The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1921-07-28


to be the people who will claim most of his
attention in the next few months. His entire
life would indicate that he is just The kind Of
district attorney that Kenosha county needs
in this particular crucial period Of It's history.
There is hope that he will net regard the Of
flee of district attorney as a SORT Of clerical
job but that he will get away from the old
idea of the course of least resistance and make
the office a real agency to secure the endorce-
ment of law. We even hope that he viii not
announce that he is not detective but
a prosecutor and that he viii be e Ego getter2
and take the view that to he real district
attorney means the investigation Of conditions
as well as the prosecution Of criminals
| So far as we know Judge SyIn1onas is en-
tirely free of entangling alliances ana he Will
be able to go out as q district attorney and
prosecute vigorously without Interfering ser
iously with any of his former companions. He
appears to be taking an excellent start and
his declaration that II know of no law promis-
ing immunity from prosecution to men who
evade or violate the law" comes as an enlighten-
ing statement. The grand jury investigation
was started with view Of cleaning Kenosha
county. You can't clean county by applying
coat of white wash. Whitewash wears off
and then it brings to light the dirt which has
been covered with the coat of lime Kenosha
county has started this investigation and it
wants guilty men indicted and punished re-
CARELESS of their race, color or previous con-
sition of servitude.
Judge Symmonds will not be expected to
Jump IN and take the place of the special prose
cutor Mr. Walker has been rendering real
service to Kenosha county = and while he may
feel that he should be ~feleased-a lob well
done-demands that he stay on the Job until
the work is cleared up. He can rest assured
that he will have the full and intelligent CO.
operation OF the new district attorney and that
the new official will be ready at all times to
do his full part but the county wants to have
the benefit of the information which Mr.. Walk
er has already secured and which he is so COM
petent to use.
The new district attorney does not claim to
be the acme of accomplishment, and if he is
to get the best possible results out of honest
effort he must have the aid of the people.
There will be plenty of people who will seek to
throw spoke in the wheel of his administra-
ton and his real help must come from the men
and women of Kenosha who have a determine
ton to have this county put on the basis of law
enforcement and law government There is
no doubt but that the heart Of the prosecutor
is in the right place and there is no doubt but
that he is appreciative of the efforts Of the
people to aid him.
Carping criticism should be laid aside and
active cooperation substituted The united
effort OF all the people who believe in the majes-
ty of the law and the desirability of it's en-
forcement is going to be necessary to carry
this~Work to the fulfiment which is desired.
One man can not do it. He must have both the
moral and physical support of the rest Of us if
he is to attain the highest possible success.
Every man who has been indicted by the
grand jury or who may be indicted has the
presumption of innocence until he is proven
guilty but the cause of the people demands
that these indictments be prosecuted with
vigor which will give Kenosha county a new
and clean name in the state. The escutcheon
of Kenosha county must be wiped clean.
Judge Symmonds has a mans Job ahead of
him but he is willing to undertake it and it is
pretty certain that he will carry the work
through with success if he has the intelligent
cooperation which the best interests of all of
us demand