Arizona miner., 1867-11-30
Central Arizona and Her Maligners.

\ set of mendacous whclps and loaing Government bood--uckers have, since the removal of the Capital from Prescott to Tue son, Gin order to set themselves right upon the record in that juga.a oo" So'f transac- tion.J turned their attention to yilliNin9 and . lying about tue country and people north "i '. the Gia They iudite all sorts of white lic- . to the California papcr-, and some of the cdi- tors have no better sense than to publish the . flschoods. We find tue following choice tit- bit written, evidently, hy some Government l contractor south of tue Gila, or a flunkey of the cgotis,ical Territorial Administration, in the fNo Ca'laHil of a recent date:
 "Tbe proposition to remove the Capital to Tucson, lorg urged by the people of southern Arizona, created vehement di-tu-i1n, bu' wo5 carried by vote of II to II. Great effort, to induce tic Governor to veto the blll were used. but without effect a, tho vote was reg ular and no improper proceedings were known Co have taken place. Tac Government offices will be at Tucson by December l,t. The esl designated Tucson as the permanent location of the capital. but the next, or any >uhse- qucut Legislature. may change it hack Co
 Prescott or remove it elsewhere. The re- moyal is probably charLcabl etc the insecurity of life and property from the Apache raids at
 Prescott the foolish display of partisan spirit by some of the representatives of Ga'apal county. and tlc fact that the cost of living at Prescott i, more than at Tucson at pres ent"
 Tie fellow who pcnned the above is ccr-
 tainly fool or a liar Everybody in the Territory who knows anything about the matter at al, knows that the vote was uot
 yeguiar and that improper proceedings did
 take place. We are assured, upon good aa-
 thority, that improper proceedings, 10 the
 extent of buying three or four member, of
 the Fourth Legislature, and the plcdgiug of
 all the Pima delegation, but one to Governor
 Mccormick, to support him for Congress, did
 take place If this does not come under the
 head of "improPcr proceedings" we arc a'
 q loss to know what does
 His assertions about the insecurity of fife
 and property. and the high cost of living. in
 and around Prescott, are very true; but i,
 Tucson any better oil than Prescott in these
 respects Not much.
 The fellow stumbled up0n the truth in ono
 clause oc sentence, when he says: |" "Th,
 foolish display of partisan spirit by some o
 the representatives of Yayapai county helped
 in the removal" We think he is right there
 Some of the Yayapais woud not be dictated to by the Great LIlliputian Am of the Ter rtory, could not be honcy-iuggled, soft soap cd, or talked into " bending the supple hinge of the knee" 10 sdbscrve the purposes of [ ; fisher for a seat in Congress. The Yayapa delegation did not believe in bcslobbering al ' the little official insects in the country witt : praise for acts which they never performed . and talents not possessed by them. The, dyed a little too deep into the financial ar . chiycs of the Territory, to suit the power that be. They did not believe in drawin.
 inspiration from the dry bones of any ofIlcia i mummy, and had the Impotence to think lo ) themselves. Some of them were of the opi B non that, in order to get separate militaT1 , department made out of the Territory. it wa not necessary to take issue with Genera ? Mcdowell, and throw nasty words and inu endos in that gentleman's teeth, to pleas { and bolster up his enemies. And last, bu ? not least, goodly number of the Yayapa g delegation are pronounced Democrats, an' - had hopes that parties would be organized il
 this Territory, so as to shut out lore-and aft els, who are Democrats when among Demo ' crats and Republicans when among Republi . cans twill not do to assert that the actiol b of Yayapai county, in organizing politica c parties, was just cause for the removal O 9 the capital from within her boundaries. Tn { most enlightened. best governed, and hones { communities in the country have the.r part,
 lines drawn, and the ablest and wisest O Q Americans, the immortal Washington, recon t meuded them as a necessity in free country ? None but sInalI-fry politicians, triokster-, an, woIn-ont party hacks and their hunkcs. ou ? pose them. There are two great parties nov in our country, with different ideas in rcgar, to government, engaged continually in
 struggle for power, place, and the ascendanc, , of their ideas; and the humblest citizen il } the land must, of necessity, favor one an, , condemn the other. It is useless now to tr
 to straddle the issues the occupation of tn
 go-between is about played out, and persol
 must " be man or a mouse We have run
 the mo party plan into the ground in thi
 Territory, or rather, it has run us into in,