Arizona republican., 1918-04-03
A Misquotation

We cannot think that the Fl Paso Times accur- ately quoted Governor Hunt in interview with him the other day relative the San Diego episode which the governor made to say that the state officials concerned in that drinking bout the U. S. Grant Hotel with certain members of the Arizona regiment had been exonerated. We know that the had previously held the state officials blame worthy and certainly no new information has been adduced since then
 According the interview the state officials did not import liquor into the room where the drnkfest took place. they found the liquor there and didn't do a think to it but drink it; the soldiers must have provided the whskey with which the duly elected and qualified officials of the dry state of Arizona were lured from the path of sobriety.
 Colonel Harris who was present at the interview made to state that he and the governor had capped the temptation by absenting themselves from this place of hiarity and he is said to have added something to the literature already have the subject in the statement that of the young of Tenders had been given thirty days for these adoles cent ofenses against the morals of state officials We will submit that that nearly enough; that the punishment is ridiculously inadequate fit for the crime. When analyze the matter that the president of the United States will agree with us that it mere escapade. We engaged in greater war to make the world safe for democracy. We straffng the Germans who threatening democracy. We have lost sight of the tact that there are other enemies of democracy.
 Here were these young soldiers who succeeded in making San Diego which is part of the world, un- safe for democratic officials In a sense, therefore these youthful soldiers collaborating with the kaiser. And then the most that any of them got thirty days. And just likely not the govern uent will regard this Diego affair settled and will let these youthful enemies of democracy along
 
 democracy And there. what they did to the democracy of Arizona in the U. S. Grant hotel will not be a marker to what they will help to do to world democracy.
 We are sure that the Times wrong and that the governor never said that the state officials who pigrmaged to San Diego had been exonerated. As have said we know that the governor on leaving Arizona for the east had such notion regarding the state officials The army officers at Camp Kearney have and will not give them clean bill of health. The only thing that could possibly be mis- the exoneration them is the silence of the young soldiers who led them astray before the army board where attempt made to sift the mat ter The soldier boys with the fortude of the Spar tan youth who suffered in silence while the fox he tried steal concealed under his cloak and claw ing out his vtals refused to disclose the names of the state officials who present orgy either as guests caterers.
 And, moreover, why should anyone exonerate the state officials? The lamb which has been devoured by the wolf does not need exoneration. We would not think to exonerate the dove which is being ried away in the claws of the hawk. Then, why this talk of exonerating the state officials?
 If they could be supposed to be at fault there is but one place where they could be exonerated or vndIcated. (snd here the words synonyms,) and that is at the polls They could not therefore have