The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-08
THE AFFLICTED TERRITORIES.
How the Dependencies are Abused
and Plundered.
SANTA FE, n. NJ. Oct. IS. 1856.

How it may be as to the more north.
err Territories of the United States ]
know not, but as far as New Mexico and
Arizona are concerned, we have been in
a state of chaotic misgovernment ever
since the Inauguration of President
Cleveland. God knows, it was bad
enough before President Arthur had
no knowledge at all Of the vast empire
which stretches west of the Mississippi,
and came into the Presidency before he
had ever crossed that mighty stream
but President Cleveland had never. so
far as we can learn. passed west, even
of the longitude of Buffalo, when he
assumed the Chief Magistracy. Judg-
ing from his treatment of these two Ter
ritories, he has the same vague idea of
them that he possesses concerning the
continents and seas in the moon.
The Territories of the United States
are beset by the representatives of great
capitalists and corporate monopolies, as
thick as fleas on a dog. Railroad swim
dlers, land swIndlers, cattle sWindlers,
mining claim swIndlers, Indian and
Army contract sWindler and preying to
their hearts content upon their inhabi-
tants, debauching their prosperity and
spelling their Iuture We looked to the
new President for reform in all these
matters. He put off all action as long
as he could. Your Custom House
squabbles at the East pressed more
closely upon his time, and gave leisure
for the evils of which we complain, to
become aggravated, and intolerable. but.
so far as he has acted, he has as vet
shown no disposition to alleviate, nay
rather propensity to add to them.
The contest over the vacant Cover
norship of New Mexico last summer
was quite an active one, and the vari-
Gus applicants spent weeks, if not
months, and money, which some of
them, at least, could lily spare. in dane
ing attendance at the White House and
Interior Department at Washington.
At last, the President, under pressure
from Springer of Illinois, Randall of
Pennsylvania and others who had never
seen New Mexico, hit upon ex-United
States Senator Ross, an an j 'e'uvian ex-
Republican, who had abandoned his for
mer party at the impeachment trial of
President Andy Johnson. With him.
Mr.. Springer succeeded in sending US
Judge Vincent (although Mr.. Springer's
son did not come out as his clerk. as
has been aneged). You are familiar at
the East, already, with the scandals
which these unlucky Presidential ap-
pointments have produced. The Dor
seY and Elkins ring Of land swindlers
captured them at the first endeavor.
The Pres dent has suspended Vincent
after writing and publishing an angry
letter, aimed at Springer; but Ross and
the rest of the gang Immediately placed
themselves on record in Vincent's de
fence, by an impudent telegraphic mes
sage TO the President, and it is conf
IDENTIFY anticipated by Dorsey Elkins &
Co. that the suspension will be taken off,
and all things allowed to regain their
accustomed current. We have become
so accustomed to outrageously bad gov
ernors and judges, out here, that we
wouldn't know ourselves under a better
and purer regime.
Our sister Territory, Arizona, seems.
according to the news of to-day, to be
about to experience a similar fortune.
The telegraph brings US word that U. s.
Senator Mcpherson, of New jersey, has
succeeded in getting Mr.. Cleveland to
appoint his man, Col. Zulick, to the
Arizona GoyernOrship. We know this
Mcpherson, here in the West; as the
palace Cattle Car Senator" He is
the head and his man Zulick is the tail
of that fragrant monopoly. Arizona
under irrigation, is now fast developing
into a great cattle country. To grasp so
great an interest by the throat, as it
were, and control its exit from the graz
ing lands towards the meat markets of
the world, is project that has simply
got millions in it. The fraudulent
Peralta land claim, thanks to the cour-
age and honesty of Land Commissioner
Sparks, has come to an end, but this
monopoly starts up in the Interior De
partment, and threatens the AriZOnas
with fresh danger. Surveyor General
Johnson, of Arizona, who fOstered and
coddled the Peralta fraud. continues in
Office in spite of all attempts of the
Democratic press and people of Arizona
to obtain his displacement; and the Iat-
ter have almost abandoned the field in
despair. tits freely charged that Zulick
never spent tYenty-four hours in the
Territory, and that his appointment
is a clear violation of the Chicago plat
form. Moreover he is vOciferously de-
nounced by the newspapers of the Ter
ritory as "a swindler," and the public
man who suffers himself to be openly
referred to by such a title, in public
print, without rebuke, will be likely to
find his field of usefulness very greatly
contracted in this portion OF the world.
Tritle has resigned in Arizona,
under a storm of obloquy for his inca
pacity in dealing with the Apache ques-
ton, and it remains to be seen how sue
ceSSful Governor Zulick will be, coming
into Office as he VIII at this moment,
under these fierce denunciatiOns, an alb
solute stranger to the people whose in
tereSts are entrusted to him, and handi-
capped by the maloderous reputation of
the cattle company which he comes out
to serve.
The President may have done better
in the more northern Territories, but in
handing over the government Of New
Mexico TO the land thieves and that OF
Arizona TO the cattle mOnopolists, he
has rejoiced many enemies, and panied
and abashed many friends.
SANTA FE.
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