The Clifton clarion., 1889-05-22
Tho Truth of It.

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 Judge. quote your favorite author when I say, "Thrice armed is he who hath his quarrel just" but in my case you will find that l am invulnerable. You lied when you told me that you were not the editor of that conserva- ter of public opinion whose columns bear the ear-marks of the sans-culottes who form its crew. You tell the truth when you say that applied for the position when the sage of Aravaipa gave up in despair I was democrat and drank whisky. What answer did you get, Judge, when the C. A. R. black-listed you? - -
 Yes, yon still hold the stem of the Bladder; so you can tell the people in the dialetic manner which makes your effusions so notorious, and which have attracted unusual attention for the wig orous and aggressive replies which a gentleman of your high social and political rank and literary reputation should have condesceudedto answer TIE CLAR1oS's monkey.
 Tell us, now that you have the pow CT, why it is that you do not save the taxpayers, for whose interest you were so solicitous, some s3,000 year in printing. How, do you ask? By cur tailing that useless publishing. Wait, as the law directs you, until the end of the year before you print the audited bills. Now you propose to make the taxpayers pay for it twice. The print ing bill for Cochise county for three months was Sl20, as against your l,4O0. You can make it the same in the future. Will you?
 Twill answer: You will not.
 In December last you came out in print and announced that in a few months county warrants would be at par, as you wholly controlled the finan- cial affairs of the county. Was it seemly ill you, at the adjourning of the last court, to turn the treasurer's office into brokers office and yourself dis count warrants at lower rate than ever before known? I am aware it was your own money, slowed away in the county safe, but would the picture be reassuring to any purchaser of county bonds?
 1 will answer: It would not.
 You opened on me without cause or warrant. Had 1 not as good a right as you to expect some employment from an outfit that had worked and spent money fol? You did not spend one dollar. Was it crime to ask for postage stamps to answer real inqui- ries ss to the county's status? Was it because am Democrat and might be stumbling block in the way of your pious chairman next election that your board had the right to insult me and .ke people of San Jose?
 have your own words for it: They had not.
 Judge, why do you not come out, open and above board. and gay, We are making hay while the sun shines, and we must make all we can for fear public opinion shall shut off its efful- gence. Do you remember the answer you gave me when I asked you to sign the anti-Mormon petition? Are you not trimming your sails to suit that breeze now? Do not worry about mo, Judge, with my equivocal reputation. Never mind La Verdad and the daisies. From one end of Graham to the other there is sown already in the minds of the people seeds of distrust which will, long before the end of your cor rupt rule, blossom out everlasting flowers of disgust which will remain an unfailing remembrance of reform in Graham county. 7A-
 Now, Judge, you must stay with the  pot, for you have the financial prob lem to solve. To meet your demands you will have to levy tax of at least $3.75. Much stock has been driven away from this county in the past year. From Clifton mining property you cannot expect to get the valuation there was got last year. Hound there at that time the utmost limit. It brought the county one-ffth of it's en- tire revenue. 1 came out with clean hands, Judge. You cannot expect that valuation this year. The conditions of