Arizona republican., 1890-10-31

cussing before you tonight, there are others of fully as great interest as those which he has mentioned, particularly matters pertaining to Territorial affairs. And being a candidate on the Republi- can ticket for the Territorial Assembly, a Territorial office, it is with the Terri torial affairs propose to deal tonight.
 In speaking upon these subjects 1 want you to distinctly understand that do not propose to discuss them as a Republican or as Democrat, or to address you as Republicans or Demo- crats, but to address you as business men, as laboring men, as ranchers, as taxpayers. Some gentle men of the opposition in trying to ex- plain to you about the increase of tax ation in this county have told you that
 great portion of it was due to the in- crease in Territorial taxes. They have said to you that the Territorial taxes, which amounted to SO cents upon the $100 in 1887, and 63 cents upon the $l00 in 1888, increased to SOL cents on the $l00 in 1889, and they charge this as being directly attributable to the com ing into power of the Republican ad- ministration of this Territory. Now l J
 and 1 wish to say that in everything and every argument l shall present to YOU tonight 1 shall talk strictly from the records-that the increase in the Ter ritorial taxes was due to the neglect Of the late administration of Governor Zulick.
 In 1883 the Legislature passed law providing for the redemption of $260 ,000 of outstanding Territorial warrants. That law provided that five years there after a portion of the bonds issued at that time should be redeemed. Mir. Gill then read from section of act No S3 of the Twelfth Legislature.l
 Now by the provisions of this law there should have been levied in 1888 an additional tax of $12.000. And there should have been levied tax of cents on the Sl00 for the Territorial university and Normal School. There being a campaign coming on, Mir. Zuick's Board of Equalization wanted to make an economical showing and they neglected or refused to make these levies pre- scribed by law. They wanted to say to the people: "We have increased the salary of the attorney-general; created the Live Stock Sanitary Commission at an expense of S50O0 to S6O0O year and we have created other expenses but have not increased the taxes" As a consequence when the Board of Equliza- tion prepared to make the levy in 1889 it found staring it in the face deficit in the amount of money required for the support and maintenance of the Territorial University and Normal School, and found that the bonds which were to have been redeemed the past year had not been redeemed and conse- quenrly they were compelled to levy a tax sufficient to redeem the $l2,000 of those bonds for the year 1889 and for the support of the two Territorial institu- tions for that year and an additional tax in order to cover the deficit occasioned by the failure to obey the law by the Zulick Board.
 Some of the speakers on the other side have told of this increase, but not eX- plained the reason for it, and one of them, notably c. Meyer Zulick, has cried out 'what have the Republicans done with this money?" l propose to show you and that from the records, what the Democrats have done with it.
 After short story in illustration of his text Mir. Gili took up the defalca- tions of the Zulick Prison Board. He produced photograph of the now famous page 25 of the prison ledger showed up the corrupt allowance of mileage to Brady, Stevens and Halleck and the extortionate bills of Behan.
 Zulck's veto of the bill to investigate the prison was shown up in it's true light and the reasons given. Zulick knew the rotten condition of affairs there and did not want an investiga- ton. He had helped Little Steve" to
 spend the money received from the government over gambling tables and around houses of ill repute and he knew what an investigation would disclose.
 The speaker then read from the re- port of the First Comptroller of the Cur rency showing the amount of the money paid Little Steve by the government and other sums received by him. The fraudulent mileage allowed themselves by the prison commissioners and the culpability of Peter k. Brady in the matter of moneys paid Behan were show by the correspondence of Brady with United States Marshal Meade. Stevens slick work in getting away without being arrested was shown, and full report of the stealings given of which all readers are already familiar.
 Now, then, do you think there was any reason for Zulick vetoing that bill to investigate the prison? He knew that the conduct of the institution was rotten. He knew that George II. Stev- ems had been stealing the money re- ceived from the United States govern ment and spending it in this city over the gambling table. And now what do we find? We find that Zulick leaves his home in New Jersey to come out here and be candidate for the Council in Maricopa county. We find Peter k. Brady candidate for Joint Councilman from the Southern District. We find John II. Behan candidate for the Council in Yuma county. We find Thomas Halleck candidate for the Assembly from Mohave county. Think you there is no collision in this? ThInk you not there is a wheel within wheel in this cor rupt gangp Is there @ reason for their wanting get into the Legislature this coming nter? tell you l want to be elected t0 the Legislature so can go to that institution as member of com mittee vested with full power to call for persons and papers. There are other members of that board fully as deep in the mire as George II. Stevens was in the muck. [Great cheers.l
 Some of my Democratic friends are saying why don't you go pack in the in- vestigation to that period previous to 1886, when the books were destroyed. | If there was any corruption in these under Republican administration, |