Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-04-08
Editor Robh'S RenIy


 Some time since we published the re
 port of Agent Wilcox to Secretar,
 Teller iu which Mir. Robb, editor of tn,
 Silver Belt, and others were referred t,
 in not very complimentary terms. Mir
 Robb replIes, portion of which We giv,
 below:
 You say that Cornell "harbored Johr
 D. Burgess, who was driven iron
 the reservations" I have before me !
 copy of your letter accepting his res ! ignation.
 ''HackRey IS the editor" you sa,
 who defended Tiffany. when the pso. ! pie of Globe wanted him executed and | whose paper was silenced by threats to throw It ID the street" So far as Tiffany IS concerned, the Belt Is willing to abide the decision of the court which tries him as an endorsation or con demnatlon of its friendliness to him. lt IS foul libel on the people of this town to say they wanted him eyecuted This paper has never been silenced. It has always worked without fear. and it has never asked for a favor.
 You call Fisk "the financial manager of the syndicate that pretended to n1r- chase coal lands from the Indians" He had DO interest m 1t beyond that of re- ceiVlng ms commission as a banker for money advanced on a draft. know whereof l speak.
 lou call Stevens a member of the "bull-whacking fraternity, who has risen Go the position Of tram master" Stevens IS young man who Is favOrably known HrnN had charge of branch house of Bucka- lew & Ochoa m this town until the firm closed business. He Is in Mr. Bucka- lew s employ now. If the statements were true, however, that he had risen rom a lower position to a higher one, 1t IS certainly the reverse from what you nave done; because you have descended from Marshal of Colorado to a herder of Indians at San Carlos.
 You say that Henderson '.yelps with the pack, because lyon refused to give nm the A,des for which he had bar galned with Wood" Don't you know that you not only gave the hides, but that you ordered an Indian to pick out such as MT. Henderson condemned? Don't you know, also, you cons s1rn- mate hypocrIte, that you are selling hides now to this same Mr Henderson ? !
 You say that Parker was ordered to leave the reservation by Captain Crav- ford, for being drunk" that may be true-but don't you know that he was acceptable to you, when Wood asked l you for permission to send him to the 1 suo-agency 10 look after his stock and | don't you remember, also, that you asked Captain Crawford to allow him to l remain
 Again you are truthful when you say | that "Nratten was expelled from the | by yJc:' but in doing so 1 you deprived the government whose olnclal you are, of man who under stood the customs, language and haunts 1t the Indians. aCd whose character was never lmpeache.. before.
 As for my senior, Judge Hackney, he VIII live n the hearts of those who know hIm when you will be keeping company with the man in the new testa- nent who wanted Lazarus to pass the water to him.
 l can always fight better for my friends than myself. and would wiling y stop here, but III your pleasant sketch lI ne you do some injustice. You say hat have ''Deen but d short time in Arizona. When you, SIT, were toasting .0ur shIns at government stove in Denver. and fattening upon public pap, was standing Tn the cold and the wet, 'n the frontier. | have been. with short SIX years iu Arizona.
 Ion Say that 1 'coOl beans in a back oom; made to do duty IS a sanctum, ltclen and bedroom. The Belt Is 'nly country newspaper, tt. .g- u4v- iot Gl- the cr....,.-. gs> -- ....s. Id i,4 :. 'ut !" ..r.- .....s To, ,l,. '-.-.i .,- a .a..ac -.-... ..- ... .-l... I... '1 say 1,..s prompted to write ny l.'y i--t. |. 5ir. Caz by a desire tY . pa-"r s- a-- -Iia the eve. of my mas CTS I-l -4Y ..rs giants where | am plgnly. tlere are; m5a who are as { luch superior ro me in all the clements t true manhood as ] am to you there 1 -e; but my master" does not live. The room In which we cook an ac- that many a noble fellow { n Arizona has acquirei-is below the ' sanctum; and lll tell you what, Mir. ' Wilcox, that never a man yet turned his E ack upon its door, while his lips asked ( pr food Can you say that of yourself: I on who have driven men in the cold of $ winter night, of the land which the nlted States have placed you in charge ( 7, and which they hold as the trustee. { 7 God Almighty for the use of the whole eople.