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I Considerable Interest having beer
__: aroused in the community over the
j series of newspnpcr attacks against
f! Commissioner A. J. Adams through
^ the columns of the Dally Alaskan and
' j, tlie result of the flimsy nnd trivial
5 | charges preferred against Mr. Adams
I by the editor of that paper, we have
• j iteen requested to publish in full the
fit decsion of Federal Judge nrown, at
jg the public hearing held in the city hall
n Tuesday evening, which resulted In a
dismissal of the charges and a con:
_j plete vindication of the commissioner
^ Judge Brown's decision is herewith
given in full, as furnished from the
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stenographic report of the proceed
lugs by his private secretary:
"I think I might as well decide this
; case now as to decide it tomorrow ot
next day or some future time.
"This matter has given me a good
| deal of thought. It is an unpleasant
! j thing to have difficulties of this kind
come up, but there Is only one thing
to do with them and that Is to meet
. them promptly and fairly and dispose
! of them as best we can. I am not
i Infallible in my Judgment; Mr. Adams
is no‘ infallible In his judgment. Mr.
; Adams Is not perfect. I enn see
♦ quite plainly how this matter came
about, all of It prnetiqally grew out
> of little or nothing. In the begin
; ning It grew out of a little business
: riva,ry in the newspaper business,
; and possibly among attorneys in the
, law business, and these things grow
and become magnified. I can see
' where there is little foundation for
i it. I can see where Mr. Medley hav
i ing his office in Mr. Adams' office
’ might give rise to a little suspicion.
' a little feeling possibly on the part of
; s°me attorneys that he might be fa
' vored. I doubt very much the wis
| dom of this sort of an arrangement,
; but the evidence here before me dis
_ closes in reality that Mr. Medley was
nor in reality mul in fact a partner of
Mr. Adams. It Is uncontradicted that
he was appointed In three cases where
absolutely no fee could be allowed, for
which he received nothing. That
surely cannot he considered a wrong
tul act on Mr. Adnms’ part in favoring
him. It one case it appears that he
was appointed on petition for the ap
pointment of a guardian, and there is
no proof here that that was wrougfui
and Improper, or that it was wrong
fully or improperly managed. But,
as I say, the fact of Mr. Medley being
in the office was perhaps not a good
arrangement.
- Now with regard to this newspaper
matter. Possibly Mr. Adams regrets
as much as anyone can that he ever
started in the newspaper business,
hut I don't think that anything wrong
has been proven here against him.
I doubt the wisdom of it. he being
Commissioner, and the possible en
tanglement or suspicion of some sel
fish or interested work, sometimes
called grafting in that connection. I
don't think that there is anything of
that kind proven here, I believe
much of this is due to that insinuous
sort of rivalry in business that leads
one to believe that his rival in bus
iness is getting an advantage.
"Now there are no character wit
J nesses here to testify to Mr. Adams'
I good character and I wouldn't have
I cared to listen to any. The only pur
- pose of their testifying would be to
ip inform me as to his character, and I
| can say here now that I have known
| Mr. Adams more or less intimately
j for about fourteen years. Mr. Ad
ams is not any more perfect than any
jf °f the rest of us. He might have
' some unfortunate ways, he might have
i incurred some enmities, but I believe
Mr. Adams to be an honorable man,
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I belive him to be an honest man and
to the best of his light and to the best
of his ability I believe he desires to
wrong no man.
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"Now these charges as to the mat
ter of municipal or criminal cases;
1,1:1 brought before him as commissioner
I think tl\e testimony, the undisputed
Pstimony, shows Unit he objected tc
them; that he lias not solicited 01
tried to get them. P Is true that thu
law does allow some fees for the com
mlssloner in enses of that kind, and
one having an animus or having r
feeling against an individual or a dis
like for him. might feel that he would
use his position for his own self-in
terest regardless of the cases, regnrd
less of justice, regardless of any other
consideration. I don't believe that
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and I believe that the town of Cordo
va has had the police protection and
the court protection at the expense of
the federal government, and now thnt
citizens of Cordova have called at
tention to it and want It changed. If
the District Attorney sees fit. It Is
in his power to ehnnge It nnd require
' the town of Cordova to bear the bur
den.
"Now in regard to this slot machine.
That is a violation of the law we will
say, which I don't believe can be suc
cessfully contradicted. It Is the same
kind of violation that might occur If
a man hnd a cigar store or a fruit
store, or something else that he would
keep open on Sunday. It has been
the custom to do these things. There
is a statute ngalnst It but. it has not
been observed. Now I don't think
that a man ought to be branded as a
criminal for doing these things. At
tention has been called to It, howev
er, and as it is a violation of the law,
the District Attorney, If he sees fit.
can have all of these slot machines
stopped. Possibly he may conceive
it his duty to do that.
“As to this charge or $22 for publi
cation of a notice, the proof shows
and Mr. Flynn says that Mr. Adams
j knew nothing of thnt and had nothing
to do with it; that he, Flynn, was
managing the paper at the time and
I ,hnt hp mnde that charge. Ho says
the objection to It was not because
it was exorbitant or excessive but for
j Kome Other reason, I don't know what,
and he says it was paid at $20.
"Now Mr. Steel's Idea of it may be
j different, but that Is the proof. Mr.
j I'lynn is one who knows about it di
rectly and he has testified to that, and
I It is not contradicted.
