U.S. Marshal E. D. Nix to Make Force Stronger

U. S. MARSHAL E. D. NIX

The Elements, Which Constitute the Makeup of a First Class Office. He Proposes to Make His Force Stronger By Judicious Reduction—He Will Have a Staff That He Can Rely Upon—Having No Enemies to Punish. He Will Have Thousands of Friends on Whom to Rely

June 17, 1893-Guthrie Daily News--United States Marshal E. D. Nix is gradually getting down to business, and he is doing it in a way that cannot fail to recommend itself to all the people without regard to consideration of party: There are now some sixty deputy marshals in office in this territory; this body will be reduced to about thirty and made a good working and effective body of men of unimpeachable character and men of standing in community.

The strength of Marshal Nix’s backbone will be exemplified in his selection of his forces, and as he is a man of keen judgment and rare discriminating powers, qualities which have been illustrated in his extraordinary business success, he cannot fail to organize a working force of deputies and an office staff that will reflect credit both on himself and has part and the great territory of which he will prove a distinguished representative. He is a rare combination of courage, youth and strength, of high moral tone, and an exemplar of what a man should be who has in his keeping the honor and good name of a great and growing commonwealth.

He has, right now, all the sturdy characteristics of a veteran. A forceful independence, a clear, cool head, a quiet, unostentatious confidence in himself that is the best equipment it is possible for a man to have who would fill successfully the high office to which his merits, and his merits alone, were the signal cause of his call.

In his recent speech at the opera house he said he had no enemies. Such an assertion, made at that time, is the best index of the character of the man. It was a spontaneous outburst. It was the utterance of a man who knew that the record of his life was clean and pure; that his every act was founded in justice; that in his career he had done unto others as he would that other should do unto him—and, having so walked the devious course of life he had no reason to believe that he had an enemy in the work.

Nor do we believe he has, though few men can make that assertion. He is a genial, outspoken man. Frank and manly, and the more the people know of him the better they will like him.

With a good staff, a picked corps of deputies, we make the prophecy that his conduct of the officer of United States marshal for the next four years will reflect the highest honor on the man and credit, brilliant and lasting, on the noble territory of which he is a creditable representative.