Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-10-31
COTTONWOOD coRREsroNDENoE
A Resident orths Verde valley AaswsFs Correspondent of oar Csntsn-
 paFnFy.

Corroxwoop, Oct. 22- EDIToR JoURNAL- MINER l-Desr Sir:-l have just read in the Courier of the 18th inst. a glowing account of the deino- cratic rally at this place. he writer thereof makes the assertion that ''the ladies were out in iull force" and that it was the first meeting of the kind that the ladies had ever so honored in this pre- cinct." Now let me say that the presence of the ladies at political meetings is by no means unusual in this neck of the woods, but we will try and excuse this slight error on his part as his thoughts, no doubt are occupied moro wlth the problem Of securing votes. than with the dry aud unprohtable task of gathe ing up and correctly reporting the minor historical events of the pre- eincts through which he passes in his gloomy and hopeless campaign for the office of county treasurer.
 Yes the first speaker or rather he the first who attempted to speak was H. Fl. Carter. We pumpkin rollers of theVerde, never should | have known how very easy aud | graceful" of manner he was, had | we not read his own unbiased nc count of it in an extra copy ot the | Courier. How very nice 1t would be | il all might be allowed to report | ourselves t0 the newspapers for then we could count on fair deal, besides that the editors might then live longer and get to dle natural deaths once in while like other people. ,t
 By the way, H. H. c. used to furnish beei for the great mines of Jerome, when that magnificent specimen of humanity, the big hearted, open handed Y. A. Tritle was running them. so 1t Is very clear that A. F. c. must have been talk ing to himself. when he heard that woeful tale about the unpaid beei bill," but as A. F. c. or H. H. c. did his own weighing he probably ,iId not loose so very much after all.
 We cannot endorse your methods
 4. F. C. In days gone by, m days of prosperity and plenty, many
 miner of Yavapai has asksd and re- ceived profitable emI ment st
 the hands of Governor Tritle. aud
 now in the days of adversitys old
 age and need, they will gladly give
 him the only job he has ever asked
 them for, and regret that they can
 not do more. Nor will they con-
 sider it an act of charity, for well
 they know that he must earn every
 dollar of his salary.
 Hicks oration was very fne, the
 ladies' said with a shrug of their
 shoulders, and wondered where he
 got it. The front end carried us
 away to the realms of the sublime
 and made the blood in our veins
 jingle with patriotic enthusiasm. so
 nowery were his words, so skllltul
 his delivery, but the tail end
 (evidently a home mad0 articie) wherein he attempted to discuss
 matters of concern to the Yavapai
 voters was painful, disjointed, ridiculous affair to say the least. lt
 had been his friend should have been glad when he took his seat. Next came Ling, the only man
 who was ever born, up to date, with out self conceit, the man who skins
 people and burns them and thinks
 nothing of it. l do not know !. if he had his skiDnihg knife with him or not, but he had his little
 mud gun along loaded to the mug ; gle, with a lot of stale nauseating
 stuff. selected from the never ceas-
 ing output of that great democratic l, mud machine "the Courier"
 !. That was a brilliant stroke of j yours Mir. Ling, aud shows that you
 possess the requisites of a great , democratic general when you and D your forces, switched of of the
 usual route, and remained there two r days waiting for your opponents to j. pass you on the circuit so that you
 could drop in behind them and !; pepper them in the back with youI !. little pellets of mud. Mir. Ling
 and several of his co-religionisti \ will learn ere many days roll by !. that the candidate who throws mud
 at the back of his rival will get tho n same dose in the face at the hands .- of the voters on election day. They
 may learn also, that man should
 run for office on his merits, not th'
 ma0nifed or manufactured fault . of his opponent.
 r I do not wish to be understood
 NIT. Editor, as saying that MT. Linz !. possesses no ability, no quslitica :. tions as a lawyer. l know be has for did not Mir. Ling himself tel l us that he had all the requirement. of 8 successful attorney, in extra , ordinary abundance. Did he no
 tell us of numerous instances Il which he had "downed' his presen ,,'' political opponent in various lega
 encounters. Yes he told us all O that, anu no doubt te could hay
 told us much more, for he was stil p fresh when he took his seat. Blu
 his audience were tired, very tired :, I am prond to say that not one O ," the republican candid 4tes uttered :, word of disrespect or disparage t USUl dk0AHab HIS ORRCoC1N - republican meeting held at thi
 place a few days previous to tn C. democratic rally, aud we honor an' lI respect them the more for.it. I'
 be sure, good old John Hartin di' crack few old rough but goo' 70 natured jokes at the expense o
 Carter regarding the faithful am F patriotic manner in which he ha
 always been on hand for the las H sixteen years when there was al
 office in sight. But like the oft re I. ferred too though seldom quote i. comment of Dr. Johnson all he sal
 was true. JUSTICE. ]. The Bard ofAriEOns.
 p An inspired genius who lecture :, on the Arizona Indian villages hs v immortalized the Fair in Poetic' f. pamphlet descriptive of the wonder
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