"This comes down finally to the last
\ allegation in these charges, that is
j the matter of the assault. I regret
| this matter very much; it is unfortu
i ante, but there is no need of making
it any worse. There are worse things
happening ail over the world today
than that. it is not an all Import
ant matter. It is a matter of humil
iation to you personally Mr. Steel, hut
I ask you to consider if Mr. Adams
was not humiliated many, many times
through reading these items in your
; paper. Through personal feeling I
; believe you have felt that you were
right, that he was a bad mnn, an un
; At man for the place. You don't
; like him and nothing he did seemed
right to you. You know that men
who have this feeling are not lmpar
i Hal. they are not unprejudiced, they
are not free from bias, in the very
nature of things. They are influ
enced by this sense of dislike and
that is the had feature that makes
nothing but trouble, and the trouble
. **lat these small communities have
i Krow °ut of just that very thing, of
J men trying to hurt each other, and
j they both usually succeed if they start
j out to hurt each other.
"There was a long series of articles.
I have gone over the papers I
hadn’t seen these papers that Mr.
Adams has here, but I have a file,
| many °f them were sent to me with
j blue pencil around them, from what
source I don’t know. I had a synop
I sis nmde, the gist of each editorial
j beginning October 13, 1913.”
Mr. steel—"Your Honor, will you
| allow me to Inject right here—you
understand at the same time there
j was another paper published and
there were articles in it about me, af
fecting me individually and remarks
made to injure my business and all
that. You are getting one side of
it.”
Judge Brown—“Yes, I am getting
the side that is before me. I can
not enter into the merits of an un
meritorlous newspaper controversy,
hut you cannot justify these articles,
j in my judgment, as a genuine, bona
| fide matter of calling attention to the
wrong doing of a public officer. They
I seem to me to be more In the nature
of caviling. Now here on October
IS, 1913 is an editorial:
‘Foojs despise wisdom and in
struction. This towering, czar-like
official can brook no Interference with
the conduct of a public office as a
private snap. And particularly is
he solicitous when the matter con
cerns the greed of gold.’
"And then goes on in these editor
ials with other references, such as
'Boss Ajax’ and various other allu
sion^. Now 1 believe there are oth
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er kinds or assault than physical as
sault. There are other knlds of in
juries thnt are very hard to hear;
they are humiliating. l don’t know i
what was In the other paper, I never i
saw It. 1 never took the other paper j
or had it sent to me.’*
Mr. Steel 'I think It rather strange :
that you would comment on It with- ?
out having both sides."
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•fudge Brown—“We can't argue this j:
matter nny further. 1 will try to ex- j:
plain my views of It. 1 can’t enter \
upon this controversy and say which :j
was right, ns to who cnlled 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, thnt couldn't Justi
fy you In your attacks. I don’t
know what was in those papers and
it is impossible for me to take thnt
Into consideration and judge or say
which one was the most to blame If
both were to blame. I don't see how
either one can take advantage of It
by keeping It up; at nny rate here
are the caviling statements continu
ing over a long period of time. -
Now there was this assault, and 1 •:
don't know what will be done with |
the case, whether the appeal will be
dismissed on the ground of Irregular- §
i'y In taking It; whether the papers |
are defective In a technical way or §
not. I have heard the facts here and f
1 think I understand them. Techni- %
cnlly the assault cannot be Justified |
in law, but I believe that men who %
hold others up to ridicule and shame ;!:■
and keep nagging other men In the i
papers are laying themselves open to :£
some retaliation. f don't say that iv
men have the right to take the law In- £
to their own hands or use violence, -
but 1 do say that men who hold oth ■
era up before their neighbors In the
town nre inviting that sort of thing
and they might invite even worse in
juries; they might Invite even death!
itHelf, which is often caused by men
being shamefully nagged.
now for me to say here In this
case that I tlml the defendant guilty
of these charges or of any one of them
and discharge him as commissioner,
would everlastingly put him under
tlie stigma in his official record, that
he was discharged for misconduct in
office, to be held over him. I don't
believe that Mr. Adams deserves that.
That is my honest Judgment of it. 1
am sorry the way you feel about It;
I 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.
I don't feel that I can conscientiously
say that I ought to discharge Mr
Adams for misconduct of a wilful
kind, when he would be branded with
big headlines in the paper, ‘Adams Dis
charged For Misconduct in Office.’ I
think it would be too severe a pun- r
ishment for me to do that. I think
this is a trifling 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
ers into it, and making a lot of trou
ble for the town and everybody else.
I don't think It is right and I would
like very much to see it changed. If
you still go on and say: ‘I won't sub
mlt, this man is a dreadful man. I
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 xhink
we can rely upon the better ju.l
ment of the men you have here, men
who ran pull together and uiake your
town; their better judgment and good
sense will assert themselves and
these things will cease.
“I do not conscientiously see that
f can do anything else in this matter
han to dismiss the charges and they I
are dismissed."
HUMORED MARSHAL ERWIN
HAS BEEN RECALLED
It is rumored on the streets that
Marshal Erwin’s resignation has been
asked for, to take effect on March 6th.
The Marshal states that he lias noth
ing to say on the subject, but he lias
a merry twinkle in his eye. It is also
rumored that several applications for
the place have already been tiled in
the oftlce of the attorney general.—
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