Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-11-08
FRED HUGHES. THE CRITIC D
That greatest legislator Arizona ever had has thrown off bis alias. and bodly signed his name to what he styles

l ever had has thrown off bis alias, and bodly signed hls name to what he styles
 "A CENTER SHOT.
 HON. FRED G. HUGHEs KNOCKS THE
 CITIZEN OUT OF TIME"
 Thus read the head lines, of the iaoored effort of that greatest legislator Arizona ever had," according to the es- timation of the Cochise Record. and Mir. Hughes himself. Taey remind us of the boy who had been fishing for bull-pouch. and who had caught quite number of the fish, which be had strung on A forked stick and placed in the water with heads up. His companion wbo had been trying his luck in an adiacept slough for crappies, came over and ob. serving tae heads of the bull-pouch just under the water, raised bis hands in an excited manner and cried out:
 "Lordy, Lordy, Bill what big fish you have caughtg
 "What, them are or that striucg Dick ooncS, thought you knew more about fishes than that Wy. don't you see. as he held them up, them are bull-pouches. all heads and no body-ffty on em wouldn't make mess!'
 Mir. Hugbes' article like t.e boys string ot bull pouch IS "all head" and like them, tapers rapidly toward the tail. He makes free use of our words and without regard to accuracy twists them around to suit himself. vet he does not refute single statement made by the CITIZEN, but goes back aud says if Colonel Bean had have passed the mineralogy bill, several thousand dol lars would have been taken from the Treasury. If the dog hadn't stopped be might have caught the rabbit, eh: The CITIZEN made the statement that Fred G. Hughes had introduced bills and secured their passage, which drew 5 from the Territorial Treasury, for every Sl so drawn by bills introduced by Colonel Bean. This statement Fred G. Hughes does not deny, and he daie not deny 1t because he knows it to be a fact Coming down to his own record he has denied DO statements made by the CITIZEN, because they were all true. He admits securing the appropriation of Sl0,0O0 which was squandered in the bed of the Ariyaipa Canyon, but tries to place the misrepresentation of the funds on other parties.
 h regard to the Act restricting gam bling he says the ''object If the bill was to make the sporting fraternity take the gambling from the sight of people passing along our public streets, and 1t had the desired effect" That IS cer- tainly very strange reason for impos- ing tax-S2,0t0 a year for the purpose of taking gambling from tine sight of the people!' Would not a charge of SJO quarter have had the same effect! The explanation offered by Mir. Hughes is simply no explanation at all. The act was intended to give one or two men in Tucson-nore speedily control of the gambling bu-iness, and 1t had the desired effect. And while we do not charge MT. Hughes with being in- terested in that monopoly, 1t Is well known fact that he vas aud Is to this day on intimate terms with the men who did monopolize the business. The most that Mir. Fred Hughes can claim for his record in tue Legislature is that he introduced a large number of bills and resolutions, most of which were buried out of sight by committees as they deserved to be.