The Arizona sentinel., 1883-02-17

dS6I LII IItSS uLSdSIIOuS IGNClS, Mir. Alexander. At the sound of that historic name from the grim throttle of a prison-gate comes the cry of "theft." The Ianguid ghosts.of ruined clients, disrupt ed families, broken contracts, drunkenness, decieved friends cry aloud "Corruption," in its worst and most visible. form.
 As we emerge from the stifling and .mephiticimist that.encircles the name of this "refOrmer" of county politics, we stumble upon the putrid carcass of another rep utatiOn-Mabbett, the "Jedge." That eminenti statesman that spotless juriSt! As to this patriot we confess O1r feeble pen is all unequal to the task of deliniating his enviable record. We must call on Shakespeare 10 help us out. We trust the shade of the great William will pardon us for putting his verse to so vile a use, but we really thing he must have had Mabbett in his mind when he wrote the following lines:
 That father ruffian, that reverend voice, That grey iniquity, that vanity in years, Wherein Is he good but to t3ste sack and
 drink il?
 Wherein cunning but III craft9
 Wherein crafty but in Villainy?
 Wherein villainous but ill all things?
 Wherein worthy but in nothing?
 Next on thls list of reformers we find the name'of LaumeiSter, the gentleman who
 Full of strange oaths, and bearded like
 pard"-
 roamS the country in search of poker games with beardless strip lings, ever ready to designate the origin of his opponent as be- ing canine, and whose vile lan- guage and epithets on his tour through the county effectually disarmed his friends and armed his enemies. This gentleman is anOth CT of our worthy patriots, who seeks to alienate capital and create distrust in the stability of our county institutions.
 Next we find poor old Martin, the lamb that is led around by the head demon, Alexander. We can hardly cOndOie with the old man. He has allowed himself, in the face of the expressed wish of the county, to be guided into a litigation that has cost the county much money aud himself much more, has impeded busi- ness of all kinds, and though his reputation was hitherto unstain- ed, allowed himself to be made a tool of by the most villainous gang that ever infested Yuma county.
 We next find on the list Need en. Now here is q fine specimen of reformer. A man SC igno- lant that it is as hard for him to write his name as for another to decipher it. A man so utterly that an acute detective would take him for one of his own "escapes." Does any intel ligent member of this communi- ty think for an instant that a man of this stamp would be tol- erated in the responsible position he holds here, in any other state
 Next We find that upright ! statesman Baker, the "minority" of the Board of Supervisors, (and | Ong may he remain sO). Now his patriot is a fit leader for the morals, isn't he? He is, f you believe him. He is fond )f prating of his honesty and in- egrity, but strange to say, the business portion of the cOmmuni- y has somehow conceived an un- distruSt for him. It would take but a dull scaIpel to arve him up on the diSsecting able.
 We next meet St. Ormand an alias,) the gentle nan wLO Host his papers," and ant really say who he is, or where he comes from, but who Inblushingly insults the intelli- 'ence ot our people by setting imself up as an arhiter of our olitical differences. A man without name, a record or a ;