Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-01-03


addition waited the Ledger the aforementioned
acknowledgement
The above is portion of editorial that appeared in
cotemporary last week the neglect the late grand ury
investigate charges of county Encouragement We would
gladly give the entire article the benefit of the Ldgers
culation as showing the lofty spirit of journalism and the
utterly depraved ideas of duty and official integrity
which cotemporary but time and space will not
permit The extract given fair sample OF the article as
whole It is mmaerial to u.s. it to the public, who
the author of the article is whether the editor who shines
reflected Highland who during forty years experience has
failed to grasp first principles of journalism
1the impersonalism of editorial managementor of
official umnaries which and seek to beog the
people through its columns. Anyhow the writer seems to
be afflicted with mental disease peculiar this section
known as "Webb the brain" He has 1t in its most
malignant incurabe FORM the of the editor Of the
Ledger paraded in this article less than six times
which just six times oener than the editor of the Ledger
has felt it incumbent upon him mention the of the
editor of Dispatch edoriay during his thirty odd years
of journalistic life in Amador county. We taught i'll
youthful days that descend personality and abuse
evidence of bankruptcy in argument virtual acknowledge
of weak and losing However, If this species
editorial rabies is of qualification to cotem
porary and his aders and abbeors matter of perfect
Indifference and they welcome to all the pleasure
they can extract from the indulgence of the maady We
merely pity the afflicted who find worhier method
of qualification than this.
But back to g1St OF the article
excupae the grand jury for failure to investigate the ad
minsrative affairs of the county, may say that
temporary places that body unwttingly perhaps, far
more unfavorabe light than the Ledger dreamed of do
ing The personnel of the grand jury is said tc be made
up of the counys best citizens we'll known and
spected The Ledger has said naught the contrary The
utmost we have said is that that body failed take up the
responsibility thrown officially upon them of deving into
matters slightly ventilated in these columns which claim
to be contrary law and detrimental the best interests
of the county We would ascrbe this nothing
Gus than indsposon face the task devote the
requisite their unravelment But the article quoted
places them in a far different light 1t imparts element
of vcousness the grand jury 1t charges them with de-
lbratey ignoring the charges not from indifference, but
from studied motive dish up "lemon" to the Ledger
In other words according this version have reached
such pass that instead of probing official wrongdoing,
grand Jury will prefer hand out insult any that has
the temerity point out the official shortcomings Could
governmental degradation reach lower point Well may
the members pray be delivered from such defenders The
Ledger demurs the proposition that the duty of the
editor to himself before the grand jury and prefer
charges He has done his share ventatng the matters
with record evidence i'll these columns and is prepared tc
subsantate any when called upon but rests
with others who charged with guarding the public inter
ess to press the issues home.