Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-06-15
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
SATURDAY JUNE 15, 1889,
THE SURVEYOR GENERALsHIP

& Maiden Lane and Church Street THE SURVEYOR GENERALSHIP
 There are many candidates for the office of Surveyor General of Arizona, several of whom are gentlemen of the highest responsibility, any one of whom If appointed, would fill the office accepta- ply, but, in the opinion of the CITIZEN Royal A. Johnson is the party to whom the appointment should go. Arizona has no better citizen, and the Republi- can party no more devoted adherent. His loyalty to the interests of the territory and his devotion to his po- litical principles together with his large and varied knowledge of land matters, mark him as especially we'll fitted for the place. During his previous term of office he won the concentrations of the great majority of people among whom he lived or with whom he had business transactions, and these same people would indeed be pleased to learn of his
 
 reappointment to the office he so worthy filled, prior to the advent of the present democratic administration. The only opposition to MT. Johnson comes from a private land ring in Phenix, and this be- cause he consistently refused to be made tool of or in anyway become a party to their land iobbing schemes.
 When Surveyor General he signifed his intentions of making report on the infamous Peralta villiany, but the Phenir ring was not yet ripe for such a movement so they raised the hue and cry of fraud. Un- deterred he continued his investigations and it was the result of inquiries made in Spain, through the Department of State, at his request the damaging and damning evidences of the Reavis conspiracy was secured. Later on when the plans of this same ring had matured, they were equally as loud in calling for report as two years be- fore they had been in their denuncia- tions against it. They bitterly attack ed General Hise because he refused to be used in the matter and even went so far as to threaten him with dismissal unless he signed areport they had had prepared for him. Commissioner Stock slager learning of what W as in progress, speedily forbade said report being made  upon something he declared had no existence in fact. This letter was i'm portant and largely calculated to ap- of the Salt River valley, said distrust and fears have been excited by the ring in furtherance of their own nefarious schemes. In proof of this the ring or gans did not dare republish the letter in question, although urge1 by the CITIZEN to do so, on behalf of the people But their little jig was up and their clamor for report went out of sight and hearing on the current of the Salt. But Johnson's candidacy does not please the ring and they propose to down
 
 they have industriously circulated pro- tests against him and by false represen- tations have succeeded in getting them quite numerously signed. We do not, however, believe these protests will have any bearing with the appointive power, as the means taken to secure them were neither truthful nor honora- ble, and this fact will not be lost sight of by MT. Johnson's friends, who are many As an evidence of the desperate straights to which they are driven,and the unscru- pulous disregard for what is right and just we hereby append an editorial pro- test from the Tombstone Epitaph regard ing the misstatements made in relation thereto by the Herald. Many other ac- tions of the ring organs are on parallel with this class of dirty work. It says:
 THE Daily Epitaph would respectful ly call the attention of the Phenix Her aid to the fact that in quoting an arti- cle from this paper, respecting the of flee of Surveyor General, they made an important omission. As quoted in the Herald we are made to say that MT. Johnston is justly suspected of being in favor of the Peralta land grant. What we did say was that it is our opinion that he is uniustly accused. While not be- ing in favor of MT. Johnson's appoint ment, We do not wish to be quoted as casting aspersions on his character when such is not the case.