Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-08-24
ANOTHER DEMOCRAT.
Favors the Constitutional Convention "A Printed Letter from Pantana ..Pro and Con.

-.Pro and Con.
 ED. CITIZEN: I favor the propose, convention.
 1. It is the law, duly enacte,
 by the representatives of the people and wise or unwise, should not b, thwarted by the executor or elector.
 2. Becoming a state means, sover eighty, home-ruie, freedom of action stable credit, improved financial stand ing, national representation, electior and supervision of officials, the possession ot all the rights, immunities and benefit! belonging to the commonwealth, ana the embodiment of principles tried, ad opted and found satisfactory by all tht states, and in process of adoption b! other Territories, preccdents in harmony with the American political system, only antagonized in Arizona.
 g. It is time to change reckless Ter ritorial ,protracted leglsia- lures. dual sets of officials, official ap- pointments, made to correspond with a political complexion of the dominant party in the United States and against the desire of the majority in the Terri tory.
 4. Some say: Territorial debt al ready large and high taxation. Answer: the better reason to change the sys- tenn and adopt an improved remedy. They say the costs would be ruinous- from S600O0 to a s100.0O0. Take your pencil, be liberal in every allowance, and actual calculation will show that for one half of the lowest estimates of these exaggerated amoIntS, the election convention and submission again can be had and accomplished. have read of penny wise and pound foolish"
 ,: Above all,I desire once more to live again in the United States and vote for president.
 J.D. McCABE.
 Is there anything in the rumor here that commercial traveller passing through Nevada heard a stranger in a saloon remark that he was of the i'm pression that as a state, Nevada was not a success" The inquiry is made in good faith and might change mp opinion, pro ylQed nved ID NeVaua.
 SPICY LETTER.
 PANTANo, Arizona, Aug 18th, 1889.
 ED. CITIZEN: In allowing the use of your columns for the discussion of vital public question. you are conserving the best interests of the people, which will be greatfully remembered by those who recognize your manly, upright course during the many years you have been connected with the press of Arizona.
 The world honors man when he is worthy, and despises him when he is not In upholding the interests of our people against insidious, rogues and abuses, you incur the malign hatred and vulgar inyectives of a class of sore heads, who would, when they have the sink the Territory in debt, disgrace and ruin; and whose only stock in trade is villification of the people who do not coincide with their nefarious schemes.
 It may be pertinent to ask, by what certain individual designates the good citizens who have the courage to give their views in the columns of the CITIZEN, on momentuous question of paramount importance, as "mCuth Ings of men who are totally ignorant of what they are discussing!"
 From this it must of course be inferred, that every person is a stupid ignoramus. save the infallible, immutable and i'm maculate sage which hovers around the Delphic shades of Salt River, and who, rom his supermundane perch, fulmi- hates such dire anathemas against those who neither believe in him, his opinions or his spurious politics, and whose sub lime cheek is on par with his maudlin 
 One gentleman mentions a great hero of antiquity to show how stupid and be- nighted we are; but I fail to perceive the dim vista of twenty-five and half centuries, what connection the hero of Leuctra and Mantinea can have with the meeting of a convention in Arizona, or where the analogy comes in. except that when the great soldier fell at Mantinea, Thebes fell with him, and In that connection, perhaps, it may be somewhat applicable.
 We have another luminary who main tains that because forsooth, our whilom legislators passed law for the holding of convention. that We must have one at all hazards.
 It would be sad day for Arizona if everything thaHemanated from our leg islators was law; and suppose the peo- ole paid no attention to such law, or took any notice of it, and which two things they are undoubtedly going to do, and will follow the even tenor of their usual way, in the classic vernacular of Mir. Wm. Tweed. What are you going to do about it?,' Why, fall into inoc- uous desuetude, is how MT. Cleveland would put it, and that's about the size of it.
 All your correspondents have given cogent and tangible reasons against this convention, with few excep- tions, but that, of Mir. Brewster Cameron is by far the best; he has exhausted the subject in forcible, verse and vigorous article, with grim irony that is pung ent and caustic, when speaking Of the way our lawmakers occupied their time in this convention business, when they were not sent there for that purpose. l can add nothing to that gentleman's ar further than to ask. with him, Are we capable of self government? and in reply to this interrogatory I emphati- cally say no. that is, if we are to judge those who would constitute our future by those of the past, and whose collected wisdom, two years ago, gave to the world that iumbled mass of crude absurdities, now called the laws of Arizona, it may be pertinent to ask who would be the beneficiaries by this proposed convention and the squander- ing of some quarter of million of the peoples taxes? My neighbor answers it would be boom to a little bunch of shysters who are squatted around the small hamlets and mining camps, who have no interests in the territory, and who have more time at their command than they have dollars or clients
 The next class and they are q numer- ous one, are the political threadbare nondescripts who are periodically dump ed on the territory, are always on the ragged edge, and to whom, in ther own estimation, all the offices of right be-