Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-03-22

"I read your excellent paper with s great interest. The people of our Ter ' ritory are under obligations to you for your earnest contest for good govern ment for the Territory. l shall com { bat for the republican party in Ari- { zona with all the ability at my com mand, and shall hope for the election of a republican delegate to congress and a republican legislature, but at the same time l acknowledge the great good done Arizona by THE ENTER PRISE in exposing the venality of many of our public officers and the great need of reform. The people of
 Arizona would hang their heads and
 blush did they know the standing of | the governor with many of the public
 men in this city. Every day the Ari-
 zonans are asked to explain to some
 one how such man could have been | appointed to so important an office.
 He was here, away from his duties, for
 three months. Do the people know
 what he accomplished for the Terri
 toryH Not single thing that he has
 recommended has been adopted. Every
 bill he had introduced has been
 changed to such a degree that he
 would not recognize it. Many of his recommendations had the good of
 the Territory in them, but every one
 had some concealed pernicious end.
 His attempt to give away the school
 lands of the Territory that have been
 settled upon was a most damnable
 piece of business. When his bill was
 read by a prominent citizen of New
 Mexico, he said, ,"if our governor should
 make such recommendation to Con-
 gress the people, irrespective of party,
 would ask for his immediate removal"
 His attempt to get the rower from
 Congress to remove county officers
 elected by the people, was so villain
 ous and audacious that the chairman
 of the Committee on Territories would
 not believe he meant this, but the
 governor, upon being interrogated be-
 fore the committee, acknowledged that
 this was the intent of the bill. Per haps no official anywhere, or at any time, ever made such herculean efforts to prostitute everything within his reach and power as has this man Wolf ley. But his ignorance and stupidity make his evil designs easy of discovery and as easy to thwart. Everybody i' in favor of the legalizing of our laws if it is necessary; of funding our debt of leasing our school lands and of re moving bad men from office, but there ' is an honorable and upright way O doing all these things. His secre SO he thought attempt to defea ' Sloan, Kibbey, Jeffords. Drake an' Brown are among his many question S able transactions. To show you hoy 5 fatal is his touch outside of everything U in the Interior Department, 1 vii V enumerate few instances. He espouse' II R. H. Paul's cause for U. s. Marsha and yet that nomination hung in tn 10 balance for two weeks and had no y Senator Stanford, of California, an It U. s. Attorney Jeffords intoreste 'i themselves in his behalf, NJ. Pau n' would have been defeated. It is bt D lieved that his support of Ed. We'll for Chief Justice of our Suprem i0 Court was fatal to that worthy gentle It man and inspired the president to aI
 point an outside man. The many r' iS bukes he got from officials while her y would have sent the ordinary ma '' away to his home or to hiding, but nc 'S so with Wolhey; when he was knocke i' down he got up, laughed, and marche CD off to do some other unsavory job. n' is hard to write this of the highe A' officer in our Territory, but believe 'e is much better for the future of the T ui publican party that the real situatio us be known and that he be treated a 70 cording to his deserts"
 "s Comment is unnecessary.