The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02
Ex-cogEEaoa STAFFORD.
Several Prominent Rapa0 can
Request His 2ea2?ointrTOll.

TO tie Editor OF the Sentinel.
DEAR SIR:-In the contest now 60
ing on for gnvernorsh:p Of this Teri
tory, We desire to give some of the
hsons why we favor the appointment
of Hon. A. 2. X. Sttfori for the
position.
He has already served in the capacity
for eight years, during the most trying
period of the bloody history of Arizona,
and during that time, We venture to
say, he oomped out where night over
took him one-third Of the time.
There was no point of danger that
he did not hasten to; he bfrienlel the
poor; he conlforted the sick; he defend
Ell the weak and fri.ndleSs.
He never faltered from any danger.
When Vincent Colyer came hei e like
conqnering hero to abuse and SANDER
our people, Safort with John Wasson
attacked him and it is now known that
Stafford told his friends at that time
that he expected the peace party III
the east woald cause his removal, but,
said he 81 would rather be removed
and break cobble stones OH the streets
thar to see our people abused and Sian
dered and not stand hy them"
1t is now known that SaifDrl and
WATSON won the tight and sent Vim
cent Colyer into a retirement whence
he has never come forth.
General Stoneman so managed the
military affairs Of the department that
the Indians ran the country at will,
and no word of sympathy came from
Stoneman. Stafford attacked him and
had Crook put in his place, but he was
warned that such an effort would
cause his removal. He replied that
when fear of removal caused him 10
shirk his duty he was not tit to longer
serve the peopl" And when he attack
ell Gen Ktutz and his stupid policy,
and had him removed, SaTord was told
that ths President AMI K.utz were
schoolmates together, and surely he
would fail, but he never swerved from
his purpose as long as the people need
ell defender. One passage in q letter
written 10y the Governor during thai
Contest and published in the C;tizsn
should never be forgotten. His la
gage was III substance as follows:
"If Gen. Kautz has seen poverty
and hardship as | have seen theu.
among the poor pioneers striving to
support their wives and little enes; il
he had visited the lonely cabins and
seen the flesh graves near by, with tie
widows and orphans left III poverty,
with no one to support them, he might
have some sympathy; bat, uufortun
ately, he was educated at the EXPENSE
of the government, he travels in easy
carriages with ample military protec
tiol, and never will know or symp-
athiza with these hardships, privations
and dangers"
With the troubles along the border
he was equally prompt and effective.
On one occasion hc paid $500 for the
kidnapping of a notorious Mexican
who had murdered a man near the
Picacho, and was afterwards tried and
sent to prison for lIf' The Sonora
government complained that it was a
gross violation OF the treaty, sent the
documents to the City Of NJ 'Xico, aid
thay were forwarded to Washington
and ssnt to the governor here for i'm
mediate explanation. He replied that
under the treaty the Sonora govern
mant had refused to surrender some of
the most notorious criminals who had
committed the most hendish cri mes;
that unless these criminals could be
punished, honest men and women coula
not live near the border; that he had
done what they had charged him will.
doing; he hal d)Hs it as the only
means OF protecting the lives anI pro
porty of the hoaest people on both
sides of the line, and must cuntinur
the sImn policy w.lil4 he h'I the posi-
ton. If none but criminals had suffer
ei by his action h. believed h.. ough:
t. be sustained, bat if the government
thought otherwis,, some one else mast
be sent to fill his place.
We support him because he gave US
projection and at the same time kept
the taxes down and the Territory Out
OF debt, we support him because be
gave US our school system, which Is