Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-08-28
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
SATURDAY. AUGUST 2s. 1886.
rHEnEMoCRATIC TICKET.

ID spite of their professed intention
 to select the best qualified persons of
 their party for office, the democrats
 have placed ticket in the field that
 courts its overwhelming defeat. Good
 men have been flung contemptuously
 aside and worth and merit drowned ID
 the clsmor and hurrah of blind excite
 ment betrayed by greed.
 There was DO surprise at the nomina-
 tion of E. O. Shaw for sheriff. Some
 to his attorneys that are not yet all liq-
 uidated, and to reimburse those who
 advanced funds to conduct the great
 contest. The office is intended as 8
 firm name of E. O. Shaw ct sl., and the
 contingent interest of the silent part
 ners in the principal member is too
 great to allow any trile, such as the
 public good, to stand in the way of its
 collection.
 The selection of Cameron II. King fcr'
 district attorney, IS only another knot ID
 the same tarred string. Particular pub
 hcity has been given to his "disinterest-
 ed and generous services" in defense of
 the purity of the ballot box. Any man
 with one particle of common sense real
 Izes that this is all bosh, and is cheap
 claptrap to catch the weak minded. It
 was h plsIn, square, business proposi- tlon with fat fees contingent upon suc-
 cess. There was no resulting "purifca.
 ton Of the ballot box" and every prin- ciple ot right and justice which they clsImed to represent. was sacrificed in thelr greed 10 get the office, and when the Psul-5hsw case was compromised solely to get the sheriffNs office, l 1t was tantamount to a bargain and sale | of all their protessed high moral princi- | pies. for a mess of pottage. The nomi- l nation of Mir. King resulted from bis | connection with this case, and the dis | criminating public are left to judge of
 any particular honOrs he acquired in
 that connection.
 For treasurer, the nomination of Judge John $. Wood was perhaps as good 8 selection as the material Of the party permitted. Judge Wood has been fed from the pub
 lie crib ever since Warmers peak was B hole in the ground. and he is even charged with the belief that he holds q life interest In the county's exchequer , His honesty may be uuquestioned, but as the republicans will place man in opposition to him with equally unim- , peachable integrity and far more ability , and qualifications, he will be relegated to private life at the coming election.
 Hon. Fred c. Hughes, for county re- corder, Is perhaps as weal, nomination as the democrats could have made. D There was tune, when the sporting Q element of Tucson metaphorically g ruled the roost, and Mr Hughes en- r Joyed a little bubble of popularity. Hines have changed, and men reflect |, more and look at public affairs and those . who serve them in a ligh. far difTeren. 1, than in the dim and dismal past Mir. o Hughes no longer rides on a popular - wave, gs his defeat at the last election :, gives evidence, and there is but little i, chance of his reaching the home stretch i; in the race when his opponent passes |. under the pole. i,
 For County Judge, tne sdemocrats T nailed their best men to the cross and | | played directly into the hands of the re q, publicans. When they sacrificed Judge i, Lowell, they blundered. and NIT. Perry's e, ability was too exalted for them, while M even MT. Tyler, stranger almost to the Q, of the delegates, knew too |, much law and was too upright man for ,t the sweet uses of democracy. MT. T. is D. Satterwhite, the nominee, will never h, reach the goal he seeks, and it will be un sc 'asy walk-over for any one whom the I, epublioans may place in the field to op- Q, pose him, o, NIT. Earll Webb, for county clerk, IS o- an exception to the quality of the can m lidates nominated by the convention. o, ae IS young man just entering upon .s lis career in the honorable profession of nm he law. and it is one of the greatest of his life to aspire to office at his critical period in his life The bs epublican nominee will save him m ga plte of himself, and give him that op- m, ortunity to acquire ripe experience sn nd honors at the bar, where his talents an, ertainly direct his best efforts. ar, The remainder of the ticket is not In, ominHted st this writing, but unless a poI rest improvement is made upon the blo eneral character of the nominees above zo, oted, there Is no shadow of hope for Mir le election of single democrat at the n, Dming election. uh