Arizona republican., 1894-10-04

Democratic platform which reflected
 upon Ex-Governor Murphy "who hac
 failed to regard public office as pu b lie trust so aptly described by Grover
 Cleveland-." Here the speaker fingered
 as democratic speakers are wont to do
 after ''Grover Cleveland" for manifes-
 tations of idolatry in the shape of up-
 roarious applause, but no man clapped
 his hands and he went on but as
 a private snap"
 The otfense particularly charged
 against N. o. Murphy was that of re-
 missness. During the eleven months
 he had been in office he had had time
 the speaker said, to have corrected the
 abuses which he found and they were
 many. He could have removed ineffi-
 clent and dishonest appointees but he
 saw a golden opportunity to make him.
 self solid. He could permit them to re-
 main in office telling the other appli-
 cants that thelr turn would come with ! the next administration.
 General Heney described the past condition of the penitentiary and in-
 sane asylum and briefly outlined the
 history of the prosecution of Murray
 McInernay. He pointed to the present
 management of the insane asylum and
 compared it with that of the last ad-
 ministration. The main subject, the
 loan commission was taken up. The
 history of the funding act was reviewed from the beginning and the provision for the expense of refunding the terri torial debt.
 Governor Wolfey had been chiefly in- strumental in it's enactment and to his credit be it said, said the speaker, he had never charged the territory a dol. lar for any work he had performed in securing it's passage or in his efforts to place the bonds. The expense began with Governor Irwin who had drawn $750 in payment of his expenses among New York brokers. After his retire ment from office and the succession by Governor Murphy, the personel of the commission was changed, and here the speaker described from the records the expense which began to accumulate.
 He spoke lightly and sarcastically of the trip which exGov. Murphy took to the National convention at Minneapolis at which President Harrison was nominated, intimating that there was general desire on the part of federal office holders to attend that convention and charging that Murphy's expenses were charged up to the loan commis- s1on.
 The item of $35O which was paid to Congressman L. E. Payson of Illinois, for lobbying in Washington, was de- nounced as improper and illegal, and surprise was expressed that an old time politician should sign a warrant for 1 such an expenditure, which makes him | indictable ill Washington, D. c.
 sa Regarding the $500 which was paid to Col. Herring Gen. Heney said that as he had known Col. Herring for many years and had always found him high toned, honorable gentleman and lawyer, he was both surprised and grieved that such item was recorded, but before speaking more severely he preferred to await Col. Herring's exclamation of the He was certain, never theless, that even though the salary of the attorney general was paltry it was for all services and all that could le- gally be allowed and that it was i'm proper and illegal that Col. Herring W for extra services.
 He produced letter of ex-Governor Murphy to Hon. Thomas Hughes in which a warrant was asked for consid- arable sum and in which the governor said he could not tell how much he had expended but that he knew he had worked very hard. The request was made that the warrant be made to read )n account of loan commission.
 He sad that the SLIGO which was lrawn by Murphy for eleven months 'alary, besides being clearly illegal and was for but ten and one half months service as he assumed office April IA and could not make eleven months of it in any way.
 Editor Morford's act in charging 'l ,500 for ahixing the seal of the terri ory to the 1,500 bonds was claimed to oe entirely unjustifiabe and illegal and le related conversation which he had with Morford in the course of which le asked the latter how he came to Iraw $1OO month as secretary of the oan commission. He said that Mor- ord replied that he did not think the york was worth more than $50 a month but that the auditor had said ! le had better make it $1O0 and that i was placed at that He also show d that Morford after charging $1.50O or one days work in placing the calls on the bonds had charged $lO dditional for the labor that day. '
 He itemized the expenses of Auditor Y 1ughes' trip to Washington in April, g 893, and charged that he had ex- : 'ended $275 more than was necessary.
 He refuted the charge that the pre- ( ent territorial administration had pre- -ented the sale of the bonds byappoint- t ng Mir. Fleming prematurely to suc- q eed Col. Christy and laid the want of :; uccess of the negotiation entirely to trjnpant limos g