Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-06-15
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

ernment Tn Arizona will pass under re-
 publican guidance. It is provision of
 our form of government that all its off
 cers holding Presidential appointments,
 are subject to the will of the President.
 It is in this way that the Chief Execu-
 tive is assured of being able to fill the
 offices by men thoroughly in accord with his administration, and helpful in mak-
 ing successes where a non believer or
 disinterested party would score failures, either from lack of enthusiasm or from
 intentional opposition or neglect. What
 applies to the national government
 is equally applicable to our own terri torial government. When a republican
 governor assumed control of territorial
 affairs in Arizona, it was naturally ex-
 pected, and expected by both parties,
 that he would exercise his appointing
 power in the direction of surrounding
 himself by political friends in whose
 ability and integity he had perfect conf
 dence. 1t would be the heighth of un-
 reasonable conclusion to entertain diff ferent opinion, and the best element in
 the democratic party evidence the wide spread belief that the officials of the ter
 ritory should be in political accord with
 the governor by their frequent expres-
 sions of disgust for their political breth-
 ren who insist on hanging to the coat
 tail of the republican party-a and refuse
 to relinquish their hold, even amid the
 satire and scoff of their opponents, the
 contempt and disgust of their own
 party.
 Acting upon the first dictates of sense and policy, the republican governor ap- pointed republicans to the territorial offices immediately upon the advent of
 his administration, and that the ap- pointees were good men is amply proven
 by the manner in which the press throughout the territory received the matter, and eulogized the governor for selecting such excellent timber for the territorial ship. After the appointments were made and confirmed by the coun- cil, we witnessed a very degrading sight
 both from political and manly stand
 point. The men who had been ap-
 pointed by Zulick, amid the condemna- tion of his own party, for which he for feited the remnant of democratic respect that he still possessed refused to be kicked out of republican quarters, but preferred to remain in the republican camp where their position IS not unlike that of war spy in hostile days, caves dropping and prying into the affairs of the enemies camp. What position of stultification for men supposed to be worthy of their party confidence, and to be among the leaders of their party. Can any more ignominious position be imagined?
 Let us look for a moment at the event ual result of all this political degreda- tion, and what the outcome will be in the end. Atpresent this party parasite, consisting of wOuld-be democratic off cials under a Republican governor, is feeling jubilant over the decision of Judge Porter. Mandamusing Governor Woliey to sign warrants for the Insane Asylum Board without anything being offered to show their legality, or that the provisions of the law have been complied with. Suppose there should be dozen such makeshift decisions in favor of the Democratic hangers-on, what will the result finally be; it will be that when Congress meets the appoin- tees of the Republican governor will be sustained, and the bondsmen for the democratic claimants will be liable for their actions, and the money they may have been able to get possession of, through mandamns and other nrocesses. In addition to all this, damage suits will lie against the usurpers, and the demo- crats who would bring their entire party in the Territory into disrepute, by pry- ing into the affairs of the Republican camp, and hanging on to the spells of office will get all the litigation they want during the long term of republi- can supremacy that lies before them. Nor is this all. The party that has the misfortune to be hampered with set of professional office holders, who not only persist in having all that their own party can give but extend their hand at selfish greed into the coffers of the Republican regime, is bound to be judged by the doings of this crowd, and as a proper will suffer according to the severity of the judgment of the people before whom they must eventually TJros- trate themselves for political succor at the next election. If the democrats of this Territory can stand up, and should CT the misdeeds of these hangers on to the Republican household, they are in deed a tower of strength, and their Null doom propensities should excite the ad- miration of the territory. but we will venture the opinion that the democratic party will take the stump during the next campaign and make the most stren- uous efforts to repudiate every act of these parasites of the party. They will plead the baby act, and offer to exchange from the fraternal lists of their politi- cal household the very names of these men who are disgracing their party to- day. They will flee from the aroma at tached to their record as officials and blush for their weakness; they will finch l from the mention af their greed, and will grovel in the dust at thoir. own cow ardice in not repudiating these official suckers at the inception of their disgrace ful effort to force themselves on politi- | cal enemy. but will the people ac-