Arizona miner., 1866-09-26
PERSONALITIES.

Tor Delegate, the MiNbk lhuuiSS" U" ''' '"'"
 personalities. They seem to forget that until Coloue Pn-ton began a bitter personal war upon the Governor, the MINER, and al. who
 would not support him, no one thought oire- sorting tu personalities. Had the Colonel followed proper course had he attended to
 the issues before him had he fought his an tagoni,;, Governor Bashford, and not gone
 out of his way to oatta,k those who were mak-
 ing no fight upon him, the canvass might not only have been free from personalities, but from any espe ial excitement
 Although the psaple felt that in his child ish contest for Governor Goodwns seat in Congress, inc had played very Fidiealoli=
 part, and that his sudden turning upon Gov
 ernor Mccormick because he would not join ! in that contest was wholly without reason or
 excuse, and gross breach of good faith and
 -ratitude, Colonel Poston being 90 much bet
 ter known here than Bashlord, would have
 stood a iair chance of car ying this county by
 good majority, if not of being elected, but for his unralled for and unWarantable pcrsonall-
 ties We know, although Governor McOor- mick felt that Colonel PoSton had treated
 him with greh unfairness, that he proposed
 DO active participation in the campaign, haV-
 ing nothing to ak of the Delegate, and pre-
 fcrring that the electors should make their
 choice without a word from him. But when
 assailed on the stump, as be was by Colonel Poston, misreprcscntei, traduced and viliticd I both .n hi- private and uhlie character and
 further, when the Colonel announced that his
 chief ambition. if elected, would be to embaE
 rass and annoy him in every way, the Gov ernor could not do less than ask his friends tu
 stand by Bashford, the superior of Puston in every respect, although north of the Gila for
 n good reasOn) an unpopular candidate.
 The result Of the election shows that as in
 his contest with Governor Goodwin, by his rash and truthle>s circulars, and general in
 discretion, the Colonel proved himself very poor politician, 50 in his recent contest be acted wholly without political sa-aoity, or even common sense. and has met wtl equally . III success. His chasrin over bis second der , siye defeat at the polls must be much increased by the fact that some ol hIs bes. friend. urged him to omit all personal allusiuns in bis speech ' in Prescott Had he listened to them rather | than to two or three impracticable radicals 2 who cared nothing for him, except as too e to use against the Governor, and who ar, ? now reluctant To own that they npporte, - him, he might possibly to-day he the Dele
 gate elect, instead of badly beaten and griey s ously disappointed man, a very dead duck. C But in view of the spirit he manifesto. 6 during the canvass. and has shown for nearll
 year past, the contemptuous manner il n which he spoke of the Territory and its re o sources; the egotisticnl estimate he place 1T supon his public services, for which directll . and indirectly he has been amply paid. an, J. the low means to which he and his employee z resOrted to get votes, we heartily congrat1 i late the people that he is not again their rep e reSentative. They will find that they cal 2 get along better without such self import r ant agent, and that should he carry out hh 2 terrible threat, to shake the dust from hi 5 feet, and, prououneing the Territory a " bilk, ? abandon 1t forever, it viii be a benefit rather j, than disadvantage.
 2 The personalities and virulcnce of the recen 7 campaign, and all it's offensive features, W q charge directly to Colonel Poston, and b cannot escape tho responsibility. let it h sf remembered that ne wag,d the unjust sal .e foolish waF upon Governor Goodwin, whic IT the Legislature formally and strongly q,
 nourced. and Cougr,ss, by the prompt admh ih sion ol the Governor, virtually condemned nt that he led in the personal and malicious attac 't upon Governor Mccormick; that be assaile u- the MINER, always kind and forbearing [, e wards him; that he insulted tho people | to disputng the legality of the vote of lsG he and by excusing the mail mismanagemet ar
 II that he introduced, maintained and stimuli l- ted the elements that made the canvass bitt he and unpleasant. Let no one be hoodwink, " by the cunning attempt of his adherents nd fix the responsibility for the personalities at the campaign upon some one else.
 lot As for the MiNEa, its files for three yea ior past, show that it never indulged in persona he ites until Colonel Poston's inaccessible ar 'ts extraordinary misrepresentation of our cour he toward him and the people; his invasion ts private character, and his bold attempt Ild make the election one of passion, of whiske es sa of greenbaeks of gold, of spite, of revenge Inc prejudice, of anything but deliberate and u "' biased judguient, made it duty to expo aid his true character and hold him mp to potul iar reproach. We have satisfaction in knowiI ms that the people have well sustained our vie 
 in of the man, and by their ballots signally c. ng U exp essed their disapprobation of his disrep
 of table method Of electioneering, a methC liz, which we trust will never again be resorts the to in Arizona.
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 gan DgSyEs,-Bayard Taylor gives the follow Ine ,o ing -keteh of Denver, Colorado:
 hey The situation of Denver IS well selecte