Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-08-21
Senator Hardy Hoard From.
KtNcMAN, August 10, 1889.

ktNGMAN, august 10 Ioo9'
 EDITOR JoUREAL-MiNER:-i notice that the Courier manages to prefer charges against me. It appears that the Courier man excuses the democratic party, because l sold tobacco for live dollars per pound, or cook stoves tor $soo each. The leaders cf the demo- crate party had sigh, to steal the ter ritory, or any pant of il. Le, us try the Courier man on question: What has become of the money that the United States marshal paid 10 the prison com missioners, or some orc connected with prison affairs, for board oi United States prisoners for four years pastf It was reported to ths ways and means con- m.ttee of the council that it amounted to near $so.ooo. The territorial auditor in his report referred to the matter. Has this large sum of money gone where the woodbine twinethr Has 1t been "blown in?'s There are many questions of this kind that should be answered m business way, not by charging Hardy oi selling tobacco at S a pound. That would no, be a crime; it it WAS, two wrongs do not make a right.
 A man who happened to be nem- Der of the noted thirteenth legislature told me that he was one of the ways and means comuittee of the house, and that J. Ii. Marion (Old Smooshey} put in bill of $ss,ooo @ for printing. Tre committee hesita,ed and h~gan to measure columns, when the bill was spirited away and .fraily reduced to $,a ,ooe {!) and collected t$ss,ooo lfl tor about $I,oco worth of work is pretty good. Then this same old Smoothey has the face and cheek to accuse the republican administrator of being extravasant, Here is the point, and IL cannot be denied or proven to the satisfaction of large majority of the people of the territory, that for over twenty years we had tramps or non-resi- dents of Arizona sent here as Federal officials. and they sold out nearly all the patronage of their offices to democrats. Then when Cleveland was elected the democratic papers got up howl to turn the rascals out, but it so happened that the majority of the rascals were demo- crats. The judges claimed that their offices were not political, but they man. aged to appoint democrats for clerks of their courts, and these clerks made use of their offices to strengthen their party. To prove this I need enly to refer to the acts of the clerk of Yavapai county. always believed that there was money used in ail of these matters. The dem- ocrats finally got dose. They got set of tramps for federal officials. But will give the party credit for being little consistent by spells. They did uo. endorse the tramp officials in con ven,ion, but the democratic papers are trying te patch matters up and lie out of a bad job. Honesty is the best policy even in politics. The present administration has begun 10 make the appointments from citizens of the terri tory. hence the change of affairs. The Republican party has no dead weight to carry at present, and should expose the ditty tricks of the un,ern6ed democracy and show matters up as they really are. Mir. Marion, please tell us what has been done with the $ao.ooo that was paid for board of United States prison CTS. By referring to the returns of the United States marshal at Washington, 1t can be found out just what was paid, and If the officials gave good boads, the matter can be collected, but talk about crooked work, the past four years has been a crooked mess of crookedness.
 VIM. II. HARDY.