Weekly Arizona citizen., 1880-08-21
FENIx. \. T.. Aug. |. 1880.

EDITOR CITIZEN: in order that you
 may git an unprejoodist ackount of how the good ship of Demokrasy is
 prOgresin' in our town, take my pen
 in my hand to inform you. We hev
 wuust no to rig our voice in protest
 again the thretined overthro Ov hal
 owed and sakrii institoOshuES, handed
 down to us by our fourfathers. Alas, with teers nut I tell you that Dem okratik in~ti,ooshuns and privilejes
 are in danjer of beln' overrun by sak-
 relius karpetbagers of the Linkun
 and ciyilrites perswashuu; such IS
 the ouilsity ov Republicans. IL is
 but the outcome, however. o1 to
 hutch IoosincsS in our way of trectin' them. and ov our unfortoonately not keepin' them in ther places where we
 had them in years agone; as our mo wise bie;hera Ov LOOi-ieuar. Alabama,
 aud elsewhere hey done. Then we could, without pcradveniUre claim to be, wuust mo. ov the solid South
 Now, insted, lhe ksrpet-bagcrs hey cum like 'h- AseriAu in the night, and
 with rher ushu al pcrversecty and dis posishuu Co medal, with other frkcs
 and are aytoolly goin' to dispoot with us as 70 who sEall i'll our offices; end they held nn e!cAsiunn. on Saturday Co cllrkt delegates Co the county con u,hun. and actOoly pooled as many votes as we dii TnIs. ov course, alarmed Us, io' when this Kind of thing is stgr'ed ani mt nipt iu the bud ther is no tei.in' where .h- safety ov the country or Dem-}r!tik rites will
 bring up. as witness the Emsusepa
 shun ProllIamashuH and the fifteenth and following amendments So to n0otralize It Jej Lemmu1 was called on Go spoek st the coto-house a. to lh. career of the two Isr,ies- He was selected J,Icz he yust to be Republican befo' he come ,o Arizona, and knows all about t. When it was found ont that the music was 10 be by the unukellcd
 Frnix Brass Band the jam to get in to hear the Jej was iremsnjus. The Jej, as sumc one Fomarkt spred his-elf aui the way he done il was a caushun. He k awful when he gifts sta-iyd, and the way he works hi-self is only like uu,o tEe Iailu rubber o. a first class circus goin through his eNcrsises. ora gorilla with the kramp>. ! He went for T. Refu5lIkIns vorash- u-iy. aud lief, uothin' hid is0in the lite ! of day. He showed how they had pluuied he n,shuu into civil w1r by tLvr ushual u'cr disregard fer thr fe-i- | ms of the high -,rung sons Of sUthern .hivliry. and a- how they made the country qronc uui,r he b1r3cn ot an immense debt, which had to be paid by tqro, ou whisky and u,hcr necessities oy life. Er also spoke oy the unwar
 anted iut,rferenses oy the Bepublikan
 party in sending truPes to SHIheTn
 Stitcs tp prevent tNc whites from keep ! in The the nigs-rs in uher places
 lherby poo.n them on ekality with : the whites and @ive9 them the rite to ! vote as mutcL ani a. often as thel old ! masters. Ov course he didn't poo' it
 exactly that way, but all wc'uns knew
 what he ment He spoke at grate
 length, and just a. the entao slasUl
 was bcgiuniu' Co kinder walm ike ! Rad who tride to ocashEn toomuIt
 and coufushun by diSsa'i.lukshuu
 with the idees cf the sgcekcr, wa.
 poot out in such style that lbe crowd become once more euihoosed, and rc
 maiped so until the close of the ad
 dress BOURBON STRAIGHT.