Arizona republican., 1890-07-13
COL. MASTEN'S POSITION.
HE MAKES SOME INQUIRIES REL
 ATIVE TO HIS SCHEME.
Incidentally He Discusses the Entire Rail-
 road Question in the Valley, Including the Subsidy and His Friend, the Gazette

road Question in the Valley, Including
 the Subsidy and His Friend, the Gazette
 To TIE REPUBLICAN Your very cour- teous reference to the proposed action of the Maricopa and Phoenix road, in your article of yesterday morning, in strong contrast to the snarl of the Gazette which you quote, merits attention.
 You suggest that the Maricopa and Phoenix road should make a definite proposition in connection with it's an nouncement of the other day. If you will kindly point out the body to whom such a proposition can be made, which has power to accept or reject, l will be obliged, and it will be made. Has the Board of Supervisors, to whom the HeroH suggests we should apply, any such power? No. What body has !? The Legislature? But the members of the Legislature are not yet even elected. Still, it remains true that one of the is- sues of the coming campaign may be, shall the Legislature accede to the appli- cation of the Maricopa and Phoenix road for release from taxes for period of five years?
 So that you see all this talk about deti- nite propositions is premature and un- business like. The Maricopa and Ph9- nix Railroad asks no more than fair treatment from Maricopa county. That it has never had. An established insti- tuition, the success of which depends upon the prosperity of the valley, which it has been its best endeavor to promote, it has been met throughout with con tumely and abuse, particularly in Phu- nix, which it has not deserved.
 In st hn hand methods of the promoters of the expressed the other day, its every move When it made up its mind that there was fraud in the subsidy bill, it made no secret of it's mind. The Gazette threat ened to print the letter in which this was done, but refrained, evidently from the fear that the Jo. Alexander eTpOse would have come sooner and upset the plans of it's promoters. Jo Alexander has not told the half about the subsidy bill. There is not only combination to deceive Congress and the President in order to pass the bill, but the proportions of the "divide" are already agreed upon. Otherwise why should one of our most prominent tlliLtHS, Nllo lluS btt1l DlOSl slTtluOus in support of the subsidy, when remonstrated with upon the power given to Jo Reynolds, reply, there are few of us who have an understanding with Mir. Reynolds on this subject" Evidently he did not appreciate what he was saying.
 Reference has been made in Congress to the fact that few remonstrances ,l L been received there. The fact is that this community is terrorized by the Gd.ette and the moneyed influence of its supporters. No one person in the county except Jo Alexander has dared to expose himself to the low process with which the Gazette has followed us personally, though he openly oppose the subsidy, and Joe is too strong in the County to permit that kind of thing.
 frequently find on my desk commun- ications signed anonymously urging me to do all can to defeat the subsidy in some way or other, and this morning Many Taxpayers" urge me to have incorporated Tn the bill provision that il voted upon it be by taxpayers only, in which case my correspondent says,
 lt VIII Dt hllltu toc utdl lO sklll. Why the Gdzette should be able to so terrorize the community it is difficult to understand. Because the Maricopa and Phoenix Railroad announces its determination to do certain things, it talks about the harm "this man Masten" has done the valley evidently in the endeavor to promote the fraudulent subsidy bill, which is so from beginning to end and to scare off the M. &. F. As Joe. Alexander says, not much.
 The day will ainly come when the people of Maricopa county will realize the danger from which they have been saved by the Presidents veto and ap- plaud any endeavors made to defeat the pending bill, and time of serious explanation occur when the promoters of the subsidy bill shall be called on for the reasons which induced them to substitute for the one agreed upon by the Board of Supervisors bill which Joe. Alexander characterizes as a great fraud and kept it sedulously from the public knowledge.