The Cordova daily times., 1915-02-25
FEDERAL JUDGES DECISION |S OF
 CONSIDERABLE LOCAL INTEREST

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 va has had the police protection and 1 the court protection at the expense of the federal government, and now that citizens of Cordova have called at tention to it and want it changed. fl the District Attorney sees fit, it is in his power to change it and require the town of Cordova to bear the bur. den.
 Now in regard to this slot machine That is a violation of the law we will say, which I don't believe can be sue. cessfully contradcted. It is the same kind of violation that might occur if man had a cigar store or fruit store, or something else that he would keep open on Sunday. It has been the custom to do these things. There Is a statute against it but it has not been observed. Now I don't think that man ought to be branded as n criminal for doing these things. Al. tention has been called to it. howev. CT, and as it is violation of the law the District Attorney. if he sees if. can have all of these slot machines stopped. Possibly he may conceive 1t his duty to do that.
 "As to this charge of $22 for pubIi. cation of a notice, the proof shows and MT. Flynn says that Mir Adams knew nothing of that and had nothing to do with it; that he, Flynn. was managing the paper at the time and that he made that charge. He. says the objection to it was not becanse it was exorbitant or excessive but for some other reason, don't know what and he says 1t was paid at $2O.
 Now Mir steels idea of it may be different, but that is the proof. Mr Flynn is one who knows about if di- rectly and he has testified to that and 1t is not contradicted.
 This comes down finally to the last allegation in these charges. that is the matter of the assault. regret this matter very much; it is unfortu- nate, but there is no need of making it any worse. There are worse things happening all over the world todav than that. It is not an all import. ant matter. It is a matter of bumiI- iation to you personally Mir. Steel, but l ask you to consider if Mir, Adams was not humiliated many. many times through reading these items in your paper, Through personal feeling I believe you have felt that you were right that he was a bad man, an m. fit man for the place. You don't like him and nothing he did seemed rlght to you. You know that men who have this feeling are not Impar. 'ial' they are not unprejudiced. they are not free from bias. in the very nature of things. They are infu- enced by this sense of dislike and that is the bad feature that makes nothing but trouble, and the trouble that these small communities have grow out of just that very thing, of men trying to hurt each other. and they both usually succeed if they start out to hurt each other.
 There was a long series of articles. have gone over the papers I hadn't seen these papers that Mir Adams has here, but I have a file. many of them were sent to me with blue pencil around them, from what source I don't know. had a svnop. sis made, the gist of each editorial beginning October 13, 1913"
 MT steel-"Your Honor, will you allow me to inject right here-you understand at the same time there was another paper published and there were articles in it about me. af. fecting me individually and remarks made to injure my business and all that, You are getting one side of it."
 Judge Brown-"Yes. I am getting the side that is before me. can. not enter into the merits of an mn. meritorious newspaper controversy but you cannot justify these articles, in my judgment, as a genuine, bona flde matter of calling attention to the wrong doing of public officer They seem to me to be more in the nature