The Clifton clarion., 1889-04-12
ANOTHER KICK.
A Correspondent From Pima Gives His
 Views of the Printing Steal.

A Correspondent From Pima Gives His
 Views of the Printing Steal.
 The reform party has recently made a record" in this county of which its more intelligent members cannot be proud, and which will not help to build political fences for the republi- can party.
 It would have been q good thing for Graham if they could have heard and listened to the now fully proved prophetic words of Wilfred Webb, who detailed to us months ago just what would happen in this county: That all its patronage would be plac- ed in the hands of one man, that the so-called reform was only a cloak for robbery, and all their acts would be done to place in power the republi- can party. We shall heed Mr Webb more closely in the future. for he comes from people whose simple ways of living, freedom from disSipa- ton and enervating pleasures, de- velop brawny, brainy mon, who soon- CT or later compel the world to recog- nize their strength and power.
 That the old Tweed ring of New York has found its parallel in Graham none can gainsay, and the arbitrary acts of our Supervisors deserve the utmost censure. The rec oris of the printing steal are just what we expected; nay, had some pa per offered to do it gratis, that offer would have been refused.
 And now we would like to ask why this county, with all its debts and diff faculties, should publish at such an ex- pense, mass of uninteresting detail, when the law leaves it optional with the board of supervisors to do so. Turn to Pima, and you see the pro- ceedings of meetings curtailed and the printing bill not one-half of Gra- ham.
 In your report of the last meeting of the Supervisors the name of Uncle Josh Bailey is used as being present. If he was we will wager he surely dissentcd and was no party to the open robbery. As for chairman by sar,, he ought to be commended with the words, Well done, thou good and faithful servant-of Solomon" but we are surprised at Contractor Cutter. the reformer; he who helped the Ari- zona Copper company curtail cx- penses i'll the days when it was rocky for them. He may have been a sue cess when posing as Queen of the May" crowned with roses and repos- ing i'll wheelbarrow, as so graphic ally described some time ago in the columns of THE CLARION, but in the character of the "Star-eyed Goddess of Reform he is failure. Maybe his residence among the daughters of Ham bas made him color blind and the giant leader of reform has devel- oped into an intellectual pigmv.
 When comparing the present ad- ministration with their predecessors, may not the saying, be applied with truth, "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall"
 Turning from this picture of shame, does there not finger on memory's | wall q picture of other years, when amid isolation, dangers and priva- tiOns. such as are not now dreamed of. ! the affairs of the counties of this Ter ritory were conducted in spirit of fairness and amity. and left behind no heritage of debt and fraud.
 Ah, those were good old times, be- fore the crushing weight of gigantic monopolics, had made the poor man still poorer, and the rich one infinite ly richer. Could they only return to us once more, what garden of Eden would this isolated country of south land be.
 NEPHI.
 Pima, March 9, 1889.
 A Card.