Arizona republican., 1894-02-24
THE TRUTH HURTS.


When THE REPUBLICAN made the
charge that the Democratic party was
responsible for the delay IN statehood
it did not have any individual member
of the party in mind, but the rage ex-
hibited by the Gazette yesterday morn
ing indicates that a shot which was
fred at random into the Democratic
covey has taken effect, and now
that one of the birds has been winged
The REPUBLICAN proposes to bag it and
then proceed after other game of the
same kind.
That the course of the Gazette during
its entire disgraceful existence has been
of a character most Injurious to the
people of Arizona is fact admitted by
even those who have reason to be its
friends. If there is man in the terri
tory who approves of the brutal and
Matchmaking methods employed by
that paper he is not at this time known
to the writer.
We, therefore, again repeat the charge
that the Democratic party is RESPONSE
BILE for the delay in statehood, for the
ISLANDERS that have been heaped upon
officials and citizens for many years,
and for the present strife in the Demo-
cratic party that is delaying Arizona's
admission. The Democratic party is re-
sponsible because it uphelds and sus-
tains the Gazette, the chief of calumnia
tors, and the Gazette is responsible to
the people for the constant turmoil that
it has engsndered and fostered in
our territory, and which has kept us
out of the Union.
And upon every other issue the
course OF the Gazette has been one cal
culated to harm Arizona and to bring
our people into ridicule and scorn. For
years it has opposed every territorial
official that it could not blackmail and
every judge upon the bench who would
not soil the judicial ermine by corrup-
ton and pollution, or render decisions
dictated by it.
The Gazette has boosted that no law
could 60 upon the statute books of Ari-
IONA that it opposed and that no man
could hold Office in opposition to its
will, and be it said, to our shame, the
boasts of that paper have not been idle
talk. By Matchmaking and bulldozing
the Gazette has heretofore been able to
control legislation, conventions and ap-
pointments, and in times past to in
timidate the bench.
To accomplish this it has been neces-
sary for it to fill its columns with abuse
and vituperation. 1t has been obliged
to SANDER and libel every person who
opposed its methods until visitors to
the territory and persons outside who
have read the paper must have con-
cluded that the Apaches were civilized
in comparison to our representative
men-judges, legislators and governors.
The Gazette favored Judge Bakers
elevation to the bench and he was ap-
pointed-the Gazette expected that it
could use him. But Judge Baker is an
honest and able judge. His decisions
are according to the law and the evil
dence. He remanded the editor of the
Gazette to Jail because the law and the
interest of society demanded it, and
now the Gazette cannot find language
vile enough to assail the man who
when fret appointed it lauded with full
some praise.
This is merely an incident of many.
The Arizona Kicker, fictitious publ
cation that has slandered Arizona and
its people outrageously, finds living
prototype in the Arizona Gazette, and
so long as its course is not condemned,
so long as it is permitted to abuse and
Willy every person who does not sub
NIT to its will, so long as it is allowed