Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-03-21
That Tindieatiop.

To listen to the promised yindicatior
 Of c. Q. Stephens the skating rink wa.
 crowded to its utmost last night. al,
 classes and conditions of citizens ba;n,,
 represented. The meeting vas a,l
 nounced to open at 7:30, but long befora
 that time the place was filled ana h,. repeated stamping of feet it was evidan,
 that the people were anxious for th.,
 yindication' to begin. In comnliancs
 therewlth Mr Stephens asc, nded ISa
 platform and began discourse on tLo
 events ot hisspast life, when he was in,
 corrupted by avoice-"Tell us sonetbip, about Prescott" This he tban ,r-
 ceeded to do and was for some time lie
 tened to respectfully until it became
 evident that his promised yipdicat,on
 Was not vlndicatlon, after all Then
 me uproar commenced and it WAS vr;th
 alibcnity that he could speak ar he
 heard at all. In response to repeated
 calls Mir. Fred Maish mounted s cI,;-
 and asked that Mir. Stephens he bcsr5
 In deference to his wishes this was ;,
 part done, when the uproar again com
 menced and was allayed only Inv nm
 appeal from Fred Hughes to a like nnr-
 pose. Mir, Stephens agaln resnm;p,
 promised to read copies of letters sd'
 dressed to citizens here by hIm when .,
 Prescott. Tins, however, he failed in do
 out gave what purported to be an expIa, nation of them. In the course of his remarks he recouBted the various com oinatlons existing in both Houses of the Legislature, the purposes for which they were formed and the almost ,nsnr- mountable difficulties winch. 10 accom-. pllsh certain ends. must be overcome He enriched Tucson with the uniyersitv and poured S250,0O0 a year into her Ian. brought learning and wealth from all fine neighborlng states and territories Tn this country and Mexico, and made Tucson envled for her good fortune. learning and wealth. IL was to do all this on "starter of S25,0O0. that be combined. leagued and lab,red with both houses Of the legislature Both Bob and my self went into the lower house, and nei- ther eat, slept, or drank, so constant and | unrelRxlng were their efforts in behalf l Of the removal of the capitol to Tucson. but 1t WAS all m vain; the combination could not be broken; pledges had been given that could nos be retracted. he | would and Bob would. b1i the others | wouldn't, and without them nothing could be done. Against thls proposition, however. NIT. Maish again took the stand | and said that the lower house was all | right from the first, and that various | combination councllmen had stated to | hlm that they favored the removal of | the capitol to Tucson and would V .te for It, and thus give the move the needed | majority; provided, that joint coun- cilman Stephens, from Tucson, would take the lead. This, however, he refused to do. and the capitol bill went where the woodbine twineth. Mir. Fred G. Hughes corroborated the statement of MT. Maish in every partic- u!ar, and gave further evidence tending to like result Although these state ments were Tn cpntradistinction to those made by MT. Stephens the cries of We believe you" were frequent. NIT. Steph- ems endeavored to reply but the crowd would not hear him Mir Stephens then going out by way of the rear entrance. Whatever truth there may be Tn the reports the writer Is not pre- pared to say, but they were current on the streets last night to the effect that had Mir. Stephens attempted to have left the hall by the main enarance, he would, to say the least. have been abused. The opinion to-day almost universally expressed ls that 1t would have been much better for Mir. Stephens had he not called meeting and attempted his without having the material to do 1t with.