Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-03-22
LOOKING FORWARD.
THE LESSON TAUGHT BY PAST FIX
 TERRENCE.
The Time at Hand for the People to As sert Their Rights Give the PO- litical Bosses 8 Chance to Rest--How to Proceed
 in the Move
 
PHENIx, Ariz.. March IT, 1890.


 EDITOR ENTERPRISE Having secur- ed for my first communication to your paper at least one appreciative read CT, in the person of your Tombstone correspondent, 1 am encouraged to attempt another. While l am not especially solicitous to share in the abuse in preparation for your other correspondents, confess to being sui ficiently enthusiastic over the subject of legislative reform, that to secure to our next legislative assembly work ing majority of capable men, l would willingly submit to any amount of vituperation which the pot-house poli- ticians and party hacks of either po- litical party might see fit to bestow upon me. But the question arises what can be done to secure this-a consummation devoutly to be wished? What can I, or your other correspond ents, either one or all of us combined, do to secure such an end7 I fear me, as for us, nothing, except perhaps to how'll
 The remedy is with the people.
 As it is very aptly remarked by your Tombstone correspondent, "the men who go for the spells are apt to win, and whether the spoilsmen be demo- crats or republicans I find it always amounts to the same"
 The thieving 18th assembly was re- publican in both houses, while the 14th, which inflicted upon us that job lot of hotch-potch laws, known as the Revised Statutes, and popularly nick named the "Texas Code" for no better reason that all the sensible, and 1 might add, intelligible provisions con tained in it, aside from those few re-
 tained from our previous statutes, are literal transcripts of the Texas stat
 utes-was democratic by large ma jority; and the 18th, under the imme-
 diate consequences, of the evil ma chinations of which our people are now : writhing, and the laws enacted by = which are principally entitled to dis , tinction because they are not worse
 in quality and more of them CD was
 ackncwledgedly under republican con, t trol. And so it will go on ad infini' e tum, the one party alternating the & other in legislative control, each avail :, ing itself of the crying abuses of the
 other, while those abuses are still fresh in the memory of our people and prom t ising the needed reform as the price O r restoration to power, only to re-enact a in more exaggerated form if pos
 sible, the vandalisms of their prede II cessors-until such time as our elect e ors shall take the selection of thei l. re Jresentatives and councilmen en v tirely out of the control of party nom
 nations.
 ID The reason for this situation of al 'e fairs are quite plain-so plain in fac le that our citizens have no excuse what " ever for not understanding them an m at once applying the needed remedy
 While the inhabitants of this territor ts will average favorably in intelligence n- industry and morality with any equa IS, amount of population anywhere in tn al United States-nOt excepting Bosto
 those of them who would be foun 'o to be peculiarly reliable as Legislator II cannot, under existing circumstance e. secure party nominations-nor conl ne they afford to accept such nom o, nations if rendered them. And why
 Because : in the first place, at the vel Id outset the machinery of both parti' ve makes the nominations for eith' of house of the legislature purely ma sa ter of bargain and sale. Each part
 selecting it's candidates for those ( fees from among those willing ar able to pay the largest price, by WI DTS of contribution to the campaign fun ns for the privilege of having the pref honorable" attached to their name -N and in the second place the most SC ss' vile subserviency to the self-constitu on ed party leaders is exacted of the ca i've didates which. owing to the lamen ;sl ably low mental and moral status
 large majority of our local par lau leaders, is far the hardest of the co ps, ditions to be complied with by asp ,ad ants in any way fitted for the positio ain they seek. Thus it will be st en tn
 the candidates capabilities, intellect
 al and moral, are to a great exte 'm- lost sight of, if not entirely ignore ns, in the nominations, and if by al ing chance the pecuniary conditions shou ,,;o be made easy for man in every l m , spect capable and of whom the peop diy might be justly proud as their rep to sentative in the legislative halls, a will the nomination rendered to him nj, either party, how could he submit l- .'1 the party subserviency, as here exa 'oh ed and retain either his own self ent spect or the respect of his constituen the Echo answers-"HowT