Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-10-27
A LITTLE POLITICAL HISTORY.

The political history Of Arizona does
 not show such state of affairs as exist
 as the pr sent time when taking into consideration that important factor the | intelligent yoter". This iu0ivid gal has taken onto himself the inalienable
 right to think for hImse!f. He propo- es,
 in that line, to do his voting, judging from nu umerous opinions exprt esad con demuatory of the methods pursued by
 the democratic stump speakers touch ing falsahoods, the twisting a1d distort-
 ting or facts and the calumny h4aped
 upon the fair fame and good name Of
 one of Arazous's most respected ciSiZ ns.
 It IS within the memory of every
 citizen of this territory who was living
 within it's limits st the time that Oakes
 Murphy ceased to be governor of the
 same, that the most and the lOudest
 plaudits of his administration came from
 the demo cratic press. There couldn't
 be a man found, unless be was warped
 by bias and prejudice, that didn't con-
 cede that Oaks Murply's was among the ablest, most iuduetr.ous and most watchful of the interests of the people all the people-of any governor that Arizona ever had. The present chief magistrate of the territory has been heard recently to express such an opinion. Such being the case and the truth why is this assault being made on the ex-governor's character? Wty is it that feloneous charges are hurled | from the stump by the attorney general of the territory when the said attorney | could at any time in the year and half just elapsed, have had judicial | cognizance taken and had him tried by a | jury of his peers? Dd not the attorney general knew the charges could not be sustained? Did he not also know that i if he had sprung them before, they l would have redounded, boomer ike, on the instigator and made Oakes Murphy thousand times more popular han he is?
 Apart from that, it is apropos to say, t shows the desperate straits that the united @ democracy feel they Ire in. Both wings of these united (?) | Arizona democracy are adopts in the science of purified sculduggery, vituper- ,tion and vihfcation. Such terms and ,pithets as liar, thief and ecoundrel, end other choice character cations passed almost daily between hem, and no doubt accounts for the present. unsavory methods they are re- IoIting to to blacken the reputation of a citizen and an honorable nan.
 Another falsehood should be referred Q before closing this article. It is the .harGe made by Joe Campbell and Frank Cox, from the stump, that the epubiicans were responsible for the act ,nown as the "hold-over legislature" | ia needless 10 enter into the history If that matter 8s the fact are Yell ,nown; two democrats from Pima county, then mt ID bers of the legislature ire wholly to blame if blame can be attached thereto.
 Intelligent and fair m nded democrats understand the situation. The red flag lung out, by the democratic politicians, if danger to stateb bocd, the tocen of Harm heard. about an era of republican nisrule and corruption, fsll on thelr ars without eff ct and only creates a mile of derision. Arizona is .oing to stand by her most eminent itizen Oakes Murphy-the brainey, big learted and whole souled gentleman.