Arizona miner., 1867-10-12
A PLEA FOR THE GOVERNOR.

Over the signature of "Vox Populi will be found in another column of this paper, d plea in bar, on behalf of the defendant in the important case now pending in the Court of Public Opinion, of The People cs. The Gov ernor, who is charged with signing a certain bill, enacted by the Legislature lately in ses- sion, to the great dsmnfcation and injury of the People aforesaid. As counsel for the plaintiff, we move that the plea be dismissed, on the ground of irrelevancy. There is no question at issue relative to the conduct of the Governor, defendant herein prior to the commission of the offense charged in the com plaint, and we are willing to admit that, up to the time specified, he had been faithful to the trust reposed in him :; that he had labored diligently (with what degree of success the Court is quite competent to determine with out aid from us) to promote the interests of the Territory, and to assist in the develop ment of her resources. There are many in stances on record, if the Court please, in which individuals have filed positions of honor and trust with such scrupulous fidelity and zeal as Co command general appreciation, and yet, welding at length to strong temptation, have betrayed the confidence reposed in them And in no case of which we have any knowl- edge has the plea of previous good conduct of theoffender been admitted in bar of conviction although it has frequently been allowed in mitigation of the penalty.
 If tbe Governor or his friends have any
 
 Capital bill, why do they not bring it for s5saFtaa The fact that they have not done so ss very generally construed as tacit adms- sion that they are unable to assign any req sonable or worthy motive for his action in the premises. Some lame and sickly apologies have indeed been attempted, but they have have only served to make the matter appear still worse in the eyes of betrayed and in digDant people.
 IL s an andoubted and undisputed truth, that when Governor Mccormick signed the l'iIl n qnestion, he knew perfectly we'll that two members of the Council and two of the House had voted for it in direct opposition to the wisisr- and interests of their constituents; yet we arc informed that the Governor at tempts to justify them, and through them him self. by saying that those members had made . bargain to vote for the location of the Cap itsi 4s Tucson, on condition that the Pima deleyation would support certain measures Nisielt they (the river members) wished to carsy through; that he considered such bar gain fair, and that he had no right to inter pose Ne nardly know which is the worse the moral theory advanced by His Excellency in this case, or the reasoning based upon it. IE tho name of Executive fidelity, for what was the veto power placed in the Governors hands, if not to protect the people from iniu- rious leg ation effected by means of log rolling aneAcorruption Tho case under con alteration was one in which the Governor ought 70 have interposed his veto, and by laiiing c 10 so he has given occasion for the ss.s...sss= which, whether correct or not are pTsvalen: in this community to his disadyan- sage.
 We submit the motion.