Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1888-10-10
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 3d arraigns Judge ONeill on some dozen or more different counts Some are specific, some are only insinuating in their nature. while none of them are of a serious nature, as re- feet,rg on the integrity or hcnor of the candidate for sheriff or the qualifications possessed by him over his nval to 6ll the position. We are pleased to note also in connection with these specifications, that unlike SO much campaign material used by some democratic papers, they contain no malicious personal abuse. While ss stated there is nothing serious contained in them as efeeting Judge O'Neill we will give them such notice as they meait.
 The question of the raise of a5 per cent of the poll taxes by the last demo- cratic legislature, the raise of the road tax Ioo Der cent and the raise of the interest on county warrants a5 per ci:nt all of which has been condemned by Judge O'Neill is something which does not affect hls candidacy tor the sherirf's office further than to show that he is in accord with the best interests of tax payers on these questions.
 The special appropriation $500 charge was fully answered in our Last issue. The appropriation was for scr- vices rendered as court reporter for which he had never been paid. The account, we have been informed, was attested to as being correct by the clerk of the court where the services were rendered.
 Of 'his alleged connection with reg istratiOn frauds we have known nothing. As the acti' n on which this trumped up delegation" is based happened twoyears ago, Wm. Wilkerson the then recorder of the county must have had cognizance of such frauds if they were perpetrated or attempted. Perhaps an affidavit could be procured from MT. Wilkerson on the subject the same as has been promised on the Courier's Howell road steal," of which J. R. Walker was a commissioner.
 As to Chow he can get paid for re- porting in court" we respectfully refer our contemporary to Judge Wright who employs him and audits his bills.
 As to his success in getting his money for the same work Judge Wright .an also be consulted for an answer, suffice it for us to say that the county treasurer pad the money on the written order of
 Judge Wright. Is there anything crinl-
 inal in ,hat1
 "How two years ago he was charged
 withtrading, etc." A Acharge is one thing.
 proof another. A republican sentle-
 man who was with Judge O'Neiil
 when that was alleged to have happened
 most emphatically denieis it. Instead of making bare assertions brings on tur proof. The same thing IS charged against the democratic candidate for sheriff SO that as far as asserti ms or charges are concerned, honors gre easy with the two candidates.
 i'he silliest charge of the whole list enumerated is that of having taken $50 from the special live stock fund for ad' vertisirg done in connection with 1t The explanation to that is very simple The $50 was received from the I've stock sanitary cd dkmission IT work done for it If we mis- take not our democratic contemporary got grab" from the same fund. Does anyone question the right of either paper to collect pay for work done9 This brings us to the most patht tic one in the whole array of charges, VIZ
 that 'the ring had no use for such good and useful men as T. J. Eaman." Ho" the average citizen, when defeated foI nomination for an office in his party
 has his good qualities extolled by the opposition papers. We know how l. IS ourself, having shed whole keg fall "a fifty pound keg at ttat--of great black inky tears over the defeat of some, distinguished democratic citizen whose sacrifices to the party were beyond com
 pute, but owing to the ingratitude of its representatives the party hads at do Sn on him, and sat down hard. It IS always a natural and easy thing for . paper to see more manly virtues, greater intellectual qualifications, a higher sense of honor, and so on through the whole category of good qualities, in the opposi tion fellow who gets left than Tn the one nominated although the latter may be really superior in every respect So Il is with this case mentioned by our con- temporary. If the other fellow had been lett he would have been referred to in the same agonizing, fearful and sympathetic strain. 70 go ahead w.th your s.other matters" And in the mean time suppose we have definite answer on the subject of sthe Howell road steal. Was it really steal as alleged persis' tently for five years and as such is Mir. Walker guilty of it or was the iaform'- tion leading up to the above assertion false and was a mistake made in such assertions. An article on the subject of grand juries. and the part MT. Walker took a' a member of one. which had under con- 1 sideration the presentation of an indict ment against E. ]. Cook, the defaultlne democrat county treasurer. might prove
 interesting to large portion of the c't'- zens of this county who have never bt er able to understand exactly how the fel- low who stole thousands. escaped the consequences 0! his crime. while the 1 man who missappropriates $I5 burro goes to Yuma for it. Mir. Walkers persor al rsminiscences on this subject would prove equally interesting and highly enlightening to the people of this county as any explanation Judge ONeil
 is asked to make. MT. Walker was
 bondsman of Mr. Cook. He vas also a member of the grand jury which considered his case but failed to indics him. How did this coincidence hap nen