The Weekly Arizonian., 1871-02-11
LOCAL MATTERS.
THE GOVERNOR AND THE SUPERVISORS

The country at large is growing at exor-
 bitant taxation It has just and we'll grounded reason to growI. The policy of radical ad- ministration is to enrich individuals by impov- erishirg the masses and from the grand focus st Washington this noxious principle ramiGes everywhere-from Maine to Mexico and from ocean to ocean. Its outcroppings are there fore in Arizona as we'll as elsewhere, and nur- tured by radical appointees here are easily traceable to the grand motive power. Why has Governor Stafford showed himself into the affairs of this county and aided in heaping additional taxes upon the people ? Because he is creature of this principle, and wishes to pay the men he has used, in the hope of using them again and it is much less burthensome upon him, as he is not a taxpayer, to use little intrigue and have the people pay his strikers" than to pay them out of his own pocket This dodge, as well as others which he has applied with effect in Arizona, he learned while a student under the infamous Nye, and not less infamous Stewart, of Nevada. It is truly radi- cal policy: "Let the taxpayers pay our hire lings, by auy means. and if we can give the proceeding the appearance of legality: We have reconciled our creatures, defeated our oppos- CTS and vindicated ourselves"
 The case immediately under consideration and which has elEcited these observations, is the part 7eraor Safo.d has taken against the taxnavers of Pima county, In the matter of furnishing board 10 the prisoners. The super visors, his creatures, at first, impeled by sense of justice took stand with the people, against the unreasonable demands of the sheriff; but upon complaint being mades3y u latter to the Governor, were whipped, as it were into obedience. To sustain the supervisors in their action under S4f1rd, the Howell Code ,l--- .Lo.;er wherein he is required to take charge of the prisoners. examined. Without more ado, the supervisors were instructed to admit thas this case were a specially it which they had no voice and therefore the people have the she,- if to thank, that he did not eSe else his "riaht' on a Ia ger scale b7 chsl2iAg ej sh5 OF ten dol. lars per day for he board of each prisoner, in- stead of resting satisfied win $L50. He'd he proposed to do this, who could have in.erIered with hls arrangement aud at the same time respect the Interpretation given the Code by the supervisors, under Saf}rds instructions and where is the law that will deny him he privilege of charging seven times the r1ling rate of board, while he may charge a third more than this rate?
 The Governor did not happen 10 ike the man Tbo proposed 10 board the prisoners at the ate of 95 cents each, per day. He couldd, lse him for either love or money; so he had double purpose to accomplish in '"yorking ha wires in the manner he did. The sheriff as now about the most lucrative office in io Territory-Federa included; and with la privilege of setting his rate for board 10 nit himself, if he fail to make good thing" lt of the tax-paying dolts of Pima, during IS term of office, then he has himself, and not e supervisors or the governor, to censure
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