Arizona weekly miner., 1876-09-01
WAS THERE FRAUDe

H
 Census Retures that are not entitled bv Ia
 to be there. Such a question, of cours
 cannot be answered with positive certaint,
 as It would be strange indeed if mistake
 dld not occur in making an enumeration c
 over thirteen thousand people, old anc
 young, scattered over an area larger tha
 many of the States in the Union, especiall,
 as 1t all had to be done inside of forty days
 "es say 1t IS altogether likely that ther,
 may have been mistakes, and, for aught wt
 Know, Tn some instances, the same name,
 may have been taken by each of two depu.
 ues and the mistake not discovered either
 by the Marshal who copied them, or the
 Board that passed upon them The fact
 that there were two John Smiths, Bill.
 Jones, or Bob Robinsons on the list. is no
 proof that the name of the same person has
 been duplicated, as it will hardly be con-
 tended that there might not be two persons
 bearing each of these names; and. for the
 sake or argument, suppose the same per
 sons have, by accident, been twice counted.
 which we do not admit, because we don't
 Know, and in that case, is there no way to
 account for it except upon the supposition that fraud has been practiced? And isn't it ! little suspicious to find those who have
 always had the reins of the Territorial gov ernment Tn their own hands, and who have had everything their own way in the face of and in opposition to the manifest will of large majority of the people of Arizona, so ready to adopt the theory of fraud, and the | rule or ruin" policy of breaking up all the work of the Census Marshals, instead of al- lowing the Secretary to correct what was found wrong, if anything, and go on with the apportionment
 It seems to have been an opportune time for the pipe layers" of Tucson to start in when new Secretary had so recently taken , his office and come to the Territory. They , seem rightly to have judged that he was not |, up to their tricks, otherwise the restrainino order issued from the Chambers of the :. udge of the 1st Judidial District would i, nave had about as much weight with him as l. I IL had emanated from a Justice of the l. lno~ l oeace Ill some remote Precinct.
 Then, the Judge seems to have lent a will .l '"g car to most extraordinary statement co 'he part of a Pima Toole, made under ar ath It Is true, but none the less false on ", iat account, as to the actual number of i'm ", Aotants of favapai County. It seems to st, that before granting an order which if nn 'eyed would deprive all the Northern and sb, 'htrai portion of the Territory, embracing ine C Duik of the population, of rights which ,hs ia" giVes them, or requiring the Board adl supervisors of the most populous Countv so, ieaVe their business and repair at great par uoie ana expense to the confines of hay 'Aico to answer to a charge of fraud, at tao Fss aS" of one whose authority to yn, Ike such an order is at least ouestioro oxo !, some inquiry should have been made pro, to the means of information possessed Inv ma; James II. Toole to enable him to swear ttz ne number of inhabitants of T Couptv e,,. ch We are informed he never saw Uo to.o ''s 'hat what he swears to is all true as ted { IS ne Knows, and the part that The don't have ne believes to be true, and that be eoro, 's under oath, on information and ho- conn
 there
 ,., 4"'S'ioh winch It seems the be su "o' ''Ae ihto consideration was, the i, al information had he to enable him to has T sa@' oath surely men are not ex tiOn { 'd to go into Court and swear that tbev pract ossessed of certain information, when teach
 '1'eh HIS Judlcial knowledge of Censu 'ct that they cannot know the truth of can b they swear to, and give it the same vanta. u ,i'a' It would It 1t were possible for who h eponent to know the facts. steam hcs II. looie, who seems to be a very an Ari hieht sort of Toole, has sworn to fg-
 nat are untrue, and while he says nm BN ''h' that he has information that leads
 oeiieve them to be true, the Judge Special ranted the injunction restraining the
 'ry rom performing a sworn dntv 'hlc when he made the order, that MT a3:1 aiGnl ' ..-., No 'ucn information. And saying urlhermore that the Census Marshal Commi Fore to a different state of facts and Friday was Tn position to know whereof crats to re. " "''eie"i with gr n CT Ohio are strange proceedings, and if the fund of of Central and Northern Arizona aro clubs ar to be the political serfs and peoas of Philade II an increase of population North with ~ggn m, m, Glla Is to be considered q crime if mittoaP I ! thousand people in this Countv purpose i've or six thousand in other Conn. men was .h of the Gila have no rights in con ment of the people of Tucson that Courts sos sos ooo oou erai odhcers are bound to respect conid mn come Mr. Forts bill that pronosod be count us to New Mexico or Utah, or even these vot ka, where at least We can have an this mon' ice Tn proportion to population with and S oppa imaux, which is denied us with the Wash;r anu Tihas. and Secre .ted out with the inquiry as to lsth, on s here was fraud or nor and h.ns Chicago a the conclusion that tbere , can Ia