The Arizona champion., 1890-10-25

taxes on the $ P, you are in DUTY BOUND to also lower the A. & P. In duty boundi You thus openly confess your obligations to the railroads Thus you boldly proclaim that you rGcog- hized no duty to the thousands of peo- pie for whose interests you were ap- pointed sponsor-that you were swayed by no consideration save the favor of corporations.
 You deny that you assessed the P. < 4. c. Railroad for less than the sub sidy, asserting that yoq fixed the valu- ation at s4,09481 per mile. Yet you must know that Yavapai county grant ed subsidy to this road amounting to $4,QQQ per mlle in the form of 30 year bonds bearing interest of per cent annually. Had you paused for a moments calm reflection before SC rashly controverting the cold truth, you would have disc9yered that the subsidy of Yavapai county has paid the P & A. c. railroad, including in. terest on the bands amounts in round numbers, to S4,112.00 per mile. Be sides this subsidy with its Shylock rale of interest, there were other valuable considerations granted the P. & A. C. railroad by Yavapii county and the City of Prescott. These things y2u must have known, else why had you the nerve to pose as a member of the Board of Equalization?
 l Do you not know that information, intelligence and integrity are the prime requisites in the office you essayed cc fill?
 Did you not know that the ? & A. c. railroad was, at the time you was a member of the Board of Equalization and is to-day. with one exception, pay ing the largest dividends of any rail road in the United States or Canada Did you not know that T. $. Bullock its president, was toying with the lux urieS obtainabie only by millionaire; through the thousands he has derived from the extorticnate policy of the railroad you valued so lightlyl Did you not know that the Prescott & Arizona Central railroad, with its vested rights and franchise, Was the envy of all holders of railroad stock, and if placed under the hammer at the time at which yol write, men would have fought for the privilege oi paying Sl0,00O per mile for itl You must have known these things. Yet, you offer for this same P. ,E A. railroad the plea of poverty in defense ot your discrimination in it's favor. DId you likewise favor the Central Arizona railroad, notwithstanding it is owned by wealthy eastern corporation, on the ground that because its owners are rich it should not be taxeil
 You confess in yogr letter. Mir. Lowry, that ycu are not perfect, that you have perchance erred. Is it not singular that you invariably erred in favor of the railroadsl Can you explain why 1t was that you never, In simgle instance erred in favor of the people while thrice you made mistakes of such splendid magnitude in favor of the railr oads! Perhaps your errors may be accounted for in your own admission that you arrived at your railroad ''equalization" figures by placing rail road men on the stand, and permitting them to state '.ion oath" what they knew as to the value of the property You simply heard one side of the story Did you call in witnesses that represent the patrons of these railroads Did you deem it necessary to take any evidence in rebutgal to that offered by the general officer of the roadl" Die you call in the rancler, the stockman the farmer, and put them lon oath" a. to their operating expenses" etcl | appears not; hence you rendered a yer diet against these interests havin: accorded hearing only to the othe side.
 Replying to your inquiries respect ing the drafts drawn by me upon Dem ocratic candidates while editor of tn, Flagstaff Democrat, though fail t. i see their bearing on the subject unde
 
 Fdiscussion, 1 will say that [ drew or the gentlemen referred to, in sum ranging from S25 to $50 each, witI the exception of Harris Baldwin, wh, failed to secure a nomination and wa - therefore not assessed. 1 drew upol TO Republican unless some of the gen tlemen you have named are Republi cans. l-did not offer to write an arti cle refuting the statement made in my first letter for twenty dollars, or any other consideration, but 1 hereby agre, to wl;te better letter than the on, you have caused to be writted for con siderably less than twenty dollars. have answered your inquiries withou hesitation or evasion. Will you accorl those | have asked of you the sam, straightforward consideration?
 E. s. CLARK, PRESCOTT, Ct, 10, 1890.
 
 CHARLES H. AkEas. she Republican candidate for reelection to the offic,