Arizona silver belt., 1888-07-28
cooD monSuya JOHN.

uelith, anu hoNnS theSe lew lines may find you enjoying tho same bles. sing, we, nevertheless, have to express our fears that you may have the hsayes consequent oC a diet of gram ma hay, tho same which you contract ed, May 10th, 1881, to deliver to the quarteruastsr at Whipple Barracks, but did not delyer worth cent. If our1ears are correctly grounded that it IS tho heaees that alflicts the pro- p&ator of the Courier, we sincerely hope that he may not bo disturbed with such Q cough as it visits upon horses, which, when 1t takes back ward turn, does net alone proceed from the mouth.
 The Courier of July 20th, after the manner of Thucydl6es, with the grace and sentiment of Tatttus, and infused with the dignity and grandeur of Iavy, inditeS G column to the BELr, m which arc interspersed unbecoming ep- ithsis, meant to give us intense pain, such as, you lie,' 'unweaned states man, "Spiteiul gas, "ehieftain num- my of the BELT, "Old Bile, and "tis- win consuming squad" John was neyar noted for hls modasty, and in this instance quotes tho Hoof and itern as follows; John Marion who, iu the early sunrise of Arizona's his tory, blazed the way for civilization to fellow;' and 1t might still mere truth fully have added, still blazing away at tho BELT and Star, wEo stoutly refuse to be entrappad by the alluremsnts that the Courisr is great and that Marion is the attachment that capti- yateg tho enlightened throng, and who studies to inform himself, in order that bis readers may not halt between right and wrong, and after reading the Courier, and believing in it's fdel- fly to truth, they renaw life's journey with s0fyashed and swelling hope.
 The sueoct now engaging the Con- rier is in reference to Marlon's con tract, of 1884, to furnish hay at Whip pie Barracks, and for the failure of which he was mulct in the sum of s1Q4245. Although Mark Smith put relief bill through both houses of Congress, the President killed the msrconary measure by veto, deem ing it claim upon thu National Treasury having neither law nor jus tiee for its support. John is mad and gives place in his columns to tue fol- lowing ln reference to President Cleveland for his veto of the bill for his relief: "Presldent Cleveland, with his internal and everlasting habit of vetoing, thought he caught soms Re publican trick, and at once sealed its fate wlth his Yeto.' The trick, how ever, was not Republican, but Deme- cratic throughout, and, therefore, more credita lla to 9 Democratic President for having refused hls approval of the bill which, indeed, was a severe blow to the man of universal requirements, and who did not find out until after the veto that our President, the oracle of Democracy, "had an internal and everlasting habit of yetoing measures in the face of the calm, unbiased judg- meat of Congress"
 John is lied over hIs loss and vents his spleen upon his neighbors. In our article Of July 7th, to winch he refers, we stated, quoting Mark Smith, that this Congressional legislation was b relieve him from tho consequences of a suit instituted by the Government for the collection of the difference ba- tween his contract bid and the amount paid for hay bought in open market. J ohm says, "GoYernment never secured judgment against us. h fact it has never tried to do so. It has not found 1t necessary" But he continues, and quotes the Phoenix Gazette as follows, "Jhe GoYernment with it's grasplng tendencies, brought q suit and ob- tainod a judgment against him (Ma- rion) of about S1O0O, in the nature of damages, and proceeded 10 collect it by law And tho fact remains that, n tho records of the District Court al Prescott, can be easily found the files of an action entitled, "The United States, plaintiff, vs. John II. Marion ct als defendants,' which concerns this same hay contract. We are sorry, John to doubt your word about this suit, but you should not have been so nasty in referring to the Gazette for a drop of consolation.
 Government hay contracts have damaged many Arizonans and you have several neighbors, John, whe can synpathize with your aflietion. The only difference between you is, that Hance, Bean, Ellis, Dawes ot als, did not seek for an act of Congress as a sclace fer their sorrows.
 We regret to see by the Courier that you are kicking" at the action ofyour President, but hope that in a short time you will be able to bear