Arizona republican., 1896-10-23
Story of His Deposition
 a Canard.
It Was Started for Campaign
 Purposes OnIy.
Attorney-General Harmon Throws Light on the Matter Which Mir. EllInWood VIII Not
 Appreciate.

The Arizona Gazette yesterday morn ing published an editorial under the caption, Mark Smith Discharged, which contained this paragraph:
 Attorney General Harmon, attor- ney- general of the Limited States, yes terday ordered slhe removaI~o of Mark A. Smith from the position of assistant United States district attorney for Ar izona, and the only crime charged up to Mark by this mogul of Wall street was that MT Smith dared to advocate the free coinage of silver before the voters of Arizona. It has, indeed, come to a pretty pass in this free colln- try when an American cltizen cannot express his honest sentiments. MT. Smith never asked for the position of assistant attorney and will part with it without regret, yd1 the fact remains that this Cleveland administration is in the interest of gold and its foreign cohorts propose to stamp out every op- position ito their financial lust and greed, even to the extent of shameful abuse of political powers. Mark Smith is the Democratic nominee of the Bryan party of Arizona, and upon that platform, which guarantees justice and right to every citizen in the republic he will stand and battle, regardless of the machinatious of 9fevelandism or Hannaism.'
 nection with the absence of any evil dence, in the way of a dispatch from Washington, confrmalsory of the state ment, naturally gave rise to the suspi- cion that the alleged removal of Smith was being exploited for political pur- poses. The Republican telegraphed its Washington correspondent, whose
  veracity is beyond question, Ito call upon the attorney general and ascer- tain the facts in the case. Here is his response:
 WASHINGTON, Oct 22-(Special Dispatch to The Republican .)-Smith has not yet been removed. Attorney General Harmon's attention was di- rected to the case by dispatch from the district attorney stating that Smith was his assistant and also candidate for congress. The district attorney asked the attorney general whether this was not a parallel to the Clayton case and if he should send in a name for a new assistant. MT. Harmon re- piled by wire that the rule in the Clay ton case would be applied in all sim ilar cases, but that he would not name Smiths successor until he received further information He has had no complaint against Smith as a public officer and all the knowledge in his possession that squints toward a com plaint is that volunteered by the dis trict attorney
 This dispatch is thoroughly confirm atory of the opinion expressed by lead ing Republicans yesterday, that an ef- fort was to be made to unite khs friends of silver in Smith's interest on the plea that he was being persecuted by the "goldbugs" The Gazette article portion only of which has been quoted, revealed hhe scheme in all its badness and cheapness. A silliel canard was never sprung in the closing days of the campaign. It will be in. teresting to know how United States District Attorney Ellinwood will ex plain his connection with it. Marl Smith has been canvassing the terri tory for the last month Previous t( the Williams convention he neglected his official duties in the furtheranct of his plan to capture the nomination Where was United States District Fl linwood all that time? How does happen that he has waited until th'