The weekly Arizona miner., 1870-10-29
Mr. Mccormick Again.


 here and for the old reason. On the earnest solicitation of the thin crowd of friends who .e,r wnrn,Iy welcomed lim He gave an nc count of himself, at the Court House, and, in a speech of some two hours, tried to con vince his audience that he had performed at Washington, and achieved won ders for Arizona, particularly Northern AH- zona. He commenced with great deal oi yieor and gesticulation, and the frequent use of the inevitable personal pronoun "l,' for which his writings arc so remarkable, and ! thoroughly convinced the great majority oi | his listeners that his political obituary will ! soon be written. He said he bad but sim | pie story to tell in answer to the question, "What has Mccormick done,1 and, accord ingly launched forth in laborod attempt to cover up bis tracks, and whitewash his rot ten carcass He first claimed credit for hay ing succeeded in getting Congress to legal i1e his own illegal acts. Said he had tried hard to get permission to raise volunteers, bu, had failed in doing SO On the Pima h. dian question, be set himself down as favor able to their removal; denied any knowledge of the survey of their reservation, which took in the ranches of poor white men, and left that of Hooper, Whiting & Co.'S out. But his denial amounted to nothing. He is the father of the nelarous scheme to rob poor whites of their lands. He forgot to tell how in lSGS, he tried hard to get the Pimas to vote ioi him. He next claimed credit for having got arms from the Govern ment for the Territory, but he deserves none. The General Government has always given States and Territories certain arms, and this ! Territory has not yet got her share. Know | ing that Gen. Thomas Is dead, he tried to | rob that noble warrior of the credit for hay ! ing Arizona created a separate Military De
 pertinent, with headquarters at Prescott He
 also forgot 10 state that he tried bis best to
 get headquarters located at Tucson or Fort
 Yuma. But we have the word of high
 military officer that Mccormick did really
 work against Prescott in this respect. The
 surveying District-ah that was a big thing
 for the Territory, and bigger thing for Mr.
 Mccormick, who had the office located in his
 own house in Tucson, so that he could gobble
 the appropriation, for office rent, etc Then , the maA He had served us we'll in this mat Washington, we had semi-weekly service
 upon the Prescott and San Bernardino route,
 and weekly service, 10 California, ria the Mo
 have route. Now, we have weekly service,
 only, over one route-the San Bernardino
 And we have seen it stated that he even tried to have that taken off, and make this section get along with mail from Pima vil- } lages or Maricopa Wells. He then went af- ter General Sherman, who, he said, was un friendly 10 the Territory, which statement
 we know to be false. The fact of the mat
 ter is, Sherman snubbed Mccormick. anC
 Mac, not daring to fight him at Washington | fired squib at him from Prescott. II, |. sneered at Stoneman because that officer haC d tried to get for us increased mail service be ', cause be is building two roads that will d' | more to aid us than everything else that ha |; been done for us, and because Stonemar would not descend from his high position a
 gentleman to help elect Mr. Mccormick 1. But Stoneman will survive the attacks c . Mccormick and bis lazy followers. He tol' r a whopper when he accused Sylvester Mowr r. of having said in Tucson, that all McCor @ mick's mail routes started from Prescott. d Mowry knew better, and never said it, for d r. know that there are but two routes in tn e Northern portion of the Territory upo
 which service is performed, while there ar Y at least five south of the Gia. Then, he gc
 down and claimed credit for having money 7. order offices established here. We'll, he ma m have done something towards it, but we knor g that our Postmaster had more to do with th of matter than Mccormick. He had asked fc n a survey of the boundary line betwen thi
 Territory and New Mexico, and his reque. sl was not complied with. He claimed th d credit of having got two more Indian agent e Spoke of the survey of the Upper Colorad D. how he had laid awake nights, praying fc the success of the explorers. He then sniff i, ed to geology, and was pleased to state th' o he had got Congress to appropriate sma ir sum for making geological survey of tt
 Territory. which was about the only thin ,r he had done. He then took an imaginar n ride over the proposed railroad, or railroad ir but didn't say which of the routes he pr of ferred But, that is neither here nor ther |, as all know that he is in with Fremont IT g town-site question was next handled by hiE