments.
 It is hardly probable that the people have all forgotten the charges that were landed against Stahl by five of his employees a little over two years ago. Five men, who stood we'll enough in the estimation of the Marshal to secure appointments to positions under him, made affidavits charging him with malfeasance in office. The evidence was laid before the department at Wash ington and an inspector was sent to Fort Smith to investigate, and while no report of his findings was ever made public, the fact still remains that none of the men who swore against Stahl have eyer been molested for perjury, thus proving conclusively that their charges could be substan- tiated.
 Briefly stated, the charges made against Stahl are as fol- lows: George w. O'Neal of Carroll county and James Stotts of Madison county, both em- ployes of the Marshals office, swore among other things that S1.75 day was charged for the boarding of jurors, when as a matter of fact only S1.25 was paid.
 Wilson Broyles of Carroll county, l.. R. Hawkins of Frank lin county and w. T. Hoblitzel of Polk county, three guards at the jail, qualified to the statement that two negroes were carried on the pay roll at the jail, as engi- neer and van driver, for five months, each at S45 per month, when neither had performed any such services.
 w. c. Davis, cashier of the Roland Hotel, where jurors had been; boarded swore that he was informed S1.25 a day was the limit allowed by the government for boarding jurors and that he signed receipts in blank and was paid off in money.
 The fact that the marshal did not issue checks :. direct in this caseis prima- facie evidence of fraud.