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Wednespary...... August B0, 1893 | iter and Proper. .. MAREN, Poor Tom Farish. “From the craulle to the tomb,” Zulick and his trusty old Win chester are en route from Washing ton to Phenix. The south will do us up on even a paper of pins, let alone a $1200 Ga zette ink-stand. The Phoenix Gazette edition of our resources has appeared in a prospectus. It is headed “The Arizona Snap.” Dunbar to Hughes: “Say Guy nis, (hic) what do you (hic) think of ? Mid-winter fair edition of the Gazette! (hic). After all, when we come to think of it, Arizona's exhibit would have been all right in Chicago, if we had only secured that $1,200 edit ion. The tramp nuisance is upon us. With the tramp comes the burglar and the foot-pad.—Gazette. You overlooked a bet Mr. Editor, in that little $1,200 nuisance that smell so loud just at the present time. Some papers never get tired in throwing their intendoes loose at our executive when they refer to him as “Pinhead” Hughes. Boys let the past be forgotten. It is a case of dignity now, with us. The only benefit northern Arizona receives from the south is in having its section recognized occasionally by a pardon from the penitentiary. And then it is questionable who really gets the benefit. Commissioner George Waddell of Yavapai county has written from Chicago that the special edition would have been “a good drawing ard had it appeared on time.” Dunbar has the drawing card, all right, George. The Free Methodists are trying to reform Prescott sinners. Won der if they know that we have no officials up here,or World's Fair commissioners. Go south, good people, go south. Because Frank Cox blew out the gas in the Hollenbeck it is no reason why republican journals should abuse the democracy.—Gazette. Well, Frank has no right to go back on his own party in that manner. Hughes is going to formally meet Zalick at the territorial line and land him on Arizona soil. This will be the salutation: Governor Hughes. “I am glad to meet you!” C. Mey er, “You are another!” A quiet fight is being made to defeat the confirmation of Judge Rouse of Tucson. We are glad that we don’t know anything about his case, and also happy that we are not a lawyer of Tucson. We wish that Senate commission would visit us about the present time. Wouldn't it be just nice to see two factions of southern democ racy lined up for inspection, and at the same time sticking pins into each other. The Tucson Citizen is after the World's Fair board, and is raising the foundation of the Arizona build ing, and a little of something else, too. Brother, you have a lifetime job before you. Wonder if the combination in Southern Arizona won't put up a job to “capture” the Kid, and the $1,000. They are a fine outfitt, and have the nerve to dig up some old petrified Aztec and pawn it off as the original article. Prohibition has lost the day in Arizona. Tom Gates, the proprie tor of Congress Hall in Tucson, appointed by Governor Hughes superintendent of the prison, and the executive a fanatic on temper ance, at that. In the great political merry-go round that has been running for years in Arizona, Yavapai’s lean horses have only been chewing on its chestnut climate. Governor, can't you stake some good demo cratic war horse of ours out in a green field for a little while? The people of Arizona as a ruler are in too much of a hurry. They are impatient and can't bear to wait.—Gazette. What are you giv ing us now. Haven't we been waiting for four months for that $1,200 to be issued to you for the Worlds Fair edition. “An anonymous attacking cor respondent's statements are not worth the paper upon which they are written, and never receive con sideration from fair minded men. The man who attacks over a nom de plume is a literary assassin.”—Cou rier. Well, then, what's the matter with “A.C. RB.” The editor of the Citizen is regis ter of the land office in Tucson. Charges of “offensive partisanship” were filed against him, and now they wish they hadn't. You ought to see how warm it is down there according to his journalistic ther mometer. Wasn't that appointment of Dr. Brannen as superintendent of the asylum a rank bluff on northern de mocracy, after all, Governor? You know the doctor declined, an act that democracy isn’t usually guilty of, particularly when there is a “snap” in it. One of the most highhanded po litical “deals” Arizona has ever been cursed with is the disgraceful conduct of Thomas Gates, as super intendent of the prison at Yuma. Not a single guard from northern Arizona is on duty, nor is there sia- Why does not democra cy in the north get up and show its hand? It is cowardly for our peo ple to submit to this tyranical rule, regardless of political differences. The more you stir up the World's fair pot, the louder does it smell. The Kid is to be captured at last. Zulick and his Winchester are com ing. The Gazett’s special edition did not go up in the Hartford Bank failure, as reported. The Gazette speaks of the general stability of its