Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-02-10

statehood We will have as a result of | the next general election. Hon. NJ. A. Smith must be invited to stay at 1 home and grow up with the country, and his seat in congress must be filled by republican that will do more than the mere introduction of bills. The what q did' in the way of bill introducing must be re- placed by bill passer. The intro duction of bill can be done by the biggest dunce in the house but it takes rustler to work bill through the various committees and secare its adoption. It is of such repre- sentative that Arizona is now % much in need. To enter the union as state should be the aim of every good citizen in the territory, and to secure this end we must roll up a good republican majority and send a useful man to congress.
 Prior to the passage of the act of March 3d, 1891, land situated within the boundaries of railroad land grants and rated as double minimum were charged for at the rate of S2.50 per aero whom taken up under the desert land law. Application was recenly made in the Prescott land office for desert entry under the act of March 3d, 1891, and the land being located within the limits of the A. X P. land grant, while the law seemed to indicate that charge of only Sl.25 could be charged, the local officers not having been advised to the contrary by the department, demanded the initial payment at the rates held under the old law. In order to test the case, payment was refused and appeal was taken to the commissioner of the gener al
 land office. In deciding the appeal the commissioner says: "In instruc- tions to this office, dated January 13, 1892, the Hon. Secretary of the Interior, in passing upon this ques-
 ton, says: After careful con- sideration of this matter have con cluded that the amount of money to be paid in acquiring title to desert
 lands under the said act of March 3, 1877, as amended by the act of
 March 3d, 1891, is SIPS per acre, without regard to the situation of
 the land in relation to the limits of
 railroad grants
 Our contemporary seems to have
 caught the contagion which has
 been manifested by other demo- cratic papers in the territory in re-
 gard to republican league clubs.
 it says: ''Neither is it of any earthly
 use for any political party to have
 territorial floor walker to organize
 pledge bound leagues or clubs head
 ed by local bosses armed with parti-
 san blacksnakes to whip independ- ent voters into line. Arizonans can
 not be herded by political clubs or
 'hoodooed' by worthless and unso-
 licited newspaper gadvice." One of our southern territorial democratic exchanges says that these clubs are intended for the purpose of nomina- ting delegates, all of which is non- sense. Of course these democratic papers argue from a democratic stand point, and republican league clubs are not calculated to be of any benefit to that party, and the democratic party in this territory does not need any democratic league clubs. When Boss Zulick cracks his whip all the little bosses in the territory fall into line and dance to his music and tho rank and file march to his orders. When the time comes for sending delegates to the national convention in Chicago, delegates of the party will assemble in Phenix, from the various coun- ties in the territory, and will be in- structed, by this 25 by 3 statesman, whom to nominate, and they will nominate him. Oh, no. Of course league clubs would be useless auxiliary to party that is bossed by Zulick.
 X personal attack of very bitter nature was recently made, by our contemporary, on F. NJ. Murphy. Thinking that its publication was made under the impulse of the mo- ment, and did not reflect the better judgment of those in charge of the paper. and that on more mature re- fiection, it would be omitted from the weekly issue of the paper, no mention was made of it by the JoURSAL-MINER, as newspaper con- troversies, either between individ- uals and newspapers, or between newspapers themselves, are not con- ducive of any goodt to the commu- nity. As far as any personal differ ences between the editor of our con temporary and Mir. Murphy is con- cerned, we have nothing to say, as each of them can take care of him. self probably. There is one feature of the article, however, which it seems should not be allowed to pass and which is within the province of a newspaper to reply to. seeming to become mixed up in any personal matters, and par so since the article has been sent abroad in it's weekly issue. We believe that the better judgment of the editor of that paper will sug- gest to him, that in his reference to Mir. Murphy as not being a tax payer, he did him an injustice. Admitting