Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-08-10
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
 SATURDAY AUGUST 10, 1889
HEAVY ACCUSATIONS.

THE Phenix Herald of July 29th, 1889,
 contains an open letter signed by Hon.
 Wm. H. Hardy, in which he arraigns the
 Democracy in a style that admits of no
 misinterpretation. He starts out by
 telling of his resolution introduced in
 the legislature for an investigation of
 the University, the Insane Asylum and
 the Territorial prison. which resolution
 was the result of many complaints of
 palpable corruption made by
 people to MT. Hardy. This resolution
 had to hay the Governors signature.
 MT. Hardy says when the resolution
 reached the Governor it was held over
 ten days and then vetoed. The council,
 it will be remembered, passed the reso- lution over the Governors veto, but the
 Democrats in the house wanted no In-
 vestigation of Democratic management of the affairs of the institutions referred
 to, and supported the Governor in not
 letting daylight into the Democratic
 methods that had been practiced. MT
 Hardy takes it for granted that there were good reasons for not wanting an in
 vestigation of the University, the Pris- on and the Asylum, and that Zulck himself was anything but anxious to have the prison matters looked into, Tn connection with certain pardons that had been issued by him.
 The charges made against the asylum
 and the university, especially the super intendent of public instruction, MT. Hardy states, were particularly severe. About the asylum, MT. Hardy says it was charged that money had been squandered, and that no books had been kept, '.that the ways and means commit te visited this institution and found as far as we could investigate that the charge was true" Ut was charged among other things that the pay for re- moving the patients from Stockton had been twice paid, once out of the money appropriated to build the asylum m, and remove patients, and once out of the general fund of the Territory
 Mir. Hardy says that it was charged that pardons had been offered for money. In fact the entire letter is a very severe arraignment of the Democratic officials and may furnish an explanation for the efforts of certain individuals to hang on to the office, as the investigation is bound to come if they let go. Every | Democratic taxpayer in the Territory IS | as much interested in learning the truth | or falsity of these charges as a Repub- | lican, in fact he has more at stake. As | a tax payer he is equally interested in | knowing how his money was spent,whe- | ther it has been squandered and misap- | propriated as charged, and as member l of the Democratic party he has to help l shoulder the responsibility of these oifi- cials trying to hang on, when it may well be inferred they hang on possibly to cover up something they may not wish made public. The same Democratic residents and tax payers ought to do everything they can to open up a thor ough investigation, and if the officials have been guilty let the guilty be pun ished and punished adequately. They ought to be anxious to have their party | cleared of the very grave charges against certain members of it. The only way | the party can escape responsibility for derelict members is to aid in throwing all possible light on their question able transaction, and not undertake to hide them and shield the cul- spr1ts. They should court investigation and let the results of such investiga- tion fall where they belong. No party can afford to aid those hangers on, when it is charged that they are in their posi- tions as impediments to lawful investi- cations