Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-12-10
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
SATURDAY DECEMBER 10 1892.

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 ing order aud in effective shape TOT work.
 THE output of the present campaign will be grand Republican victory.
 THE wish of ths community for more progressive city government, IS earnest and emphatic.
 TIE Tucson democracy will need new timbering after it gets through with the present campaign.
 THEPeople's party kite is all tail. Judge Meyer and Jack Bolsn occupy the reserved seats.
 THE quickest way to improve the bus inees and condition of the city IS to vote the Republican ticket at the coming municipal election.
 DEMOCRATIC jingoism will fail to tap the reservoir of public favor on the l2th. Tine disease of Swellhead which too often affects the young, will get ID Its deadly work.
 TIE creation of water and sewerage systems, and other public Improvements, will give employment to hundreds ol men. We regret that the city IS nol ready to commence the good work to- morrow.
 THE Fl Paso City Council has voted to issue bonds to the amount S2OoOOO for a new and improved water systsm' The bonds are to bear 6 per cent. inter est and to be redeemable at the option of the city ip fifteen years.
 A GOOD hotel possessing suitable ac- comodatlons, would bring hundreds oi wealthy health seekers to our city and the reputation of Tucson as 8 sanltarl um would be echoed far and wide.
 PUSH and Progress will be watehword' of the new municipal government. Mat ters Of public moment that will stll the city to Its foundation, will go before them for adjustment, and new era ano new life will rise in our ancient town.
 THE present municipal contest IS stlr ring the city to its foundation and theri IS hardly doubt but that it will resul advantageously to it. It will solve th' problem of its future.
 THE personal Of the Repu blican tick ct cannot be improved on. It is ticke that meets with the universal spproba ton If every fair minded citizen, It defeat would in truth, be calsmtou' to the prosperity of the city.
 THERE will be more straight Republl can votes boiled in Tucson lat the com ing election than ever before. Scratch ing will be at discount for every Re publican who has thus far spoken oI the subject has expressed the determi nation to vote the ticket straight.
 Bur for few shoofiy Democrats ther would have been but one municipal tick ct in the field and the annoyance ana expense of campaigning would hav been avoided. The result, however, vii probably be the means of pumping a lit tie every day sense into their top-heav, noddIes.
 TIE importance of the coming cleo tion to the future of Tucson, cannot b overestimated. The personal and loca characters of the several candidates an' their fitness for office should be careful ly considered irrespective of party line and party issues. This means vote the Republican ticket.
 THE few Democratic swell heads wht so needlessly plunged the city into th' struggle and turmoil of municipal con test, will be like the little Kentuck! boy who fooled with the heels of mule They will not be so pretty after th' election but they will have heap nor sense.
 FoR the year ending Nov. 30, 1892 there were 1Sl,S18 acres of land filed ol in the Tucson office. Of this amour IT, ,475 were taken up under the Deser act, g, 629 acres under the Homestead act and 10,714 acres as cash entries This includes original and final entries This on a rough estimate, aggregates al sera of land nearly 90 miles long by si, miles wide. Truly the dreaded desArti of Arizona, will soon be hidden under orchards and grain fields.I
 HoN. B. NJ. JACOBS was the nomine. of the progressive citizens for mayor He is also tbe nominee of the Democrat ic party. When placed in nomination by the former in mass meeting, he re mained silent, but when he was placed in nomination by the Democrats he rose and thanked them ''for the honor con ferred" and hoped "that our party vii win" This declaration on his behalf absolved every Republican who had pre- viously been pledged to support him at the citizens nominee, and the issue al once sank to a partisan level and must perforce bought on partisan lines.
 A formidable number of Democrats aided by the third party members are working up a sentiment in the house ir favor of the passage of bill providing for an income tax and they claim tc have gotten almost enough pledges to secure its passage; but as Speaker Crisp dominates the House Committee or Rules, and he is anxious to curry favor with MT. Cleveland, who is opposed to an income tax, and no bill opposed by that committee can be brought to a vote in the house, it is regarded as dOubffu whether tha hill can Ina Yaccad