Arizona weekly miner., 1877-04-20
AFFIDAVIT MEN OWNED BY THE LOS ANGELES HERALD.

In the Los Angeles Herald, of April Eth in commenting on the appointment of Gov ernor Mccormick to the position of Assist ant Secretary of the Treasury, the editor claims 10 know Nc. well, and personally cannot say anything against him, but can find 50 men who will testify to anything the Herald man may ask them to. As for MT Mccormick drawing unlimited amounts oi Government rationS, we know 1t IS false As to his having a store in one end of the building occupied by him as an office, We know 10 be equally false. We have been a resident of Arizona since Governor McCor- mick came herc as Secretary of the Terri tory, and can find hundreds who will testify to the fact that he never had a grocery store, or drew ration>, as stated by the Herald.
 We know that during the year 1864 pro- visions could not ne purchased at sll times, and NIT. Mccormick borrowed some pro- visions from the CommIssary st Fort Whip pie, and lent them to miners who could not buy, and thus saved many good man from going hungry. We have known many an instance where NIT. Mccormick took money and bought provisions for parties who had
 
 The many kindnesses shown to the early pioneer by him will long be remembered, and as for the gentlemen who lay around whisky shops. in Los Angeles, and blow their horn about such men as Governor McCor- mick. We say blow, you cannot harm him, he is beyond your reach. and all you know Is hearSay. Not man in Los Angeles county can say. of his own knowledge, when he is pinned down to the truth. that he knows these things stated in the Herald to be true, but are in the same boat with the Herald. and will have to admit that some one else told him so.
 That our readers may know what trash the Herald publishes, We give the following as part, which Is a fair sample of nearly column of the Herald's tirade on NIT. Me Cnrmick;
 We do not impeach Gov. McCormick's integrity of our own personal knowledge, but VIC can get fifty men. in a very short while 10 testify that he Is as corrupt little man sS ever lived. and they vii. producJ evidence and detail of narrative to support their allegations. They tell story of Me Cormick that when he came to Arizona as Secretary of the Territorial Governor he had aa unlimited order for govern mt nj r3tio3s. His office Was Tn one end of build ing at Prose tt, and Tn the other end was a grocery store, with communicating door. These rations aFe represented as passing into Dicks office and through this door into the grocery, where they were sold to the miners who dwelt in the canyons round about. A good deal "f money could be made in this | way, and such 3 training is calculated to qualify \ man to find out any cnincks and craunies in the Treasury Department, or any other. for that matter. Had Dick sue | cecded in getting himself appointed Secre- tary of the Interior, what lashins and law ! ins of money he would have made, in the opinion of those who know him best There 1 would have been lush for all his friends, too, for Mccormick Is not a oner.'
 If such appointments are to be dealt out to us, together with an unlimited amount of cant about purity, reform, and all that. it IS hard to say what we shall come to-"