Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-06-29
INA SPIRIT OF FAIR NESS.

IF the CITIZEN will have the fairne s to investigate the reports and appea n ances" to which it alludes in the case
 ] the Chairman of the Republican Ter torial Committee, it will find that the r are the basest kinds of misrepresenti f tions made for particular personal pu , pose. Col Christy was candidate of Go' ernor. He failed of getting the appoln
 ment and it was given to NIT. Wolfe. Mir. Christy has taken his defeat like !, gentleman and sound Republican, with out resentment, without hard feeling: without disrespect to Governor Wolfe!
 and the attempt originating from
 source we'll known here, to make It ap
 pear that he and his friends are endeav
 ering to stir up division in the Republl
 can ranks is purely false in its assertions
 and we have in evidence letters ot tn,
 basest, most cowardly and hbelous klnC
 whereby it was evidently hoped to wort
 up animosity against MT. Chrlsty under
 the seal of privacy, from which 1t would
 appear that Col. Christy was attempting
 to disrupt the Republican party of the Territory. We are now earnestly speak ing of facts of which we are cognizant and of which we
 will have more to say in the matter. | The Herald is only anxious that the
 CITIZEN should get down to bottom
 facts" in this matter. If it does not
 succeed the Herald is in position to
 show them up not only for the benefit
 of the CITIZEN, but to the public. We
 shall show where all this howl about
 disagreement comes from, who is mak-
 inn it and how and why it has become
 nnGaCC1rr for tho acy&o tlli ichn ant of a rar
 sonal organ for the purpose.-Herald.
 The CITIZEN has no desire to be other
 than fair. We cannot afford to be oth-
 erwise and would not if we could. We
 reproduce the above as we are anxious that MT. Christy should for his own sake, and for the honor of the Re publican party in Arizona, vindicate himself from the charges made, but certainly there is no
 thing in the above that can be even remotely accused of bearing such tendency. The Heralds statement that i've have in evidence letters" etc, is nothing but twaddle of the silliest kind, and the Herald man knew it when he put it on paper. It is the same old stock in trade yarn he had about Johnson and now resurrected to do duty for Col Christy. But it won't do; the public on the promises of the Herald have looked for these same 'seal of privacy letters, too long to be again hooked by such bait. If Col. Cristy or Mr. Morford are in possession of letters affecting the harmony of the republican party in and of which under the seal of l privacy" they are the sole custodians. | the public would like to know it, in | fact, they demand it. Col. Christy l was elected chairman of the Re publican Territorial Central Commit tee over good man, Oaks Murphy. l the present secretary of the territory. | This was done in convention and the | of Pima county were large | ly instrumental in doing it. At the time | We sincerely believed it for the best and | would like to think so yet, but appear anceS we regret to confess, are against | it. The Phenix Gazette. the property of | Col. Christy, Chairman of the Republi- | can Territorial Central Committee, is | privileged and in all probability melted | to misrepresent and abuse the Territo- rial administration, because forsooth, its | is not on friendly terms with | one or more of the Governors appointes. | This is as it strikes us. and we know as a fact, that many others are of like way of thinking. Possibly this may be MT. Christy's method of harmonizing and he may expect it to sue ,eed, but other can hardly hope for so happy an ending. If We are mistaken n the premises we stand ready to rectify he wrong, but it will take more than mysterious referances to the ''seal of privacy" to convince the people of their ,rrors. It remains with Col Christy himself to say what the harvest shall be.