The Arizona sentinel., 1892-10-29

answer to their names, in the roll
 call of the United States Senate, as
 Senators Dolph and Mitchell, of
 Oregon, and although the third
 has not attained the honors which
 have fallen to the lot of his asso-
 ciates, the old friendship which
 grew up between these men in those
 days when men souls were tried as
 by fire, wher they were all equally
 poor, yet survives and is still po-
 tent to roll back the intervening
 years and secure the granting of a
 favor to Yuma which Mark Smiths
 personal influence" could not ob-
 tain for us.
 The man who has done so much for us, without ostentation and
 without reward, has lived among us twenty years; has expended a fortune in developing the mineral resources of the County, and through misfortune, and his own generous liberality of which many a wandering prospector has been the recipient, is today poor man. This is the man from whom Mark Smith would steal the credit which is his due, and had it not been for the false assertions of Mark Smith, we might never have known that 1t is to Abe Frank that we owe our gratitude for this appropriation.
 Replying to a telegram sent by MT. Frank, when the press dis patches brought the news of the ac- tion of the Senate, Senator Mitchell says;
 q beg respectfully to acknow- ledge receipt of your dispatch, in which you inquire if I can help you and your people to get the ten thousand dollar appropriation, passed by the House, through the for Improvement of the Colorado and Gila Rivers. The Senate Committee on River Im- provements as you have been in formed, has stricken out the appro- priation. Twill do all in my power, in connection with your other friends in the Senate, to have it re- instated, if not in the Senate, in the Committee of Conference"
 Senator Dolph was chairman of the Conference Committee. and as every one knows, the report of that body, accepted by both houses of Congress, included an item of ten thousand dollars for the Yuma levee.
 Mark Smith also claims that he has been instrumental in securing better postal facilities for the Territory.
 What has he done for the miners and merchants of Yuma County in this matter2
 The Postmaster General writes Governor Murphy that "the postal route from Aztec to Harqua Hala vas discontinued at the request of ,f Delegate Mark Smith," and the route was changed to Phoenix on ,he representation that it was the wish of the miners in the Harqua Hala District
 Aztec is the nearest railroad i point to Harqua IIaia and is only fifty five miles distant, while Phoe- nix is one hundred and ten. By he Aztec route, mail reached the miners from Gila River points in ,wo days; now it requires five days, md much of the business of the mines which would naturally come o Yuma and the stores along the Iila River, with good mail facilities, low goes to Phoenix. Why has Mark Smith done this?
 Because Yuma County is hope essly Republican, while Maricopa las been, in the past, Democratic and to curry favor with Democratic friends and thus insure lis own re-nomination, Mark Smith, who was elected to serve mpartially the interest of all the people of the Territory, irrespective 'f their politics, uses his position o sacrifice the interests of the many miners of the largest gold produc- ng District in the Territory to his 'wn unsuitable lust of personal am 'ition and in the interest of few Democratic friends. A petition is LOW on its way to Washington from he Harqua Hala miners asking hat the Aztec route be re- e-estab- but it is questionable whether this will have much weight $ against the protest of our Dele ate to Congress.
 These things are facts and the etters and document to prove them re now in the hands of the Chair nan of the Republican Central )ommittee of Yuma County, where hey may be seen by anyone in crested in the matter. And yet his Wall street goldbug tells us hat he is our friend, and with the cry breath which makes him an bject of scorn and contempt to very honest man who listened to is false utterances, he asks us for UT votes.