section. Well, who wouldn't, $1,200. Hughes has established his ratio of appointments for Arizona. It is 16 to 1 against the north. Will Secretary Bruce please ac cept the congratulations of this offensive organ on his confirmation? Dunbar, of the Gazette, has mov ed into his new brick residence in Phenix. Further comment is un necessary. The Gazett’s recent attack on O'Neill and Behan, of Yavapai, is only done to shield its own band of political looters, from Governor down to that special edition. Southern Arizona papers say that with “free coinage, statehood and capital we will be prosperous.” Correct for once, but you overlook ed the earth. W. K. Meade voted to give the Gazette $1.20 for that special edition, and as funny as it seems, the Gazette is now tooth and toe nail against him. The old story.” Every business man in Prescott [and northern Arizona is a unit in one political belief. We want a “re vision of that license law.” That's the issue. Is it possible that Hughes is fol lowing in the “pardoning” foot steps of Zulick. We are holding our breath for his next break, and will it be a case this time of “innoc uous desperade?” Personally, W. K. Meade is very popular in the north, but there are even democrats here who are some what emphatic in their expressions of him in his tyranncal ideas of giv ing out justice, politically. Labor and factories may be idle in the east, but the democratic or gans in southern Arizona are grind ing out just the same many a slick white dollar that we poor folk up here wilhtave to pay for some day. There is said to be a boom on for Benjamin Harrison at the near presidential election.—Gazette, The Weather is pretty warm now, and you needn't agitate the bringing out of the ice wagon, so early. A well known Prescott democrat has said that politicians may try to hoodwink the pople into a belief that silver is the cause of the pres ent panic, but he believes that the open hostility of his party to the tariff and the consequent lack of confidence given to manufacturers, is really where the trouble lies. Is it not a significant fact that when a party is divided against itself, there must be something un doubtedly wrong on the inside. Just gaze on the picture of two wings of democracy in southern Arizona kuifing each other to the death. Republicans do not figure, and there is no issue politically. It is a case of doodle. Elsewhere in today’s issue is a communication from Buckey O'Neill on World’s fair matters during his administration of its affairs, in Ari zona. The Gazette has seen fit re cently to assail him, as it does everything else that it cannot han dle, in its greed for plunder. This paper, as well as our present execu tive, will now have an opportunity to rise and explain. One of the unjust acts that the last legislature passed, and which is at the present time receiving a “panicky” expression in language, is that license law. The poor sta tion keepers of the county who keep a few bottles of elixir on hand and a box of crackers for the con venience of travelers can't swallow contectedly the legislative logic that makes them pay a double tax. Just watch the ballots on a “tariff for revenue only” at the next elec tion. It is in order for the tax payers of the territory to keep a sharp look out on the management of the terri torial prison Whenever the manage ment of a public institution is be ing continously bolstered up and praised by its party press one is led to believe that there is a rat some where in the wood pile. The ad ministration of Prison affairs un der Mr. Tommy Gates’ first term of office has not been forgotten, and and columns of praise in the Gazette will not succeed in sinking that corruption into oblivion. Why did Thomas Gates fire Tony Bercham as a guard at Yumat Was it because he was the only northern man on duty? Mr. Bercham is a_ whole souled and generous man without a flaw politically, and wherever known bears an excellent reputation. If some of our north ern democratic friends could get a squeeze on Mr. Gates at the present time he would be in closer quarters than he was when that prison out break took place under his last ad ministration. The Tucson Citizen's correspon dent is in error when he states that $10,000 set aide out of the £ 30,000 appropriated, is also unaccounted for. The fact of the matter is that Bucky O'Neill had that amount subscribed and guaranteed for the relief up project, by outside par ties, and as soon as the building boom struck the commissioners, this was withdrawn. The territory concluded that $3,500 would be bet ter expended in a building than on a relief map, and consequently this $3,500 was poured down the rat hole. Cholera is again spreading in Eur ope. Inator Hill comes out squarely in favor of bimetalism. The New York Recorder, a sound republican paper, strongly favors bimetalism. The latest news from Washington indicates that Congress will repor the Sherman act without furnish ing a substitute for the coinage of silver. The women of Utah have organ ized on behalf of silver and