The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-12-03
rHE WEEKLY ARJGONAN
THEY "HAVE BE EN-"
Approved, July l2. 1870.

In our address to the people of Arizona, at the opening of the late election campaign, we stated that the public affairs of this Territory are controlled by mob of political beggars without brains, education, or cultivation" Me Cormick, preIious to his departure, reviewed" this address, on behafo of Mr Wasson, and ths above quotation thereform having proven par- tcularly distasteful because of its truth, eli- cited the following
 As class, the federal officers of Arizona have been men of high character and ability, and not men lacking success at the East but men successful there in ali their undertakings. and at this time we point 10 the entire list with especial pride.
 How strange 1t is that they dId not succeed in carrying with them to Arizona a few of the
 good qualities which distinguished them at
 home How strange that at their arrival in Arizona they should commence a system of repudiatiou and continne the same until not single vestige of the noble qualifications, which we are assured they possessed, should remain alone, may happen to explain the na~ ture ofthat llmaticinanence-for such it must be-peculiar 10 Arizona, which has power to convert the lobast work O. God-an honest man-into an interruptions falsifer and tbief, which casts an impenetrable mist of iguor- arce around lhe enlightened mind.
 We regret the appearance in our midst of an article claiming for those men "character and ability not only rom the fact that it is statement which the very men whom i: fatters, IS we'll as all others, know tq be false and polish, but because 1t caIIaSupon us to indi- and criticise men whose dishonest and ignorance are quite sufficient to render hem contemptib]e in any station of If, ard therefore Il disgrace and adishonort to the posi- ions in which fraud and Fo.iical fapatci8m
 ave placed them ; and we might with iull pro rieiy carry this view yet further, and mention he outrage praciised upon honest, intelligent eople from the sau e source. Inns it will be cen, that to expose the federal officers in etai is to hold forth OCT Territory to the ,ers of all those which are favorei with hon st, intelligent representation But as We are aled upon to make the sacrifice, we will just Ike "passiug glance" at he officials;
 The prince of the carpet~bag train, R. c,
 cCormick, has been, in Arizona, aseIf-assert d democrat, next man without any political as, and now we find him black republican e has admira ply adapted himself to the times an excellent instance of poli- elan of the period. He sold himself to the embers of the Fourth Legislature from Pima ,unty for consideration, thereby bringing l bout the removal cf the capital. His pres GUS career at Prescott, while Secretary of the erritory, in procuring provisions from the department by 9 subteriuge, d retailing the same to miners and others at profit of two hundred per cent, Is well remem- red these are facts which need but to be to sdow the "charactcr" of the man, 10, we are assured, left the east an honest right member of the ''Young lIen' Christian 'sociation ;' they are facts too which no one Il question,tor the reason that the acts emu srated first rendered Richard notorious in Iizona.
 Now, for the men of liability" We presume at Governors Bashford aud Stafford make up s list Hon. B. is frst-clSss intriguer--
 better, perhaps, between San Francisco and nta Fe-yet this oily gentleman sOn etimes .ets with men who understand him. He could t, for instance, 8 couple of months ago, find
 hsnest suit for the political corporation of .Cormick, (the man whom while be detests.
 supports for polieY's sake,) upon which the ( ling inspector could not discover black hy stain. Divest him of his pleasing ad- | ss, the secret of his success Gu the field or s rigue, and you divesta butterfly of it's wings i