Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-09-06
QUARTZBURG.
A DISCOURSE UPON THINGS MATER
 IAL AND POLITICAL.
Better Outlook in Cochise County Present Political Phases--Repub- Iican Platform Criticised No Legislative Can
 didates.
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TOMBSTONE, Aug. 31.
 EDITOR ENTERPRIsE:-I have been long negligent of my duties to you and your readers, and can offer no excuse but the uncertainty of mail communica- tion caused by washouts
 Since 1 last wrote you this county has improved very much as well in mining as in grazing prospects. Now we have splendid grazing on the top of our most rocky mountains, and all the valleys are luxuriant meadows. The increase in the mining developments, though slow, are steady, and we expect that within a year, Tombstone will boom as in 1880 to 1883 and S4
 Politics begin to occupy the attention of many, and the different machines are being worked for all they are worth. In Territorial affairs the game is set. Mark Smith Is sure to get the nomination on the Democratic side and the Hon. Geo. w. | Cheyney is the Republican nominee. It Is hard to predict the result of an eiec- tlon; but If Mir. Cheyney can win he will surprise friends and foes alike. True, the | Republicans had the better chance few weeks ago, but the party managers met i'll Phenix last week and while the fool killer and hangman were absent, drunk or asleep, they got in their fine work; shot of their great gun-the anti-Mor- mon plank-bnt men all say they are christians, and who can doubt it? Does not the holy spirit of the Spanish inqui- sition; the heroism of the Duke of Ava l and the fervent piety and love of God of the glorious Mary and Elizabeth of England breathe forth in every sen tence, may be in every letter, of that great resolution?
 1 Yerily, to be properly appreciated, these men should have lived and labored at | least ten centuries earlier and then they could have gained fame and ranked with those heroes who burned and tortured 1 so many pestilential heretics in the name of christianity and for the honor and | glory of beneficent and merciful God But enough of that; confess I have not the ability to do the subject justice and therefore leave the task for better pen. But you, Mr. Editor, have the means of preserving the names of these heroic re- pubicans in print. and you should do it, as lesson and example to future gener- ations. Such deeds and such men should not sink into oblivion with the common herd. Of course this anti Mormon plank | was intended to have effect on the com ing election, and 1t will. it must have effect, unless the people of Arizona are | dead to all sense of shame-and I hope they are not.
 "Oh that mine enemy would write" resolutions?
 In this county the different parties have set their conventions for next month-the Republicans for the 1st, and the Demo- crats for the 9th. Both parties are we'll supplied with aspirants for all the pay ing officers but none have yet offered for the Legislative dishonors and it Is still more likely that these faYors will go to the same class of men that have no in- terest i'll the county but to pluck it for all 1t is worth, and retire into merited ob- scurity with their blushing honors tackled to their names like tin kettle to the tail of a canine.
 And now, let me ask, what has become Of Sam Hughes" or 'Kajones" or the Phenix xcorrespOndent. or any of the reform party of Tucson? 1 don't hear a word about them lately. Have they got scared by the bluster of the Republican, the Yuma Sentinel, or the Gazette, and pre- ferred to retreat before these great bark CTS when feed to write their history from the stand of the tax-eaters? Well, we'll! So it always was, and Is apt to be. until the Territory gets more permanent population and becomes a state. But 1 fear that day is far distant, nor do 1 nor do the people generally, wish to see Ari- Zona become a State with population of about 49,000, fully one third of whom are transient and the other either eating or trying to eat at the public crib; in fact fully two-thirds who have no interest il Arizona but to make what they can, how they can, and escape to pastures new.
 Good night. It Is now Il by the clock l am tired and expect your readers will be If they read this dreary letter.
 QUARTzBURG.