The Cordova daily times., 1915-02-25

S"''o' ''' ''N 'Siy hhTu tO bear they are humiliatlng. don't know what was in the other paper. I never saw it. never took the other paper or had it sent to me-"
 MT. steel-"T think 1t rather strange that you would comment on 1t with. out having both sides"
 Judge Brown-"we cant argue this matter any further. will try to ex. plain my views of it. cant enter upon this controversy and say which was right as to who called the most names in the papers. I don't know whether there was anything in the other paper of this kind or character. it has never been called to my atten- tion. However, that couldn't iusti. fy you in your attacks. I don't know what was in those papers and 1t is impossible for me to take that into consideration and judge or say which one was the most to blame if both were to blame. I don't see bov either one can take advantage of it by keeping it up; at any rate here are the caviling statements continu. ing over long period of time
 Now there was this assault. and I don't know what will be done with the case, whether the appeal will ba dismissed on the ground of irregular. fly in taking 1t; whether the papers are defective in a technical way or not. have heard the facts here and l think I understand them. Tecbni. cally the assault cannot be iustifed in law, but I believe that men who hold others up to ridicule and shame and keep nagging other men in the papers are laying themselves open to some retaliation. I don't say that men have the right to take the law in. to their own hands or use violence but I do say that men who hold otb. CTS up before their neighbors in the town are inviting that sort of thing and they might invite even worse in- juries; they might invite even death itself, which is often caused by men being shamefully nagged.
 Now for me to say here in this case that find the defendant guilty of these charges or of any one of them and discharge him as commissioner would everlastingly put him under the stigma in his official record, that he was discharged for misconduct in office, to be held over him. I don't believe that Mir. Adams deserves that That is my honest judgment of it. | am sorry the way you feel about it. think it very unfortunate. I think it unfortunate that people should be- come involved and use personalities. In another year they may line up on the same side of some question and think that they are all good fellows. l don't feel that I can conscientiousIy say that I ought to discharge Mir Adams for misconduct or a wilful kind, when he would be branded with big headlines in the paper. Adams Dis charged For Misconduct in Ofce.' | think it would be too severe a pun ishment for me to do that. I think this is a trifing matter in a way and a childish matter, in one way, for grown men to go on quarreling and raising such a fuss and getting oth- CTS into it, and making a lot of trou- ble for the town and everybody else. 1 don't think it is right and l would like very much to see 1t changed. If you still go on and say: T won't sub init, this man is a dreadful man, am going to fight hi mand I am going am going to fight on, the town will get into the throes of all sorts of con fusion over what I think is a very, very small matter, and I really think we can rely upon the better juds ment of the men you have here, men who ean pull together and make your town; their better judgment and good sense will assert themselves and these things will cease.
 q do not conscientiously see that can do anything else in this matter han to dismiss the charges and they are dismissed"
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