The oasis., 1896-03-21
"NoLAssEs TO CATCH {"

! 1 that kind of tiy-bait, and Nogales now
 appears to have acquired the residuary
 legatee of his peculiar talent; for if there was ever d political ily-trap the
 platform adopted by the so-caled
 Economy" party of NOgales, answers
 the description. What was not before
 and better declared in the platform of
 the Citizens party is either an inuen-
 uendo put forward to cloak false and secret assertion the adherents of the so-called Economy" party are circu-
 lating by word of mouth, clumsy at tempt to cloud real issue, or an awk-
 ward effort to revive an old and set tied issue. The first section of the preamble reads as follows:
 WHEREAS, The condition of our mu- nicipal affairs Is such as to require the combined wisdom and persevering energy Of men who are capable of car rying power without it's development into tyranny that seems inherent in 50 many: and
 That's cleyah demd clevahw as MT Montclar would exclaim, in the Mar ble Heart" It is sufficient to cause the immortal author of the Declara- tion of Independence to turn in his grave with envy. To read it one is led to an irresistible conclusion that it's author had nightmare after seeing Fred Herrera playing Colonel Walter Hastings in "The Wooven Web" and had got that part mixed with his off cial character of Mayor of Nogales. It is one of the inuendoes to cloak a false assertion. The second section of the preamble reads:
 WHEREAS, We oppose any exorbit- ant fees for the collection of city rev enues, and adhere to the strctest economy in all expenditures pertain ing to the municipal government, be it
 That is another inuendo to cloak false issue. Under cover of that will be circulated the stale and exploded islander that the town clerk is paid twenty-five per cent of all the taxes for collecting them, aud the stereo- typed wall about the small salary the council was compelled to pay Judge Wright when the kickers went into court. Mayor Herrera's message, on the first page, makes both those items very clear. As an instance of what will be their promised economy the fact is here stated that when the kick CTS were endeayoring to get Frost Hickman to run for town clerk they told him the office pays about $500.OO a year, and Ben Goldsmith has, doubt less been led to believe the same. The office actually pays but little above S200.00 a year If the Economy" peo- pie keep faith with Goldsmith, in case of election, they must repudiate their platform and go down deeper than ey- CT into the pockets of taxpayers. The next is
 AeI1oOl@ t>Dj A)y btAC iIOOuciJJ pdi " of Nogales, in convention assembled this eleventh day of March, A. D., 1896, that the inte ests of the Town demand that the election to office be men only whose h onesty and integ- rity can be relied on, and who have the good and welfare of the Town at heart and who are representative prop erty holders.
 That's refreshing. It's so nice to read of the high estimation of their own honesty and integrity entertained by Messrs. Peck and Pascholy and the other eminently respectable gentle men who have nominated them selves for office in Nogales. But they should get the boss kicker, Mir. Ephra- i'm, to endorse in private this plank in their platform. Next is
 RESOLVED, That the the Council shall make prOvieion for eppuriner a