Arizona republican., 1891-12-18
AGENCIES.
IT HIT THEM HARD.

TnE REPUBLICAN appears to have stepped on the corns ot several small fry fellows in it's editorial on "Wolhey was Right" if the howl of rage that comes up from various quarters is to be considered as competent evidence.
 But there is one thing significant about the howl--it all comes from the Demo- crats and mugwumps, which proves that TIE REPUBLcAS's position was right, for the greater the truth the harder 1t hits these little fellows.
 There is nothing that hurts Demo- crat or a mugwump more than to call attention to the fact that the Republi- can party and straight out Republicans, like Lewis WolAey, have been among the best friends that Arizona has ever had, and we were fully prepared for the commotion that TIE REPUBLICANS editorial caused in the camp of the common enemy.
 We hardly expected, however, that the Gazette, which has been posing as a respectable family newspaper, would have descended to the torrent of mean ingless vulgarity that it did yesterday morning, and can only account for 1t on the theory that it was written by an individual who was particularly hurt-a man whose private and official record is SO rotten that when he asked for an endorsement of his administra- ton by convention of his own party, there was only one affirmative vote, and that probably cast by himself. A pretty man, this, to criticise tho acts oi others A pretty specimen to pose as the friend of the people! A pretty character for a respectable family news paper to admit to it's columns! A pretty pass things have come to, when this man whose very presence is pollu- ton has the elirontery to parade his buffoonery, abuse and vulgarity in the homes and at the fire-sides of reputable people, aided and abetted by public pressl
 The only mistake TIE REPUBLICAN made was in assuming that Mark Smith told the truth when he said that "Governor Wolhey vetoed the bill pro- yiding for constitutional convention" " We ought to have known that Demo- cratic and mugwump politicians never tell the truth, and should have looked up the records then, as we have since. Governor Wolhey did not veto the bill, but he declined to issue the proclama- tion calling the contitutional convention because the attorney general of he United States said thdt he biH proUidiRg for a had not been legally passed. Was this autocracy? Was this anarchy? Did Governor Wolhey violate his oath of office in protecting the rights of the people and the treasury of the territory under the advice of the attorney general of the United States? We answer NO, and the people re-echo the sentiment.
 No territory or state ever had more careful or conscientious chief executive than Governor Wolfey. Going into office at time when there were nu- merous disappointed candidates in his own party, and finding in office host of leeches determined to keep their hands in the public treasury in defiance of law and decency, it was no easy matter to thew to the line, let the chips fall where they may" but during all of it, Governor Wolhey did what he conceived to be right and what the peo- pie after lapse of two years know to have been right.
 Notwithstanding the threats of boodlers and boomers, blackmailers and