The Arizona sentinel., 1893-08-26
EEDN. TEEGs. GATEs,

tendent of the Territorial prison, and has the reins of that impor- tant institution well in hand, it gives us pleasure to reproduce a few of the many pleasant things that were said of him, during the interim that intervened before his appointment was made; by almost the unanimous press of Arizona Never in the history of this section of the country, was there a man more deserving. Without the show of any reason whatever on the part of his opponents. never was there 6 harder fought battle than that against his appointment. Honesty and integrity upon the 'one side, were pitted against the most bitter hatred, vicious selfish ness and political intrigue on the other. His enemies, who were less than a bakers dozen, were per fectly interruptions as to the means.used, or the ends attained. Almost to man, regardless of politics, did the press of Arizona, champion and carry to a success ful end; the cause of MT. Gates, a fact of which but very few, if any, can boast, and of which he may we'll be proud. They went into the field knowing that he had never been defeated, in fact carrying this, strong Republican county by an overwhelming majority, when those who fought him, had been defeated in their own counties by three figures, when their party carried the same counties by storm. When the battle against him open ed, the press of the Territory en- tered the fray and poured it's vol leys, which were not blanks, into the ranks of his foes and they felt the force of the arguments used, and resorted to methods and means unworthy of their names and race and made the fight of their lives, but in vain. Their frantic efforts, only weakened their cause. Thanks to an Executive. whose in flexible determination to do right, by obeying the voice of the people and the press, and in this case the voice of God, and who could not be moved by the syren voice of hypocrisy, the willy tongue of slander, the interruptions wishes of falsifers, or the sophistry of political intrigue, Thomas Gates was made Superintendent of the Territorial prison, position which he had filled before with credit to himself, honor to the political party to which he belonged and to the perfect satisfaction of the DeO- pie of Arizona.
 MISUNDERSTOOD.
 Before the appointment of MT. Gates as Superintendent of the Territorial prison, the Tucson Star, (Democratic) said:
 By an accident in clipping from an exchange, the Star was misinformed as to Mr. Thomas Gates reason for declining the ap- pointlnent of assistant superin- tendent of the territorial prison at Yuma, being on account of any physical disability to perform it's duties. The duties of that office were simply not congeDial to MT. Gates. Mir. Gates is to our knowl- edge in the very best of health and we know that he is as lie has been-a staunch Democrat and a true man, and one whom the ad- ministration of this territory has the highest regard and respect. We hope that Mir. Gates will find it his pleasure to accept the posi-, ton of secretary of the prison, which will be more congenial to him, as his former incomparable record as superintendent will make his services of great value in the conduct of that institution. Mir. Gates mainta ined the prison the most economically of any sup erintendent, as the books will show.
 The Tucson Enterprise (a Re- publican paper) voices the senti- ment of nino-tenths of the people of ArIzona when it says that: 
 "Thore is q strong probability that Hon. Thomas Gates will receive