Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-10-18
PUBLIC OPINION.
What the Newspapers About the Ter
 ritory Say.

Yuma Sentinel: If all is true, that is said about the practices of polygmany by the Mormous in Arizona, iJ Is about time that d halt was called and that they should be disfranchised, neither i allowed to vote, nor hold any offices whatever.
 Judge FIeid in the Idaho test oath case, says: "Bigamy and polygamy are crime by the laws of all civilized and Christian countries. They tend to de- stroy the purity of the marriage rela- tions, to disturb the piece of families, to degrade women and debase men. Few crimes are more pernicious to ''ast interests of socIety and receive u,yre general or more deserved punishment. To extend exemption from punishment for such crimes would be to shock the moral sense Of the community. * And no heed. will be given to the pro- tense that as religious beliefs their sup porters can be protected in their exer- else by the Constitution of the United States"
 Nogales Herald: Two years ago Mark Smith, in a speech at Tucson, said that he would have oill passed under which every settler on d land grant Tn Arizona could b-ing suit against the claimants and have all the expenses of the suit on the part of the settlers paid by the gov ernment. In each of these suits the whole question of validity of title, bound ary and area was to be passed upon. The speaker boldly declared that if he did not have that bill signed by the president before Christmas of that year he would never appear again hefore the electors of Arizona and would never again solicit votes for any office. This absurd proposition secured the wIly Mark many republican votes at that election and though that bill has never been intro duced in either house of congress that blind fatuity that leads unthinklr g men will secure him not few repu oli- can votes at the coming election. Of such republicans we would ask, "What has Mark Smith done?" find out what he has done and when you do, we are assured you will vote for George w. Cheyney the standard bearer of the party, a gentleman who Is above re- proach, who IS intensely earnest Tn every thing he does and who IS net a slave to that overwhelming egotism that makes "Our Mark" a nonenity.
 Phenix Herald: The Prescott Courier speaks thus inferentially but no less disgustedly of its great and only Roman, the Hon. Marcus Aurelius. statesman or something:
 "Many poor railroadman has come to grief while coupling cars, danger ous business that, if possible should be done away with. Congress, at last ses- sion, should have done some, something in this matter, instead of squandering the surplus and robbing democrats of their seats"
 Repu blican: Did Peter R. Brady and his associate commissioners examine and approve the proceedings of Stevens? And if not why not? The cold facts, pure and simple, are that Peter R.. Brady is mutually liable and responsible with his associate commissioners to the territory for the amount of the short age, under the law, and if his friends de- sire to deny his responsible and urge his election to the legislatureon the ground Of lncompetency, neglect or ignorance, we have no objection to the effort being made by them. He has proven himself culpably negligent, incompetent, and with all liable to the territory for tEe embezzlement. Any effort to elect him to the legislature to shield criminal ac- tion or to afford him an opportunity to escape just liability will utterly fail.