Bisbee daily review., 1912-04-20
JUDGE SLOAN.

stance Of looseness of statement and inaccura"y :: conclusion:
 The spectacle of |. man supposed | 10 be diguifed and sIf-respectins | enough to occupy the federal bench 1, stubbornly insisting upon bis 3refer. | cnce for such an exalted position in | the face of plain and emphatic d s. | approval on the part of the majority I of Arizona people is humiliating to all who entertain the highest con ! ception of judicial honor. Nothing is ] plainer 10 the country than that Sloan as federal judge would be un- welcome to the great majority of peo- ! ple: and 1t is equally plain that if l he had the slichtes. degree of self ! respect and regard for the dignity of the judiciary as a hole. he would 1 withdraw in favor of some man upon whom the majority could unite.' We would inquire when majori- ty of the people of Arizona have ex' pressed their disapproyal of Judgo Sloan. When have they had an O. portu7ity 10 do so' How could they have such an opportunity? Judge Sloan has never been made sn issue and no circumstances havo arisen in which he could be made an issue. We only know that in the course of the late campaign his name was dragged into it by the socialists and in the latter half of the cam paign many of the candidates spoke disapprovingly of him, it was sua' nected, for the purpose of securing eocialistic votes,
 This opposition to Judge Sloan was not based upon anything he had done but upon the things it was feared he might do. But there is not the slight est evidence tasI the voters were in the remotest degree concerned in the issue which the socialistic leaders Lad caused to 5e presented.
 During his twenty year service on the bench Judge Sloan came to be regarded as one of the ablest jurists of the southwest Not a word had ever been uttered against his ability and only such complaints had been made, against his fairness as must be made against an arbiter who must decide causes in which some parties are in the right and others, necessar' fly, in the wrong.
 Personal charges have been lodged against Judge Sloan and they are now under investigation. As to the na ture of these charges We are not in formed and certainly q majority of thu people Of Arizona are not informed
 But as to the reflection upon tho self-respect and dignity of Judge Sloan, contained in the Gazette ar t,cIe, We would say that Washington is the place for him just now, to face such charges as have been made. Any other course, while it might compor with dignity or indifference would h' evidence of supineness.
 Backed by the Arizona Bar associc ton, whose members are more co'n petent than any other body to pas upon his fitness. Judge Sloan woul' be a weakllug if he were to withdraw in the face of the charges that hav' been made and in the face Of ground less assertions that he is distastefu to a majority of the people Of Arizona THE SCHOOL LANDS.
 The school land question is nov the most acute one before the legis lature. While it is not without in terest in all the agricultural region of Arizona, it IS of especial interes in the Salt River Valley where thi land has been greatly improved. muc or 1t lying in districts where adjacen tandsi are selling at from s1OO to so an acre
 Originally 1t was the intention o the admission of the territory tha 
 this land should be sold 10 the hisi est bidder. the occupant to be gil en the first opportunity to purchas' If he failed to do so he was to b fully reimbursed for the inprov