The St. Johns herald., 1890-09-04

= being run at an expense of $59,O0O for 1889, with not a single improve ment anywhere. Sheriff's office $1O,OO0, District Attorney, 5000; printing several thousand more, and so the money of the dear peO- pie goes; and yet the men respon- sible for this seeming great waste of money have the temerity to ask the dear people to continue them in office.
 The above is a paragraph from a letter from this county to the Pb@- nix Herald, under date of August 12th, and signed "More Anon" The fellow has written himself one of two things, either an egregious ass or a wilful, malicious falsifier of facts. He is perfectly welcome to either of the above horns of the di- lemma, or both, if he wish. The annual statement of the expenses of the county for 1889, as made to the Board of Supervisors at its January meeting in 1890 was pub lished in this paper on the 10th of that month, and shows that the eX- penses of the county for 1889 was $26O47. .24-less than one-half as stated by "More Anon"-instead of $59,OO0. The books of the Board of Supervisors, as well as the books of the Treasurer, are open to pub lie inspection, and 'More Anon" if he did not know the cost of run ming the county government for the year in question, could have easily ascertained this fact before making the bald statement he did in the Phoenix Herald. But 1t was not facts he wanted. His evident aim and intention was to injure the credit and good name of the coun- ty abroad-to stop immigration to the county-to frighten capital and prevent its investment within our borders, and to make it impossible, if he could, for the county to place any of its indebtedness. should 1t become necessary to do so. There are a few Republicans in this coun- ty, who can be counted on mans hand, who have done, and are still doing all in their power to injure Apache financially, morally and in every other way, who 1t seems are incapable of telling the truth about any thing connected with county affairs, and at the same time are importuning the 'dear people" to put them in charge of its affairs.
 "And yet the men responsible for this seeming great waste of money have the temerity to ask the dear people to continue them in office. "More Anon" knows, as does every voter in Apache county, that when the county government passed into Democratic hands, that it's warrants were a drug on the market at fifty cents on the dollar. He also knows as well as every other man, woman and child in the county that its pa per is now worth from S5 to 90 cent: on the dollar, with none to sell, ever at these figures. Does "More Anon think the ''dear people" of Apache county are such ignoramuses as tC displace a party which has done sC much for its people, and entrust tht management of its affairs to men such as himself, who never miss al opportunity to damage the county credit by bare faced misrepresenla ton of facts? Does he not know that such statements as We have quoted at the head of this article and others that have been mad, through outside newspapers relative to the affairs of this county, vii prove boomerangs, and hurt tht parties who sent the shafts far worst than those at whom they were aim ed? If he does, he is not very far