Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-10-24
Tho Republican Candidate Sos
 County Recorder.

Tho Republican Candidate fos
 County Recorder.
 Few men in Yavspai county can pre-
 sent better claims for the suppert ol
 their fellow citissns than Charley A.
 Akers, the Republican candidatelfor
 county recorder. For ten years Char ley Akers has labored in the mountain
 and on the mesas of Yavspai county,
 seeking in the mines, in the lumber
 canPs, and on the cattle ranges, to
 earn an honcst living by honorable toll. He has eaten of the bread of poverty. and yet no man ever found him co
 poor as to refuse recognition to the claims of chality and distress. All
 that he has made in Yxvspai county
 is iere, and the tax list of the county
 will show that for years he has played
 mans part in contributing h,s share
 to the public treasury. He now asks
 that his claims to tho recognition of
 his fellow citizens be at least respected
 and regarded. He makes nc plea of
 poverty nor lugs in the tender ties of
 his family to influence or bias his fellow citizens in his behalf. He is manly man and prefers to fight manly fight, and has not, and will not resort to the l tricks of the msndicaHt to win his way into office. Were he or his friends dis l posed, they might tell of . widowed l mother whom he has for years sup ported, but such plea should be made for aims direct, aud not for votes. He simply asks that in considering his claims his fellew citizens will consider the fact that he is a able and comps- 1 tent t0 fill the office as is his opponent. That they ask themselves, that while they have done much fer Mr. Horne and Mr. H0rne's family, what has Mr Horne done for them! For years hs has been resident of Yavapai county, yet not co tt has he ever contributed to the pu lie welfare; for two years he l,a;s held an office that has paid him three thousand dollars year, yet whom has it benefited except him.slf. If there he any obligations at all in ths matter of Ar. Horne and his fellow it is certainly net on the side of the latter, for they have been more lhan generous with Mr. Horne and MT. Horne's family. While they have given [ or years to MT. Horne, himself, one of , he most lucrative offices in Yavapai county, they have also taken his only ,, brother, educated him at West Point at he public expense and made an officer n the army of him. If there had ,een moro brothers they might have lone more for Mr. Horne and his kin; ls it is they have already pensiened 10th Of them. Not satisfied with this MT. Horne now again pre- ' ents his plea of poverty to his fellow itizsns of Yavapai county, and in an way supplicates their sup 'Ort. Whether or not his plea is :; rue one none may know but himself. !! he has nothing, as he proclsims, ;t is certainly not the fault of his fellow h itizens, for they have dealt most lib- t rally with him, and if it be not true , 'hy does he not pay taxes on at least f,
 portion of the many theusa nds of D "llars that Yavapai county has lready paid him? In securing the n oft things to be had in Yavspai n "unty, Mir. Horne has already been . nost fortunate. No man has ever seen | k i'm toll ia our mines nor elsewhere I, 1here hard work was involved. His f, ands have never grown hard and il orny with any ioil, unless it might be he fatiguing work of shaking his fel- f, ow citizens by the hand-a work at q mich he labors 30 assiduOusly on the q ve Of an election, and which he finds Il DO fatiguing to pursue when an ele- E On ia paat Iv