Arizona weekly miner., 1876-08-18
FRIDAY, AUGUST IS, 1876.
4 sxcr,ox.1. pExossrRArIos-We find

A SECTIONAL DEMossTRATIoS.-We find
 in the Wallapai Enterprise of Aug. 11th, a review of the action of the people of Pima
 County with reference to the census of Yav-
 apai County, that sets the matter in clear
 light, and shows by fair reasoning from
 facts that cannot be gainsayed that if fraud
 has been practiced it is Pima and not Yava-
 pal that has practiced it. We believe the
 last apportionment was not made on an act
 ual census report, but by act of the Legisla-
 ture, but the fact that Yavapai and Pima counties were then given each three members the Council and six ofthe House, shows that of
 the representatives estimated the population about equal, at that tune. Final County
 which returns population of over 2,000 has since been carved out of Pima, and yet, so accustomed are the people of Pima to having their own way in everything whether right or wrong, that they are unwilling to make any allowance for the number taken into Pinal and are quite oblivious to facts that are we'll understood throughout the Territory, viz, the large ratio of increase by immigration to Yavapai, over every and all other sections and counties. The Enter prise estimates the increase of Yavapai at three to one over Pima, but say she has in- creased two to one, and that they each had six thousand in 1874. Yavapai having in- creased 7,73s has now 13,73s, Pima as she then existed, having increased 3,579 would have 9,579, and now, after deducting the number set of into Pinal, say 2,000, she can- not possibly have more than 7,579 allowing Yavapai to have only 13,73s. These are the figures, carefully estimated, and certainly entitled to as much consideration as those which the people of Tucson parade with so much apparent efoct before the newly appoin- ted Secretary of the Territory. We are not advised as to what view the Secretary has taken of the case, but of one thing he should be assured, that if he takes in all the cock and bull stories. those people invent he will ere long. feel the tickling of a bug in his ear.
 The enterprise, looking on impartially, sums up in this way:
 But where is the foundation for the char gesa What fraud has been perpetrated and and how muchl It is grave charge, and people will be slow to believe it without proof. The Tucson mass meeting offers none neither does the "Citizen"
 The presumption of law is, and that of the public should be, that the officers of the | law do their duty. The law constitutes the Board of Supervisors tribunal to act judi ,ially upon the question of the correctness | ,f the returns That tribunal has, in this | ease decided. The Census Marshal is an of | icer and gives bonds for the faithful perfor- nance of his duties and is liable to fine and | mpNUonment for a false or fraudulent re- urr,%. The Citizen and the Tucson meeting lccuse him without adducing anything in he nature of proof, without stating any acts which warrant such conclusion. Un- il we hear of such proofs we must refuse to relieve the charges.
 It seems to us that the people of Pima ounty are trying to enkindle sectional feel ng and are using unworthy means to do it. 'here may, for all we know, have been raud in census returns in the Territory, but rom the figures, and what we know of the localities, we are satisfied that if Iavapai is, in this regard, knee-deep in the lire, Pima is begged down to the arm pits