Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-07-31
CALIFORNIA.
StOnrman's Fatal Political BIuuder-Ihe
 Best Hated Man in the state.

ID ilI- state ls uneXAmpleL. Amos
 every one is at sea with q politics macls.rcn in full blast and which vii
 swallow up one or more high official and perhaps wreck tLe prospects of am biu1us privG;es. One certain victim i.
 Gov. StouemaE, and another, temporar-
 l!y Ht least, is Senator Hearst. It is Int
 tie .ess than political miracle for ( governor to call one extra session Of the
 legislature and not Tn the sl me act per.
 maneutly retire himself Co private life | but Co call two In one term, Is tO commit
 certain and deserved political suicide Stonemau's first extra seEsIon resulted
 IF R loss of S7j,OO0 to the state and iu Do
 good: his second, Es the case appears al
 the end Ot the first week. will end like
 w.st. Doubtless tYo-thirJs of the
 members and many private citizens rs- guestei hIm tO call two sesCiuns, but he
 wIll be held responsible. There was no
 extraordinary occasion, such as the con
 stitutiOn contemp plates, demandiug an extra session, especially in view Ot the
 fact that the people are preparing to
 cleo. new legislature to meet within 1 SIX months in regular session; and ths | questions which the governor assumes | mskc up ths extraordinary occasion
 were being discussed and needed fur l ;her discussion before legislative acton l on them. Owing Co his lack Oi political [ wisdom, the governor has set personal, | p0litiCRi and financial interests tO clash luy m Gu uueXnmDled manner. Although | prominent democrats and republicans
 united in requesting him to call the ex- | tra session, leading democrats admit | theiE party x responsible and will suffer | most by It. The governor evidently be- | lLeved the popular demand to reverse | the riparian decision of the supreme | court, was go strong that If he catered to | it just IT. advance of the state nOmina- | ting convention, Ee would be Tenomiua- | ted and elected with ease. Having no | political sense tO gG'de him, he easily | fell into trap set by men who ilattered | but cared nothing for him. He left the command of She military department of Arizona under a cloud Of Obstinacy and l Inetficleucy. He reached this state dur ing tLe kearuey sand lot excitement. Without the slightest sympathy for either rf tue great raTtics of the cOun- try and Lone for the kraruey party, he
 united his fortunes w!th the latter aud
 by II was chosen Railroad Com mmlssioner
 and most everybody believes hs official
 acts conceded with the railway inter est5. In desire Co capture the Rear ney party. the democratic party, with
 the aIi of railway influence, nominated
 and elected hIn governor. There IS
 hardly s doubt but his first extra ses- sion called t1 "c.nch the railroads, re- suited Co their advantage. So the present session called, Osteusibiy gt least, Co pro- mote irrigation by appropriation of wa tcEs, will end to its injury. Elected as Gn GutI-raiirUad Commissioner, his acts operated Co benefit the railroads: bis extra session was called tl "ciuch" rnil- roads and benefited them; Lis second extra, apparently Co promote irrigation, will almost certainly Ljure i and as a sand-lot democrat, he will II.Ire If be don't seriously cripple the denOcratic party.
 A in Arizona. StOnemGn puts faith in men who iiatttr but care nothing for Llm. Father ;haI In men who honestly desire the p.J.-c good snl try to 20 ad- vIst lI-l; the former sting Ein as soon Ls be ceases Co be useiu. Co them and the latter consistently damn him for a ;UJ!. fool, etc. N1UE readers know some thing oi Frank PiXley and his ArRO- nauI We'll, "HIx was a Park COmmis- si1uer and wanted aod expected Stone man Co continue him. \ few months since, H.zley s term expired and another was appointed Park Commissioner. E.Xiey vas evidently euraeei as we'll as disappointed. He immediately made a tr.p t1 Alaska. which failed to calm him. a, ,he Argonaut shows. The office Is without salary but carries with it power and prominence. Las: Saturdays Ar goELut refers to tie governor ID this un- brOtEeTly way;
 "N hat k Co be :he outcome Ui this un- l expected freak of sn imbeciie governor, | no one can quite conjecture. Of course | this poor, old, half-witted. political im- l competent, has made some bargains l Go advance his own interests, and l equally of course he will be fooled, for l uI man 10 tbe state feels in honor | bound to keep faith with StonemRn. l fo. St1neman keeps faith with no man; Ee does not keep his word t0 himself l He has .be respect Of no man and does l not even enjoy his own esteem. Al the | m5, bargain or 10 bargain. StOnemHn VIII not be governor The ArgOnau. | vIl g,ye handsome donation tO a | y.u.-Ia hospital for dogs, If the demo | cratic party wIil nominate Mr. George | St.urman Its candidate for governor, | and then wager the pups that he will be | C. slattl."
 J. IS qnitc as clear FIxley Is sore l headed Gs It iF that he is too sever re | II. ls one ot the kind of friends Stone ua1 has had. PiXlty made the ArgO | ....H H.Hr.Hrn.. 4 outraged and justly iucensed people, l ali hH gloTied ID their butcherIes, | v vliJA he called self defeuse. Ills friend slip probably wHs useless tD the gov eruJr and his savage opposition will do nO harm, for the thIukjnE, uuselhsh and conservative people are J:rayed against Llm on better grounds than d.sappoInt- :--ut Go receive office at bis hands.
 While the irTigHiiouists in whose in terC5t the extra session has been called, Vll! probably be loser, they cannot inst 2 CtnsuTe the governor. They have been guilty ot tLe same offeIsss he has. They have both attacked the upreme court ln Rn iudefeIsib!e manner. The courts riparian dec;-Ion coaiormed to the law of thIs state, but wss adverse t0 tEe general welfare and the customs of l4- Irtllt "hch to me earnest -ttllt- ne.ts on this coast. and might have been rendered n harmony with them without violating the spirit of the law. E-t Io matter how niu-t the iecIsIan, tie people never ought to tolerate an executive effort to destroy the judiciary. Bat for this f0oli-h effort, there is hard iy 1onbt hUt tGe people this coming e!gcilau would have filed the vacancies in supreme cour, with iuiEeS who, with th.-. hrii'1c ovsr, and fsy orahia to IT, Ti-a'iuH by appropriation, would have r.' -gG thF OHruXi0gs iccI-Iuu. but ;h.- string up gf political, p-r-ouAl and trarl!a. inter. t- iu face O; tba election. make tue result doubtful. The ouly good to come Cf it EN, Gs predicted by nearly eyeTy one. i- the pe-msueu, retire meut ot Stoneusn tO private life, but bis luck uly dsappoint The people gpeiv. T.. W.
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