Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1913-07-04
The cAMINETTJ CASE SHOULD
BE PROBED TO THE BOTTOM.

BE PROBED TO THE BOTTOM.
We confess that a somewhat diff J.
ent face is put upon the indignant
protest Of former District Attorney
McNab Of San Francisco against the
postponenent Of the Caminet'i- Diggs
awhite slave" cases by Mr.. McNab's
statement published in the New York
Times yesterday in response to an
inquiry from the editor ofthat paper.
In rebuking NcNab TO- the violence
Of his language and for his ~inexcus-
ablo' course in impuiing wrong mo-
lives to the Accomplishment, the
President declared that he should
have called Mr.. McReYnolds' atten-
ton privately and officially to the ma
ture Of the case and to the import
ance Of its prompt prosecution.
In thus censuring McNab for his
supposed injustice to the Alto ney-
General, willis supporting his protest
against postponement, the President
necessarily acted on the information
given him ! y Mr.. McRsynalds. But
it now appears that Mr. MeNab had
repeatedly and urgently called the
Attorney-Generars ate ton to the
efforts which we're being made to
secure p stponement and that the
editor of the Sacramento Bee lad
joined in these pIo'est 1t appears,
moreover, that Commissioner Of I'M
migration Calaihetti, the father Of
one Of the accused, had been active
ia trying to obtain the postponement,
aud that the Acknowledgement had
also been advised Of this fact, Of the
probable mis- arriage Of Justice, il it
should succ ed, aud Of the pubic
eriticism to which it would subject
the Administration
We do not mes n 10 intimate that
the Attorney General pufposely with
held these facts from the President,
but it is evident from Mr.. Wilson's
rebnke of McNab md from his COM
ment in generating the head of the
Department of Justice that he was
not in possession of all the circum-
stances of the case. 1t seems clear
that the Attorney-General owes it
to the President, who relied implicit
ly on his statement and who had no
other means of information, to ex-
plain why the facts that Mr.. McNab
now brings out were not laid before
Mr.. Wilson: and il he does not do so,
we think Mr.. Wilson has right to
ask Mr.. McReynolds for an expIana-
ton. We tcust the Attorney Gener-
al can make an explanation that will
be satisfactory both to the country
and to the President.
Another thing that seems very
clear, unless there is coaclusive testi-
mony in rebuttal. is that Commi :
sioner Of Immigration Caminetti is
an undesirable and moons 'steqt men,
Der of reform admin stration. 1t
may require Roman virtue not to
Weld to the temptation to use ones
official influence to shield son from
prosecution, but that's the sort of vir-
tue that is insistently demanded in
public places just now.
We hope the President on his re-
turn to Washington will probe this
case to the very bottom. 1t has
very ugly and sinister look.-Sun Of
Saturday.
The above article demonstrates
that again sail that glitters in not
yold". Here is case where a man
who has performed his duty co .sist-
entity and along the proper lines was
held up III performing his duties by
the very people who were loudest
IN crying out against such actions.
Mr. McNab being thwarted in the
performance OF his duty by the head
Of the legal department in the pre-
,ent administration SCORER thsn be-
ray Or fail in the trust imposed ia
i'm promptly resigned. Ills resigna-
ion was promptly accepted by the
read Of the nation because it contain
d just aud proper rebuke of one
# his official family as far as the facts
t present show.
In the last campaign the l,eaple
leard much from the Democratic
'arty Of its intention to reform and
ste, yet are o. the heads Of the adj
ninlstration obstructing the course
Of justice and another approving il
and the head of the nation apparent
y approving both. The Peep e
know now in ruth to whom the,
turned over the reins of government
las fall.