Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-06-28
QUARTZBURG.
DIsCoURsEs UPON CURRENT NEWS
 AND POLITICS.
Better Mining Outlook in Tombstone Cattte Still Dying for Water and Grass---A Lecture on the Duties of Good Citizens in Political
 Way.
TnMnsrnNE- lime 23d

TOMBSTONE, June 23d
 EDITOR ENTERPRIsE :---Business in Tombstone begins 10 improve some, and our hopes are being much revived by the reported action of the senate
 for the silver bill, as well as the ex- pected starting up of the Tranquility and Head Centre Mines, and besides several companies have lately increas-
 ed or are about to increase the force
 of miners. There are very few idle
 miners here now, and even these ex-
 pect to go to work in 8 week or two
 at most The Sterling Silver mill is
 working ore from the Turquois dis
 trict The Comet mine, of the Grand
 Central Co.'S group is developing into
 Q great ore producer EX-Marshal
 Meade is working his mines and talk
 ing ont good pay ore. The Turquois
 district mines are producing plenty ot
 ore, and Bisbee still produces it's train
 loads Of copper, and generally the
 mining interests Of this county are
 looking up"
 wish I could say as much for the | cattle interest, but unfortunately that | business becomes more discouraging i daily. Whatever people may choose | to report, the truth is that for about | two months cattle have been dying for lack of water and grass or, more 1 properly, on account of the great dis [ 1 tance between grass and water and 1 our only hope is in prompt and 1 i copious rains. We had decent 1
 shower last Tuesday June l7th., but ! none since, and here is not much sign Of rain now.
 The political poi is simmering sey- eral candidates have intimated their i willingness to take nominations and
 the bosses of both parties are dis
 cussing the situation.
 The republicans are strong and well
 entrenched; have the county offices
 and, consequently, plenty Of money
 for the campaign, besides having the
 only newspapers.
 The democrats are very much in
 heap. l don't think they are less Tn
 numbers than their opponents bat
 they have no leaders Or managers of
 sufficient reputation and strength, and
 the miserable combination of incom-
 petents and self-seekers that worked
 4N' NAAsASs'N LftO EolS A5Cs lS hEEill u
 ing to work the wires for the same purpose, and if they succeed the de
 feat in November will be fully as dis astrous, if not more so. There Is much discomfort in the party and an
 expressed determination in many l quarters to make that combination , take back seat, So that l expect some fun for the lockers on.
 About the coming legislature there are many whisperings in the air. 1st The Republican managers particularly 5 the "Wolheys" and very few active ? Republicans here who appear to dis , agree with the governor 10 any great T extent, urge that they must carry the ] legislature to prevent the democrat; from getting through some imaginar. l plundering Legislation and worrying oui F good Governor. They appear to for ,, get, or perhaps think the people don l understand, that Woifey has q veto - and that no legislation can pas y against his will unless by two-third a majority of both houses.
 !. The democrats, as far as I can nov ' see, don't appear 10 care at all abou e the legislative ticket. The combina 3 ton referred to is after the fat office k and no others. And even if thi e county sends solid democratic dele | gatIon to the legislatur, I don 5, think there could be found two of then e to vote for any bill 10 pay or in [. demnify the so-caled hoIsievere, sl- 1t, r the universal sentiment of intelligen g. and honest democrats here appears t r. be an equal detestation and contemp 7s for these "holdovers" and their or 1, ponents-the "holdover" rump legis l. lature-and this feeling is particularl
 marked as to Behan and Wolfey, an
 is shared by several of the best repuh
 icaDs, though apparently not at al le by the managers of that party
 le But the people of this Territor at should long since have known tha e. they cannot trust to either party fo Id good legislation or good government d The history Of the notorious l3tl H. can not have been forgotten-a legi; rs latur not controlled by either party
 yet, a body that did more swindlin Id then any other that know And " re should not forget that the maste n spirit of all that crookedness is agail li- in the same office he occupied ther lg and will again lobby, persuade, ac
 wise, coax, and make division of th d spells; and that Behan Is sure to b IT. there to lobby for every suspicion 1e bill as he did in the 18th, and wi " have the help of several democrats (
 the same stripe as we'll as he ha as then. Besides several of even Iii en same members will be there for II m stance, Yuma, with it's 400 voters, tVt nd thirds of whom can neither spea h. nor read English, is very unlikely | he materially change it's representation nj And as far as we know we have Il ds reason to believe that Governc he Wolfiey is any more honest or con m petent than Governor Tritle was re And though Behan is now at sword to points with Wol1ey and Churchill
 still in scheme against the peopl he if it were necessary, these men migh of very quickly 'pool their issues. ed So, the only salvation for the peC an pie, if they ever hope to stop legisl, at tive swindiing, to prevent the creato air of unnecessary offices and the fatter to ing of old ones; or, to reduce tn
 salaries and compensation of Terr m torial and county officers to 8 reason nv able sum for their services and pr, to vent the continuous increase of ta2 Te ation and debt as well as the powe aI which many office holders now have id oI purchasing their renominatiou an ee reelection to office against the pec nj ple's will by the very money, partl mt lawfully paid and and partly Glche lv from the people which in offiee-th
 remedy lies in the people who pay tn
 taxes taking an active part in a mt political moyementsj i joining part ,t- even fl they don't care for it; attend ,ss ing and working at all primary elet IS tions, and using their whole induenc he to have capable and honest me on nominated by each party. They mus at get clear of their squeamishness abou al contesting at primaries with the elt to ment that has hitherto controlle n- such elections; by this squeamisl Ii ness they have hitherto, practicall