have issued an appeal to the women of all the silver states to follow their example. Meyer Zulick, the New Jersey midget, has been in Washington now for, lo, these many months try ing to secure the removal of repub lican office-holders. Information comes from there that he has filed enough charges of offensive parti zanship against certain officials to bury a lan, of his size, three or four times over. During the earlier days of Mr. Cleveland's administra tion, this same fellow had his ex penses paid to go to Washington, to dictate the appointment of a governor and other officials. to date, not a single individual, whom he has endorsed, has receiv ed an appointment, but the little fellow keeps pecking away. His persistency can pot but attract one's admiration. Zulickism is, however, at a discount with the administra tion, just as it is in Arizona. The recent United States grand jury held in Prescott, which was virtually presided over by W. K. Meade, an Arizona world’s fair commissioner, had the power to in vestigate the conduct of the Board of which he was a member, and render some good service to the tax payers, in showing where the monsey went to that belonged to the peo ple. Instead of doing this however a whole lot of individual persecu tions were ordered of a criminal nature. How consistent some men are, after all, and why is it that Mr. Meade assailed the penitentiary and then faltered in the discharge of a sacred duty when it came to handling the acts of political luggers and treasury wreckers. In his speech on the silver ques tion, Senator Hill said: “I shall refuse to follow in the footsteps of any administration that seeks to place the democratic party in a false position but seeks to lead it away from the path of safety, away from democratic principles and platforms and into the very camp of the enemy. The president must rely upon re publican votes to carry out any such suicidal policy, [shall not be] however, that any such course whilh be taken by the president of his own volition, or even under the in spiration of indiscreet advisors, un til clearer evidence shall be furnis ed than now exists. No one, be he a democrat, republican or populist, should be deterred from voting for this bill simply because it is bated as an administration measure. That furnishes no argument either or or against it. I resent the imperti nent suggestion of those sycophants who are constantly posing as the personal or especial friends of the administration, and who whisper in our ears every day that the admin istration wants this and does not want that, and we must not vote so as to displease the administration.” The passage by the House of the Wilson bill, which repeals the pur chasing clause of the Sherman_ at, was by no means a Surprise. That it should pass by such an overwhelming majority, how ever, is a great surprise. The country had been led to believe that the friends of silver, in the House, numbered — considerably more than the vote indicates. The vote on the various propositions shows very clearly two things First, the power of President Cleve land over his party. Several demo cratic members of Congress who have heretofore been very pro nounced in their views in favor of silver, at the last moment fell down before the golden calf, at the insti ation of the president and voted, not only against their own express ed convictions, but against the principles laid down in their na tional platform. The second point shown by the vote is that the representatives of the people have no respect for their party platform. The republican national platform was very pronounced on the ques tion of bi-metalism, the following ing being the language used: “The American people, from tradition and interest, favor bi-metalism, and the Republican party demands the use of both gold and silver as stand ard money.” While not so pro nounced as above, the democratic platform contained a clause very similar in its import. Republican members may excuse their voting against silver and against the above plank in their platform by claiming that inasmuch as the national plat form was not endorsed by the votes of the people they are not bound by it, but prefer to throw the responsibility of legisla tion upon the party in power. The telegraphic news says that thirteen republicans voted in favor of the white metal. With those thirteen votes and the solid vote of the democratic members, in accordance with their platform, which was en dorsed by the people, there should have been a clean majority in favor of bimetalism. While not attempt ing to excuse republican members for voting ust silver as a money the responsibility of its defeat must be laid at the feet of the democratic party. They have a majority in every cllement of the govern ment.ey have shown again in this, by their obedience to the mandates of the money power of Walls rect, the hollowness of their oft repeated assertion that the democratic party is the friend of the masses. The Sm ores money on a parity with gold. The facing dealers want a