South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-10-28
AISENSE OF JUSTICE WILL TRIUMPH
OVER VENOM AND MALICE

In a speech delivered at River Park
by Myron Campbell, that gentleman
is reported in the Keller organ as
having made these statements and dec
larations:
He called attention to the fact that
no personal qualifications had been
brought forth as TO Mr.. JOyCe'S ability
in private life except that as a young
man he was a good baseball player
and that in mature life hal been an
acceptable high ball" dispenser and
that it could not be possible that these
qualifications could outweigh the
qualifying points that could be found
in the life Of Mr.. Keller.
He referred 20 a recent article by
J. b. Stoll deploring and resenting the
fact that Mr.. Joyce's record as a sa-
lOon-keeper should be mentioned as
any reason for not selecting him for
the important Office Of mayor. He said
Mr. Stoll took the position that in pri-
vate life such a record would have no
consideration in the selection OF men
to important responsibility.
mir. Campbell challenged any ref
erence to any private interest ap-
proximating the responsibility of the
interest of South Bend in which in
any place OF important trust any man
had been selected with no private
record except as baseb player and
SdlOOu-kGEDGI.
not believe that a case could be found
in manufacturing merchandising.
railrOading, insurance, journalism, in
fact, in any private interest and that
no one private interest was more i'm
portant than the whole combined in
terest of the city of South Bend with
its $4,000 people and its many mil
lions of property. He said the ques-
tiOn of many years Of business life as
a T1n VI a
moral question. 1t was a question of
business qualification; that there
seemed to be nothing about such a
life as to bring about that practical
business education so necessary in so
important a trust"
Analysis of these utterances reveals
that fact that Mr.. Campbell does not
ness and justneSs OF the sentiment
that was on memorable occasion
enunciated by Major VIM. Mckinley,
then a member OF congress: above
everything else, gentlemen, let US be
fair"
If Mr.. Campbell had been guided by
this lofty sentiment, ne would not
have spoken as he did Friday night.
He would have credited Mr.. Joyce, in
speaking OF his private life, with hav-
ing been perSeVering student at
Notre Dame to equip himself for
higher calling IN life, with having
titled the soil ~ that locality, and with
having made & most creditable record
as a mechanic in one of South Bends
important industries for period of
len years. With fair minded people
sue preference 10 Mr.. Joyces occupa-
tions and activities prior TO his entry
upon an official career, highly credit
aOle TO himself Mr.. Campbell would
or could have made his fiippant allu-
sion TO the object of his sarcasm more
effective. AS he presented the mat
ter the spirit of unfairness and injus-
tice became too apparent, and dispar-
aRement by cOncealing important facts
1c connection with ones career weak
ems the critics araignment by reason
% the studied attempt at ignoring the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but
the truth.
With due Difference to Mr. Campbell
/ demur to the form in which Mr..
Joyce's alleged disqualification is pre-
sented. From the very beginning l
have held that by reason of his emf
nent fitness and qualification and his
firmly established reputation for hon
esty and integrity, the single objection