Arizona republican., 1890-11-02

Shltl Dllt HftS ISC6lVtu utlhNVthDlS #SiibiN cism, with characteristic adroitness he has denied all connection herewith. Unless all political and other proposi- tons would assay very high per cent of his owl personality when favorably considered, he repudiated them. His skill as a political acrobat and combina- ton tumber was most fully demon-
 strated in his slippery manipulatious of
 the Indian question. Like the historical
 flea, "whAn you put your finger on him
 he wasn't there." He found upon ex-
 animation, that his predecessor had ex-
 hausted the subject thoroughly upon
 all common sense and logical premises; :; 1 but he hankered so feyerishly after
 notority that he commenced to publish
 bombastic declarations of what should
 be done, and what he intended to do.
 He proposed to try and punish the
 Indians by civil authority, and sum
 marily dispose of them, but he never
 seemed to take into consideration that
 they had to be caught first, and that if
 the military forces of the government
 caught them they would be very apt to
 dispose of them according to their
 judgment, ZuIick or no zulick besides,
 the proposition of trying and punishing
 them by the civil authorities whenever
 practicable, was in no sense original
 with him, but an old, worn-out ''chest- nut" which had been considered fre-
 quently before the pretender had ceased
 to put up ward fences in Newark, New
 Jersey, The military proceeded about
 their business against the Indians just
 the same, regardless of the frantic ap-
 peals of zulick for notice.
 Il Despairing of winning the prominence
 he hungered after, by any ordinary
 methods, and, as the citizens of the Ter
 ritory were, in some instances, threaten
 ing to proceed against the hostiles, he
 imagined he saw how, by one grand
 coup d'etat, he could launch himself into
 the very face of the public. So, watch ing his opportunity, when one of the
 prominent Territorial papers editorially
 stated, that it would be perfectly proper,
 rather than suffer from Indian depreda- tions much longer, for the citizens to avenge their wrongs themselves, he
 turned himsslf loose and published his
 notorious proclamation. His conserva-
 tism was wonderful, his philanthropy
 marvellous, his entreaty sublime. He
 besought the cruel, treacherous, unreli.
 able and murderous white man not to at. tack and hurt the innocent, inofsn,
 sive, industrious aHd simple red man He proclaimed that the citizens of Ari.
 zona were lawless rufiians, and in then wrath there was danger that they would hurt few poor Indians. He announced } that, by the power in him vested, he [ would maintain the peace. and invoked : the strong arm of the government tt assist him in suppressing the rebellion! :, white outlaws. He declared to the . world that the white citizens of Arizona l were uncivilized barbarians, and ht c publicly proclaimed their wickedness. So proud was he of this remarkable
  favorite sycophants around him and read the manuscript aloud to them be 5 fore it's publication. But he did not an , ticipate the cyclone of wrath which the 3 notorious document inspired in the breasts of the good citizens of Arizona : It was not enough that they had sub mitted almost uncomplainingly fol years to savage ruth and warfare; tha they had seen their homes desolated . their relatives murdered and their prop erty stolen by the relentless and treach. erous Apaches, always relying upon thu l legal action of the government for pro tection; but now they must be branded i before the world as villainous outlaw ' and uncivilized barbarians-this |, gratify the vainglorious longiDi 5 of professional political adven r turer from New Jersey for notoriety F The dose was too bitter, anC
 from the north, the south, the eas ] and the west, all over the great Terri l tory of Arizona, the indignation of tn, l people was voiced until the demagogu, l was fain to hide his head in shame g skulk in his office, ard endeavor to re f cede from the disgraceful position h, r had taken.
 @ The government was doing everything ' possible to relieve the Territory iron l the Apache incubus, and the Infuentia l citizens were freely lending their aid e The Society of Pioneers took activ e measures to accomplish this, and al n proper recommendations (and upol e which the government was acting) haC l been made by previous Governors, ye n no step was taken, either in sending ad : ditional troops, changing commanders f exiling the Indians, or anything els ], which received favorable consideration '- by the people that the New Jersey frauC e did not claim the credit of bringini h about, when the fact is, he was almos s entirely ignored i'll all the premises n He switched and Topped about iron :, one side to the other with commendablt l agility, and his persistent endeayors t s always fall on top on the Indian ques e ton were not only absurd, but highl. l ludicrous.
 | His ambition to be conspicuous anC I his desire for notoriety were so grea - that he was constantly hunting oppor tunities to force himself upon the notic, s of the people. The Territorial Prisol
 Commissioners resigned and he ap