Arizona republican., 1890-10-31
RALLY AT CARTWRIGHT Convincing Addresses From Republican Speakers. A Strong Speech Made by
 Governor Powers. Zulick Held Up to ScOrn-Recital of Needed Reforms in Terri
 tOrial Management.


 Republican rally had been advertised
 A large audience, for the most part composed of farmers, was in attendance and listened to the addresses with at tention and evident approval.
 Governor Powers was the first speaker. He was introduced by II. II Green, chairman of the meeting, and spoke substantially as follows:
 Thus far in my canvass with ex-Gov- ernor Zulick, for the Territorial Coun- cil, have devoted large portion of my time in examining his official record, while posing as Governor of Arizona by the grace of Grover Cleveland.
 That he was united for the high position to which he was appointed. tor, as men of small calibre suddenly, by accident, elevated to high position, are apt to do, and that his administra- tion was lamentable and melancholy failure-a disgrace to his party and to the Territory, is put in proof on almost every page of his record. But have perhaps already paid too much attention to his delin- quencies and general worthlessness as an executive officer, and the time has now arrived when must do something besides exposing his faults.
 That the voters of Maricopa county have right to ask is: How do you propose to rectify his mistakes? What do you propose to do that he has failed to do or is incompetent of doing?
 l will tell you. If l am elected to the Territorial Council by your votes, one of the very first things propose to do is, to secure a legislative investigation into the prison management at Yuma. That institution has been consuming cancer upon the body polite of Arizona for years past. The public revenues have been wasted or misapplied and stolen to almost an unlimited extent. The re- ports of the Territorial Auditor show that the annual expense of maintain ing the Territorial prison have averaged over $53, ,000 for the past five years or two-ffths, in round numbers, of all the expenses of the entire Territorial government. In other words it costs within $l5,000 of half the entire revenues of the Territory to run the Territorial prison. In this estimate, interest on S652 900, bonded indebted ness of the Territory, is not embraced. Auditor John J. Hawkins in his re- port to Governor Zulick, under date of March 1889, page 8, says:
 The expenses of maintaining the Territorial Prison for the years lSS7-S aggregate the sum of special appropriations (s75OOJ made for said prison by the legislature of 1887. Some means should be devised to curtail this enormous drain upon the public treasury.
 United ahOQll the Territory for Keeping their prisoners in the Territorial Prison, and such payments should be made to the Territorial Treasurer, who should be the custodian of all moneys belonging to the Territory If the Federal Government has paid anything for keeping its prisoners in the Terri torial Prison, no report of the same has been made to my office.
 Now this is plain language that every intelligent man can understand. "ThiS enormous drain upon the Territorial Treasury" is plainly condemned by Auditor Hawkins, and the direct charge IS made by him that money paid by the Federal Government iand it was paid regularly every quarter, as the report of the Comptroller of the United States Treasury shows) ''for keeping it's prison ers' in the Territorial prison has not been reported.
 That report of Auditor Hawkins should have led Governor Zulick as soon as opportunity presented itself to demand a Legislative investigation of the Territorial prison management.
 In place of this, what did he in fact do? Listen. When the Legislature of it's own motion did pass joint resolu- tion providing for prison investigation he held the resolution for eight days until the term was nearly closed and then returned it to the Council where it originated, with his veto.
 At the joint debate in the city of Phoenix on the night of October IS, he denied boldly the statement that he held the resolution as l had stated, and when the record was read before that vast audience of over 2000 people "his smile it was childlike and bland," but he did not blush.
 Now say it is high time that full and complete investigation of the prison affairs of this Territory should be made. And the Legislature is the only proper authority to make it and correct the abuses discovered. That the entire management there has been rotten, everybody who has watched develop ments and who is conversent with the facts believes, and say let the investi- gatlOn go back as far as it can be car red with profit to the taxpayers of the Territory. And let no concealments be made and allow no guilty man to escape be he Republican or Democrat. l am Tor free, full and bipartisan inves ti gatlOn of the wickedness and imbecility 0i the prison management; then shal Oe Tn favor of reorganization of the en' tire institution in order that it may be put upon basis of economy and decency.
 In this connection 1 desire to say to you that there can be no good reason why convicts should be kept in idleness confined within the prison walls. Neither health nor safety required that they shall be so confined. The most of them are as strong, able bodied men as can be found anywhere in the Territory The criminal classes are generally physically robust, well developed ami. nlals. Will you give me any good reason why they should be maintained in idle ness at the expense of the toll and sweat ol honest laborers? There is plenty ol work that these men may do outside tho prison walls, where they will not come Im competition with honest free labor Lhere are fields not now occupied that !hey can enter and do work that will benefit all the people of the Territory ana tighten the burden of taxation.
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