Arizona republican., 1896-05-24
PLEASED WITH M0NIHON Voice of the City's Resi-.
 dents. His Political Record Is Without
 a Flaw.
How He Served the People Against the Infamous Peralta
 Grant.

 ination of James D. Monihon is pleas-x ing one to majority of the voters ana taxpayers of the city. Yesterday tha approaching city election was all the talk of the street and it was easy to note, before block had been passed, the trend of public sentiment The Democratic primaries of the day were not considered worthy of especial re- mark but the conduct of the city affairs for the next year was deemed of para ? mount importance.
 As this is Republican year, it was generally conceded by even the Demo. crats that the Democratic nonf inee went into the race bad Jy handicapped, but, without especia1 disparagement te the nominee, it was Jim Monihon's name that Wss mainly heard.
 A lawyer who has for fifteen years been resident in Phoenix and a Dem- ocrat to boot was frank in stating that he proposed to oppose the Democratic ticket on the office Of mayor. Its not that l have any especial dislike to Burger; he's not 9. tad sars af old man. and has been living in that old house. of his long befaFfa ( earns. to Ihs4 country. He's training, Of course, ina a bad crowd and there is q possibilitEa that he is pledged to Joe,s sewer scheme, but what ana looking to ese peciaily is having g. good nan in the. chair of mayor Mnnihon ean safe.N,, run on his recorC, there arg no flies onk it.. But that's selasthing everyone fs. acquainted with. What ! lock to eS-. peeiaily is something thatsis little ur- derstood or appreciated. Few know that Jim Monihon vas 9ne Of the mgHs wng most actively opposed the PeralfSs grant scheme, eveIs in the days whefB, people. here were buying Rsavis deeda He even then proclaimed it fl aud andf fought it, and when tht, easa came to- trial he went to Santa Fe and at his own expense stayed on for months and gave such testimoDJ as evsn surprised the attorney for the government. He- is a public-spiritea man. even when it's. dollars out of his pocket and is the- best man ] now ef fee the office oks mayor
 Seated on the counter, chewing the cud of contemplation that scmetimes comes with the slack of trade of tha early afternoon, the reporter found a merchant who has been il the city from the early days when freight came in by wagon from Yuma. What do ' think of Jim MoDihon's nomination? Well, that's easy to tell. I'm for him. Generally don't take much interest in politics; it's something like playing poker with an expert The man wha knows the least Of the game gets dvWned. Still, I pay taxes and too much of them, too, t'm thinking. Tho city has to progress, and yet there should be happy nledium-shouldn't pave the streets with sii4e- bricks H buy 5alf0ons or the councilmen's clliE drsn. We had Monihoa Before. He was all right according to my notion and ] see no reason why .he sbouIdn't be again. He's even .. heavier taxpay- CT than 1 am. Graes,; tl4s is ihct going to swamp us"
 And it was the s5.I1e expression alb down the TOW, though many of the as- surdnces of support were based on ar guments much like the wOrnan's No" The workingmen We're pleased because MonlhOn has ever ibssn one Of them, with open hand and all classes well comed the prospect,that ne again would be the city's executive He is receg- nized as a man above all petty schem- ing, whom the schemers cannot use and whose every thought will be for the advancement ef tho peop'e's inter- ests.