The Arizona champion., 1889-04-20

you nave exprndeu upon rod' that were f T Prescotl's bsneht alone. We have paid our taxes, but we have never bees recognized as part of you. save Tn election md tax gathering times. Your records will show that we have never received the benefit of but sIo,3as of this enormous debt but ye are willing, in the face of all this, in order 10 escape travelling I6o miles to the county seat and from paying SS, ,oor 10 Sio,ooo a year for the privilege of doing our court and county seat business at Prescott to shoulder onr pro rata of the indebtedness which would be about SiSo, 900. No you are not satisfied, "you want the pound of flesh" We believe if we con sented to a division on the terms of the Prescott people, it would be like the lrishman dividing the four dollats betw cen three of them; "Here IS two dollars for ye two, and here is two dollars for We too," and we would be the two irishmen. ......
 "The only astonishing feature of the whole transaction is that they could have received major. ity in either house 10 carry such an unjust measure" This IS now it was: It came upon its merits n the house and passed with I6 votes to 8, with three more for the affirmative, if necessary, bu, through the connivance of yo1r man Friday, who was elected to represent Yavapai, but who ig
 nored the minority, and as all oth
 CT Prescott men do, considered
 Prescott the entire county of Yav
 apai, prevented the bull from com
 ing up on its merits, as he was un- able to show wherein it was unjust.
 He covered himself with glory and will go down 10 posterity as one of the greatest parliamentarian that ever lived, be making mo
 ton "to go into an executive ses. sion 10 consider the governors ap- pointments": but the appoint
 ments proved to be "Cuconlno, !" and she was laid upon the table.
 Is there a parallel case in the his tory of America, or the world |, where legislative body pulled down the veil of secrecy to coaSi- der general legislation? Does it not look to man up tree as though there was a n'gger in the fence and that !, ou dare not meet the bill upon Its merits. We know your statement, is false, "lhat ar. dent advocates of county divis
 ion when they visited Phenix and found out the provisions oi the pill, left in disgust, refusing to work for it," utterly false, and we know that your most ardent sup
 porters were ashamed of the COW. ardly, sneaking way in which the bill was disposed ot in executive session, but they did not dare to meet 1t on its merits, for if they had, some men of the council who pledged themselves to Prescott, men upon a misrepresentation of facts would have kicked ou. of the traces, ard the baby Coconino would have laughed in scorn al Mother Yavapai. Poor old mother, your children have always had 10 support you and when they cease to furnish you grub you will surely b. in a lamentabie condition.
 "Had county division on a fair basis been asked for. it could have been accomplished" If this was true, why did you compel every man that lived in the north ern portion of the county in both the Republican and Democratic conventions to pledge himself against county division? Why dl d ycu sheer ard laugh al us when we went 10 you and asked that lines be agreed upon that We might leave you as frlendse No, you said fight, and you sue cecded, but your success Is noth ing 10 be proud of, for jostice sooner or later will give It to us, and we will never get 1t with your consent. When we get