The Coolidge examiner., 1941-08-01
INSULTING ARIZONA'S ':EVERYDAY
CITIZENS'


custer of two members of the Arizona industrial commits
sion Sidney Osborn said, "And so once again the big
copper companies have emerged victorious and the rights
of the workngman and the people of Arizona have been
submerged by supreme court decision"
''This matter will taken directly to them at
first opportunity" he added.
By "once again." Osborn implies that on at least one
other occasion the bg copper companies had corrupted
this court He evidently referring to previous
in which the restrained by the court in
grab for patronage which by queer transposition he
calls 'the rights of the people"
The confidence of the people of Arizona in their
highest court is than presumption of innocence
resting the fact that the integrity of it's
bers has Heretofore been aspersed by the loose lips
of pOiticaster. 1t rests abiding civic pride of
their fathfuness to the public interest and their integ
riy, proved by long years of service the bench.
What grounds does Osborn have for asking the
people of Arizona to replace with loathng their conf
dence and their pride in the court? Only this 81 was
informed both before the hearing (before hmsef) was
held, during its progress, and many times since (whe
the issue pending before the high court) that the
big companies of Arizona would violently oppose
the ousting of Commissioner Holiness"
That is the evidence" the mental effluvia of the
anonymous little with spiteful poisoned minds who
whispering to him behind their hands EVEN
WHILE HE WAS SITTING AS AN EXAMING MAGIS-
TRATE to given impartial verdict only on tie
facts and the testimony of record Osborns accumuat
ed anmus exploded by the shock of his political defeat
indicates that in making his decision he influenced
by the whispered backbng persons than sworn
witnesses. who had access to him privately.
1t the of this that Osborn asks the small
property owner the small taxpayer and the everyday
citizen to accept his contempuos dishonorabe unsup
ported and anonymous calumnetion of the high court
tho
thinks that citizens who have but small estate pay
thereon but small of taxes average Everyday cit
:zens, also small in virtue-as small as those who
spread malicious gossip influenced thereby
No greater insult given to the Everyday
citizens of Arizona than Osborns belief that they on
his plea will abandon the high conception they hold and
have held of their supreme judiciary, descend into
the gutter of gossip to his of JUS
tices Ross, McAster and Lockwood-all of whom con-
Cured in the decision in question: overrung Osborn ON
BOTH THE LAW AND THE FACTS.
Justice Poss has been continuously the supreme
bench since 911-since Arizona was admitted to the
Union He has been chief justice during four periods
having come to the state in 1886. He was recently
singled out by great American university for honor on
the basis of his outstanding integrity and his long record
of faithful public service.
Justice Lockwood was admitted to the bar of Ari-
zona in 1902 and has been the bench since 1913-as
Judge of the superior court of Cochse county eleven
years and member of the supreme for sixteen
years. III
Justice McAlister admitted to the Arizona bar
in 1902 and has been on the bench since 1911-nine
years Judge of the superior of Graham county
and member of the supreme court for twenty years
All Christian gentlemen and they deserve the
great esteem which the people the state repeatedly ex
pressed at the polls Thr decisions respected by the
courts of the land No traducer had dared to raise
whisper against them until Osborn filled with bitter dis
appointment the voidng of his political Vaccinations
vented his animus upon them.
1t is assumed matter of course that the Bar of
Arizona, whose members officials the courts will
refute this shameful caumny and for formal vndcaton