Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-12
QUARTZBURG.
A GENERAL DISCOURSE UPON POPU-
 LAR SUBJECTS.
Stagnation in Mining Acknowledgements Condition of the Cattle Interests Political Matters and the Need
 of Reform.
IoMRsroNE. .JulY 1st.

letter very IIIle or importance mas trans pired here. The mining industry re- mains in states quo and expected improve ments have not materialized. l presume this is partly owing to the congressional backset to the silver bill
 The state of the cattle industry is still more distressing No rain of any i'm portance, one shower of about E inch on the Fourth, and none since. Some cattle companies have already lost fully one sixth of their stock and are apt to lose as much more
 The National holiday was celebrated in grand style under the auspices of the P. O. $. of A. There were baseball games for three days with the Tucson team, races, parades, barbecue, music and fire works, besides a grand ball in the even ing by cur fire companies, for better description of which see the PrOspectOr of June 9th.
 see by your issue of the 5th that Gov ernor Stafford still keeps up his glorious fight for manhood's rights against the
 would-be 'rigidly righteous" l hope he
 will continue 1t, for if no one else had | taken 1t up, l would have done so, but
 am very glad to leave in so much better
 hands and simply add my might of praise"
 ''The conspiracy reported by the Tue
 son correspondent of the Phenix Gazette
 and reproduced in your paper of the 9th,
 but is perfectly credible to all
 who know the parties mentioned.
 Who ever the correspondent may be,
 he certainly knows his men, and IS an able and accurate observer; but the con-
 spiracy cannot amount to much, for Mar
 GUS is unquestionably the choice of the
 democracy of southern Arizona for con
 gress and l think of central Arizona too,
 as well as the ablest man in his party,
 and if the Republicans desire to beat him
 they must select their best timber.
 The political pot begins to boil over,
 and we have several candidates in the
 field for every lucrative office For dis
 trict attorney, two republicans and one democrat; for sheriff, two of each party; for treasurer, two republicans, no demo crat yet; for probate judge, two demo crats, with perhaps one or more in the
 shade, no republican yet; for recorder
 one of each party; for assessor, one ot
 each party; no candidates yet for super
 visor. 1 will not now give the names ol discuss the merits or demerits of any O.
 these. Suffice to say that a goodly mum
 Der of these are present incmbents, anC , some others about as fit for the office. they seek as an Apache Indian is tC preach christianity.
 2 There are no candidates for eithe l house of the legislature, unless, perhaps 5 the Hon. Cheyney, and though these ar the most important offices to be filled b, the people scarcely any one appears t - covet the barren prize, and the nomina : tiOns are apt to go, as heretofore, to an n who will be willing to take them, wit 2 the chance of getting remuneration by r legislative division of spells.
 It IS relief to find that Behan, tn last of the holdovers, has been busted T No doubt his admirers the strikers an T heelers of his own kind have been grat 7' fled that he held on so long to the grea !, annoyance of the enemy. It Is to b q hoped that this is the last of Behau an n several of that holdover breed, but fea Il not So long as there IS a public willin u and ready to be plundered and such It T, publicans as the old man of the sea Il are in position to manage the plunderin, e they are always apt to have use for sue q democrats as Behen, and when necessar T can always use them on the ''instalme1 Il plan."
 THE COMING LEGISLATURE. ,se Whether the people of this TerritoI "a really want reform and economy in go " ernment, is moot question, admitting much argument on either side. But ce
 tainly if they do, they must commend
 with the legislature, and the most effe
 tive way to reform Is first to reduce a
 salaries and emoluments of office to a ia
 remuneration for service.
 'li Why man whose only aualifoatiol ot for office consist III hIs ability to write W fair hand and make some ordinal n arithmetical calculations, and who coul al not command $50 per month and boal lee himself, in any of the ordinary avocatiol ed of life, should be able to make $1,500 S. S5,000 year. just because he has sufficiel h. cheek and want of shame to successful w beg an office or manage primaries, whi es those who pay the taxes A to even 8 D. s. cent with far more ability, industry al
 attention to business besides having son F. capital invested in their business, CO lg not make S1000 year, is question tn Ill the people should look to, and experien le has shown that if these enoluments a h. reduced to a sum, say S1, 900 to S2,000 oy year, that every office, territorial al Sh county, would be filled by just as ab us and far more honest men, for the eleme a of bribery, if not wholly eliminated, wou at be at least minimized. I expect to co tinue this subject in my next.
 H. Yours. QUARTzBURG.