gold basis. The democratic party in Congress has yielded to the demands of the THE SITLATIC From a letter received yesterday by a Prescott gentleman from a friend in Washington, the following “size up of the situation is taken: “With banks closing, factories busy pending, railroads passing into the hands of receivers, hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, and the nation crying for action, the Democratic party, which has been put in charge of the affairs of the nation, shows more clearly than over the incapacity by another week of doing nothing. Its President, having called congress together and recommended the policy dicta ted by Great Britain and Wall Street, calmly went fishing and left congress to wrestle with the sub wet. The democrats in that body are divided themselves into two sections and are spending their time fighting one another, shutting the Republicans entirely out of the question and letting the country suffer. Practically, half of the Democratic party in congress is de manding free silver, and the other half the gold standard. In order to make the fight among themselves more interesting they practically shut out the Republicans from the discussion in the House by placin the distribution of time for an against silver in the hands of Demo crats. “Talk with almost any fair mind ed democrat privately, and he will admit to you that the present troubles are largely due to the anx iety and uncertainty which exists in the minds of manufacturers with reference to what is going to be done on the tariff. Deep down in their hearts they all know that the cause of the present depression is not the Sherman law, but is the fear of destruction of manufactur ing interests, which fear pervades, not only with the manufacturers themselves, but their employer, who already see themselves being thrown out of employment because of the uncertainty which exists with reference to future manufac turing industries. Of course the democrats dare not admit this pub— hely, for it woud be an admission that would damage their case and cause, but nine-tenths of them know that this is the fact. Their only hope is that the people of the country, like hypocondriacs who imagine themselves improved to health by the use of bread pills, may think the country better off with the repeal of the Sherman law, and therefore they are willing to repeal it. Besides it would detract attention from the real cause, the alarm as to the Democratic tariff policy, and seem to put a part of the blame of the situation upon the Republican party. Hence they are appealing to Republicans to “help them out of the embarrassing posi tion wh ch they now occupy.” PITHY, POINTED AND FARTINEST. It is well that the reported arri val of a second Grover Cleveland was false; one is quite enough. The men who talk about massing snarmy at Washington composed of one million of the unemployed are promising candidates for the fool-killer’s club. “Yellow Jack” is creating more excitement down south than the President's message did, but “Jack” has so far escaped the indignity of being hanged or burned in effigy. The territories that have applied for statehood will do well to muz zle some of their fool advocates whose task is constantly injuring their chances. Jerry Simpson is mistaken in say ing that the democratic party had become the Cleveland party. Only one wing of that party has yet been Clevelandized. Where are those who were certain that ten days would be amply suffi cient to transact the business for which the extra session was called? Members of Congress were prompt enough in passing a joint resolution providing for the pay ment to them of their mileage now, instead of December; but — they found the usual obstacles to prog ess when public business was pro posed. If it borue, as charged, that cer tain financiers not overburdened with scruples made $10,000,000 out o the Northern Pacific railway, some disgolging seems to be in or der, and unless it is done striped suits should be worn by the thieves. Italy and France are about to en gage in a diplomatic wrestle. Next! There is no diffculty in locating the financial stringency felt by sus pended pensioners. The Chicago platform is having a hard time between the silver and anti-silver democrats. That democratic Senatorial steer ing committee seems to have got tied up with the running gear of the ship, after having been made serry by an overdose of Dan Vor hees. Populist Congressmen appear to think that black-guarding the Na tional banks is all they have to do to prove themselves statesmen. Even if every charge ever brought against these banks were true, and everybody knows they are as a rule ,anything else, this would not be the time to make a fuss about it in Congress. The country needed the assistance of the banks more than it does at the time.
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Prescott Arizona Weekly Journal Miner
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Wed, Aug 30, 1893
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