The oasis., 1895-06-15
4 PROCESSION OF KIcKERs.

lhc WariaVc upon tiONcrnor Hughes is
 the fact that the fight waged against
 him at different times has been by different people, and that those most
 bitterly opposing him have at some
 time in his career as governor or as
 pirant for that position, been among
 his warmest supporters.
 TIE OASIS is in no sense an apolo-
 gist for Governor Hughes, and feels
 very little real interest in the outcome
 of the fight made upon him. It is
 willing to admit that he has made a
 good governor, and it also holds that
 he Is better fitted for the place and is
 less objectionable to self-respecting
 Arizonans than any other Arizona
 democrat who would be likely to get
 the place. So long as a democrat must
 be governor it is better Hughes than
 kellner with his paunch and vulgar
 watch chain, Tom Parish with his un-
 savory record, or any democrat who could be named.
 The object, then, of this article, is to note the curious fact outlined in itsinit.al paragraph, and call atten- tion to its details. It is readily re- called that when plain MT. Hughes was candidate for governor, the Ari- zona Gazette was among his warmest supporters. Within a very few weeks after his inauguration came the at tempt of the Gazette to hog the print ing of all the reports made by terri torial officials to the seventeenth | legislature.
 That matter has never been elab- orated in public print, and it is just a. well that it be given out here. The | Gazette people had before the seven- teenth legislature bill appropriatiDg Sl ,500 to the Arizona Gazette for printing those reports. The legisla- ture deemed it advisable to have that work distributed rather than at one office, so the bill was amended strik- ing out the Gazette as beneficiary of the appropriation, leaving the amount of money named, and, under the law, the secretary of the territory to dis tribute the work.
 In the closing hours of the legisla- ,ure someone connected with the Ga .ette went to the chief clerk of the : 'ouncil, in whose custody the reports ,hen lay, and got tie official copies of hem all-"just to look at" In the lurry and confusion of adjournment { he council clerk forgot what had been l lone and did not get back the docu- ( nents. Had they been returned as T hould have been, they would have C 'een done up with all other official [ 'apcrs in the custody of that officer, $ nd turnedoyer to the secretary of the i erritory, who, in due time would have a ad them printed. s The Gazette went to Tucson and Q with the Enterprise iob 1 nlce lO print the reports Tor some six U undred and odd dollars. When the e rinting was about ready for delivery t ne Of the preprietoFs Of tile Enter ? rise casually mentioned the fact to t oyernor Hughes and Secretary Bruce. tI hose officials were surprised to find n he facts of the case. After inyesti- cl ation they informed the Enterprise ir eoplc that if they would deliver the p rinting to the secretary they would b ? paid by the territory the amount ti 'ntracted by the Gazette; but that if sliyered to the Gazette, it would all ci printed again by authority of the ca cretary, and that lot refused. The al nterprise thought the show for get co no thp rnoupv from 4h<. C.,,ott. ..... ,lt