Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-10-10
In . briOi review of the democra-

Tn brict review of the democra- tic platform, a few days since, the JouRNAL-MNER criticised the plank in which the republican candidate for delegate is yilliEed in person. In this criticism the chair man of the committee on platform was also criticised for inserting such an unheard of plank in a political platform. It now transpircs that so far as the chairman was concerned our criticism was not justified. In public speech in Phenix, on We'd nesday night. according to the re- port in the Phenix papers, Attorney General Francis ]. Heney, who was first brought into public notice of the people of Arizona, by his killing Dr. Handy, of Tucson. admitted that he was the author of that in- famous and outrageous plank. and that he had secured its insertion, in the platform. With this knowledge it is but just, to the chairman of the committee on platform of that convention, to make this correction. In Mir. Heney's admission of the authorship of this plAnk, he stamps himself, as being an unfaithful officer and places the brand of Ire missness, or of misrepresentation and Villi6cation," upon himself. The plank accuses N. O. Murphy with the violation of territorial statute. Heney has been attorney general of the territory for one year and half, and as such it is his sworn duty to prosecute all violators of law. If he believed, ss he charges in this platform. that Mir. Murphy had violated a territorial statute, why did he not bring an action at law against him long ago. If Mr. Murphy has been guilty of wrong doing, republicans as we'll as demo- crats want to know it. But what can any one think of an officer of the law who attempts to try infractions of law, on the stump or in political platformsi Or what faith can they have m charges thus preferred rather than in the courts where they belongi What sort of a spectacle would . prosecuting attorney of 8 county make, on the stump. charg- ing some opposing political candi- date with H crime which he has failed to prosecute him fori Suppose the district attorney of this county. for instance, should during the csm- paign accuse a candidate on the democratic ticket with forgery, murder or any other crime while no action has been taken against him for such 6 crime. Would not honest, fair minded citizens denounce such 6 proceeding and rally to the sup port of the defamed candidate. Yet this is just the position, in which Dr. Handy's slayer. who is now attorney general of the territory
 places himself. Were ever such tactics adopted before in any politi- cal campaign any plAcei Even the iniamy of Governor Zulick, in mak- ing two campaigns in this territory, on trumped up charges, against men whose integrity and honor, were as far superior to him, as the glare of the noon day sun exceeds in brillisncy the fickering of tallow candle sinks, into insigni6cance be- fore them. Attorney General Heney today stands before the people of Arizona, branded by his own utter snces of being unworthy of belief or confidence, and in consequence thereof, the charges, which he ad-
 mits having preferred against the republican candidate for delegate to congress, falls into the lowest depths with their author, by his own admission and utteranees.