Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-01-30

fled with her public institutions of an insane asylum and 6 normal school, her voracious greed reaches out tor other public institutions, and will not be satisfied until others are located there True to this section, the JoUR- NAL-MiNER has made gallant fight against capitol removal and particularly against the method by which it was accomplished. It was one of the first to sound the note of warning exposing the existence of noodle sack" in Phenix raised for that purpose. and pub fishing the time schedule of the special car, which was to bear 1t to Prescott. Many of our citizens expressed them selves as skeptical on the question, lock. ing upon the matter as newspaper sensational article. Our contemporaries at Phenix. while making no positive de- nial, made an ignominious failure to burlesque the proposition. Subsequent events have proved the truth ot every word published in this paper, the only deviation from the programme as out lined to us by man who was on the inside of the combination. was change of route from Deming and Albuquerque to the Los Angeles route and the failure of Tom Smith to arrive with the special car. Having made the fight before the act was accomplished this pa per has now no desire to "kick" as that will do nc good, neither has it any inclination .a censure members for any any action taken in it. but will lsave that with their consciences be- heying that time will show them that they have made terrible mis- take by their uncalled-for haste in the matter. Prescott was prepared to lose the capital at or after the close of the session. but vas not prepared to lose it in the way it has been. nor could our people be made to believe that rep resentatives of our territory would act in this way. What this paper does pro pose to do, however, is te have history record the fact just as it has happe ned Now, that their purpose has been ac- complished, the press of iPhcnix has already commenced to write the history of it falsely. The Prescott correspon- dent of the Herald in order to do this and make the balance of the territory believe that no money wss used, writes as follows :: "The presence of the sack which it was reported Colonel Christy. Tom Smith and Jerry Millay had. was a myth, as neither of these gentlemen are present, nor have they been during the session. An effort was made to in fluence certain members financially to have the bill deie,ted by the northern people, but their efforts were unsuccess- ful Those voting for the removal were actuated by purely consclentious motives, and not by corrupt influences. The sack was on the ether side" The above denial carries with it its owp stamp of falsehood. Who ever said Banker Christy. Tom Smith and Jerry Millay had the sack' Certainly not the people oi Prescott. Who was IL that in vited the above trio to return to Phenix from Los Angeles and not come to Pres colt as i; would not look wellf Certainly it was not people of Prescott. Who was 1t that the sack was turned over te Tn Los Angeles, when the above trio .oek the back track to Phenixl Echo an swers whol There is no use to try to disguise or deny the fact that consld- erable sum of money was raised in Phenix as capital removal fund, and let it be so recorded in history. We do not charge that any votes were pur- chased with the money as we do not know it as a fact, and our unbounded confidence in human nature, tend to- wards believing all men honest until proven otherwise, and 1t is certainly to be hoped that no member et the legisla- ture is purchasable. It is true that portion of this money is to be used to- wards defraying the expenses ot mem bers and employees in going to Phenix. This, members of the Maricopa delega- ton do not deny. Why then this at tempt to falsify on the part of the news papers and their correspondence The above quotation from the Herald's cor respondcnce contains paragraph which the legislature cannot we'll pass by without investigation. It says an ef- fort was made to influence certain mem hers SnancialIy to have the bill defeated by northen people. An investigation should be ordered and that correspen- dent summoned and compelled to dlvulge the name of the member and the names of his would be bribers.
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