Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-10-12
UPPER VERDE.
The Political Outlook as Seen by Real
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 UPPEg VERDE, Oct. B. Special Correspondence. The democratic candidates held a meeting at the school house tonight and, IS usual, open the vials of wrath. One pecu- | liarity of democratic campaigning is to alway insist that the speech of the candidate shall be pure aud clean. This, however, is only in- tended to apply to the republicans, for the followers of Andrew Jack son, especially when they are a day behind the republicans on the cam paign, never fail to abuse and be- little their opponents This Is the truth, when they think no answer can be made. You will remember that Colonel Wilson was the head and front cf the fight made against Lowry in the Tiger business. Re openly declared on the streets of Prescott before the democratic convention, that even | if he should be on the ticket, he could not and would not support Jim Lowry for sheriff. Asserting in most vigorous terms that Lowry was not the friend, but the open foe of the laborer and the miner. Will son was the attorney who brought the. suit on Lowry's official bonds, becauss the latter refused to obey | the law. which required that the wages of miners should be paid out of the funds in the hands of the sheriff, received from the sale ol the Tiger property under attachment. He denounced Lowry as standing in with the bank and merchant princes, and as violating his official oath, in refusing to pay the honest miner his hard earned dollars, but paying instead the bank and iner- chants and prominent democratic lawyers. have power and influence, and I'll be guided by them, and the miner be d-d. 1 will ouly pay the wage -earner at the end of long and expensive law suit.
 But what change has come over the spirit of the Colonefs dream. Oh, yes, he has secured a nomina- ton at the hands of his party, and like the ',dog going back to his yomit," he is now on the stump de lending Lowry's position, and assert ing that when he, Wilson, advised his clients, the miners, that their cause was just and the law required that their claims should be paid first, he misled them. When he brought these suist, the wage-earners lien law was con stitutional, now, after practicing be fore Lowry, c. l., he deserts the in- terests of his clients, and, for politi- cal perferment, he alleges that the law is unconstitutional. By the way, d:dn'. the gallant Colonel, at the age of twenty one" write commu- nication to the Courier the other day, about the inconsistency of the republican party. Isn't he dandy on this subject But political aero batic performances of such char acter by a man of the Colonel's avoirdupois, make him present a truly lamentable and pitiable spec tacle. What confidence can the peo- pie of Yavapai county have in a lawyer who will delude his clients and misrepresent legal questions : The miners are not fools, as the Colonel thinks, and he can't pull the wool over their eyes, and save Lowry from just condemnation at the coming election. Lowry's star is setting, and will be below the political horizon forever on the evening of the Sth of November next, and Wilson's double dealing and perfdity will meet with like | fate.
 Ben Belcher. in sorrowful tones, admitted his defeat, for like the little boy who wouldn't play when things didn't go his way, Ben says that if he had known that Col. Brodie was to be candidate, nothing could have induced him to run. He has no show to beat Brodie. and Ben says so. He is leading forlorn hope and the snow will be very deep over Bennie's grave in November. Ben also says to the worthy farmers of the Verde Valley that if they only elect him, he'll quit selling whiskey. Our republican candidates were the recipients of right royal recer- ton at Jerome. That thriving camp will give the republican ticket a rousing majority. The democrats ''are not in it" at Jerome, and even the sweet strains of martial music, discoursed by the Prescott band, could not create any enthusiasm on the night following the republican rally.
 One of the speakers attempted to make a little political capital for Oliver, by speaking in a sighting manner of the fact that Fred Brecht was only hard-tisted blacksmith. and in no way qualified to act as treasurer. Fred's friends should re- member this dirty fling and resist it with the punishment it deserves. French Is going about with poor mouth on his face, and saying that he is poor and must have the office for two years more, to finish his education.
 We'll, if the citizens of Yavapai desire to turn the courthouse into county school house and kinder garten, then elect French. ALAMO.