Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-07-01
JOE PETERSON WINS.

Yes Joe Peterson The acquitted him beng
party to Allen shortages Not guilty the verdict.
Now that the verdict is Republican papers have turned
loose with of Il told you So and draw pictures of
the martyr Innocent joe" The Idaho Review OF the
RECRUITERS and sings in part, thusy:
For months nnuendos and insnuations, like dirty bats
and oad had been at work to pull the down. to destroy
his reputation before the people of his state and to drive him
from office shame and disgrace Some brave to
hope they might land him in the penentiary.
When Axel Ramsted placed in charge of the state
treasury last fall he handed scrap of paper containing
figures Among others the of Joseph H.
Peterson opposite the sum Of $500.
jumping at once to the conclusion that Peterson was
responsible for part of the shortage the treasury and that
he must have had guilty knowledge of the embellishments Of O.
Allen the treasurer Ramstedt submitted the report that
carried the impression that Peterson guilty He refused
to modify this report and he refused to explain the item of
$500 associated with the of the attorney general
ut must be said right here that this information did not
from the records Of the easurers office 1t
wholly from of handed to Ramsedt and had
proper place in his report
In column and half of its editorial page the Review
seeks to establish substance above quoted that the whole
proceeding was conspiracy to gain parzan advantage and to
destroy good men,
How much better it would have been say This is the
result of association with evil companions How perfectly
natural did it when the scrap of paper found
that perhaps Peterson had knowledge of Aliens and
might possibly be participant with the others, known and
unknown Allen not the only wrongdoer please remember
He and the goat.
Again it will be remembered that when Allen was under
fire and his resignation demanded friend Joe Peterson travel
led about the state in his defense when the proper duty
attorney general would have been stay Boise
tgae fully the grounds for the charges Or private
citizen of such great honor and boosted integrity
Review would have beieve,so innocent of knowledge of
wrongdong of Aen,-it would more cautious at least
that he should have asceraned whether there really
grounds for defense before he sailed forth with the white wash
brush
Again who does remember of gutter slush
that from innocent Joe Petersons lips and
Axe Ramsted's head when the scrap of paper was found
among Aliens dsordered accounts in the treasury office
Ramsedt only performed his whole duty include this item
IN his report to be later Investigated by the proper authorities
Peterson language indicated lapse of cvity, the of
CONTROL and all because he thought that Ramstedt
though that he, Peterson, implicated
The proper course however, would have been have
aVoded the grand ry and to have relied entirely upon the eff
forts of that Republican investigation committee appointed
during the past session of the legislature grand and gor
Gus whewashng crowd Republican version of course But
the heView must admit that courts do administer justice
easlonally or Joe would not stand acquitted today