Tombstone epitaph., 1888-05-05
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 thus far among the members of the
 city government, has been broken b, Juuge Reilly. The Mayor and Council
 of this city have lAbored honestly and diligently in behalf of the interests oi
 the city. They receive no compensation f for their services. Some of them are
 mechanics who can i'll afford to lose a day to tend to other peoples business, yet they have done it without murmur
 time and again. Why the City Attorney
 who is we'll paid for his services, which
 are nominal, and who is financially betrer
 off than any member of the Council,
 should ask for greater Compensation
 than he already receives each month, is
 one of those things mo fellah can find out. Pr, spector.
 EDITOR EPITAPH:-The foregoing appeared as an editorial in the Prospector of yesterday, for which l presume Mir. Bagg is responsible. and which know starts out with falsehood, known 10 Mr.
 Bagg to be such. The death of the harmony existing among the members of the city government, so pathetically bewailed by the Prospector, occurred nearly year ago when Messrs. C. N. Thomas and 5. C. Bagg, after being mainly instrumental in allowing the Prospector three times its contract price in contingent fund warrants for city printing. on the plea that warrants were depreciated, proceeded to gerrymander the city council, and make themselves majority of five members and against the expressed vote of the other three members procured transfer of nearly all the money in the general fund, pledged by the charter and ordinances to the payment of warrants nearly four years overdue, to the contingent fund to pay their own and the Prospector's war rants, thereby cheating and dehauding all holders of general fund warrants, and depreciatlns them, so that such warrants have never since sold for more than 2s cents on the dollar in store trade, and have even been refused by traders and money lenders at any price.
 As to the honest diligence, etc., of a few members of the city council, no one doubts that, But for the honesty of the others, let the above facts and some further facts, which are perhaps too per sonal to print now, but we'll known to dozens of people in Tombstone, show.
 And now for the we'll paid city attorney whose services are nominal, and is finan- cially better, etc. First, the record will show that the present city attorney has done more work as such officer for $50 per month salary and fees, averaging about $ao per month so far, than any city attorney during the same period for the past six years, and has paid into the city treasury more delinquent taxes than have been paid in for the three years pror to his term, while former city attorneys had salary of SIoo per month, and at least twice the fees now allowed, and that salary and fees were not allowed by the legislature, but by MT. Thomas and his fellow councilman.
 It is also easy of proot that the city attorneys office has had full as much, if not more work, as the office of the district attorney during the past year, though the latter officer has s35oo per year. But MT. Bagg thinks the services nominal and we'll paid, etc. But this is out of the question. If these honest men are pleased to take any office with out salary or fee, that is their affair, and l cannot see that such fact gives them the right or even an excuse to take from. me the compensation allowed me by law, and cover it into the city treasury to make good the defalcations and plum derings of Mayor Thomas pets.
 1 took the office for the compensation allowed by law, and propose to get it, and l do not pr0pose to pay or beg for it, while the mayors friends in office can get or take more than the law al lows them, because they are his friends mot to to give a more uncharitable reason.
 In conclusion. MT. Editor, l do not want any newspaper controversy, and much less do 1 desire to try lawsuit Tn that way, but have no reason to shrink from controversy, and this is about the third or fourth time since the gerryman- dering and hocus pocus of city funds that have mentioned above, that Thomas and Bagg have used the Pros pector for the same purpose as now-to slur me and 70 laud an honest, dlligent, etc., city council at my expense. Ii Mayor Thomas and Bagg desire to at. tack me let them show themselves and do so in their own name and not from behind an honest, diligent council, for there are at least two members of that body who are honest and with whom l have never disagreed except when they took the orders of Mayor Thomas against what I thought their duty, and then il was merely diff.rance of opinion in good temper and continued friendship, and if they do so, I will try to defend myself and make it interesting.
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