The Phoenix herald., 1880-09-03
SACRED TO THE MEMORY
LITTLE TOMMY RIGGS,

LITTLE TOMMY RIGGS, who was
 BOUGHT, PAID FOR, USED, AND BURIED by the
 DEMOCRACY OF MARICOPA COUNTY
 During he Campaign of 1s89.
 He rigsled 90 oft, and riEgled well,
 That polit cal rig wOuId hold him;
 BuI he rl@gled at last, praise God lowell,
 Where parIy rigs WI. never eniold him.
 AND oE sUcLIs TIE KIN5oosI or AAMMoS. As I have not had the advantages Of being educated in the school of Democratic vituDerativcnesS, or bill lin@sgate, l will not take up the gauntlet thrown down to me by the Exuositor, on last Monday, in all edi- torial concerning the publication of the report of the last Grand Jury of this county, by the Drill, and enter the lists for jOuSt with that weapon which the Expositor is so proficient with-personal blaci guardian and abuse. But will endeavor 10 show whether that gentleman whom ii seems to have picked out to play the lick-spiltle to, more than any other, is competent to fill the office for which they so strenuOusly advocate his claims. l refer to Mir. Ivy II. Cox, the candidate fer Superintendent of Public Instruction, who, to use his own words, will if elected, use his whole power to instill into the minds Of our youth the principles of true Democracy" This he could prob ably do iu the most approved style, as any one will soon learn by cur sOry examination of the books of the Beard of Supervisors, during the peri )d he acted as Secretary. Leav- ing aside those little eccentricities of bookkeeping so pertinently inquired iuto by our last grand jury-such as erasuies, pasling leaves together, etc, 1 will take the body of the matter still remaining, 10 show 10 what a degree he carries his political convictions into his official acts. Not only is the writing and gram nautical construction of the records intensely Democratic. but so is the spelling. So much so, in deed, that l have, after mature con siderallon, cOnclusivcly convinced myself that this gentleman is the one who lately, through the columns of the Citizen, under the rom de plume of Bourbon Straight, entered the field of political literature to be come the Petroleum " Nasby of Arizona. Now 1 ask the candid reader, frankly, if a man who spells authorized, authorised: ; judgments, judgements dimensions, 'demen sions;' asylum, 'assylum; ; semi-annu- al, semi annual; ;; superintendent, 'su- perintendant;' jailer, 'jaylor;' evi dence, 'evidince;' water, 'watter;' who states that our sheriff was re- quired 10 file an additional bond on account Of the death of King $. WoOlsey, one of his 'bondmen; who las it that MT J IT. Lively was elected 'tempOry' chairman; who rerOrds that B. S. Conyers was ap- pointed examining -physicion,' and i tLat Mcssrs Wharton S Sheets had 1 been paid for services to the 'imdigint | sick; that II. P. Petit had filed the | 'drOwing' for the new Court House l that J. w. Markley's bill for trans | porting the 'cOraEcr's' jury was re- jected etc, etc; is not a man | very likely 10 write such a commu- nIcatiOn as that penned by Bourbon Straight. Were we all Democrats Mir. Cox would make a most accepta- le'Superintentan.' of Public Instruc- ton for the Territory, but being neither all Democrats nor quite in sane over spelling reform I maintain that Webster is good enough for the rising generation, and should be taught instead of the True princi- pies of Democracy even when dealt put by such an able person as Major Ivy H. Cox, late of the C. $. Army, and at present of the l-political- ministerial professions.
 I will always be happy to let any 1f the friends of Rev. Ivy H. Cox, who may doubt his intense demOcra- ", have the numbers of the pages rom which the different phrases md words were culled.
 WM O DWELL.